Until recently, the geosphere was studied primarily by mapping rocks, fossils and soils as they vary across the landscape. |
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The book describes the changes that have occurred in the landscape over many millennia. |
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Vast forests, featuring almost exclusively the three species pine, spruce and birch, dominate the landscape, clearly demarcating its boundaries. |
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In Estonia there are 5 national parks, more than 100 nature reserves and around 130 landscape protection areas. |
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Remnants of this eroded calcarenite dune are still visible in the surrounding coastal landscape. |
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But I disagree with you about the gardenish landscape. The lowest mountains here terrify me far more than anything I saw in Connemara or Achill. |
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The diversity of the landscape and climate in Pakistan allows a wide variety of trees and plants to flourish. |
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Cornwall's rich heritage and dramatic landscape have inspired writers since at least the 19th century. |
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The area is of great ecological and landscape importance, particularly because of the coastal and estuarine habitats along its edge. |
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The land is fertile and agriculture remains a major feature of the landscape and the economy. |
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Apart from the Nile Valley, the majority of Egypt's landscape is desert, with a few oases scattered about. |
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Fortifications of Edinburgh Castle used the natural volcanic landscape to best advantage. |
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South Shropshire is more rural, with fewer settlements and no large towns, and its landscape differs greatly from that of North Shropshire. |
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The rivers Avon and Frome cut through the limestone to the underlying clay, creating Bristol's characteristically hilly landscape. |
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Many wars, and especially the Thirty Years' War, disrupted the university landscape throughout Europe at different times. |
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There are several definitions of what constitutes a landscape, depending on context. |
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The term landscape emerged around the turn of the sixteenth century to denote a painting whose primary subject matter was natural scenery. |
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The word landscape, first recorded in 1598, was borrowed from a Dutch painters' term. |
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This is done within a variety of landscape scales, development spatial patterns, and organizational levels of research and policy. |
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The Villa Lante garden is one of the most sublime creations of the Italian villa in the landscape, completed in the 17th century. |
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Among archaeologists, the term landscape can refer to the meanings and alterations people mark onto their surroundings. |
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As such, landscape archaeology is often employed to study the human use of land over extensive periods of time. |
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The concept of cultural landscapes can be found in the European tradition of landscape painting. |
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The cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a cultural group. |
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Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, the cultural landscape is the result. |
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The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. |
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They create an idealized miniature landscape, which is meant to express the harmony that should exist between man and nature. |
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By moving from structure to structure, visitors can view a series of carefully composed scenes, unrolling like a scroll of landscape paintings. |
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During the latter 19th century, the term landscape architect became used by professional people who designed landscapes. |
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Here the combination of traditional landscape gardening and the emerging field of city planning gave landscape architecture its unique focus. |
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All such myths variously tell significant truths within each Aboriginal group's local landscape. |
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Topographical poetry is a genre of poetry that describes, and often praises, a landscape or place. |
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Because of the fragile landscape, walkers are asked to follow the path only in summer. |
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The description of the landscape therefore becomes a poetic vehicle for a political message. |
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The poet William Wordsworth was a major contributor to the literature of landscape, as was his contemporary poet and novelist Walter Scott. |
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Landscape in Chinese poetry has often been closely tied to Chinese landscape painting, which developed much earlier than in the West. |
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Artificial ruins and follies, often built as memorials or landscape features, are also excluded. |
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Notable landscape photographers include Ansel Adams, Galen Rowell, Edward Weston, Ben Heine, Mark Gray and Fred Judge. |
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While all the cathedrals are impressive, some, because of their location, are highly significant landmarks and landscape elements. |
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In much of England, it was the English Elm which later came to dominate the horticultural landscape. |
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Its landscape was smoothed by the glaciers of the last ice age, and is a combination of moderate lowlands and highlands. |
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In the dry valleys, the same effect occurs over a rock base, leading to a desiccated landscape. |
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The grey spire of Norwich rises serenely from its surrounding city, to be a focus of the Norwich School of landscape painters. |
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Some grand castles had long winding approaches intended to impress and dominate their landscape. |
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Since landscape painting had not yet developed as independent genre in art, the absence of other winter scenes is not remarkable. |
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With occasional warmings during the ice age, climate would change the landscape, and resources available to the mammoths altered accordingly. |
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For many years the lakes known as broads were regarded as natural features of the landscape. |
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Restoration is the process of returning marshes to the landscape to replace those lost in the past. |
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Much of the landscape of Somerset falls into types determined by the underlying geology. |
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These studies led to the development of the discipline of landscape ecology. |
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The forest is protected as a national park, limiting development and agricultural use to protect the landscape and wildlife. |
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Sheffield Park Garden is an informal landscape garden now owned by the National Trust but laid out by Capability Brown. |
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In the west this results in a hilly landscape of diverse character that resembles that of neighbouring county Devon. |
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Chemical erosion is the loss of matter in a landscape in the form of solutes. |
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Further east on the south coast, rainfall is distributed more evenly throughout the year, producing a green landscape. |
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The Pennine landscape is high moorland in upland areas, indented by fertile valleys of the region's rivers. |
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A desert is a landscape form or region that receives very little precipitation. |
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However, the former presence of the boundary can still be seen in the landscape. |
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An impressive landscape and beautiful viewpoints, which are along the river, are the highlights of the Donausteig. |
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When built, a castle could result in the restructuring of the local landscape, with roads moved for the convenience of the lord. |
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One way of classifying them is based upon their location in the landscape, and their source of water. |
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The whole of Scotland was covered by ice sheets during the Pleistocene ice ages and the landscape is much affected by glaciation. |
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He is known for the sculptural qualities of his buildings, and their relationship with the landscape. |
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The Mainz Sand Dunes area is now a nature reserve with a unique landscape and rare steppe vegetation for this area. |
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In the early 1980s Julian Richards led the Stonehenge Environs Project, a detailed study of the surrounding landscape. |
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The first quarter of the 20th century also saw a shift in the political landscape of Wales. |
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Much of Wales' diverse landscape is mountainous, particularly in the north and central regions. |
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The western parts of mountains are cut by fjords producing a dramatic landscape. |
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The landscape of Sweden can be described as a mixture of that of Norway, Finland and Denmark. |
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They recede to the south and east, becoming a steppe landscape before meeting the Sahara desert, which covers more than 75 percent of the region. |
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Since 1935 urban development has claimed as much of the Swiss landscape as it did during the previous 2,000 years. |
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The plateau is very densely populated with about 450 people per km2 and the landscape continually shows signs of human presence. |
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Pollard suggests that areas of activity in the Neolithic became important markers in the landscape. |
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In 1807, Alexander von Humboldt argued that national character reflected geographic influence, linking landscape to people. |
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Archaeologists hope to be able to use this evidence to determine what the landscape looked like at the time that the hoard was deposited. |
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Her favorite painting in the collection is a pastoral landscape. |
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During the Upper Paleolithic, the Maghreb was more fertile than it is today, resembling a savanna more than today's arid landscape. |
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The concept of 'cultural landscapes' can be found in the European tradition of landscape painting. |
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The Senegalese landscape consists mainly of the rolling sandy plains of the western Sahel which rise to foothills in the southeast. |
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Sal, Boa Vista and Maio have a flat landscape and arid climate, the remaining ones are generally rockier and have more vegetation. |
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The artist's work, then mostly consisting of landscape paintings, was not selling well. |
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The religious landscape of Cuba is also strongly defined by syncretisms of various kinds. |
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During the 19th century, the Liberal movement introduced new changes into the urban landscape. |
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During the 1970s and 1980s, the political landscape was dominated by the People's National Congress. |
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The government does not want to destroy this unique natural landscape to meet the rising world demand for lithium. |
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The rivers and streams improve the landscape and keep the ecological environment of the city stable. |
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During the 1770s and 1780s Gainsborough developed a type of portrait in which he integrated the sitter into the landscape. |
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Its aim is to protect the landscape by restricting unwelcome change by industry or commerce. |
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Christmas Eve, his first full landscape snow scene, painted in 1887, was a view looking towards Murthly Castle. |
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Salvador Ferrando was a portrait and landscape artist from the north of the state. |
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Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his birthplace, Yorkshire. |
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The fact that Tumbes lies so close to the Equator has determined its landscape, which teems in plant life. |
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These flood basalts poured out over the landscape, covering much of southern Nova Scotia. |
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The school characterizes the artistic body, its New York location, its landscape subject matter, and often its subject, the Hudson River. |
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To the east of the mountain range, the Sonoran Desert dominates the landscape. |
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South of El Rosario River the state changes from a Mediterranean landscape to a desert one. |
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Constantine also attempted to remove Maxentius' influence on Rome's urban landscape. |
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Above all, Emily loved to wander about the wild landscape of the moors around Haworth. |
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Over a thousand police officers, 15,000 volunteers, and several aeroplanes scoured the rural landscape. |
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Market towns began to spread across the landscape during the medieval period. |
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Common within Australian cinema, the Tasmanian landscape is a focal point in most of their feature film productions. |
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All these show Byrd gradually emerging as a major figure on the Elizabethan musical landscape. |
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However, by the time Byrd died in 1623 the English musical landscape was undergoing profound changes. |
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The early realist, tonal and classical phases of landscape painting had counterparts in still life painting. |
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The Ebbsfleet watermill in West Kent, dated to circa 700, also reflects new uses of the landscape. |
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The landscape gave rise to some key regional differences within the kingdom. |
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The peripheral areas are mostly of softer sandstones and clays and form a gentler rolling landscape, the Low Weald. |
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The arrival of European settlers in subsequent centuries resulted in a significant alteration in the social and political landscape of Oceania. |
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Beside his own poems, which have a strong spiritual and landscape flavour, the collection contains several fluent translations from Welsh poets. |
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The rock is a haven for rare wildlife, a landscape where pretty hedgerows and quaint villages are bordered by a breathtaking, craggy coastline. |
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However, in 2016 the English Lake District bid for World Heritage Status was submitted to UNESCO in the category of cultural landscape. |
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These involved long trips across country where horses were required to jump whatever obstacles the landscape threw in their way. |
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The introduction of the steam engine and the increasing importance of iron and steel changed the global industrial landscape. |
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A notable feature of the landscape is created by the meanders of the Seine as it approaches its estuary. |
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With its mountainous landscape and numerous sandy beaches, Wales attracts significant tourism. |
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It is a beautiful country of rolling hills, fertile valleys, and a thousand rivers and streams which keep the landscape green even in winter. |
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The strike action only became a feature of the political landscape with the onset of the Industrial Revolution. |
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The urban landscape of the Ruhr extends from the Lower Rhine Basin east to the Westphalian Plain and south to the hills of the Rhenish Massif. |
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Even though most of the factories have closed since the 1950s, the landscape remains dotted with spoil tips and old industrial buildings. |
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Some counties were created by shiring, while walled towns and castles became a feature of the landscape. |
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English dissenters played a pivotal role in spiritual development of the United States and greatly diversified the religious landscape. |
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Within academia, any system of interaction between human activity and natural habitat is regarded as a cultural landscape. |
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This landscape was struck from the World Heritage list in 2009, due to the construction of a four lane highway across the Elbe. |
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From about 2 million years ago glacial erosion then greatly modified the landscape. |
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A drainage system is described as accordant if its pattern correlates to the structure and relief of the landscape over which it flows. |
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He began to deliver public lectures on the history of landscape painting, which were attended by distinguished audiences. |
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A rapidly shifting landscape of smaller unionist parties has also been a fixture of the Assembly. |
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The western landscape mostly consists of rugged cliffs, hills and mountains. |
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The process of enclosure began to be a widespread feature of the English agricultural landscape during the 16th century. |
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In areas affected by immigration in the Ruhr area and Westphalia, as well as in some large cities, religious landscape changed substantially. |
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The regime enacted the Reich Nature Protection Act in 1935 to protect the natural landscape from excessive economic development. |
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Sheep farming remains important both for the economy of the region and for preserving the landscape which visitors want to see. |
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Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles. |
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Large areas of forestry and open moorland also contribute to the amenity of the landscape. |
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A new interpretation of the battle now integrates the historic accounts with the battlefield finds and landscape history. |
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To the west is the Gower Peninsula with its rural landscape dotted with small villages. |
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Humanist scholars shaped the intellectual landscape throughout the early modern period. |
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The Birmingham School of landscape artists emerged with Daniel Bond in the 1760s and was to last into the mid 19th century. |
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Establishing effective control over the Turks Islands, Bermudians deforested their landscape to begin the salt trade. |
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The American diplomatic presence is an important element in the Bermuda political landscape. |
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Enlargement is, and has been, a principal feature of the Union's political landscape. |
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Because of this, Tokyo's urban landscape consists mainly of modern and contemporary architecture, and older buildings are scarce. |
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Such algorithms are particularly useful when applied to problems whose energy landscape is very rough or has many local minima. |
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The famine and its effects permanently changed the island's demographic, political, and cultural landscape. |
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The bush doof is a unique product of post-rave culture and is particularly suited to the expansive Australian landscape. |
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He moved towards abstraction, attempting to utilise aspects of landscape, poetry and Celtic art. |
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Almost all of Thomas's work concerns the Welsh landscape and the Welsh people, themes with both political and spiritual subtext. |
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The circuity factor is the average ratio of road miles to air miles between two points on a landscape. |
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Here the landscape comprised textile mills and factory chimneys rather than trees. |
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Lowry joked about retiring from the art world, citing his lack of interest in the changing landscape. |
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Collaborative projects with landscape designers, architects, and landscape architects expanded the outdoor site and contextual integration. |
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In more elevated areas, fire is a natural process in the landscape, and has produced extensive areas of longleaf pine forest and wet savannas. |
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The country's flora and fauna live in a harsh landscape with forest accounting for less than one percent of the total area of the country. |
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The landscape becomes higher and more mountainous at the Yorkshire Dales and North Pennines. |
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Cornwall and West Devon's landscape is of rocky coastline and high moorland, notably at Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor. |
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Their eroding effects have left the Finnish landscape mostly flat with few hills and fewer mountains. |
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The landscape is covered mostly by coniferous taiga forests and fens, with little cultivated land. |
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The Finnish landscape is covered with thick pine forests and rolling hills, and complemented with a labyrinth of lakes and inlets. |
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The main purpose of these changes was to tidy up the boundary where it had been rendered obsolete by changes in the urban landscape. |
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The new emperor had to seek a swift acknowledgement of his status and authority to stabilize the political landscape. |
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Liverpool is noted for having two Cathedrals, each of which imposes over the landscape around it. |
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In France, sublime descriptions of Celtic landscape were found in the works of Jacques Cambry. |
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Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year. |
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This Wisconsin glaciation left widespread impacts on the North American landscape. |
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However, terrestrial life would not greatly diversify and affect the landscape until the Devonian. |
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The red kite is the landscape bird of Scania, and the coat of arms of the municipality of Tomelilla. |
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Second, it enables us to see landscape as facial, that is, to naturalize the face or facialize nature. |
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Arctic tundra contains areas of stark landscape and is frozen for much of the year. |
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Oscar Niemeyer, a close friend, was the chief architect of most public buildings and Roberto Burle Marx was the landscape designer. |
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The high quality of the landscape of much of both coasts of the Bristol Channel means that they are popular destinations for walkers. |
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The present Breton landscape did not acquired its final shape before one million years ago. |
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The scars of the industrial revolution and Wales' industrial heritage can still be seen on parts of the Welsh landscape today. |
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The carboniferous rocks of the Yorkshire coalfield further east have produced a rolling landscape with hills, escarpments and broad valleys. |
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In this landscape there is widespread evidence of both current and former industrial activity. |
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The pictures below illustrate how landscape features on Mars closely resemble those on the Earth. |
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The site provides extensive views across the surrounding landscape of England and Wales. |
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As well as shaping the landscape, these have traditionally provided a source of power for moor industries such as tin mining and quarrying. |
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Lady Lindsay was a landscape gardener and wife of lifelong British diplomat Sir Ronald Lindsay. |
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Both of these locations were often used as landscape shots for the hit American sitcom Full House. |
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Karst topography is a landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. |
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As they have the same landscape quality, AONBs may be compared to the national parks of England and Wales. |
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Interstratal karst is a karstic landscape which is developed beneath a cover of insoluble rocks. |
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Throughout human history, the landscape has been exploited for industrial purposes. |
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It is one of the most dramatic and scenic landscape areas in southern Britain. |
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After thousands of years of human integration into the landscape, Britain lacks any substantial areas of wilderness. |
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This leads to a landscape of hills and plains, as well as substantial meanders which have formed impressive river cliffs. |
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The Lower Wye landscape was formed by the river acting on a series of layers of rock that dip towards the Forest of Dean. |
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Administratively the area is very complex, being the only protected landscape to straddle the border between England and Wales. |
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They transformed previously rural areas into an urban landscape, and considerably increased Milford's area of housing. |
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The dip slope is by definition more gradual, and merges with the landscape to the south east. |
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Near Blaenau Ffestiniog there are miles of mountain landscape with derelict quarries, rivers, various lakes and walking routes. |
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It grows in all kinds of cold temperate to arctic habitats, from sea level up to 1000 m, in many places colouring the landscape. |
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This has resulted in a landscape similar to that found in Normandy known as bocage. |
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Of all the areas, Gower was the least affected by heavy industry and the ancient landscape was the least impaired. |
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Ceredigion prides itself on offering an unspoilt natural landscape, and Aberystwyth lays claim to being the capital of Welsh culture. |
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Four river valleys cut through the South Downs, namely those of the rivers Arun, Adur, Ouse and Cuckmere, providing a contrasting landscape. |
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In 2000, the government confirmed that AONBs had the same landscape quality and status as National Parks. |
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The landscape is principally granite moorland in the west, and chalk and limestone downland and clay vales in the east. |
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The Library also keeps maps, photographs, paintings, topographical and landscape prints, periodicals and newspapers. |
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Turner and examples of the work of the landscape artist Richard Wilson, who influenced Turner, and Wilson's pupil, Thomas Jones of Pencerrig. |
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From 1750 to 1757 Wilson was in Italy, and became a landscape painter on the advice of Francesco Zuccarelli. |
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Painting in Italy and afterwards in Britain, he was the first major British painter to concentrate on landscape. |
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In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of the work. |
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There are different styles and periods, and subgenres of marine and animal painting, as well as a distinct style of Italianate landscape. |
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Jacob van Ruisdael is considered the most versatile of all Dutch Golden Age landscape painters. |
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Hyland Edgar Driver, the landscape architect for the Olympic Park is on the B3354 in Colden Common, west of Winchester. |
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Later versions of this style often dispensed with a landscape background altogether. |
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The system of Alexander Cozens used random ink blots to give the basic shape of an invented landscape, to be elaborated by the artist. |
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A curtain of mountains at the back of the landscape is standard in wide Roman views and even more so in Chinese landscapes. |
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Traditionally, landscape art depicts the surface of the earth, but there are other sorts of landscapes, such as moonscapes. |
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His works typically drew inspiration from the Welsh landscape and farmlands. |
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As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolour, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. |
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He wrote and broadcast extensively on architecture, design and the preservation of the rural landscape. |
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Today the mines are all closed, though the scars of mining still remain on the landscape. |
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The Persephone theme is also typified by Waterhouse in his Narcissus, the floral motif by van Scorel and the landscape by Van Gogh's Undergrowth. |
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Much of Wales is rural countryside and sheep are a very common feature in the landscape throughout the country. |
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Paul dominate the landscape in wealth and size, owing to their ties with manufacturing, finance, transportation, and meatpacking. |
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We all know that steel making has been important to south Wales, just as slate making has changed the landscape of the north. |
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Aesthetic aspects of wind turbines and resulting changes of the visual landscape are significant. |
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Changing landscape for the use of agriculture has a great effect on the flow of fresh water. |
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Sheep have grazed on the moors for more than 3,000 years, shaping much of the Exmoor landscape by feeding on moorland grasses and heather. |
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Its design incorporates into the landscape with a turf roof, giving views across to Ireland and South to the Isle of Man. |
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Graham Sutherland painted locally in the 1930s, gaining inspiration from the landscape. |
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Shores are influenced by the topography of the surrounding landscape, as well as by water induced erosion, such as waves. |
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Some volcanoes have rugged peaks formed by lava domes rather than a summit crater while others have landscape features such as massive plateaus. |
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In South Devon the landscape consists of rolling hills dotted with small towns, such as Dartmouth, Ivybridge, Kingsbridge, Salcombe, and Totnes. |
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This formation stretches from Bideford to Bude in Cornwall, and contributes to a gentler, greener, more rounded landscape. |
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Porto Santo's lack of higher mountains results in a paradoxical landscape when comparing it with its sister island Madeira. |
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In the southern part of the peninsula, the glaciers deposited vast numbers of terminal moraines, configuring a very chaotic landscape. |
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Unlike some of the other regions of Sweden, the Scanian landscape is generally not mountainous. |
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Where the sea meets higher parts of the sloping landscape, dramatic cliffs emerge very suddenly. |
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Samaria Gorge is a World Biosphere Reserve and Richtis Gorge is protected for its landscape diversity. |
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The Upper Rhine was a significant cultural landscape in Central Europe already in antiquity and during the Middle Ages. |
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Glowing hot rivers of lava bisect the landscape, leading to a stunning lavafall. |
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Learic and Leanoric concoct their spells by travelling round the flip-screen landscape, collecting rare herbs and roots from the countryside. |
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A mix of rural and urban landscape, two large conurbations, centred on Liverpool and Manchester, occupy much of the south of the region. |
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It is an Old Drift landscape, characterised by the sandy depositions of the Ice Age. |
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Geologically ancient floodplains are often represented in the landscape by fluvial terraces. |
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A small architectural scene, landscape, or abstract design was placed in the center with a monochrome background. |
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This creates a landscape geologists call karst, which lacks surface drainage but which has all manner of characteristic surface and subsurface features. |
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The Valley landscape was more awash with greenery some 11,000 years ago. |
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It was late July and there was a hint of bedraggledness to the landscape. |
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He's a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener. |
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Australia has always been prone to bush fires due to its woody landscape. |
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And yet at first it seemed hard to believe that so innocent a cloudling could be the progenitor of mist dense enough to blot out even a section of the enormous landscape. |
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I taste blood in my mouth while a Japanese gentleman in plastic snowshoes and a colorful Cosby sweater snaps photos of a landscape leveled by forest fires a decade ago. |
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But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. |
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As the grain elevator and other industrial structures became more common on the plains, they redefind the traditional pastoral image of the American landscape. |
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By the late 18th century, the popularity of landscape art grew and clients were found in the larger Welsh towns, allowing more Welsh artists to stay in their homeland. |
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This would include land of high landscape value in the Lune Valley. |
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With its wealth of rock types and their abundance in the landscape, mining and quarrying have long been significant activities in the Lake District economy. |
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Most of the Pennine landscape is characterised by upland areas of high moorland indented by more fertile river valleys, although the landscape varies in different areas. |
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England has been divided into areas of similar landscape character. |
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As elsewhere in England, the media landscape in South East England is dominated by national television, radio, newspapers and magazines, most of which are based in London. |
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The region has a diverse landscape that includes maritime cliffs and extensive moorland that contains a number of rare species of flora and fauna. |
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Roman rule lasted for 350 years, over which time the social and political landscape evolved to produce a society that was different from the one that had existed earlier. |
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The mammoth steppe was a periglacial landscape with rich herb and grass vegetation that disappeared along with the mammoth because of environmental changes in the climate. |
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On 6 December 2007, it was announced that extensive plans to build Stonehenge road tunnel under the landscape and create a permanent visitors' centre had been cancelled. |
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He also began the excavation of many of the barrows in the area, and it was his interpretation of the landscape that associated it with the Druids. |
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The Avebury monument is a part of a larger prehistoric landscape containing several older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill. |
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The monuments are preserved as part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape for the information they provide regarding prehistoric people's relationship with the landscape. |
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Greek sculptures adorned Hellenistic landscape gardening on the Palatine or in the villas, and much of ancient Roman cuisine was essentially Greek. |
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The black-and-white wide-screen photography is hyperlucid, especially in landscape shots, but the digital imagery lacks the lived-in warmth and organic feel of film. |
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Guthrum's passing changed the political landscape for Alfred. |
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Stunning and dramatic scenery and landscape is found throughout Norway. |
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The changes to the landscape were so extensive that when Hutton revisited the region in 1807 after an earlier 1788 visit, he could not readily find his way around. |
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This led to a landscape which was long dominated by temperate rainforest, although human activity has since cleared the vast majority of forest cover. |
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Farage and other senior UKIP figures have repeatedly spoken out against the construction of wind farms, deeming them a blot on the rural landscape. |
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The Black Country may be regarded as the world's first industrial landscape, while nearby Ironbridge Gorge claims to be the Birthplace of Industry. |
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With anecdotal stories about his travels, both books tell of the lives of the people who lived and worked on and along the river, describing the landscape with a poet's eye. |
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The first conifers evolved, and dominated the terrestrial landscape. |
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The rural landscape varies from arable farmland in the flat lands to the south of Derby, to upland pasture and moorland in the high gritstone uplands of the southern Pennines. |
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Neolithic flint mines such as Cissbury, burial mounds such as the Devil's Jumps and Devil's Humps, and hill forts like Chanctonbury Ring are strong features in the landscape. |
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Uncultivated heath and moorland cover about a quarter of Exmoor landscape. |
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The Bronze Age people lived in round houses and divided up the landscape. |
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There was a landscape of arable, pasture and managed woodland. |
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The archaeological evidence shows considerable continuity in the system of landscape and local governance, which was inherited from the indigenous community. |
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An exception to this type of climate and vegetation is the mountain areas in the northern region, where high altitudes lead to milder temperatures and drier landscape. |
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The design emphasis of donjons changed to reflect a shift from functional to decorative requirements, imposing a symbol of lordly power upon the landscape. |
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Follies were similar, although they differed from artificial ruins in that they were not part of a planned landscape, but rather seemed to have no reason for being built. |
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As castles were not simply military buildings but centres of administration and symbols of power, they had a significant impact on the surrounding landscape. |
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In Finland, the most influential architect was Alvar Aalto, who adapted his version of modernism to the Nordic landscape, light, and materials, particularly the use of wood. |
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This was used to explain many great stones on the landscape. |
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The Great Park is a gently undulating area of varied landscape. |
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The geology of North Yorkshire is closely reflected in its landscape. |
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Greek sculptures adorned Hellenistic landscape gardening on the Palatine or in the villas, or were imitated in Roman sculpture yards by Greek slaves. |
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His early English paintings, mainly mythological or religious scenes, or portraits set in a pastoral landscape, show influences from Anthony van Dyck and the Dutch baroque. |
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This fascination with wild and bleak locations is also evident in his many landscape paintings of this period, which usually depict difficult or dangerous terrain. |
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Lacan's theories influenced literary criticism of Hamlet because of his alternative vision of the play and his use of semantics to explore the play's psychological landscape. |
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The coast is largely an eroding landscape and management of the site aims to allow the natural processes of erosion to continue while protecting people and property. |
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While he is now looked at as a traditionalist, his new approach to landscape painting changed the course of art history, as many of the Turner Prize winners aspire to do. |
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We live in the wind-chill, The what-if and what-was-not, The blown and sour dust of just after or just before, The metaquotidian landscape of soft edge and abyss. |
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The landscape of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk has been heavily influenced by Dutch technology, from the use of red clay roof tiles to the draining of The Fens. |
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In 1811 he first visited John Fisher and his family in Salisbury, a city whose cathedral and surrounding landscape were to inspire some of his greatest paintings. |
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The moraine landscape of northern Poland contains soils made up mostly of sand or loam, while the ice age river valleys of the south often contain loess. |
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Despite a few timid attempts to emulate this literature in English, it can be argued that few writers seem to connect with either the landscape or the literary tradition. |
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Finally, the impact of the glaciers shaped the landscape seen today. |
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The city and its landscape are dominated by The Law and the Firth of Tay. |
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This had an electrifying effect on the literary landscape of the time. |
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The Liber Studiorum was an expression of his intentions for landscape art. |
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