I'd bought a replica, a really crappy replica, of the Maltese Falcon on eBay, and had downloaded enough pictures to actually have some reasonable reference.

Triumphal Arch Palmyra replica Image courtesy Flickr user GothPhil (CC BY NC ND 2.0)

When later confirmed as a replica of this region, spectators began entertaining military implications.

A wooden replica can be found today in the Emperor Guan Temple in Xiezhou County, Shanxi.

The replica is built to this shorter measurement, as is the model in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

Within the compound of the temple are a replica of the Buddha's footprint, and a large chedi containing Buddha relics.

Yamassoukro boasts grand eight lane highways lined with over 10,000 lights and a full scale replica of St Peter s in Rome.

A miniature replica of a proposed design, about one foot (0.3 m) in diameter, can be tested and the laboratory measurements applied to the final application with high confidence.

If European integration shifts into reverse, the outcome will not be a series of happy and prosperous nation states, living in a sort of replica of the 1950 s or 1960 s.

Indeed, Taiwanese capital and know how built much of China s hi tech industries, and well over a half million Taiwanese live and work near Shanghai in a virtual replica of Hsin Chu, Taiwan s Silicon Valley.

On May 28, a handful of Turkish environmentalists started a peaceful protest against a redevelopment plan for the park that would replace the greenery with a replica of an Ottoman era army barracks, a shopping mall, and apartments.

In this connection, an on site evaluation was undertaken by the Archive and Records Management Section of the Secretariat to determine what arrangements needed to be made for the preservation of a full replica of these records by the Secretariat.

There is a difference between the height of the mizzen fore and aft spar in the contemporary painting by Luny (below) and its position on the replica in the photographs, compared to the height of the lowest spars on the fore and mainmasts.

And one of the most interesting lessons I learned was that there is an experimental method that if you have a question you can create a replica of this question in some abstract way, and you can try to examine this question, maybe learn something about the world.

Fartattou is not an exact replica of my blog Fikra but is its mirror or an original virtual copy which will enable Internet users in Tunisia to access the contents of my blog without using a proxy server to circumnavigate the block imposted by the cyber police there, he adds.