Autonomic Nervous System - Introduction. The organs of our body (viscera), such as the heart, intestines and stomach, are regulated by a branch of the nervous system known as the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is part of the peripheral nervous system and controls the function of many muscles, glands and organs within the body. We are usually quite unaware of the functioning of our autonomic system because it functions in a reflexive and involuntary manner.
The Dome of the Rock in the center of the Temple Mount. The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: ÙØ³Ø¬Ø¯ ÙØ¨Ø© Ø§ÙØµØ®Ø±Ø©, translit.: Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew: ×××¤×ª ××¡××¢, translit.: Kipat Hasela) is an Islamic shrine and a major landmark in Jerusalem.
The dome, seen from the Emirates Air Line. The dome is one of the largest of its type in the world. Externally, it appears as a large white marquee with twelve 100 m-high yellow support towers, one for each month of the year, or each hour of the clock face, representing the role played by Greenwich Mean Time.he critic Jonathan Meades has scathingly referred to the Millennium Dome as a Museum of Toxic Waste, and apart from the dome itself, the project included the reclamation of the entire Greenwich Peninsula.