They're best described as iconic so iconic, perhaps, they're cliches.

Look at the skyline of Shanghai.

This is the skyline of my hometown, New Orleans.

This is what we dream about. Its individuality, demonstrated in the skyline. It's resilience.

Two animals, two iconic reptiles really captivated me very early on.

But we're really there seeking and searching and filming the iconic cats.

It's extremely difficult if it's constructed correctly, and there are techniques of constructing iconic imagery.

In this image of the Tokyo skyline, I've hidden data from the newest planet hunting space telescope on the block, the Kepler Mission.

So now I'm going to this is Louisville's skyline and I'm going to take you through various constraints that led to the project.

I guess the iconic figure of it is the melting of the ice in the Arctic Sea.

They had no logo and no identity, but they had these very iconic posters painted by Paul Davis.

We can click on this and we see this iconic image of Betty Ford kissing her husband's coffin.

We live across the street from an historic church that had lost its very iconic steeple in the storm.

Just over 30 years ago, the nations of the world assembled at Alma Ata and made this iconic declaration.

TS Well, this painting here, I wanted to do something very simple, a simple, iconic image of two ripples interfering.

You'll notice that it looks pretty much like the iconic yellow ball that Sun that we all draw when we're children.

And whereas then monarchies, palaces and forts dominated every city skyline and looked permanent and confident, today it's the gleaming towers of the banks which dominate every big city.

Now, these ideas and these events allow us even to deconstruct iconic places that many of you have been to, like Machu Picchu.

I grew up at a time when iconic actors from Kuwait, Syria, Egypt used laughter to unite the region, just as football can.

And the reference to the iPod as iconic, and in a way evocative of performance, delivery quite interesting that in the beginning of the year 2007, the Financial Times commented that the Detroit companies envy the halo effect that Toyota has gained from the Prius as the hybrid, energy conscious vehicle, which rivals the iPod as an iconic product.

So, the theater company has the ability to do totally hermetic, light controlled, sound controlled, great acoustics, great intimacy Shakespeare, but can also do Beckett with the skyline of Dallas sitting behind it.

Chitra basically remixes and re titles these iconic images to tease out some of the sexual and gender politics embedded in these deeply influential comics.

So, I was convinced. We designed it to be iconic, to look different. To look like it's for a kid, but not like a toy.

You encounter it within minutes at a party, when you get asked that famous iconic question of the early 21st century, What do you do?

The system also recognizes iconic gestures such as the take a picture gesture, and then takes a picture of whatever is in front of you.

And it's that the weather stations are all built outside of town, where the airport was, and now the town's moved out there, there's concrete all around and they call it the skyline effect.

Beverly Joubert We are truly passionate about the African wilderness and protecting the African wilderness, and so what we've done is we've focused on iconic cats.

Through constant experimentation with materials, they developed a wide range of iconic solutions that we know today, eventually resulting in, of course, the legendary lounge chair.

Karen Armstrong has told what I think is an iconic story of giving a speech in Holland and, after the fact, the word compassion was translated as pity.

Take a direct north south bearing, you find to your astonishment that it bisects the intiwatana stone, goes to the skyline, hits the heart of Salcantay, the second of the most important mountains of the Incan empire.

The t shirt had a picture of Craig Charles's character Lister from the cult BBC comedy Red Dwarf with one of his iconic lines 'Let's go out and t t it.'

The campaign for the 219 Nigerian girls kidnapped simply because they wanted to go to school is an iconic battle of this freedom struggle. That struggle will be won some day.

But it's not just iconic women like Shirin, like Aung Sun Suu Kyi, like Wangari Maathai it is other women in the world who are also struggling together to change this world.

And this video is a video of Keith Jarrett, who's a well known jazz improviser and probably the most well known, iconic example of someone who takes improvisation to a really higher level.

Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created . Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on now including the 100 laptop.

In all of its decentralized modes of operation, Bin Laden mainly played the role of inspirational guide and iconic figurehead a role better played when dead by American guns than alive, hiding from them.

Of course being an iconic city like New York, that has had an interest in somehow playing around with the sense of space, you could say that New York wants to seem as big as possible.

An iconic campaign poster captured the public mood a picture of a gun slinging Gary Cooper as the sheriff in the classic western High Noon . June 4 was the day of reckoning in Dodge City East.

The revelation of 9 11 is that even if you are the most powerful nation on earth, nevertheless, those who inhabit that space can attack you even in your most iconic of cities one bright September morning.

Other cases in which barriers to transatlantic trade and investment conceal conflicting objectives and deep rooted attitudes include France s protection of its cherished audiovisual sector and America s desire to continue to block European penetration of its iconic airline industry.

And it was only at that moment, as we were sitting down to dinner, that I recognized the enormity of the risk I had created, because to bring these two titans, these two masters of the universe together it was like introducing Mothra to Godzilla over the skyline of Tokyo.

And this is one of the ways we do it, by learning as much as we can about something so remarkable and so iconic in the rainforests there, in order to help protect trees, animals and of course the water sources.

The first is that, as I said, the well, the first difference for virtual worlds is that information is presented to you in the virtual world using the most powerful iconic symbols that you can possibly use with human beings.

The gharial and king cobra are two of India's most iconic reptiles, and they're endangered because of polluted waterways. Conservationist Romulus Whitaker shows rare footage of these magnificent animals and urges us to save the rivers that sustain their lives and our own.

Photographs do more than document history they make it. At TED University, Jonathan Klein of Getty Images shows some of the most iconic, and talks about what happens when a generation sees an image so powerful it can't look away or back.