The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

Notable historic sites in addition to Arbroath Abbey include the world famous Glamis Castle, Arbroath Signal Tower museum and the Bell Rock Light House.

* Castle Rock

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In his final years, the castle became Richard's favourite residence, and writs and charters were written at Château Gaillard bearing " apud Bellum Castrum de Rupe " ( at the Fair Castle of the Rock ).

* Castle Rock, Maine

Starting from the north and running clockwise, these are: Shore Island, George Island, Rough Rock Island, Flat Rock, The Buoys, Sandy Bay Island, Black Horse Island, White Bird Island, Frightus Island, Jar Rock, Castle Point Rock, Robert Rock, Salt Rock, Speery Island, Flat Rock, The Needle, Lower and Upper Black Rock, Bird Island, Black Rock, Thompson's Valley Island, Peaked Island, Egg Island, Lady's Chair, Lighter Rock, Long Ledge, and Red Rock.

The peak of this confrontation was reached in the 14th century, when the new prelate, the Frenchman Bérenger de Landore, treacherously executed the counsellors of the city in his castle of A Rocha Forte (' The Strong Rock / Castle '), after attracting them for talks.

However, they had neglected to inform NBC and Castle Rock of the change, and when the season premiere aired, they were surprised and unimpressed, and requested that they return to the original style.

Raiding Ralph's camp, the savages confiscate the glasses and return to their abode near the great rock heap, called Castle Rock.

Ralph, deserted by most of his supporters, journeys to Castle Rock to confront Jack and secure the glasses.

Still, in the midst of all the island's chaos, it should be noted that Ralph has a tendency to be polite and logical in the tensest of moments ; for example, when the children are obliged to investigate Castle Rock, Ralph takes the lead despite being afraid of " the beast ".

Stephen King got the name Castle Rock from the fictional mountain fort of the same name in Lord of the Flies, using the name to refer to a fictional town that has appeared in a number of King's novels.

King's fictional town of Castle Rock inspired the name of Rob Reiner's production company, Castle Rock Entertainment, which produced the 1990 film.

It was originally published in Castle Rock, a monthly newsletter about Stephen King, in installments from February to June 1985.

A monthly newsletter about Stephen King called Castle Rock was published from January 1985 through December 1989.

Gygax expanded the rules to sixteen pages and published them in the newsletter of the Castle & Crusade Society.

* Altenberg Castle ( Germany ), a ruined castle near Dietenheim in Baden-Württemberg

The " Schlössli " ( small Castle ), Rore Tower and the upper gate tower have remained nearly unchanged since the 13th century.

Hofgarten ( Court Garden ) with Kurfürstliches Schloss ( Electoral Prince's Castle ), which serves as the main building of the University of Bonn.

Other well-known areas are: Chironico ( Switzerland ), Stanage ( UK ), Hueco Tanks ( Texas ), Val Masino and Val di Mello ( Italy ), Castle Hill ( New Zealand ), Bishop ( California ), Joe's Valley ( Utah ), Yosemite ( California ), Rocktown ( Georgia ), Rocklands ( South Africa ), Cocalzinho de Goiás ( Brazil ), Kjugekull ( Sweden ), Hampi ( India ) Horse Pens 40 ( Alabama ) and Horseshoe Canyon Ranch ( Arkansas ) amongst others.

The Castle of Ziesar ( Burg Ziesar ), now a museum also showing the history of the Prince-Bishopric of Brandenburg.

Charles provided the voice-over commentary for the UK version of the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle, shown on Challenge and Ftn ( 2002 – 2004 ), in which contestants attempted to pass a series of near-impossible physical challenges, to reach the final showdown at the castle and win cash prizes.

Casimir the Great built many new castles ( including Wawel Castle ), reformed the Polish army and Polish civil and criminal law.

Despite its small size ( roughly from its northernmost to southernmost points ), there is significant variation in mean temperature and amount of snowfall between Sussex County and New Castle County.

Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Imperial Palace has been called " Kyūjō " ( 宮城 ), then Kōkyo ( 皇居 ), and located on the former site of Edo Castle in the heart of Tokyo.

More importantly, early next year the Pathé production unit down in the south of France in Nice made le Médecin du chateau ( The Physician of the Castle ), in which there are cuts back and forth between criminals threatening a doctor's wife and child, while the doctor himself drives home to rescue them after being warned by telephone.

# Albert of Prussia ( 17 May 1490, Ansbach – 20 March 1568, Castle Tapiau ), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and later first Duke of Prussia.

Hradčany ( common ; ), the Castle District, is the district of the city of Prague, Czech Republic, surrounding the Prague Castle.

** Diego and Jaquez in The Castle of Otranto – they appear to talk about random things, and argue foolishly with each other in order to lighten the air of the novel.

Harry and William were staying with their father at Balmoral Castle at the time, and the Prince of Wales waited until early the following morning to tell his sons about their mother's death.

The Irish arrived about 350 years ago somewhere in the mid 1600s. The legacy of the Irish is still seen in the places names, such as Dublin Castle, Irish pen.

* Gruffudd, born about 1375, was captured and confined by the English in Nottington Castle and taken to the Tower of London in 1410.

In about 1249, Duke Przemysł I began constructing what would become the Royal Castle on a hill on the left bank of the Warta.

Tycho was born at his family's ancestral seat of Knutstorp Castle ( Danish: Knudstrup borg ; Swedish: Knutstorps borg ), about eight kilometres north of Svalöv in then Danish Scania, now Swedish, to Otte Brahe ( of the Brahe family ) and Beate Bille ( of the Bille family ).

Estimates of the energy of the blast range from 5 to as high as 30 megatons of TNT ( 21 – 130 PJ ), with the most likely — roughly equal to the United States ' Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb tested on March 1, 1954 ; about 1, 000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan ; and about one-third the power of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.

In that story, Scrooge returns to the McDuck Castle for another treasure and learns from Matilda that his family already knew about the treasure but their father Fergus decided not to tell Scrooge about it.

The next eruptive period, the Castle Creek period, began about 400 BCE, and is characterized by a change in composition of St. Helens ' lava, with the addition of olivine and basalt.

Becket's assassins fled north to Knaresborough Castle, which was held by Hugh de Morville, where they remained for about a year.

The Counts of Scheyern left Burg Scheyern (" Scheyern Castle ", constructed in about 940 ) in 1119 for Burg Wittelsbach (" Wittelsbach Castle ").

Though the King and Queen spent the working day at Buckingham Palace, partly for security and family reasons they stayed at night at Windsor Castle about west of central London with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.

In 1990, TSR also published WGR1 Greyhawk Ruins, a module and source book about Castle Greyhawk by TSR writers Blake Mobley and Timothy Brown.

* grodog's Greyhawk Allan Grohe's compendium of original research essays about the Greyhawk Campaign, Greyhawk Castle, and other topics

Tausen preached openly: much to the consternation of Bishop Jøn Friis, who lost his ability to do anything about the Lutherans and retreated to Hald Castle.

A tidal moat, up to wide in places, flowed about along the line of the modern thoroughfares of Fore Street and Castle Moat, and between Northgate and Chandos Street.

A Muslim cemetery containing about 200 human remains mingled with Christian tombs was unearthed in 2003 at the Castle Square, bearing witness to an important Muslim presence in the city during this period, but further research was stopped by the destruction of this and other historic evidence as ordered by the city ´ s mayor.

* Information about Castle Oliver, Lola Montez's ancestral home

Bamburgh Castle, then called Din Guardi, may have been the capitol of the Brythonic kingdom of Bryneich between about AD 420 and 547.

The Tilkitepe Mound, which is on the shores of Lake Van and a few kilometres to the south of Van Castle, is the only source of information about the oldest culture of Van.

Vern Tessio informs his three friends that he has overheard his older brother Billy talking with his friend Charlie Hogan, about the location of the corpse of Ray Brower, a boy from Chamberlain, a town 40 miles or so east of Castle Rock, who has gone missing, while going out to pick blueberries with one of his mother's pails.