It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

He was a square brick of a man with a moon-round face and sunken Polish features.

What had been the ambassador's suite was now jagged walls of blackened brick.

" This was borrowed into Arabic as al-tub ( الط ّ وب al " the " + tub " brick ") " brick ," which was assimilated into Old Spanish as adobe, still with the meaning " mud brick.

Ceramic, or fired brick was used as early as 4500 BC in early Indus Valley cities.

During the Renaissance and the Baroque, visible brick walls were unpopular and the brickwork was often covered with plaster.

It was only during the mid-18th century that visible brick walls regained some degree of popularity, as illustrated by the Dutch Quarter of Potsdam, for example.

This potential has not been fully developed because of the ease and speed in building with other materials ; in the late-20th century brick was confined to low-or medium-rise structures or as a thin decorative cladding over concrete-and-steel buildings or for internal non-load-bearing walls.

In Victorian London the bright red brick was chosen to make buildings visible in the heavy fog that caused transport problems.

The idea of signing the worker's name and birth date on the brick and the place where it was made was not new to the Ming era and had little or nothing to do with vanity.

Some have stated that the secret of concrete was lost for 13 centuries until 1756, when the British engineer John Smeaton pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate.

Angkor's neighbor state of Champa was also the home to numerous brick temples that are similar in style to those of Angkor.

In the end, the Cham replica was more impressive than the real brick tower of the Khmer, and the Cham won the contest.

Since its obtainment was considerably more expensive than that of brick, sandstone only gradually came into use, and at first was used for particular elements such as door frames.

The brick and granite work was enlarged, the watch towers were redesigned, and cannons were placed along its length.

It was replaced in 1988 by the 1541-II, which used an external power supply to provide cooler operation and allow the drive to have a smaller desktop footprint ( the power supply " brick " being placed elsewhere, typically on the floor ).

Nennius, a ninth-century historian, mentions a " Hot Lake " in the land of the Hwicce, which was along the Severn, and adds " It is surrounded by a wall, made of brick and stone, and men may go there to bathe at any time, and every man can have the kind of bath he likes.

The building was designed to distance the Irwin Union Bank from traditional banking architecture, which mostly echoed imposing, neoclassical style buildings of brick or stone.

It is popularly believed that he was struck in the mouth by a thrown piece of concrete or brick.

* 20 Aug: In a statement to a newspaper, the RHD threatened that " if there is one more brick thrown by Catholics at houses in Glenbryn, every resident on the upper half of Alliance Avenue will be forcibly removed from their homes ".

A thrown brick blinded his other eye when he was sixteen.

* PC Charles Phillip Gunter, 1901 ( fatally injured by thrown brick while attempting to disperse a disorderly crowd )

While dying ( his head is smashed from being thrown onto the pavement ), he tells them to tell the emperor to stop having their soldiers clean their muskets with crushed brick ( after he sees a dirty gun in England and realizes it fires so well because they keep it oily ).

The word " Jew " was also used as an insult against the man and a brick was thrown.

" He practised slip fielding by catching a tennis ball thrown against a brick wall ; he believed this practise trained him not to " snatch " at the ball but allow it to fall into his safe hands.

Sheet metal or boards are used to route the airflow through the brick lattice so that fresh air flows first through the recently burned bricks, heating the air, then through the active burning zone.

The air continues through the green brick zone ( pre-heating and drying them ), and finally out the chimney where the rising gases create suction which pulls air through the system.

Large swaths of the city's residential areas away from the lake are characterized by brick bungalows built from the early 20th century through the end of World War II.

In addition, in the words of the architects, the architecture of the buildings was meant to reflect Jeffersonian influence through the use of red brick with buff colored mortar, white vertical columns, and sloped shingled roofs.

Glass block or glass brick are blocks made from glass and provide a translucent to clear vision through the block.

An image of " the South " was fixed in Mitchell's imagination when at six years old her mother took her on a buggy tour through ruined plantations and " Sherman's sentinels ", the brick and stone chimneys that remained after William Tecumseh Sherman's " March and torch " through Georgia.

Christchurch residents reported chimneys falling in through roofs, cracked ceilings and collapsed brick walls.

The temples of the Angkor area number over one thousand, ranging in scale from nondescript piles of brick rubble scattered through rice fields to the magnificent Angkor Wat, said to be the world's largest single religious monument.

The Motley County Library has been housed since 1986 in the Moore Building, a brick structure constructed in 1916 after a fire swept through downtown Matador and destroyed wooden frame buildings.

To protect the roof from erosion, vertical drains were built through the brick walls.

The original brick roadbed is visible in many places through the asphalt.

A family of English immigrant brick makers passed through the town on their way west and stopped here, agreeing to make a large quantity of bricks for settlers who did not want to build with wood ( brick was then a more prestigious building material ).

Since its incorporation, Sharpsburg became an industrial town, manufacturing iron, brick and glass while goods were transported through the canal that bisected the borough, along with the Allegheny River.

In 1902, he founded the town's first bank, and through the 1900-1910s oversaw the brick paving of many public streets.

The old brick school stands empty at the upper end of town and there are abandoned buildings scattered through what was once the business district.

The Parcel Post brick shipments were transported from Salt Lake to Mack, Colorado by Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, then proceeded to Watson via the narrow gauge Uintah Railway, finally Vernal by wagon freight through steep roads.

The brick cone ends in a small dome, which supports the cupola and outer roof and the decorated underside of which can be seen through the inner dome's oculus.

) brick, and this inefficiency had been built into the job through long practice.

Colour varies considerably, from soft grey to reddish-brown, often with an area of brick red on the upper back, and always with a conspicuous black stripe running from the tip of the muzzle through the eyes to the bases of the small, round-tipped ears.

When Gandalf met up with the group in Rivendell, he remarked that Butterbur was not a quick thinker, " yet he can see through a brick wall in time ( as they say in Bree ).