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second and stone-built
In the second half of the nineteenth century, widespread development occurred in Burnley Wood, the residential elements having two distinct characters: large stone-built houses in spacious grounds, flanking Brooklands Road and Todmorden Road and largely providing accommodation for wealthy mill or mine owners and senior employees, and high density terraced housing.

second and fortified
The second phase of the IRA campaign, roughly from January to July 1920, involved attacks on the fortified police barracks located in the towns.
The city kept its strategic military role and became an important German garrison town and the Germans decided to build a second and a third fortified lines around Metz.
After the second Persian invasion of Greece, Themistocles fortified the three harbours of Piraeus and created the neosoikoi ( ship houses ); the Themistoclean Walls were completed in 471 BC, turning Piraeus into a great military and commercial harbour.
It became the heavily fortified capital of Gondor in the second half of the Third Age.
According to the Burmese chronicles, Bagan was founded in the second century CE, and fortified in 849 CE.
On September 22, 1846, General Worth attacked a second more fortified hill called Independence Hill where an old Bishop's palace ( Obispado ) was located that contained 300 Mexican soldiers.
Kotor ( then called " Cattaro ") has been fortified since the early Middle Ages, when Emperor Justinian built a fortress above Acruvium in 535, after expelling the Ostrogoths ; a second town probably grew up on the heights round it, for Constantine Porphyrogenitus, in the 10th century, alludes to Lower Kotor.
Shortly after the main battle, a British outpost at Rorke's Drift on the Zululand-Natal border, withstood a second Zulu attack with great losses to the Zulus with the British fighting defensively in and around the stone buildings of a small trading store which had been hastily fortified.
The site has been continuously inhabited since the second century BC, and originates from a Vyatich fortified structure ( or " grad ") on Borovitsky Hill where the Neglinnaya River flowed into the Moskva River.
After this gate was a further uphill path to a second fortified gateway, which lead onto the final plateau, or ' amba '
The second part of the name Ingleborough is derived from the Old English word burh, meaning " a fortified place "; in this case, a hill fort.
The second cask is usually one that has been used to mature some sort of fortified wine, often sherry, though sometimes port, madeira, or even standard wines such as burgundy or chardonnay.
The second church was fortified with stone walls and ramparts, remnants of which can be seen around the church.
Pottery found at the site suggests that the fortifications were constructed in the second half of the 8th century BCE and that a second phase of occupation occurred during the 7th century BCE when the site was no longer fortified.
He accompanied, after this fortified town had fallen, the army to Alentejo, and participated in the second Anglo-Portuguese Siege of Badajoz.
A day's march to the south, Scipio reached the hills, fortified the slope of one of them and settled down to rest and wait for the arrival of the second consul, Tiberius Sempronius Longus.
The second part of the name is thought to come from burh meaning fortified place.
Mannheim in Germany was also fortified in this way, while the second system was applied to Belgrade and Temesvar in eastern Europe.
In the second part of the 14th century, the famous count Gaston III Fébus of Foix, who was trying to join his domains of Béarn and Foix together, managed to acquire Lannemezan ( 30 km ./ 19 miles west of Saint-Gaudens ), and then the fortified castle of Mauvezin, a key position near Lannemezan.
The Ganshō-ji fortified monastery formed the second center of Nagashima's defense.
The second company fortified at Nanye ( in modern Jiangxi Province's Nankang County ), and was designed to put defensive pressure on the southern clans.
The city was possibly constructed by King Amaziah of Judah, an 8th century BCE ruler who fortified the Judean kingdom and went to war with neighbouring Edom in the northern Arabah, or his son Uzziah whose construction of towers in the desert is mentioned by the second Book of Chronicles.
However, historically it became the accepted ( substantivated ) name for those Roman imperial troops ( legions and auxiliary ) which were not merely garrisoned at a limes ( fortified border, on the Rhine and Danube in Europe and near Persia and the desert tribes elsewhere ) — the limitanei or ripenses, i. e. ' along the shores ' — but more mobile line troops ; furthermore there were second line troops, named pseudocomitatenses, former limitanei attached to the comitatus ; palatini, elite (" palace ") units typically assigned to magistri militum ; and the scholae palatinae of actual palace guards, notably under the magister officiorum, a major court official of the Late Empire.

second and building
`` -- second building on the right ''.
Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.
In 2009, plans for a $ 24 million expansion to the campus, including a new academic building, a second residence and a sports complex were unveiled.
Franklin's birthplace site directly across from Old South Meeting House on Milk Street is commemorated by a bust ( sculpture ) | bust above the second floor facade of this building
Roughly contemporary with the construction of the new building was the career of a man sometimes called the " second founder " of the British Museum, the Italian librarian Anthony Panizzi.
The blue tower in the centre, the Basler Messeturm | Messeturm, was Switzerland's tallest building 2003-10 ; the bridge on the extreme right is the Wettsteinbrücke, Basel's second oldest bridge but recently replaced by a new structure.
During the 1890s, Monet built a greenhouse and a second studio, a spacious building well lit with skylights.
* Central composite design, an experimental design in response surface methodology for building a second order model for a response variable without a complete three level factorial
The Armenians regard a recess in the Monastery of the Flagellation, a building near the second station on the Via Dolorosa, as the Prison of Christ.
When both the fronts and sides of a building are drawn, then the parallel lines forming a side converge at a second point along the horizon ( which may be off the drawing paper.
The clearest symbol of the whole effort was the ambitious Canary Wharf project that constructed Britain's tallest building and established a second major financial centre in London.
The second phase, to be completed in 2010, is underway for a building named Founders Hall is to house the Schools of Public Policy, Education and Human Development, Information Technology, Engineering, Management, the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Computational Science, and the College of Visual & Performing Arts and academic and student supports services.
Caliph Al-Walid I had paid great attention to the expansion of an organized military, building the strongest navy in the Umayyad Caliphate era ( the second major Arab dynasty after Mohammad and the first Arab dynasty of Al-Andalus ).
This was the second major earthquake to hit Saint-Domingue as it followed the 1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake which had left only a single stone built building standing in the town.
A second building, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, was also erected on the Temple Mount in 705.
It was also the second tallest building in Asia at the time.
Olivier Roy argues that " Sunni pan-Islamism underwent a remarkable shift in the second half of the 20th century " when the Muslim Brotherhood movement and focus on Islamistation of pan-Arabism was eclipsed by the Salafi movement with its emphasis on " sharia rather than the building of Islamic institutions ," and rejection of Shia Islam.
The Army chose Ford as the second supplier, but building Jeeps to the Willys ' design.
A second John Sealy Hospital was built in 1954 to replace the 1890 building.
The expedition faced its second bitter winter, and voted on whether to camp on the south side of the Columbia river ( modern Astoria, Oregon ), building Fort Clatsop.
In the 19th century, Nova Scotia became a world leader in both building and owning wooden sailing ships in the second half of the 19th century.
According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, " The artifacts recovered from inside the building were few and mostly included fragments of pottery vessels from the Early Roman period ( the first and second centuries AD )... Another hewn pit, whose entrance was apparently camouflaged, was excavated and a few pottery sherds from the Early Roman period were found inside it.
In the primary logo, designed by sports cartoonist Ray Gatto, each part of the skyline has special meaning — at the left is a church spire, symbolic of Brooklyn, the borough of churches ; the second building from the left is the Williamsburg Savings Bank, the tallest building in Brooklyn ; next is the Woolworth Building ; after a general skyline view of midtown comes the Empire State Building ; at the far right is the United Nations Building.
In the mid-5th century BC, when the Athenian Acropolis became the seat of the Delian League and Athens was the greatest cultural centre of its time, Pericles initiated an ambitious building project that lasted the entire second half of the century.

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