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In the middle of the precinct there was a tower of solid masonry, a furlong m in length and breadth, upon which was raised a second tower, and on that a third, and so on up to eight.
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Today only the Norman Arch and parts of the precinct wall remain above ground, forming the perimeter of a public park in the middle of town.
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To the middle of September 1918, there had been fewer than 10,000 deaths from disease in the new army.
He stumbled to the middle of the road and simply stood there, waiting for them, a perfect target.
The house of his birth still stands in the middle of town and there is a monument to him on Front Street.
Instead there are Syeboi Angeilloi, Latinized to Suevi Angili, located south of the middle Elbe.
Inside there would be benches along the side with the hearth in the middle.
The airport itself is split into two architecturally independent sectors, one half serving the French side and the other half serving the Swiss side ; prior to Schengen there was a customs point at the middle of the airport so that people could " emigrate " to the other side of the airport.
In his account he described how “ on one side there was a wooden stage with two streamers – Hatuey beer and Bacardí rum – on each end and a Cuban flag in the middle.
In countries such as Kenya-particularly in Nairobi and other cities where there is an expanding middle class-English is increasingly being used in the home as the first language, albeit with significant lexical influence from and secondary use of Swahili in a context of code-switching.
In major international events, there are seven judges in which case the highest and lowest scores are again discarded and the middle five are summed, then ratioed by, and multiplied by the DD, so as to provide consistent comparison with 5-judge events.
The middle way recognizes there are vast differences between the way things are perceived to exist and the way things really exist.
:" The master ... came to the region of Pogesania, to that island which is in the middle of the Elbing river, in that place where the Elbing enters the Vistula Lagoon, and built there a fort, which he called by the name of the Elbing River, in the year of the incarnation of the Lord, 1237.
It is a Jain philosophical standpoint just as there is the Advaitic standpoint of Sankara and the standpoint of the " middle way " of the Buddhists.
The burial-place of John the Baptist was at Sebaste in Samaria, and mention is made of his relics being honored there around the middle of the 4th century.
There is a statue in the middle of the park honoring soldiers from the civil war, and there are a few benches and some foliage.
Ching-kuo copied Soviet methods, which he learned during his stay there, to start a social revolution by attacking middle class merchants.
In early usage, there were many variants, including medium aevum, or " middle age ", first recorded in 1604, and media scecula, or " middle ages ", first recorded in 1625.
If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value ; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.
A consequence of this definition of truth was the rejection of the law of the excluded middle, for there are statements that, according to Brouwer, could not be claimed to be true while their negations also could not be claimed true.
The position of carbon in the middle of its period in the Periodic Table means that there are precisely enough electrons to fill the energy states.
By the middle of the 6th century, there were three major settlements in northern Arabia, all along the south-western coast that borders the Red Sea, in a habitable region between the sea and the great desert to the east.
Thus, while there was a good measure of debate in the Early Church over the New Testament canon, the major writings are claimed to have been accepted by almost all Christians by the middle of the 3rd century.
middle and was
Waddell, the newspaperman, was a fellow in his middle forties, with a graying crewcut, heavy-framed glasses, and a large jaw padded with fat.
Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.
It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.
He specifies, `` in the middle period of the Nineteenth Century it was colored by Christian supernaturalism, in the Twentieth Century it was affected by naturalism.
The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.
That spring Welcome To Our City was selected for production by the 47 Workshop and it was staged in the middle of May.
The novel was not only the presenter of the new, secular, rationalistic, private world of the middle class.
In the middle of the century, with a circulation of 90,000, the Post was one of the most popular weeklies in the country.
It stands in the middle of what was once the Forum of Constantine, who brought it from Rome.
It was then distilled at least three times from a trap at -78-degrees to a liquid air trap with only a small middle fraction being retained in each distillation.
An attempted middle course might lead to devices like a 5000-word alphabetized dictionary from which every fiftieth word was selected.
The next thing he knew he was reporting for duty as commanding officer of Troop H, 7th Cavalry, in the middle of corps maneuvers in Japan.
On the middle Mississippi a principal post was to be located near the mouth of the Arkansas.
Surely she was just a trifle fatter around the middle??
The fisherman was right in the middle of the Deep.
Then Heywood Sullivan, Kansas City catcher, singled up the middle and Throneberry was across with what proved to be the winning run.
A middle aged woman opened a window on the third floor of her house which was behind the wall, she threw out a few belongings and then jumped ; ;
Such an analysis speedily reveals why the middle number of the Lo Shu, 5, was so vitally significant for the Chinese ever since the earliest hints that they had a knowledge of this diagram.
Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.
The middle section of the program was made up of short numbers, naturally enough of unequal merit, but all of them pretty good at that.
But this was only the middle of July.
Foner argues that Lincoln was a moderate in the middle, opposing slavery primarily because it violated the republicanism principles of the Founding Fathers, especially the equality of all men and democratic self-government as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
The Siphnian Treasury in Delphi was one of the first Greek buildings utilizing the solution to put the dominating form in the middle, and to complete the descending scale of height with other figures sitting or kneeling.
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