The Gallery Tower originally guarded the 152-metre ( 500-ft ) long, narrow walled-causeway that still runs from the Brays to the main castle.

Some of the fortifications that still surround the current district of Castello ( Casteddu ' e susu in the Sardinian language ) were built by the Pisans, most notably the two remaining white limestone towers designed by architect Giovanni Capula ( originally there were three towers that guarded the three gates that gave access to the district ).

Final changes in the geography were caused by the intensification of the scene of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields: the distance between Osgiliath and Minas Tirith was reduced by four times ; the northern regions became guarded by " Tol Varad ( the Defended Isle )", later renamed Men Falros " place of foam-spray " and then Cair Andros ;< ref > the inhabitants of the newly introduced Drúadan Forest enabled the Rohirrim to pass freely to Minas Tirith ; and the hills of Emyn Arnen ( originally Haramon " southern hill ") justified creating a bend in Anduin so that the revelation of Aragorn and his reinforcements occurred closer to the battlefield, at the quays of Harlond ( at first Lonnath-ernin " Arnen-havens ").

A ditch deep ( to prevent prisoners tunneling out ) was placed inside the wall ( originally a wooden stockade fence, replaced with a brick wall in 1805 ) and guarded by ' silent sentries ' who could not be seen by the prisoners.

As originally conceived, it anticipated a withholding of supplies from the Philippines and other US outposts in the Western Pacific ( they were expected to hold out on their own ), while the Pacific Fleet marshaled its strength at bases in California, and guarded against attacks on the Panama Canal.

According to the story the book was originally hidden at the bottom of the Nile near Coptos, where it was locked inside a series of boxes guarded by serpents.

Indeed, these two theories do not necessarily contradict each other, as the Balkan word is said to be derived from the Turkish word haiduk or hayduk ( bandit ), while the Turkish is in turn believed to have been borrowed from Hungarian and to have originally referred to Hungarian mercenaries who guarded the Hungarian-Turkish border.

Winning control of the Dardanelles was originally intended to be a purely naval operation but after the loss of three battleships during the attack of 18 March it was decided that the aid of the army would be required to defeat the forts that guarded the straits.

The " 5 seconds closely guarded " rule was originally introduced partially to prevent stalling, and other rules changes were made to the college rules through the 1970s in hopes of eliminating stalling without using a shot clock, as the National Basketball Association had used since the 1954-55 season.

Shamshir-e Zomorrodnegar originally belonged to King Solomon, and was carefully guarded by Fulad-zereh, not only because it was a valuable weapon, and indeed the only weapon that could harm the demon, but also because wearing it was a charm against magic.

The Aztan ( Azadan, آزادان, " freemen ") jealously guarded their status as descendants of the ancient Aryan conquerors and rulers of the mass of originally non-Aryan peasantry.

Moving clockwise around the outer bailey from Mortimer's Tower, the defences include a west-facing watergate, which would originally have led onto the Great Mere ; the King's gate, a late 17th century agricultural addition ; the Swan Tower, a late 13th century tower with 16th century additions named after the swans that lived on the Great Mere ; the early 13th century Lunn's Tower ; and the 14th century Water Tower, so named because it overlooked the Lower Pool.

It was originally located at the site of Newgate, a gate in the Roman London Wall.

Because cartoons were shown originally in movie theatres, it was not uncommon for a hair to get caught in the ' gate ' of the projector.

* The Terrace of the Lions also dedicated to Apollo by the people of Naxos shortly before 600 BC, had originally nine to twelve squatting, snarling marble guardian lions along the Sacred Way ; one is inserted over the main gate to the Venetian Arsenal.

File: Ostia gate. jpg | The inscription originally placed on the main gate.

* The Broederpoort: a rectangular city gate with four slender towers, originally from 1465, rebuilt in Renaissance style in 1615

* The Cellebroederspoort: a rectangular city gate, flanked by two heavy round towers, originally from 1465, rebuilt in 1617 in Renaissance style

Above the gate is a niche which would originally have contained a statue of a saint, flanked by a coat of arms of the kings of England.

Atop the gate is the Quadriga, a chariot drawn by four horses driven by Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory ( originally Eirene goddess of peace ).

Another takes the name literally: the gate would originally have been some kind of bird perch.

The barbican features the earliest surviving stone machicolations in Britain, and the gate would originally have been protected by a portcullis.

The Inner Ward was originally separated from the Outer Ward by an internal wall, a drawbridge and a gate, protected by a ditch cut into the rock.

A postern gate originally led down to the river where a small dock was built, allowing key visitors to enter the castle in private and for the fortress to be resupplied by boat, although this gate is now concealed by the later bridges built on the site.

His work was originally designed for the gate of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.

The gate was originally named Chengtianmen (), or " Gate of Accepting Heavenly Mandate ", and it has been destroyed and rebuilt several times.

This gate was originally called the Nishinomaru-enokida Gate and is used today as the main gate to Nagoya Castle.

The building where he stayed during the period was originally built by his father and Zafar added an impressive gate and a Baaraadari to the structure and renamed it Zafar Mahal.

It originally only led into the fort and became a gate into the City when the fort was demolished.

An old illustration of the gate circa 1650Moorgate was a postern in the London Wall originally built by the Romans.

The main north-south thoroughfare, the Cardo Maximus, was originally a paved avenue approximately 22. 5 meters wide ( roughly the width of a six lane highway ) which ran southward from the site of the Damascus gate, terminating at an unknown point.

They are of a traditional design and were originally beacons to guide the soul of the deceased, The road leads to 18 pairs of stone statues of mythical animals, which are all sculpted from whole stones and larger than life size, leading to a three-arched gate known as the Dragon and Phoenix Gate.

Depictions of Vishnu are prominent at Angkor Wat, the 12th century temple that was originally dedicated to Vishnu.

Eusebius claims, in his Life of Constantine, that the site of the Church had originally been a Christian place of veneration, but that Hadrian had deliberately covered these Christian sites with earth, and built his own temple on top, due to his hatred for Christianity.

The temple it originally came from was probably closed around AD 392 when Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius I ordered the closing of all non-Christian temples of worship.

It is originally from the Greek Μουσεῖον ( Mouseion ), which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the Muses ( the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts ), and hence a building set apart for study and the arts, especially the Musæum ( institute ) for philosophy and research at Alexandria by Ptolemy I Soter about 280 BCE.

The Christian writer Justin Martyr identified him as Lupercus (" he who wards off the wolf "), the protector of cattle, following Livy, who named his aspect of Inuus as the god who was originally worshiped at the Lupercalia, celebrated on the anniversary of the founding of his temple, February 15, when his priests ( Luperci ) wore goat-skins and hit onlookers with goat-skin belts.

* Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, by Monte Cook, returned the players to Gygax's infamous temple, which Rob Kuntz ( as Robilar ) had originally trashed.

He had funded the restoration of the Jewish temple which had originally been decreed by Cyrus the Great, presented favour towards Greek cults which can be seen in his letter to Gadatas, and supported Elamite priests.

* Basar ( originally, Vyasara )-Sri Gyana Saraswati temple is situated on the banks of Godavari, in Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh.

" ( p. 31 ) The Egyptians also, says Rice, were " to alter the orientation of a temple when the star on whose position it had originally been set moved its position as a consequence of the Precession, something which seems to have happened several times during the New Kingdom.

On the east of the town, in the Patturelli property, a temple has been discovered with Oscan votive inscriptions originally thought to be Oscan, now recognized as Etruscan, some of them inscribed upon terracotta tablets, the most famous of which is the Tabula Capuana, conserved in Berlin, still, after more than a century of searching, the second-longest Etruscan text.

3 1? 33 ), its chief temples and statues, its springs, its market-place and gymnasium, its place of sacrifice, the tomb of the hero Aristomenes and the temple of Zeus Ithomatas on the summit of the acropolis with a statue by the famous Argive sculptor Ageladas, originally made for the Messenian helots who had settled at Naupactus at the close of the third Messenian War.

The Samothracians were also originally non-Greek, and are associated with the Trojans and the Pelasgians ; they used a foreign language in the temple through Julius Caesar's time.

One of its more significant features is the temple of Apollo which was originally constructed as early as 7th century BC.

The temple was originally a pyramid with stairways on all four sides, the summit shrine faced towards the rising sun in the east.

The temple was originally covered in painted stucco, with the decoration including the painted image of a jaguar.

He is said to have converted that temple into the Curia Hostilia close to where the Senate originally met in an old Etruscan hut.

Smith's original temple site, a smaller five-acre section within that 66 acres ( containing stones originally placed by Smith to mark the corners of his intended structure ), is currently owned by the Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ), which hopes to build a temple of its own sometime in the future.

The remains of the great temple and its premises are displayed as an open-air museum near the great colossus of Rameses II, which originally marked the southern axis of the temple.

These stones decorated with reliefs from the Amarna period, originally from the ancient temple of Aten in Memphis, had almost certainly been reused in the foundations of another ruined monument.

The basalt image originally was stationed at Medinet-Habu, as part of the cultic celebration of the Pharaonic " Sed-Festival ," but was transferred at some point to Herakleopolis and the temple of Herishef.

During the Greek dominance in Egypt, note was made of a temple for Maahes that was an auxiliary facility to a large temple to Sekhmet at Taremu in the delta region ( likely a temple for Bast originally ), a city which the Greeks called Leontopolis, where by that time, an enclosure was provided to house lions.