The central diamond within a walled city with four gates was thought to be a good design for defence.

" On November 23, he arrived in Damascus amid general acclamations and rested at his father's old home there, until the gates of the Citadel of Damascus were opened to him four days later.

The city opened its gates to Corbulo, just as it had to Germanicus four decades before.

Of its four gates, the Bab-al-Salam, or Egyptian gate, was remarkable for its beauty.

* A refusal that results in the destruction of the integrity of a jump ( running into the fence instead of jumping it, displacing poles, gates, flowers, or large clumps of turf or dirt ) will not receive four faults for the knockdown, but instead the four faults for a refusal and an additional penalty while the timer is stopped for the repair or replacement of the jump.

The International Departures Hall consists of 36 check-in desks, one finger with 24 gates ( 14 equipped with jetways ), while the Domestic Hall has an extra four gates.

All five fortresses had similar designs: " perfectly circular with gates opening to the four corners of the earth, and a courtyard divided into four areas which held large houses set in a square pattern.

In 1973, LSI chips were not readily or cheaply available, so all the multiplexing and logic were done using chips that consisted of four two-input TTL NAND gates, which resulted in excessive power consumption.

It was constructed about the central part of the community with four main gates and three postern gates.

The fortress had four sets of drawbridges, which allowed the Rue Saint-Antoine to pass eastwards through the Bastille's gates while giving easy access to the city walls on the north and south sides.

There are five gates in the wall ; four are original, known as the High Street Gate, St Ann's Gate, the Queen's Gate, and St Nicholas's Gate.

That done, the King dispatched Percy's head to York, where it was impaled on one of the city's gates ; his four quarters were sent to London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Bristol, and Chester before they were finally delivered to his widow.

The four large central gates are high and weigh 3, 700 tonnes.

The town was built with great regularity, in the form of a square, measuring 16 stadia in circumference ; it had four gates, and all its streets intersected one another at right angles, so that from a monument in the centre all the four gates could be seen.

Their circumference is, being at the base from in thickness, and from in height ; they contain four large and two small gates.

The basic form of most Hindu and Buddhist mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point.

File: Sri Yantra 256bw. gif | A diagramic drawing of the Sri Yantra, showing the outside square, with four T shaped gates, and the central circle.

The four corner gates of the park have one bust each, depicting Sir Isaac Newton, the scientist ; Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first President of the Royal Academy ; John Hunter, a pioneer of surgery ; and William Hogarth, the painter.

The building, raised 47 feet off the ground around a central core, features four massive walls, made of sections of inch-thick hammered glass mural tapestries, designed and manufactured in France.

Huge Glasgow School murals decorate the walls, depicting the granting of the city's charter, its history and culture, and the four main Scottish rivers.

Leicester's building was four floors high and built in a fashionable contemporary Tudor style with " brittle, thin walls and grids of windows ".

Also to be found inside its walls were four pitchers containing water.

* March 21 – Vitiges attemps to assault the northern and eastern city walls with four siege towers, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.

* Chinese Emperor Xuanzong of Tang has four palace walls in the northeast sector of the capital city Chang ' an torn down and reassembled to construct a new Daoist abbey, the grounds of which were formerly a large garden for the governmental Bureau of Agriculture.

" Among the experiments made ... was one upon a safe twenty-nine inches cube, with walls four inches and three quarters thick, made up of plates of iron and steel ... hen a hollow charge of dynamite nine pounds and a half in weight and untamped was detonated on it, a hole three inches in diameter was blown clear through the wall ...

At one of these villages is a spring, where water flows out from under a stone, but in no great abundance ; and it is conducted by a channel, cut in the ground, to a place outside the town ( of Hebron ), where they have constructed a covered tank for collecting the water ... The Sanctuary ( Mashad ), stands on the southern border of the town .... it is enclosed by four walls.

* The walls of the ancient city, one of the few remaining examples of the original Greek walls, are divided into four separate sections.

The older part of the town is rather crowded together, though only four of the wall towers and a small part of the town walls still survive.

They also built high walls and towers on all four sides of the fortress.

Aragorn is crowned King of Gondor outside the walls of Minas Tirith in a celebration during which all four Hobbits are greatly honoured for their contribution to the War of the Ring.

In around 19 BCE, Herod the Great extended the Mount's natural plateau by enclosing the area with four massive retaining walls and filling the voids.

However, the present Ottoman fortress was built following the publication of a firman in 1573 A. D. ( 981 H .):" You have sent a letter and have reported that four walls of the fortress Ras al-Ayn have been built, I have commanded that when firman arrives you shall built the above mentioned rooms and mosque with its minaret and have the guards remove the earth outside and clean and tidy place.

Robert began with special thick supporting walls and four massive brick piers.

" In media, the television set has been described metaphorically as a fifth wall because of how it allows a person to see beyond the traditional four walls of a room.

* Eragrostis – Panicum types: Two mitotic division give a 4-nucleate megagametophyte, with cell walls to form either three or four cells.

Carbon-dating within the walls has identified construction dates of A. D. 30, A. D. 230, and A. D. 430, indicating that the site was used for at least four centuries.

To guard against Lilith, Jewish people would hang four amulets on nursery walls with the inscription " Lilith – abi!

The Grill Room 1876 – 81 was designed by Sir Edward Poynter, the lower part of the walls consist of blue and white tiles with various figures and foliage enclosed by wood panelling, above there are large tiled scenes with figures depicting the four seasons and the twelve months these were painted by ladies from the Art School then based in the museum, the windows are also stained glass, there is an elaborate cast iron grill still in place.

He opted for external brickwork, put some detailing on the sheer walls, and remodelled the four corner chimneys so that they resembled classical columns.

It connected numerous state walls which had been built during the previous four centuries, a network of small walls linking river defenses to impassable cliffs.

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

Linguistic study of the Khmer language divides its history into four periods one of which, the Old Khmer period, is subdivided into pre-Angkorian and Angkorian.

The church has an open canon which includes four scriptural texts: the Bible ( both Old and New Testaments ), the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.

The Fifth Monarchists were a group of believers in a geopolitical theory which maintained that four world rulers had already come and gone according to the prophecies of Daniel 2 in the Old Testament.

The trial started in 2010, with the four defendants convicted on the 31st of March 2010 by Mr Justice Treacy at the Old Bailey.

In the 19th century, manuscript evidence was discovered for an " Old Syriac " version of the four distinct ( i. e., not harmonized ) gospels.

Ur is mentioned four times in the Torah or Old Testament, with the distinction " of the Kasdim / Kasdin "— traditionally rendered in English as " Ur of the Chaldees ".

He had been commissioned by Damasus I in 382 to revise the Old Latin text of the four Gospels from the best Greek texts, and by the time of Damasus ' death in 384 he had thoroughly completed this task, together with a more cursory revision from the Greek Septuagint of the Old Latin text of the Psalms in the Roman Psalter which is now lost.

Kannada is a southern Dravidian Language and the history of Kannada is conventionally divided in four periods: Purva Halegannada from the 5th century ( as per early epigraphic records ), the Halegannada ( Old Kannada, 9th to 14th century ), the Nadugannada ( Middle Kannada, 14th to 18th century ), and Hosagannada ( Modern Kannada, 1800 to present ).

The busiest location was Old Compton Street between the junctions with Dean and Frith Street, which experienced ' medium ' levels of traffic for four of the six hours of the survey, including between 2 am and 4 am.

Starting at the age of four, he attended a religious school where the teaching was solely from the Tanakh, i. e., Old Testament, in Hebrew.

: " Extra Old ", Napoleon or Vieille Reserve, aged at least six years, Napoleon at least four years.

* The Old Cathedral ( Duomo of San Corrado ) was built in the 12th – 13th centuries in Apulian-Romanesque style, using local stone on a basilica plan, a nave with two aisles divided by four central cross-shaped pilasters.

Arsenal regained the league, beating Manchester United at Old Trafford in the penultimate game of the season to complete the club's second double under Wenger ; Arsenal defeated Chelsea 2 – 0 to win the FA Cup four days prior.

Wells was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Welle, from the Old English wiells, which was not listed as a town, but included four manors with a population of 132, which implies a population of 500 – 600.

Three of the four principal hobbit characters in The Lord of the Rings ( Frodo, Pippin and Merry ) certainly had Fallohide blood through their common ancestor, the Old Took.

He returned to London for the 1933 – 34 Old Vic Season and was engaged in four Shakespeare roles ( as Macbeth and Henry VIII, Angelo in Measure for Measure and Prospero in The Tempest ) and also as Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard, Canon Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Tattle in Love for Love.

In the history of the Academy Awards, established duos have been nominated for Best Director only four times: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins ( who won for West Side Story in 1961 ); Warren Beatty and Buck Henry ( who were nominated for Heaven Can Wait in 1978 ), and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ( who won for No Country for Old Men in 2007 and were nominated again in 2010 for True Grit ).

About 250 years after the production of the book Aldred added an Old English translation between the lines of the Latin text, and in his colophon he recorded the names of the four men who helped contribute to the production of the Lindisfarne Gospels.

This section of wall is built from enormous meleke limestone stones, possibly quarried at either Zedekiah's Cave situated under the Muslim Quarter of the Old City or at Ramat Shlomo four kilometers northwest of the Old City.

Flanking this lancet are four more containing Old Testament figures.

Either side of this are four lancets showing the four evangelists sitting on the shoulders of four Prophets – a rare literal illustration of the theological principle that the New Testament builds upon the Old Testament.