Pillars and portals were made of red granite, the ceiling stones made of white limestone.

The third of the Five Pillars of Islam states that Muslims are required to give approximately one-fortieth of their wealth to charity as zakat.

The most widespread example of Maurya architecture are the Pillars of Ashoka, often exquisitely decorated, with more than 40 spread throughout the Indian subcontinent.

Like Mansa Musa, Askia also completed one of the five Pillars of Islam by taking a hajj to Mecca, and, also like the former, went with an overwhelming amount of gold.

The Greek historian Herodotus wrote about the gold trade with Ghana and Carthage: " The Carthaginians also tell us that they trade with a race of men who live in a part of Libya beyond the Pillars of Hercules.

The gateway to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean, where the southernmost tip of Spain and the northernmost of Morocco face each other, is, classically speaking, referred to as the Pillars of Hercules / Heracles, owing to the story that he set up two massive spires of stone to stabilise the area and ensure the safety of ships sailing between the two landmasses.

This nebula is depicted in one of NASA's most famous images, the " Pillars of Creation ".

* True Story, written by Lucian of Samosata in the 2nd century AD, is a parody of the Odyssey describing a journey beyond the Pillars of Hercules and to the moon.

The so-called " Pillars of Creation ", a region of the Eagle Nebula where the molecular cloud is being evaporated by young, massive stars

The pilgrimage to Mecca ( the Hajj ) is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.

This annual observance is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam.

It is also known as the Straits of Gibraltar, or STROG ( Strait Of Gibraltar ), in naval use and as the " Pillars of Hercules " ( Greek: Ηράκλειες Στήλες ) in the ancient world.

In contrast, Stephen is depicted unsympathetically in both Ken Follett's historical novel The Pillars of the Earth and the TV mini-series adapted from it.

It is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.

The struggle between Church's and King's power is the main theme of Ken Follett's novel The Pillars of the Earth, of which one of the last scenes features the murder of Thomas Becket.

* Tafas – Lawrence's guide to Faisal is based on his actual guide, Sheikh Obeid el-Rashid, of the Hazimi branch of the Beni Salem, whom Lawrence referred to as Tafas several times in Seven Pillars.

* Medical officer – This unnamed officer who confronts Lawrence in Damascus is based on an actual incident in Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

" Stephen E. Tabachnick goes further than Korda, arguing that the film's portrayal of Lawrence is " appropriate and true to the text of Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

The best-known statement of the above Green values is the Four Pillars of the Green Party, adopted by the German Greens in 1979-1980 ( but forsaken since ).

Finally, Alison Pill portrayed her in the 2010 TV miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, an adaptation of Follett's novel, although she is initially known in this as Princess Maud not Empress Matilda.

It is a part of Catholic social teaching, the Protestants ' Social Gospel, and is one of the Four Pillars of the Green Party upheld by green parties worldwide.

For example, one of Islam's Five Pillars is Zakāt, or alms-giving.

Worship is included in the Five Pillars of Islam, primarily that of salat, which is the practise of ritual prayer five times daily.

* The fictitious Kingsbridge Cathedral in TV miniseries, The Pillars of the Earth ( 2010 ) based on a historical novel by the same name by Ken Follett is modeled on the cathedrals of Wells and Salisbury.

The sinking of the White Ship is referenced in Ken Follett's novel The Pillars of the Earth ( 1989 ).

File: The Pillars 1856 Lowndesboro Alabama Historic District. JPG | The Pillars is a Greek Revival Antebellum plantation home that was built in 1857 by Archibald Tyson, a cotton planter from North Carolina.

As well as the friars, Dominican sisters live their lives supported by four common values, often referred to as the Four Pillars of Dominican Life, they are: community life, common prayer, study and service.

Flavius and the Book of Jubilees described the continents as the lands given by Noah to his three sons ; Europe was defined as stretching from the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar, separating it from North Africa, to the Don, separating it from Asia.

The Five Pillars of Islam ( ; also " pillars of the religion ") are five basic acts in Islam, considered obligatory by believers.

The nebula measures 70 light-years by 50 light-years and contains the Pillars of Creation, three dust clouds that became famous for the image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Lawrence's sexual orientation remains a controversial topic amongst historians ; though Bolt's primary source was ostensibly Seven Pillars, the film's portrayal seems informed by Richard Aldington's then-recent Biographical Inquiry ( 1955 ), which posited among other things that Lawrence was homosexual.

Lawrence's public image was due in part to the sensationalised reportage of the revolt by an American journalist, Lowell Thomas, as well as to Lawrence's autobiographical account, Seven Pillars of Wisdom ( 1922 ).

Beyond Gades, several important Mauritanian colonies ( in modern-day Morocco ) were founded by the Phoenicians as the Phoenician merchant navy pushed through the Pillars of Hercules and began constructing a series of bases along the Atlantic coast starting with Lixus in the north, then Chellah and finally Mogador.

Strabo notes that the two bronze pillars within the temple, each eight cubits high, were widely proclaimed to be the true Pillars of Hercules by many who had visited the place and had sacrificed to Heracles there.

The cathedral has been mentioned by the author Ken Follett as one of two models for the fictional Kingsbridge Cathedral in his historical novel, The Pillars of the Earth.

* Six Pillars, ( 1934 – 35 ), by Berthold Lubetkin, on Crescent Wood Road, a villa strongly in the spirit of Le Corbusier with eponymous six pillars at street level.

In Lawrence, he succeeded where several before him had failed, at turning T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom into a cogent screenplay by turning the entire book on its head and making it a search for the identity of its author.

* The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence.

* " Text I " of Seven Pillars of Wisdom-a 250, 000 word manuscript by T. E. Lawrence lost at Reading railway station in December 1919.

Taharqa was described by the Ancient Greek historian Strabo as having " Advanced as far as Europe ", and ( citing Megasthenes ), even as far as the Pillars of Hercules in Spain.

English language versions of this process of deducing the properties of a field can be found in either the book by Oswald Veblen and John Young, Projective Geometry ( 1938 ), or more recently in John Stillwell's Four Pillars of Geometry ( 2005 ).