There were also many popular games officially converted to the Electron from arcade machines ( including Crystal Castles, Tempest, Commando, Paperboy and Yie Ar Kung-Fu ) or other home computer systems ( including Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, The Way of the Exploding Fist, Tetris, The Last Ninja, Barbarian and SimCity ).

Castles and fortified walled cities were common during this period-and catapults were used as a key siege weapon against them.

Castles were often situated along the old Roman roads that still formed the backbone for travel across the country, both to control the lines of communication and to ensure easy movement between different estates.

Castles such as Dover and the Tower of London were expanded in a concentric design in what Cathcart King has labelled the early development of " scientific fortification ".

Castles such as Southampton, Winchester, Bristol and the Tower of London were used to import, store and distribute royal wines.

Castles such as Goodrich were redesigned in the 1320s to provide greater residential privacy and comfort for the ruling family, while retaining strong defensive features and a capacity to hold over 130 residents at the castle.

England had lagged behind Europe in adapting to this new form of warfare ; Dartmouth and Kingswear Castles, built in the 1490s to defend the River Dart, and Bayard's Cover, designed in 1510 to defend Dartmouth harbour itself, were amongst the few English castles designed in the continental style during the period, and even these lagged behind the cutting edge of European design.

Castles in England, such as Chepstow and York Castle, were repaired and garrisoned by the king.

Castles played a minimal role in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, although some fortifications such as Dover Castle were attacked by mobs unhappy with the religious beliefs of their Catholic governors, and the sieges of King John's Castle in Limerick formed part of the endgame to the war in Ireland.

Also, the Old and New Castles were often visited by the Commonwealth monarchs including famous Stephen Báthory of Poland who made a royal residence here.

A development of the earlier Star Class, 171 Castles were built, over a 27-year span from August 1923 to August 1950.

The Kings were themselves a development of the Castles, with an even larger boiler and slightly smaller wheels for increased tractive effort.

The Three Castles are usually grouped together by historians because for almost their entire history they were part of a block of territory under the control of a single lord.

In order to prevent the rise of such a powerful magnate, the King divided up this strategically important territory – the only time in their active history that the Three Castles were owned separately.

The castles were later completely overhauled by Hubert de Burgh, who was granted lordship of the Three Castles by King John in 1201.

He held the Three Castles until 1239, although they were briefly taken from him after he fell out of Royal favour in 1232 ( they were returned after his reconciliation to the King two years later ).

After Hubert de Burgh, the Three Castles were held in Royal hands, and in 1254 Henry III granted them to his eldest son, the future Edward I.

Although the Welsh threat was soon subdued with the death of Llywelyn in 1282, the Three Castles were used as residences and centres for local authority.

Castles in Europe provided lordly accommodation for their owners and were centres of administration ; in the Levant the need for defence was paramount and was reflected in castle design.

Henrician Castles were built in both settlements in the sixteenth century.

The Castles were soon the rage of Parisian society ; their success was widely reported in the United States, preparing their way for a triumphant return to New York in 1912.

Among their shows were The Sunshine Girl ( 1913 ) and Watch Your Step ( 1914 ), which boasted Irving Berlin's first score, written for the Castles.

The town remained until late Byzantine times an important toll and customs station of the Hellespont, its importance thereafter being transferred to the Dardanelles, after the building of the " Old Castles " by Sultan Mehmet II ( c. 1456 ).

Castles and Coltheart describe phonological and surface types of developmental dyslexia by analogy to classical subtypes of alexia ( acquired dyslexia ) which are classified according to the rate of errors in reading non-words.

In 2005, Gygax was involved in the Castles & Crusades role-playing game, which was conceived as a hybrid between D & D's third edition and the original version of the game conceived by Gygax.

( 1995 ) English Castles: A Guide by Counties.

( 1995 ) English Castles: A Guide by Counties.

The highlight of his career was an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Informer ( 1935 ), based on a novel by Liam O ' Flaherty ; Frank Tashlin's 1938 cartoon Have You Got Any Castles?

The Castles to Country Houses exhibition contains a collection of 1 / 12 scale model houses ranging from the medieval to Victorian periods made by master miniaturist John Hodgeson.

Ancient pinhole camera effect caused by balistraria s in the Three Castles of Bellinzona | Castelgrande in Bellinzona

He again faced forfeiture in 1239, but retained some standing by granting several castles to the king, including the Trilateral Castles ( Skenfrith, White and Grosmont ) in Wales.

Famed for its picturesque aspect, Ussé was the subject of a French railroad poster issued by the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans in the 1920s and was one of several that inspired Walt Disney in the creation of many of the Disney Castles.

( 2002 ) English Castles: a Guide by Counties.

Castles saw an increasing use of arrowslits by the 13th century, especially in England, almost certainly linked to the introduction of crossbows.

He responded to the threat by building a famous sequence of forts, called the Device Forts or Henrician Castles, along the south coast of England specifically designed to be equipped with, and to defend against, gunpowder artillery.

( 2000 ) Welsh Castles: a Guide by Counties.

( 2002 ) English Castles: a Guide by Counties.

Burke won his final fight against Bob Castles ( to whom he was related by marriage ) in the 37th round on 13 June 1843.

* The novel Cloud Castles by Michael Scott Rohan features the Brocken as the home and body of Chernobog

* " Black Panther ", a song by Crystal Castles from their album Crystal Castles

So successful was the Castles ' design that construction continued at intervals until 1950, by which time 171 had been built.

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