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The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.
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.
In Oxford, it is traditional for May Morning revellers to gather below the Great Tower of Magdalen College at 6: 00 am to listen to the college choir sing traditional madrigals as a conclusion to the previous night's celebrations.
; King ’ s Hostel ( 1377 – 1416, various architects ): Located to the north of Great Court, behind the Clock Tower, this is ( along with the King ’ s Gate ), the sole remaining building from King ’ s Hall.
File: Great Tower, Monmouth Castle-geograph. org. uk-649346. jpg | Remains of the Great Tower of Monmouth Castle
Whilst Edward mobilised his own faction and placed Leeds castle under siege, Isabella was given the Great Seal and assumed control of the royal Chancery from the Tower of London.
A: West Front & Main Entrance ; B: Base Court ; C: Clock Tower ; D: Clock Court, E: Fountain Court ; F: East Front ; G: South Front ; H: Banqueting House ; J: Great Hall ; K: River Thames ; M: East Gardens ; O: Cardinal Wolsey's Rooms ; P: Chapel.
Between about 1090 and 1120, the Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene was built inside the walls, and by 1130 the Great Tower was added to form the gatehouse.
Works in the 1880s, funded by the publisher William Nelson and carried out by Hippolyte Blanc, saw the Argyle Tower built over the Portcullis Gate, and the Great Hall restored after years of use as a barracks.
Although it mostly died out 1600 to 1700 years ago, Mesopotamian religion has still had an influence on the modern world, predominantly because Biblical mythology that is today found in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandeanism shares some overlapping consistency with ancient Mesopotamian myths, in particular the Creation Myth, the Garden of Eden, The Great Flood, Tower of Babel and figures such as Nimrod and Lilith ( the Assyrian Lilitu ).
Others include The Great Flood and Noah which was influenced by the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Tower of Babel.
The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and its precursor organization, Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, considers the Great Apostasy to have properly begun before the death of the last Apostle, along with the warning signs and precursors starting shortly after Jesus ' ascension.
The Imperial State Crown of Great Britain, Tower of London.
The view from the top of the Atlantis Tower showing the Golden Mile and, in the distance, the Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour | Outer Harbour

Great and was
Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.
On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.
I was anxious to hear about those dazzling days on the Great White Way.
And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.
His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.
As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.
One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.
The movie was The Great Train Robbery and its effects on the young industry and art were all but incalculable.
she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.
Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.
In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.
For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.
The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.
In The Double Clue Poirot mentions that he was Chief of Police of Brussels, until " the Great War " ( WWI ) forced him to leave for England.
Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain.
Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.
304 – 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.
Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.
Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.
Anthony the Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximian, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanctity, and his power as an exorcist.

Great and built
* 1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
It is mainly notable for being perhaps the first purpose built office building in Great Britain.
The Ottoman sultan Bayezid I built the Bayezid Külliyesi ( Bayezid I theological complex ) in Bursa between 1390 and 1395 and the Ulu Cami ( Great Mosque ) between 1396 and 1400.
Ohio built many miles of canal, Indiana had working canals for a few decades, and the Illinois and Michigan Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River system until replaced by a channelized river waterway.
While the Great Wall had been built in earlier times, most of what is seen today was either built or repaired by the Ming.
In 721, the emir of Córdoba had built up a strong army from Morocco, Yemen, and Syria to conquer Aquitaine, the large duchy in the southwest of Gaul, nominally under Frankish sovereignty, but in practice almost independent in the hands of the Odo the Great, the Duke of Aquitaine, since the Merovingian kings had lost power.
Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.
Casimir the Great built many new castles ( including Wawel Castle ), reformed the Polish army and Polish civil and criminal law.
King Herod the Great built or rebuilt several fortresses and palaces on the western bank of the Dead Sea.
The Howland Great Dock in Rotherhithe ( built 1696 and later forming the core of the Surrey Commercial Docks ) was designed to address these problems, providing a large, secure and sheltered anchorage with room for 120 large vessels.
" In 1901 the Great Western sugar processing plant was built in the neighboring city of Loveland.
Great Britain and France attacked Egypt and built an alliance with Israel against Nasser.
Ibn Battuta also reported " the rampart of Yajuj and Majuj " was " sixty days ' travel " from the city of Zeitun ( Quanzhou ); Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb notes that Ibn Battuta believed that Great Wall of China was built by Dhul-Qarnayn to contain Gog and Magog as mentioned in the Quran.
* GWR Iron Duke Class, the name of a famous class of locomotive built by the Great Western Railway in England
* Iron Duke was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.
He went to the United States following the American Revolutionary War and built a fur-trading empire that extended to the Great Lakes region and Canada, and later expanded into the American West and Pacific coast.
One of these forts, built at the entrance to Wadi Qelt, was later refortified by Herod the Great, who named it Kypros after his mother.
Faylakah is the site of an ancient Greek temple built by the forces of Alexander the Great.
The Communist Party of Great Britain had the monumental tombstone built in 1954 with a portrait bust by Laurence Bradshaw ; Marx's original tomb had had only humble adornment.
The outer bailey wall, long and relatively low, was mainly built by King John ; it has numerous buttresses but only a few towers, being designed to be primarily defended by the water system of the Great Mere and Lower Pool.
Henry V also used Kenilworth extensively, but preferred to stay in the Pleasance, the mock castle he had built on the other side of the Great Mere.
During the War of 1812, Great Britain and allied Indians defeated U. S. forces in the Upper Mississippi ; the US abandoned both Fort Osage and Fort Madison, as it did several U. S. forts built during the war, including Fort Johnson and Fort Shelby.
During their dig they found the remains of a Benedictine chapel that was built in c. 1139 by monks from Glastonbury Abbey, a reliquary, graves and the remains of much earlier Romano-British chapels built of wood with dating evidence suggesting use by Christians before the reign of Constantine the Great.

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