And by a skillful and unobtrusive use of imagery ( the enclosure is called a `` Roman-camp stockade '', the hastily erected lean-to is a `` Babylonian hovel '', the men begin to look like `` Peruvian mummies '' and to acquire `` Gothic faces '' ), Malraux projects a fresco of human endurance -- which is also the endurance of the human -- stretching backward into the dark abyss of time.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

Lisbalting / Lios Bealtaine (' fort or enclosure of Bealtaine ') is located in Kilcash Parish, County Tipperary.

A gallery is a passageway running along the wall of an enclosure or along the axis of a temple, often open to one or both sides.

At Angkor, passage through the enclosure walls surrounding a temple compound is frequently accomplished by means of an impressive gopura, rather than just an aperture in the wall or a doorway.

In plan, gopuras are usually cross-shaped and elongated along the axis of the enclosure wall ; if the wall is constructed with an accompanying gallery, the gallery is sometimes connected to the arms of the gopura.

The family enclosure is located in the corner nearest to the Hammersmith end.

The rockface at the west end of the building was cut away, although it is unclear how much remained in Constantine's time, as archaeological investigation has revealed that the temple of Aphrodite reached far into the current rotunda area, and the temple enclosure would therefore have reached even further to the west.

From the archaeological excavations in the 1970s, it is clear that construction took over most of the site of the earlier temple enclosure and that the Triportico and Rotunda roughly overlapped with the temple building itself ; the excavations indicate that the temple extended at least as far back as the Aedicule, and the temple enclosure would have reached back slightly further.

It has also been demonstrated experimentally ( R. W. Wood, 1909 ) that a " greenhouse " with a cover of rock salt ( which is transparent to infra red ) heats up an enclosure similarly to one with a glass cover.

The date of Hildegard's enclosure in the church is contentious.

However, Jutta's enclosure date is known to be in 1112, at which time Hildegard would have been fourteen.

Modern etymology reconstructs Proto-Germanic * hagatusjon-from haegtesse and hagazussa ; the first element is probably cognate with hedge, which derives from PIE * kagh-" hedge, enclosure ", and the second perhaps from * dhewes-" fly about, be smoke, vanish.

Imhotep's historicity is confirmed by two contemporary inscriptions made during his lifetime on the base or pedestal of one of Djoser's statues ( Cairo JE 49889 ) and also by a graffito on the enclosure wall surrounding Sekhemkhet's unfinished step-pyramid.

Considered one of the most perfect statements of his architectural approach, the upper pavilion is a precise composition of monumental steel columns and a cantilevered ( overhanging ) roof plane with a glass enclosure.

Midgard ( an anglicised form of Old Norse ; Old English, Old High German, Gothic Midjun-gards ; literally " middle enclosure ") is the name for the world ( in the sense of oikoumene ) inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology, and specifically one of the Nine Worlds and in Norse mythology.

In Britain, the privatization of common lands is referred to as enclosure ( in Scotland as the Lowland Clearances and the Highland Clearances ).

* Chapter 4 lists 73 " tools for good work " " tools of the spiritual craft " for the " workshop " that is " the enclosure of the monastery and the stability in the community ".

In modern times, this timetable is often changed to accommodate any apostolate outside the monastic enclosure ( e. g. the running of a school or parish ).

A Neolithic causewayed enclosure on Salisbury Plain has acquired the name Robin Hood's Ball, although had Robin Hood existed it is doubtful that he would have travelled so far south.

* Assembly – Some relays feature a sticker that keeps the enclosure sealed to allow PCB post soldering cleaning, which is removed once assembly is complete.

The term " loudspeaker " may refer to individual transducers ( known as " drivers ") or to complete speaker systems consisting of an enclosure including one or more drivers.

The name Shepton derives from the Old English scoep and tun, meaning ' the sheep enclosure '; the Domesday Book of 1086 records a settlement known as Sceaptun.

The last Second Dynasty king Khasekhemwy was buried in his tomb at Abydos, but also built a funerary monument at Saqqara consisting of a large rectangular enclosure, known as Gisr el-Mudir.

The step pyramid ( or proto-pyramid ) is considered to be the earliest large-scale cut stone construction, although the nearby enclosure known as Gisr el-mudir would seem to predate the complex.

Grosse Tete has become known for the Tiger Truck Stop where a live tiger is displayed in an enclosure a few hundred feet from the parking lot.

Former " common lands " were fenced by the landed bourgeois, a process known as " enclosure " which increased the efficiency of raising livestock ( mainly sheep's wool for the textile industry ).

The cabinet of the loudspeaker is known as the enclosure.

A third enclosure, known as the inmost bailey, was created in the early 13th century when walls ( which no longer survive ) were built enclosing the southern corner of the inner ward.

The settlement's earliest known name is Lantokay, meaning the sacred enclosure of Kea, a Celtic saint.

At the summit of the hill, to the north of the ridge, is an oval Iron Age hilltop enclosure, measuring north-south by east-west and enclosed by an internal ditch and external bank, known as Ráith na Ríogh ( the Fort of the Kings, also known as the Royal Enclosure ).

It is known for its unique stone carvings below the upper enclosure, including a footprint and basin thought to have formed part of Dál Riata's coronation ritual.

In a marble enclosure adjoining the dargah of Sufi saint, Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki at Mehrauli, an empty grave or Sardgah marks the site where he had willed to be buried along with some of his Mughal predecessors, Akbar Shah II, Bahadur Shah I ( also known as Shah Alam I ) and Shah Alam II.

A motte-and-bailey castle was made up of two structures, a motte, a type of mound-often artificial-topped with a wooden or stone structure known as a keep ; and at least one bailey, a fortified enclosure built next to the motte.

Originally known as Duxworth and listed as Dukeswrthe in the 10th century, and Dochesuuorde in the Domesday Book the village's name comes from " Worth ( enclosure ) of a man called Duc ".

This had been the hunting grounds of the Wittelsbach rulers since the Middle Ages, and was thus known as the Hirschanger or Hirschau ( both names mean " deer enclosure "), though the latter came to be transferred to the " Lower Hirschau ", the northernmost part of the grounds, originally not included in the garden.

The discovery site is a prehistoric enclosure encircling the top of a elevation in the Ziegelroda Forest, known as Mittelberg (" central hill "), some 60 km west of Leipzig.

His grave lies, next to the dargah of 13th century, Sufi saint, Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki at Mehrauli, in a marble enclosure, along with that of Bahadur Shah I ( also known as Shah Alam I ) and Shah Alam II.

The two walls form a fortified enclosure, called the Brachionion or Brachiolion (" bracelet ") of Blachernae () by the Byzantines, and known after the Ottoman capture of the city in Greek as the Pentapyrgion ( Πενταπύργιον, " Five Towers "), in allusion to the Yedikule ( Gk.

In 1991 evidence of a late-Iron Age enclosure of 33 hectares known as an ' oppidum ' was discovered underneath the town centre.

Close to Llangynwyd is an extensive earthwork known as Y Bwlwarcau (" the bulwarks "), an Iron Age enclosure that is probably a remnant of the earliest settlement in the Llynfi district.

History is then silent until 1278, and the first record of a hunting enclosure called ‘ Wistemede ’-later known as Whitemead Park ; from which Parkend derived its name.