These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.

After being released from the abyss, Satan will gather Gog and Magog ( peoples of two specific nations ) from the four corners of the earth.

The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a 90-foot diamond.

A quincunx is a spatial arrangement of five elements, with four elements placed as the corners of a square and the fifth placed in the center.

However, the story is not yet quite finished: " When the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.

On the top is a capital in the characteristic shape of a scroll, called a volute, or scroll, at the four corners.

It is bordered on all sides by a white line indicating its beginning and end points, with orange, square pylons placed at each of the four corners as a visual aid.

The tower was planned around a visible truss structure, which distributed stress to the four corners of the base.

Tzitzit ( Hebrew: צ ִ יצי ִ ת ) ( Ashkenazi pronunciation: tzitzis ) are special knotted " fringes " or " tassels " found on the four corners of the tallit ( Hebrew: ט ַ ל ִּ ית ) ( Ashkenazi pronunciation: tallis ), or prayer shawl.

Extant Roman coins struck by the Alexandrian mint show that a statue of a Triton was positioned on each of the building's four corners.

The loaf was blessed, and in Anglo-Saxon England it might be employed afterwards to work magic: A book of Anglo-Saxon charms directed that the lammas bread be broken into four bits, which were to be placed at the four corners of the barn, to protect the garnered grain.

Framework silicates, or tectosilicates, have tetrahedra that share all four corners.

The ruins of Kouyunjik, Nimrud, Karamles and Khorsabad form the four corners of an irregular quadrangle.

Tartaglia is also known for having given an expression ( Tartaglia's formula ) for the volume of a tetrahedron ( including any irregular tetrahedra ) as the Cayley – Menger determinant of the distance values measured pairwise between its four corners:

** Corner blocks or plate blocks – compose a block of stamps from one of the four corners of the stamp sheet.

It is a square structure with circular towers at each of the four corners.

There are four or five accepted and cognate meanings of spandrel in architectural and art history, mostly relating to the space between a curved figure and a rectangular boundary-such as the space between the curve of an arch and a rectilinear bounding moulding, or the wallspace bounded by adjacent arches in an arcade and the stringcourse or moulding above them, or the space between the central medallion of a carpet and its rectangular corners, or the space between the circular face of a clock and the corners of the square revealed by its hood.

In Aztec cosmology, the four corners of the universe are marked by " the four Tlalocs " () which both hold up the sky and functions as the frame for the passing of time.

Taylor found clay cylinders in the four corners of the top stage of the ziggurat which bore an inscription of Nabonidus ( Nabuna ` id ), the last king of Babylon ( 539 BC ), closing with a prayer for his son Belshar-uzur ( Bel-ŝarra-Uzur ), the Belshazzar of the Book of Daniel.

A conical superstructure mounted on top of the frame held the high-gain 1 meter diameter parabolic antenna and four solar panels, each measuring 215 x, were affixed to the top corners of the frame.

This most often occurs when the band is spread out, but in groups ( i. e., the four corners of the football field in 4 groups ).

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.

Originally, the bridge had ten towers and two gateways – today only four towers remain.

This idea calls for right triangles at a ratio of five to four to three used in the gateways to measure all parts.

The city's axes were aligned with the four quarters of the compass, and the four gateways of the temple provided access to it.

The Champlain Port of Entry on Interstate 87 is one of the four most important commercial gateways on the northern border, connecting Quebec Autoroute 15 from Montreal to New York City.

It has four profusely carved ornamental gateways and a balustrade encircling the whole structure.

A second stone pathway at ground level was enclosed by a stone balustrade with four monumental gateways ( toranas ) facing the cardinal directions.

The town ( presumably the " Turk town ") had four gateways, one for each of the cardinal directions, of solid brickwork and massive wooden doors plated with iron and covered by a semicircular bastion.

The frame with up to six compute nodes or four compute nodes and two Nile attach gateways was connected to neighboring frames with short ribbon cables.

His scheme called for increasing the size of the enclosure four times, providing ceremonial entrance gateways on each side, and a great minar, twice the size of the Qutb.

It had four or five gateways and a nagarkhana for the musicians.

REST exemplifies how the Web's architecture emerged by characterizing and constraining the macro-interactions of the four components of the Web, namely origin servers, gateways, proxies and clients, without imposing limitations on the individual participants.

These became known as the Cumberland lines, and were entered by four gateways with bridges.

Japan traded at this time with five entities, through four " gateways.

The monument, as built, has gateways on four sides oriented towards the four cardinal directions.

Tradition, literature as well as epigraphical sources state that the sacred hill of Srisailam has four gateways in the four cardinal directions namely,

Besides the main gateways, there are four Secondary Gateways in the four corner directions:

The four cardinal points are marked by elaborate stone gateways.

The four elemental gateways appear in the four corners of Jadame: the Gateway of Earth on one of the Dagger Wound Islands ( southeast ), the Gateway of Water in Ravage Roaming ( southwest ), the Gateway of Air in the Murmurwoods ( northwest ), and the Gateway of Fire in the Ironsand Desert ( northeast ).

For example, he described the Buddha heads at the gateways to Angkor Thom as " four immense heads in the Egyptian style ," and wrote of Angkor: