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Unlike at the North Tower, initially, one of the three stairwells was still intact after Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower.
A few of these wooden pegs are still intact and are visible on the tower when hiking along the Tower Trail at Devils Tower National Monument.
A massive explosion in 1684 destroyed the roof, floor and central pillar of Clifford's Tower, leaving only the walls intact
Today only the Galata Tower, visible from most of historical Constantinople, remains intact, along with several smaller fragments.
These walls, including the mid-14th-century Galata Tower ( originally Christea Turris, " Tower of Christ ", and completed in 1348 ) survived largely intact until the 19th century, when most were dismantled in order to allow further urban expansion towards the northern neighbourhoods of Beyoğlu, Beşiktaş, and beyond.
In World War II, the castle was damaged in 1944-45, with only the Roman double chapel and the Sinwell Tower remaining entirely intact.
The Multangular Tower in the Museum Gardens is the most noticeable and intact structure remaining from the Roman walls.

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There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.
In any event, the extraordinary result of this injury was that he became `` psychically blind '', while at the same time, apparently, the sense of touch remained essentially intact.
His verses have not come down to us through a manuscript tradition-generations of scribes copying an author's collected works, such as delivered intact into the modern age four entire books of Pindar's odes-but haphazardly, in quotes from ancient scholars and commentators whose own works have chanced to survive, and in the tattered remnants of papyri uncovered from an ancient rubbish pile at Oxyrhynchus and other locations in Egypt: sources that modern scholars have studied and correlated exhaustively, adding little by little to the world's store of poetic fragments.
Water at such depths would normally escape upwards but the unusual conditions that exist along the eastern Pacific Rim allow the moisture to remain intact.
For instance, the baseband model of the signal would require a lowpass filter with cutoff frequency of at least to stay intact, and the physical passband channel would require a passband filter of at least to stay intact.
Starting in 2009, vehicular traffic is banned at Times Square between 47th and 42nd Streets, and at Herald Square between 35th and 33rd Streets as part of a pilot program ; the right-of-way is intact and reserved for cyclists and pedestrians.
Pupil reaction to light is important because it shows an intact retina, and cranial nerve number 2 ( CN II ); if pupils are reactive to light, then that also indicates that the cranial nerve number 3 ( CN III ) ( or at least its parasympathetic fibers ) are intact.
Thirteen years after being raised, the ships were burned during an attack in the Second World War, and almost nothing remains of the hulls, though many archeological treasures remain intact in the museum at Lake Nemi and in the Museo Nazionale Romano ( Palazzo Massimo ) at Rome.
Film historian Ian Freer notes that at the time of his death in 1991, his legacy still remained intact:
On the seabed off the west coast of the island rests a block of rock 22 km long and 11 km wide, which appears to have slid off the island largely intact at some point in prehistory, similar to the predicted future collapse of Cumbre Vieja, a geological fault on the neighboring island, La Palma.
Drake was hailed as the first Englishman to circumnavigate the Earth ( and the second such voyage arriving with at least one ship intact, after Elcano's in 1520 ).
Greenpeace aims at protecting intact primary forests from deforestation and degradation with the target of zero deforestation by 2020.
As the latter incident demonstrates, the Byzantines could not avoid capture of their precious secret weapon: the Arabs captured at least one fireship intact in 827, and the Bulgars captured several siphons and much of the substance itself in 812 / 814.
Scipio retreated across the river Trebia to camp at Placentia with his army mostly intact.
To mention a few of the memorable milestones on the road to the scudetto: a decisive win against Juventus ( 2 – 0 ), with a goal scored by Elkjær after having lost a boot in a tackle just outside the box, set the stage early in the championship ; an away win over Udinese ( 5 – 3 ) ended any speculation that the team was losing energy at the midway point ; three straight wins ( including a hard fought 1 – 0 victory against a strong AS Roma side ) served notice that the team had kept its polish and focus intact during their rival's final surge ; and a 1 – 1 draw in Bergamo against Atalanta secured the title with a game in hand.
Studies over several years covering the key mineral area of the Central Pacific resulted in a technical study on biodiversity, species ranges and gene flow in the abyssal Pacific nodule province, with emphasis on predicting and managing the impacts of deep seabed mining A workshop at Manoa, Hawaii, in October 2007 produced a rationale and recommendations for the establishment of " preservation reference areas " in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, where nodule mining would be prohibited in order to leave the natural environment intact.
* 1942 – World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
At close range such large weapons were of little use, but an intact phalanx could easily keep its enemies at a distance ; the weapons of the first five rows of men all projected beyond the front of the formation, so that there were more spearpoints than available targets at any given time.

intact and ruins
Much of the city, including railroads and stockyards, survived intact, and from the ruins of the previous wooden structures arose more modern constructions of steel and stone which would set the precedent for worldwide construction.
Though Han wooden structures decayed, some Han-dynasty ruins made of brick, stone, and rammed earth remain intact.
Ancient Greek architecture is best known from its temples, many of which are found throughout the region, mostly as ruins but many substantially intact.
The ruins of the city are generally conceded to be the most spectacular surviving example of an entire ancient Greek city intact except for the ravages of time.
Margam Abbey now consists of the intact nave and impressive surrounding ruins.
There are ruins of a number of temples, including the chief temple dedicated to Amun, and a very important royal necropolis of the Third Intermediate Period ( which contains the only known intact royal Pharaonic burials — the tomb of Tutankhamun having been entered in antiquity ).
The Genbaku Dome, originally close to Shima Surgical Clinic was initially scheduled to be demolished with the rest of the ruins, but the fact that it mostly was intact delayed these plans.
Archaeologist Amihai Mazar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem cites 30 intact hives that were discovered in the ruins of the city of Rehov ( 2, 000 residents in 900 BC, Israelites and Canaanites ).
Thirty intact hives, made of straw and unbaked clay, were discovered by archaeologist Amihai Mazar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the ruins of the city, dating from about 900 BC.
For 55 years the more or less recognizable teahouse ruins ( along with mostly intact basement rooms below ) lay in the woods by the 13th hole of the post war Gutshof ( Manor Farm ) golf course.
He became dedicated to the notion that the ruins should be preserved intact, and wrote extensively to the Mexican government advocating that approach.
Two other major religious sites, the Temple of Hephaestus ( which is still largely intact ) and the Temple of Olympian Zeus or Olympeion ( once the largest temple in mainland Greece but now in ruins ) also lay within the city walls.
The wall in this area is in ruins but it marks the original town boundary, the only intact part of the wall stands on Loman Street It is not marked by any signs but it starts around the front of St. Patrick's Anglican church and runs down to ' The Priory Pub '.
Also, while the delousing chambers were left intact, the ruins of the crematoria at Birkenau had been exposed to the elements for over forty years by the time Leuchter collected his samples.
In September 2007 it was reported that that 30 intact beehives and the remains of 100-200 more dated to the mid-10th century BCE to the early 9th century BCE were found by archaeologists in the ruins of Rehov.
Being a strategic crossroads, Saint-Lô was almost totally destroyed ( 95 % according to common estimates ) during the Battle of Normandy in World War II, earning the title of " The Capital of the Ruins " from Samuel Beckett ; it was even questioned whether to rebuild it or to leave the ruins intact as a testimony to the bombing.
Though the city itself is now in ruins, the burial place of Cyrus the Great has remained largely intact ; and the tomb has been partially restored to counter its natural deterioration over the years.
Parlington Hall was left to run to ruins from 1905 after the death of Col F. C. T. Gascoigne, the Hall was largely demolished in the 1950s and 1960s, though the west wing is still intact.
Searching for the ruins of Ravage's craft, Predacon leader Magmatron discovered the former Decepticon's remains, and his intact spark core.

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