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The main palace at Ebla was also found to contain " antiques " dating from Ancient Egypt with the names of pharaohs Khafra and Pepi I. Handicrafts may also have been a major export: exquisite artifacts have been recovered from the ruins, including wood furniture inlaid with mother-of-pearl and composite statues created from different colored stones.
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While the emperor's palace no longer exists, the church built by Charlemagne is still the main attraction of the city.
The palace of Blachernae in the north-west of the city became the main Imperial residence, with the old Great Palace on the shores of the Bosporus going into decline.
Sluter was also responsible for the main part of the work on Philip's tomb, which ( restored and partly reconstructed ) has been moved to the Museum of Fine Arts which is housed in the former ducal palace in Dijon.
The main strongholds of the Red defence were the Workers Hall, the Railway station, the Red Headquarters of " Smolna " ( the former palace of the Russian governor-general, in southern Esplanade ), the Senate-University area, and the former Russian garrisons in Helsinki.
The kings, even strong-willed men like Dagobert II and Chilperic II, were not the main agents of political conflicts, leaving this role to their mayors of the palace, who increasingly substituted their own interest for their king's.
The main entrance through the circuit wall was made grand by the best known feature of Mycenae, the Lion Gate, through which passed a stepped ramp leading past circle A and up to the palace.
* Corso Vittorio Emanuele is the main street of the medieval town, surrounded by interesting buildings of different ages, as several examples of Catalan-gothic ( as the so-called House of Re Enzo ), the baroque church of Sant ' Andrea, built by Corsican community, the neoclassic Civic Theatre and Quesada's palace.
Olybrius had a palace in Constantinople, in the Tenth region, at one end of the Mese, the main street, along the Constantinianae.
* The main square in Bogotá, Colombia is called plaza de Bolívar ( Bolivar Square ), around this square rise the Colombian national capitol, the Colombian palace of justice, the palace of lievano ( which houses the mayor of Bogotá ), and the main cathedral of the city.
The main palace of Mysore was burned down in 1897, and the present-day structure was built on the same site.
The surviving French Crown Jewels and main Regalia including a set of historic crowns are principally on display in the Galerie d ' Apollon of the Louvre, France's premier museum and former royal palace, and scattered in different museums like the National Library of France, the Basilica of Saint Denis the Natural history museum, the École des Mines or in Reims.
The of the palace included a theater, a main entrance on each of its four cardinal faces, and extensive storerooms ( also called magazines ).
A long-standing debate between archaeologists concerns the main function of the palace, whether it acted as an administrative center, a religious center, or both, in a theocratic manner.
The main attraction of Viterbo is the papal palace, the ( Palazzo dei Papi ), that served as a country residence and a retreat in time of trouble in Rome.
The Doge's Palace ( Italian: Palazzo Ducale ) is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice, northern Italy.
Their main role was the protection of the King within the palace as the garde du dedans du Louvre ( the Louvre indoor guard ), but in the earlier part of their history they accompanied the King to war.
The carnival's main attraction is the ice palace, which is made with blocks of ice taken from Lake Flower and illuminated with colored lights, along with various winter activities and competitions.
Its " head " was to be the Zamoyski palace, " backbone " Grodzka Street, crossing the Great Market Square from east to west, in the direction of the palace, and with the " arms " embodied by 10 streets intersecting the main streets: Solna street ( north of the Great Market Square ) and Bernardo Morando street ( south of the Great Market Square ).
The main building has undergone regular extensions from Victorian times, through to a major extension to create offices for TDs in the 1960s, to most recently the building of Leinster House 2000, a new block of offices built to the north of the original ducal palace.
A commissioned report delivered to the Ceann Comhairle's office ( chairman's office ) in 2008 cast serious doubts on the safety of the main former ducal palace without major remedial work.
When completed in 1631, this palace had a large central residence, a courtyard, a two-storey main building with two wings projecting to the south, and was surrounded by large gardens.
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at any rate, heat grew so intense in the main part of the house that it melted the window panes, and fused the K'ang-si pottery to cinders.
On their way, they stopped at every gas station along the main boulevards to question the attendants.
In Mack's the leader at camp, but Jack is here the is of the second main declarative represents is the leader and therefore has stress.
The suds box drain is arranged at the start to deliver into the raised main drain pipe ( thus returning suds to soap box ) and the machine is started.
At this point the drains are readjusted so that the suds box drain will discharge directly into the waste line and the main tub drain is set at the 2-1/2 mark on the drain gauge.
After finding that its coasts led nowhere, however, he turned north again, toward the main, ice-filled passageway -- and the crew, at first uneasy, then frightened, rebelled.
Since then he had worked at this and that, though some said his main interest was gambling.
Cocktails will be served from 6 to 7 p.m., with dinner at 7 and entertainment in the main dining room immediately following.
However well chosen and cleverly arranged, such memorabilia unfortunately amounted to more of an interruption than an auxiliary to the evening's main business, which ( considering the talent at hand ) should probably have been the gathering of fresh samples of the Chicago style.
One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.
At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.
But the rest of it, the main part, wasn't based on logic at all.
Some frogs and toads are toxic, the main poison glands being at the side of the neck and under the warts on the back.
In novels such as Taken at the Flood, After the Funeral and Hickory Dickory Dock he is even less in evidence, frequently passing the duties of main interviewing detective to a subsidiary character.
The parish's main Gaelic football pitch and two secondary schools are on the mainland at Poll Raithní.
Through satellite images and ground investigations, archaeologists have detected at least 8 main roads that together run for more than 180 miles ( ca 300 km ), and are more than 30 feet ( 10 m ) wide.
The main buildings at Pueblo Bonito, for example, are arranged according to this direction and probably served as central places for ceremonial journeys across the landscape.
Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia ( at ) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.
This suggests that tax collection in Armenia is improving at the expense of ordinary citizens, rather than wealthy citizens ( who have been the main beneficiaries of Armenia's double-digit economic growth in recent years ).
* The British Empire of The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling features a massive water powered engine at Oxford, used by two of the main characters.
Gaudí's multicolored mosaic salamander, popularly known as " el drac " ( the dragon ), at the main entrance, prior to vandalism early in 2007
360 degree view at the main entrance of the park outside the hall of columns
It is possible to view the main city in panorama, with the Sagrada Família and the Montjuïc area visible at a distance.
Vessels may carry a number of anchors: bower anchors ( formerly known as sheet anchors ) are the main anchors used by a vessel and normally carried at the bow of the vessel.
Every yacht should carry at least two anchors – the main or bower anchor and a second lighter kedge anchor.
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