The lateral portal on the south side belongs to the late 15th century ; the massive and elaborately decorated tower which rises beside it to the early 16th century.

Sidney Sanders McMath ( June 14, 1912October 4, 2003 ) was a decorated U. S. Marine, attorney and the 34th Governor of Arkansas ( 1949 – 1953 ) who, in defiance of his state's political establishment, championed rapid rural electrification, massive highway and school construction, the building of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, strict bank and utility regulation, repeal of the poll tax, open and honest elections and broad expansion of opportunity for black citizens in the decade following World War II.

Some churches had massive pairs of bronze doors decorated with narrative relief panels, like the Gniezno Doors or those at Hildesheim, " the first decorated bronze doors cast in one piece in the West since Roman times ", and arguably the finest before the Renaissance.

The architectural style is one of refined eclecticism, blending massive, austere, North European brick construction and playful elements reminiscent of oriental and venetian architecture, such as turrets adorned with golden starlets, decorated balconies, wooden masts, and statues.

It is shallow pitched with massive, richly decorated tie beams and short king posts.

Each round structure has a diameter of between and all are decorated with massive, mostly T-shaped, limestone pillars that are the most striking feature of the site.

The façade is characterized by a flight of 250 steps and by massive ornate columns, as well as by statues of saints and decorated portals.

This tomb has a few decorated stones, and a single, massive right-hand recess.

Sed Festivals still were celebrated by the later Libyan-era kings such as Shoshenq III, Shoshenq V, Osorkon I, who had his second Heb Sed in his 33rd year, and Osorkon II, who constructed a massive temple at Bubastis complete with a red granite gateway decorated with scenes of this jubilee to commemorate his own Heb Sed.

The massive tower decorated with lights all over presents a unique sight at night.

The interiors of the Biltmore Hotel are decorated with: frescos and murals ; carved marble fountains and columns ; massive wood-beamed ceilings ; travertine and oak paneled walls ; lead crystal chandeliers ; caste bronze stairwells and doorways ; fine artisan marquetry and mill work ; and heavily embroidered imported tapestries and draperies.

The wooden building is massive and decorated inside with murals with flower and fruit motifs.

The hall consists of two three-roofed wooden structures, richly decorated with figures and flowers, and supported by massive teak pillars painted red at the bottom and gilded above.

* Palazzo Urselli, which maintains the original Renaissance ( pre-Baroque ) façade, with a massive 15th century gate and a decorated internal courtyard.

" The interior too is simply decorated but the massive sculpture, particularly of the tomb of the Lefroys and of the gabled arch below which the tomb originally stood, is quintessentially Burges, Crook describing it as " not so much muscular ( gothic ) as muscle-bound.

The Greek Doric, developed in the western Dorian region of Greece, is the heaviest and most massive of the orders.

The massive use of charcoal on an industrial scale in Early Modern Europe was a new type of consumption of western forests ; even in Stuart England, the relatively primitive production of charcoal has already reached an impressive level.

There was good reason for this as the western empire was effectively overstretched due to the massive invasion of Alans, Suevi and Vandals who although they had been repulsed from Italy in 406, moved into Gaul on 31 December 406, and arrived in Hispania in 409.

* 1980 – A massive storm tears through western Wisconsin, causing US $ 160 million in damage.

Moreover, facing a German military advance, Lenin and Trotsky were forced to enter into the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ceded massive western Russian territories to the German Empire.

The Confederates had the same thing in mind, and moved first at dawn on April 6, 1862, with a full-force attack on the Union Army at the Battle of Shiloh ; the objective was to annihilate the western Union offensive in one massive assault.

A massive birch tree standing atop a burial mound and located beside a farm in western Norway is recorded as having had ale poured over its roots during festivals.

* Heavy massive rain, landslides, and flooding in western and southwestern Japan kill an estimated 2, 566, and injure 9, 433, mainly at Kizugawa, Wakayama, Kumamoto and Kitakyushu ( June – August ).

A massive outbreak of smallpox among western tribes led many of them to stay away from trading in 1758.

As naturalization laws were created to deal with the rare case of people separated from their nation state because they lived abroad ( expatriates ), western democracies were not ready to naturalize the massive influx of stateless people which followed massive denationalizations and the expulsion of ethnic minorities from newly created nation states in the first part of the 20th century, but they also counted the ( mostly aristocratic ) Russians who had escaped the 1917 October Revolution and the war communism period, and then the Spanish refugees.

* 1948-Berlin Blockade imposed on June 24 by the Soviet Union, blocking traffic into western sectors of Berlin, followed by Operation Vittles, America airlifted massive amounts of food, fuel and supplies into city.

Ziggurats ( Akkadian ziqqurat, D-stem of zaqāru " to build on a raised area ") were massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.

Upolu is an island in Samoa, formed by a massive basaltic shield volcano which rises from the seafloor of the western Pacific Ocean.

The western portion of the county was used, beginning in the 1870s, for cattle ranching, but the lush grass soon suffered from overgrazing and then fire suppression, allowing the massive expansion of sagebrush, pinyon, and juniper.

As the epicenter of the massive Fuzhou influx has shifted to Brooklyn in the 2000s, Manhattan's Chinatown's Cantonese population still remains viable and large and successfully continues to retain its stable Cantonese community identity, maintaining the communal gathering venue established decades ago in the western portion of Chinatown, to shop, work, and socialize — in contrast to the Cantonese population and community identity which are declining very rapidly in Brooklyn's Chinatown.

Salisbury, like most of the Hempstead Plains, was a largely unpopulated grassland until after World War II, when all but the northwest quadrant became the western fringe of the massive William Levitt housing development.

A massive collapse of the western edge of the basin that formed McKinney Bay around 50, 000 years ago is thought to have generated a tsunami / seiche wave with a height approaching.

The massive Moses-Saunders Power Dam at the western end of the city required a reservoir, and the villages were flooded when it was filled.

Salar de Uyuni is also a climatological transitional zone, for towering tropical cumulus congestus and cumulus incus clouds that form in the eastern part of the massive salt flat during the summer, cannot permeate beyond the salt flat's considerably more arid western edges, near the Chilean border and the Atacama Desert.

* A massive collapse of the western edge of the Lake Tahoe basin, which formed McKinney Bay, around 50, 000 years ago is thought to have generated a tsunami / seiche wave with a height approaching.

The Western Allies undertook a massive logistical effort to supply the western sectors of the city through the Berlin Airlift, known by the West Berliners as " die Luftbrücke " ( the Air Bridge ).

With Soldier Field undergoing massive renovations, the Fire moved to the western Chicago suburb of Naperville, Illinois in 2002.

During this time a series of massive wars took place in western China, including the Kumul Rebellion, the Sino-Tibetan War and the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang.

In 1980 the massive project of connecting the eastern and western railway networks around Oslo was completed with the opening of the Oslo Tunnel and Oslo Central Station.

The oldest standing minaret in the world is the minaret of the Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia, built between the 8th and the 9th century, it is a massive square tower consisting of three superimposed tiers of gradual size and decor.

It was surrounded by a stone and marble wall and contained a population of 2000 – 3000 people and a massive stone tower.

Although Cram intended to dismantle the dome and construct a massive Gothic tower in its place, this plan was never realized.

( Genesis 14: 18-20 ) In this period the city is sufficiently large and powerful to construct a " massive " stone wall to defend its water supply, the Gihon Spring, by protecting the vulnerable passage from the top of the hill to the spring tower below.

Its massive crossing tower was rated " probably the largest and finest Romanesque tower in England " by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner.

Behind them tower the massive ridges of the Euphrates and Zagros ranges, where the Tigris and Euphrates take their rise, and which cut off Assyria from Armenia and Kurdistan.

Unfortunately, not much of even the base is left of this massive structure, yet archeological findings and historical accounts put this tower at seven multicolored tiers, topped with a temple of exquisite proportions.

The square, massive Norman tower, relieved by its three-arched belfry windows on each face, surmounted by corner turrets, and a conically shaped tower of octagon proportions, topped again by a short steeple, serve to give the venerable edifice a singularly quaint and impressive mien,

The most characteristic features are the tall tower above the entrance and the massive roof that seems to dwarf the main body of the church.

Its most striking feature is the massive, square-planned bell tower with double orders of mullioned windows.

He persuaded the cathedral committee to let him start all over again ( a difficult decision, as some of the stonework had already been erected ) and redesigned it as a simpler and more symmetrical building with a single massive central tower instead of the original proposal for twin towers.

Cabazon is the home of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians and their massive Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa, whose 27-story hotel tower dominates the San Gorgonio Pass.

Abuts the massive St. Mary's Catholic Church and a water tower.

Through the arch of the gate one views across the courtyard a second equally massive gate, that beneath the clock tower, through which, rather like the sanctuary of a temple, one glimpses the Great Court.

The old castle has a massive tower, the Schwanenturm high, that is associated in legend with the Knight of the Swan, immortalized in Richard Wagner's Lohengrin.

Irish High Cross at the Rock of CashelThe Cathedral, built between 1235 and 1270, is an aisleless building of cruciform plan, having a central tower and terminating westwards in a massive residential castle.

* Barad-dûr – Sauron's massive tower.

In the film version, the craft are grey and cubic, a continuation of the emphasis on bureaucracy in the Vogons ' conception: " Douglas's description of the Vogon ships hanging in the air in much the same way that bricks don't to these Vogon ships which are these massive concrete tower blocks, with hardly any windows, they just have a few doors around the base ," says Joel Collins.

The current tower should not be confused with the old Tower of Galata, an original Byzantine tower named Megalos Pyrgos ( English: Great Tower ) which controlled the northern end of the massive sea chain that closed the entrance to the Golden Horn.

A six-story above-ground glass-enclosed tower of book stacks is surrounded by a windowless rectangular outer shell, supported only on four massive piers at the corners of the building, which descend 50 feet to bedrock.

This building is still the main focus of the downtown Lancaster area because of its massive size and its clock tower.