On that cold, but bright, April day we were guests of your government in the reviewing stand of Red Square to witness the poeple's celebration for Yuri Gagarin and later on that day we attended the somewhat more exclusive reception for him in one of the impressive palaces of the Kremlin.

Images of Sargon were erected on the shores of the Mediterranean, in token of his victories, and cities and palaces were built at home with the spoils of the conquered lands.

These stone reliefs lined the walls in the royal palaces where foreigners were received by the king.

Many stone reliefs were discovered in the royal palaces at Nimrud ( Kalhu ) and Khorsabad ( Dur-Sharrukin ).

* Structures ; Ruins of palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome-or cist-graves and fortifications ( Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern Anatolia ), but not distinct temples ; small shrines, however, and temene ( religious enclosures, remains of one of which were probably found at Petsofa near Palaikastro by J. L. Myres in 1904 ) are represented on intaglios and frescoes.

Gone are the days when the Hoffman House flourished on Madison Square, with its famous nudes by Bouguereau ; when barrooms were palaces, on nearly every corner throughout the city ; when Steve Brodie, jumping from Brooklyn Bridge, splashed the entire country with publicity ; when Bowery concert halls dispensed schooners of beer for a nickel, with a stage show thrown in ; when Theis's Music Hall still resounded on 14th Street with its great mechanical organ, the wonder of its day, a place of beauty, with fine paintings and free company and the frankest of female life.

Stone bas-reliefs, including the famous Royal Lion Hunt relief's ( Room 10 ), that were found in the palaces of the Assyrian kings at Nimrud and Nineveh.

Emperors were no longer peripatetic between various court capitals and palaces.

From 1100, new towns were founded around imperial strongholds, castles, bishops ' palaces, and monasteries.

All these dachas, estates, and palaces were staffed, well furnished and equipped, kept safe by security forces, and were mainly used privately, rarely for diplomatic purposes.

In Minoan times, before the Mycenaean Greek dominion, Linear A was the official script for the palaces and religious activities, and hieroglyphs were mainly used on seals.

Once the palaces were destroyed, the script disappeared.

Her privy purse expenses for this period show that Hatfield House, the Palace of Beaulieu ( also called Newhall ), Richmond and Hunsdon were among her principal places of residence, as well as Henry's palaces at Greenwich, Westminster and Hampton Court.

Many Nepalese architectural heritages, such as temples, palaces, including many UNESCO world heritage sites, were built during the rule of the Newar Kings.

The original " palaces " on the Palatine Hill were the seat of the imperial power while the " capitol " on the Capitoline Hill was the religious nucleus of Rome.

The earliest known palaces were the royal residences of the Egyptian Pharaohs at Thebes, featuring an outer wall enclosing labyrinthine buildings and courtyards.

A cathedral and palaces were built in the best style of the day to decorate the city.

In 1734 all the outstanding art collections of the duke's palaces of Parma, Colorno and Sala Baganza were moved to Naples.

Among the many beer palaces around Potsdamer Platz were two in particular which contained an extensive range of rooms and halls covering a large area.

Not only were ignorant bishops and priests to be suspended till they had acquired sufficient learning to perform their sacred duties, but it was decreed that, as in some localities there were neither masters nor zeal for learning, masters were to be attached to the episcopal palaces, cathedral churches and other places to give instruction in sacred and polite literature.

double-feature program first run in neighborhood theaters, bypassing the customary downtown movie palaces which were still thriving in the mid -' 60s and where new movies usually played for weeks and even months before coming to outlying screens.

The crop failure of 1873, the sultan's lavish expenditures for the Ottoman Navy and the new palaces which he had built, and the mounting public debt heightened public discontent.

Often in palaces a bridge will be built over an artificial waterway as symbolic of a passage to an important place or state of mind.

Baroque palaces are built around an entrance of courts, grand staircases and reception rooms of sequentially increasing opulence.

The city was built on seven hills as well as on the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara, and thus presented an impregnable fortress enclosing magnificent palaces, domes and towers.

King Herod the Great built or rebuilt several fortresses and palaces on the western bank of the Dead Sea.

He was addicted to women and pleasures of the flesh, so he ordered five palaces to be built: the five palaces of the senses.

Many of the ancient buildings have been restored from their remains, as have the wall-paintings of Herod's two main palaces, and the Roman-style bathhouses that he built.

In Central Mexico, the Aztec Emperors built many palaces in the capital of their empire, Tenochtitlan ( modern day Mexico City ), some of which may still be seen.

The Gerads and the Bari Sultans built impressive palaces, castles and fortresses and had close relations with many different empires in the Near East.

They are built not just for economy of space ; like temples and palaces of the past, skyscrapers are considered symbols of a city's economic power.

It has a large church dating from the 15th century, an impressive City Hall ( built as such ) from the 16th century, several large 17th-century palaces, a 17th-century Protestant church built in what was then a modern style, and many important 18th-century buildings.

The Alhambra's Islamic palaces were built for the last Muslim Emirs in Spain and its court, of the Nasrid dynasty.

Immediately Maximian built several gigantic monuments, like a large circus, the Thermae Herculeae, a large complex of imperial palaces and several other services and buildings.

Within these walls, much of which can still be seen, successive monumental palaces were built.

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In addition to that, he also built luxurious palaces and a huge tomb for himself.

Throughout the Safavid empire ( 1501 – 1722 ) Shiraz remained a provincial capital and Emam Qoli Khan, the governor of Fars under Shah Abbas I, constructed many palaces and ornate buildings in the same style as those built during the same period in Isfahan, the capital of the Empire.

They built towns, palaces, churches, gardens, and fortifications and embellished the island with numerous works of art and enhanced cultural heritage.

He built a long wall around Nanjing, as well as new palaces and government halls.

However, after you've seen all the historical piazzas and plazas, the places and forums, the churches and museums, the palaces and castles, and begin to feel at home in the capitals of Europe, you'll want to change your course and follow the by-roads at will, far from the market places.

The expropriations ( subject to modern legal dispute at the World Court ) included over 1, 600 km² ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of agricultural and forest land mostly in Moravia, also including several family castles and palaces.

The most notable architectural remains from early Mesopotamia are the temple complexes at Uruk from the 4th millennium BC, temples and palaces from the Early Dynastic period sites in the Diyala River valley such as Khafajah and Tell Asmar, the Third Dynasty of Ur remains at Nippur ( Sanctuary of Enlil ) and Ur ( Sanctuary of Nanna ), Middle Bronze Age remains at Syrian-Turkish sites of Ebla, Mari, Alalakh, Aleppo and Kultepe, Late Bronze Age palaces at Bogazkoy ( Hattusha ), Ugarit, Ashur and Nuzi, Iron Age palaces and temples at Assyrian ( Kalhu / Nimrud, Khorsabad, Nineveh ), Babylonian ( Babylon ), Urartian ( Tushpa / Van Kalesi, Cavustepe, Ayanis, Armavir, Erebuni, Bastam ) and Neo-Hittite sites ( Karkamis, Tell Halaf, Karatepe ).

Charles ' reign was not to be long ; after his partisans left the court, Elizabeth invited him to visit Mary at one of her palaces, and had him stabbed in her apartments on 7 February 1386.