One such example of this claim, from the 1914 book, How to Make a Country Place, reads, " Monsieur Mansard is said to have circumvented that senseless window tax of France by adapting the windowed roof that bears his name.

Opposite the Kenilworth Stand is the Oak Road End, which bears an electronic scoreboard on its roof and can seat a maximum of 1, 800 fans.

Though the Navigator's exterior bears resemblance to its Expedition cousin at a glance, it differs in a number of ways, including different front and rear fascias with unique headlights and taillights, a chrome " waterfall " style grille, a unique hood, different style wheels, unique wheel arches, a different roof rack, and different door handles.

The main hall ( honden ) bears an enormous chigi ( scissor-shaped finials at the front and back ends of the roof ).

Shows included equestrian acts, elephants and polar bears, and acrobats would dive from a Minstrel Gallery above a sliding roof, in the centre of the proscenium arch.

A uniquely Anglo-Scandinavian form is the hogback, low grave-marker shaped like a long house with a pitched roof, and sometimes muzzled bears clutching on to each end.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

His love of language influenced many of his comedy routines-for example one otherwise fairly routine joke began with the line " I was vouchsafed this vision by a pockmarked Lascar in the arms of a frump in a Huddersfield bordello ..." He was also a master of painting a beautiful word picture and then letting the audience down with a bump: " The other day I was gazing up at the night sky, a purple vault fretted with a myriad points of light twinkling in wondrous formation, while shooting stars streaked across the heavens, and I thought: I really must repair the roof on this toilet.

Around this time, Smith and Gust worked a number of odd jobs around Portland, including installing drywall, spreading gravel, transplanting bamboo trees and painting the roof of a warehouse with heat reflective paint.

On 31 December 1999, thieves used scaffolding on an adjoining building to climb onto the roof of the Ashmolean to break through a skylight, stealing a painting by Cézanne.

In the summer of 1949, the county renovated by painting the inside of the building ; adding new desks, new furniture in the library, a new foundation, and a new roof ; and updating the electrical system.

Work included a new roof, complete interior and exterior painting, new doors, a handicapped access ramp, new heating and air conditioning systems and extensive interior construction work.

A gang of men were employed at the time in repairing, glazing and painting the section of roof which fell.

In 2005, a restoration project funded by The Heritage Lottery Fund took place to restore the tower to its original condition, including the fitting of a replica of the original roof, refurbishing the interior of the tower and also painting the outside.

On the 29th show ( 21 September 1985 ), after an outdoor challenge which involved painting the ZDF logo onto the roof of a car with a paintbrush fixed to a helicopter's skid, the pilot was invitedalong with the guestsfor a drink of champagne.

Row Expressway, then touched down again tearing the roof off the vehicle painting facility at Chrysler Canada's Windsor Assembly Plant.

The painting Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Breugel the Elder illustrates many of the themes in this story including a shot-window in use, a man with his backside on fire, a falling through a basket from a roof, pious hypocrisy, and cuckolding.

Three prisoners, Buck, Lewis and Caravaggio, are painting the roof of the Kingston Penitentiary.

However, it does boast a 15th-century roof, with angel brackets and carved bosses, and an early wall painting of St Thomas.

Whilst painting the roof of the Skerries lighthouse, Henry slipped on wet paint and almost somersaulted off the roof onto the rocks some 25 metres ( 80 feet ) below.

Steeplejacks are called upon to repair or replace masonry ( brick, stone or concrete ), carry out general carpentry or painting or roof repair, remove and clean and repair windows, as well as sandblasting and other masonry cleaning tasks.

Some models adopted modified roof styling, placing the B pillars behind tinted side window glass and painting or molding the outer side of each pillar in black to make them less visible, creating a hardtop look without actually omitting the pillar.

A Canaletto painting of the early 18th century shows only the ground floor and first piano nobile completed, and a temporary roof protecting the structure from the elements.

As Marge and Homer kiss each other on the roof of their house Jasper Johns comes on a boat and steals the painting Marge was painting.

At the end of the episode, Springfield is flooded with water, and Marge is seen painting a picture on the Simpsons ' roof.

These included designing, manufacturing, and installing stained glass windows in the second floor memorial hall ; designing and painting murals on the walls of the memorial hall ; finishing the roof over the auditorium and portico ; installing marble over the rough cement in the interior stairwells ; and replacing the large wooden doors at the memorial's entrance with bronze doors.

Gaulli's frescoes were a tour-de-force in illusionary painting, depicting the church's roof opens up above the viewer ( and that the panorama is viewed in true perspective di sotto in su, similar to Correggio's frescoed dome ceiling depicting the Assumption of the Virgin or to Cortona's grand allegory at the Palazzo Barberini.

The paint frame is still used for scenic painting and its original glass roof remains.

The main events in the episode were Helen Archer giving birth to her son Henry and Nigel Pargetter falling to his death from the roof of Lower Loxley Hall.

In such cases, the nose and mouth fail to form, or the nose grows from the roof of the mouth obstructing airflow, resulting in suffocation shortly after birth.

This was the birth of Air India, which, in 1932, was based here out of a hut with a palm thatched roof and had 1 pilot and 2 apprentice mechanics with 2 piston engined aircraft, a Puss Moth and a Leopard Moth.

The Ascension church of Kolomenskoye, built in 1532 to commemorate the birth of the first Russian Tsar Ivan IV, often is considered the first tented roof church.

Both Hoori and Toyotama-hime attempted to build a house in which she could give birth, and attempted to contstruct the roof with feathers of cormorant instead of saw grass.

And at the roof of chapel, the phrase " Melior est die mortis die nativitatis ( Better is the day of death than the day of birth )" ( Ecclesiastes, 7, 1 ) from Vulgate is written.

One of the highlights of the Barrio Alto is the Ermita del Santo Cristo de la Vera Cruz ( Hermitage of the Holy Christ of the True Cross ), built in the fifteenth century and enlarged in the eighteenth century, which consists of a square tower with a roof covered by glazed ceramic tiles.

In the roof, the Celestial celebration on the nativity of Christ, on the pinnacles are David, Isaiah, Zechariah and Baruch, on the right lunette, an Annunciation to the Shepherds, and on the left, a Massacre of the Innocents.

By 1960 Christ Church was nearly derelict and services were held in the Church Hall ( an ex Huguenot Chapel in Hanbury Street ) as the roof of Christ Church itself was declared unsafe.

The tower is a two-thirds copy of the tower of Magdalen College, Oxford, its hammerbeam roof a copy of the roof of Christ Church, Oxford, its buttresses are versions of those of the chapel of New College, Oxford, and its windows are based on those from various Oxford Colleges. In a restoration appeal for the tower in 1975, Sir John Betjeman wrote of it:

The roof of the command post began to buckle.

clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

High, so it would only bounce harmlessly but loudly off the car's steel roof.

they were topped by steeples complete in every detail: high-pitched roof, pinnacle, and narrow gable.

She would often go up on the roof to see the attendant take down the flag in the evening.

I have seen diapers strung across the ruined roof.

After a nuclear blast, one bureaucrat suggested in those halcyon days, about all you had to do was haul out the broom and sweep off your sidewalks and roof.

The smoke from that chimney rose as sluggishly as smoke from any other, and hung as sadly in the drizzle, creeping back down along the sopping canvas of the roof.

Maybe yes, maybe no, but you can observe everything from the roof of a barrack we are building ''.

Charity as she knew it was complex and reciprocal, and almost every roof she saw signified charity.

Mrs. Hewlitt led the birthcontrol league, Mrs. Ryerson was arthritis, and way in the distance could be seen the slate roof of Ethel Littleton's house, a roof that signified gout.

At the entrance side of the shelter, each roof beam is rested on the inside 4 inches of the block wall.

The wooden bracing between the roof beams is placed flush with the inside of the wall.

The first one or two roof boards ( marked `` E '' in fig. 6 ) are slipped into place across the roof beams, from outside the shelter.

These boards are nailed to the roof beams by reaching up through the open space between the beams, from inside the shelter.

The roof blocks are in two layers and are not mortared together.

Work on the roof continues in this way.

The last roof boards are covered with blocks from outside the shelter.

When the roof blocks are all in place, the final rows of wall blocks are mortared into position.

If they are used, the walls and roof should be 10 inches thick to give the same protection as the 8-inch solid concrete blocks.

The roof shown here ( fig. 9 ) is a 6-inch slab of reinforced concrete, covered with at least 20 inches of pit-run gravel.

An alternate roof, perhaps more within do-it-yourself reach, could be constructed of heavy wooden roof beams, overlaid with boards and waterproofing.