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13. round columbarium tower.
Rundetårn, or round tower, in Copenhagen, on top of which the university had its observatory from the mid 17th century until the mid 19th century, when it was moved to new premises.
With the help of the Mayor, Vicki Buck, the city of Christchurch hosted a Wizard's Conclave in 1995 when visiting colleagues gathered to help build a wizard's nest on top of the university library tower, to witness the New Zealand Wizard hatching from a giant egg in the city art gallery, sky diving whilst chanting a spell for a major rugby match and performing various rituals round the city.
Glasnevin Cemetery ( The round tower in the centre stands over the tomb of Daniel O ' Connell )
Now, climb to the top of the tower to apply some round lashings with the rest of the small poles to make a floor for the top.
* Round tower ( disambiguation ), for other types of round towers
Architects practicing in Ireland included Sir Edwin Lutyens ( Heywood House in Co. Laois, Lambay Island and the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Dublin ) and Frederick ' Pa ' Hicks ( Malahide Castle estate buildings and round tower ).
The round discs surrounding the tower symbolize the different size records and CDs used to record country music.
* Newport Tower ( Rhode Island ), round stone tower located in Touro Park in Newport, R. I.
* St. Michael's is located at the top of the High Street and like St. Peter's in nearby Southease it has a round tower ( with a shingled spire ).
The tower stood on the site of the present Half Moon Battery, and was connected by a section of curtain wall to the smaller Constable's Tower, a round tower built between 1375 and 1379 where the Portcullis Gate now stands.
The belfry with its conical cap and four small windows rises from the west end of the stone roof in the form of a miniature round tower.
Kilkenny's heritage is evident in the city and environs including the historic buildings such as Kilkenny Castle, St. Canice's Cathedral and round tower, Rothe House, Shee Alms House, Black Abbey, St. Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny Town Hall, St. Francis Abbey, Grace's Castle, and St. John's Priory.
This relates to a church built in honour of St. Canice on the hill now containing St. Canice's Cathedral and the round tower.
The early Christian origin of the round tower suggests an early ecclesiastical foundation at Kilkenny.
A Irish round tower | round tower at St. Brigid's Cathedral in Kildare.
Ballycastle's Presbyterian Church ( in Castle Street ) has a distinctive round tower .< ref >
The site houses two churches built in the 14th century or later and an earlier round tower, but it is most famous for its 10th century high crosses.
The round tower is about 35-metres tall, and is in very good condition, although it is not possible to go inside.
The earliest surviving feature is the round tower, which dates from the 12th century and has a 14th-century octagonal extension, one of the best preserved in the country.
Its round tower is indicative of many East Anglian churches dating from the period.

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He rose at 4:00 A.M. the year round and was apt to stride through camp crowing like a cock to wake his men.
I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.
In the marksmanship example, a trial consists of `` one round shot at a target '' with outcome either one bull's-eye ( success ) or none ( failure ).
Palmer had started the round four strokes behind Player, and at one point in the afternoon had trailed by as many as six strokes.
Half an hour after he finished his round, Player holed out at the 18th green with a 69 and a three-round total of 206, four strokes ahead of Palmer.
On the final round at Pensacola, the luck of the draw paired Palmer and Player in the same threesome and, although it was far from obvious at the time, the gallery was treated to the first chapter of what promises to be one of the most exciting duels in sport for a long time to come.
Therefore, the only conceivable alternatives are those represented, on the one hand, by the two at least apparently self-consistent but mutually exclusive positions of Buri and Barth and, on the other hand, by the third but really pseudo position ( analogous to a round square ) of Bultmann.
He was younger than Theresa: she remembered looking down and seeing his great round eyes, while at the same time she was dimly aware that her mother and father were not unamused.
Since Fire Temple was at least partially built to conform to the dimensions of the cliff alcove in which it was built, it is neither round in form nor truly subterranean like other structures defined as kivas
However, at the base of this crack is a round void called an ampulla which would have functioned to distribute force over a larger surface area, hindering the ability of the " crack " formed by the serration to propagate through the tooth.
Each plate is rated to stop a range of ammunition including 3 hits from a 7. 62 × 51 NATO AP round at a range of, though accounts in Iraq and Afghanistan tell of soldiers shot as many as seven times in the chest without penetration.
In this reign of a weak Emperor dominated by court politics, a major theme was the ambivalence felt by prominent individuals and the court parties that formed and regrouped round them towards barbarians, which in Constantinople at this period meant Goths.
The distinctive round window high in the south transept was originally lit up at night as a beacon for mariners.
During the summer months ( April – September ), dogs are banned from the Silver Sands but they are allowed all year round at the Black Sands.
In poker, for example, the top card of the deck stub is burned at the beginning of each betting round, so that players who might have been able to read markings on that card during the previous round are less able to take advantage of that information.
At the beginning of each round, up to three players place their bets in the " betting box " at each position in play.
Each boxer enters into the ring from their assigned corners at the beginning of each round and must cease fighting and return to their corner at the signaled end of each round.
" It is commonly supposed that by jactus lapidum, Fitzstephen meant the game of bowls, but though it is possible that round stones may sometimes have been employed in an early variety of the game-and there is a record of iron bowls being used, though at a much later date, on festive occasions at Nairn ,-nevertheless the inference seems unwarranted.
Uncertain whether he should choose it as a seat of war, as he looked round on his scanty force of soldiers, and remembered with what a serious warning the rashness of Petilius had been punished, he resolved to save the province at the cost of a single town.

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The round tower in Glendalough, Ireland, is approximately 30 metres tall

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