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Roof tiles were also occasionally employed, as at early Helladic Lerna and Akovitika, and later in the Mycenaean towns of Gla and Midea.
Tools, weapons, armor, and various building materials, like decorative tiles, made of bronze were harder and more durable than their stone and copper (" Chalcolithic ") predecessors.
Outside, on both sides of the eight-story building, more than 28, 000 tiles painted and fired by Brazilian artist Francisco Brennard, depicting abstract blue flowers, were placed on the walls according to the artist's exact specifications.
The new programme of building was carried out in great haste: Columns, marbles, doors, and tiles were taken wholesale from the temples of the Empire and moved to the new city.
Specific to the Islamic gardens are the mosaics and glazed tiles used to decorate the rills and fountains that were built in these gardens.
Icosahedral quasicrystals in three dimensions were projected from a six-dimensional hypercubic lattice by Peter Kramer and Roberto Neri in 1984 .< ref > The tiling is formed by two tiles with rhombohedral shape.
Each storey finishes with a projecting roof, after the Chinese manner, originally covered with ceramic tiles and adorned with large dragons ; a story is still propagated that they were made of gold and were reputedly sold by George IV to settle his debts.
* – " Game apparatus " – This patent used to protect the jagged edges of bonus squares, which were added so that one need not lift previously placed tiles in order to see the bonus.
Most of the tiles on the payload bay doors, upper wing surface, and rear fuselage surface were replaced with DuPont white Nomex felt insulation.
Only a few sample thermal tiles and some nomex blankets were real.
Individual letter tiles where the words are formed by assembling single letter tiles in the desired order were reasonably widespread in medieval Northern Europe.
These tombs were commonly adorned with uniquely decorated hollow clay tiles that function also as a door jamb to the tomb.
Slate tiles were used in 19th century UK building construction ( apart from roofs ) and in slate quarrying areas such as Blaenau Ffestiniog & Bethesda, Wales there are still many buildings wholly constructed of slate.
The walls were brilliantly coloured, and sometimes plated with zinc or gold, as well as with tiles.
The Indian converts were scattered and starved out ; the noble buildings were pillaged for their tiles and adobes ..."
For certain applications bricks ( ladrillos ) were fired in ovens ( kilns ) to strengthen them and make them more resistant to the elements ; when tejas ( roof tiles ) eventually replaced the conventional jacal roofing ( densely-packed reeds ) they were placed in the kilns to harden them as well.
In 1894, roof tiles were salvaged from the property and installed on the Southern Pacific Railroad depot located in Burlingame, California, one of the first permanent structures constructed in the Mission Revival Style.
The sanctuary floors were paved with diamond-shaped tiles, and brick-lined niches displayed the statues of various saints.
The first types of ceramics were made during the Palaeolithic era, and in later periods range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns, to the sophisticated Chinese porcelain wares made for the imperial court.
Anzac tiles and wafers were hard tack, a bread substitute, which had a long shelf life and was very hard.

tiles and given
Next, each player ( including the dealer ) is given four tiles with which to make two hands of two tiles each.
The key element of pai gow strategy is to present the optimal front hand and rear hand given four tiles dealt to the player.
Like the game Pentominoes, the goal is to use all of your tiles, and a bonus is given if the monomino is played on the very last move.
In many recent tile-matching games, the matching criterion is to place a given number of tiles of the same type so that they adjoin each other.
* Word Craft a game of rearranging word tiles given a dictionary definition or bit of trivia
One, given by Jan Brożek and proved much later by Thomas Hales, is that the hexagon tiles the plane with minimal surface area.
He also observed that this conjecture would imply the existence of an algorithm to decide whether a given finite set of tiles can tile the plane.
For example, the set of 13 tiles given above is an aperiodic set published by Karel Culik II in 1996.
A more detailed description of the history, manufacture and properties of porcelain tiles is given in the article “ Porcelain Tile: The Revolution Is Only Beginning .”
The RDP contains 4KB of on-chip TMEM ( texture memory ) in which the RDP can reference up to eight textures ( so called, " tiles ") at any given time.
Originally the floor was covered with Minton encaustic tiles ( given to the Sutherlands by the factory ) but Nancy Astor had them removed in 1906 and the present flagstones laid.
Other challenges for Rubik's Magic include reproducing given shapes ( which are often three-dimensional ), sometimes with certain tiles required to be in certain positions and / or orientations.
A review of an iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch application named Cyberchase Math Match ( in which the player " tap the tiles to match up CYBERCHASE math problems with their solutions ") was given a rating of 3 / 5 stars and advised for ages 8 and up.
" It was also given a rating of 5 / 5 for educational value " The game tests your memory like a traditional memory game, but half of the tiles have a math problem or an answer to match up.
Consideration was also given to the risks of elements of the procedure which would involve the ISS arm being used to carry Stephen K. Robinson below the shuttle, possibly the use of a sharp tool which has potential to damage the EVA suit or shuttle tiles.
A given set of tiles, in the Euclidean plane or some other geometric setting, admits a tiling if non-overlapping copies of the tiles in the set can be fitted together to cover the entire space.
A given set of tiles might admit periodic tilings — that is, tilings which remain invariant after being shifted by a translation ( for example, a lattice of square tiles is periodic ).
Mapping is the term given to the creation of the characters ' environment and surroundings by using 32x32 pixel " tiles ".
Six of the building tiles are " Alhambra tiles ;" these are taken out of the bag and one is given to each player.
Trader tiles are given to each player at the start of the game, and are placed adjacent to any tile.

tiles and metallic
VentureStar's metallic heat shield would have eliminated 17, 000 between-flight maintenance hours typically required to satisfactorily check ( and replace if needed ) the thousands of heat-resistant ceramic tiles that comprised the Shuttle exterior.

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