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By this point Kenilworth Castle consisted of the great keep, the inner bailey wall, a basic causeway across the smaller lake that preceded the creation of the Great Mere, and the local chase for hunting.
* Machicolation: Machicolations ( from the French word machicoulis, implying a meaning of something like " neck-crusher ") consisted of openings between a wall and a parapet, formed by corbelling out the latter, so that the defenders might throw down stones, boiling water, and so forth, upon assailants below.
About 12 km in length, the wall system consisted of an ashlar stone retaining wall about high surmounted by a mudbrick wall about high and thick.
It consisted of a wall with 228 slits ; behind each slit was a hand-painted panel, and riders in subways moving past the display saw a motion picture.
The castle consisted of a square curtain wall with a number of stone buildings inside.
This fort consisted of a double wall of wooden palisade, officer and enlisted barracks, a garden, and other buildings.
The basic plan consisted of a central forum with city services, surrounded by a compact, rectilinear grid of streets, and wrapped in a wall for defense.
From the traces left in the plaza it is evident that the temple consisted of a circular wall measuring across, running around a circular platform, with a wide circular passage between the two.
Rural burhs were smaller and usually consisted of a wooden hall with a wall enclosing various domestic buildings along with an entrance tower called a burh-geat, which was apparently used for ceremonial purposes.
In total the wall consisted of three main gates ; north, east and south.
In 1638 Sir Maurice Abbot granted the company use of lands at its current site south of Bunhill Fields Burial Ground on City Road, which in 1649 consisted of twelve acres enclosed by a brick wall and pale.
The outer ward consisted of an eight-sided curtain wall with twelve turrets enclosing an area approximately across ; one gateway led out to the Gate next the Sea, the other, the Llanfaes Gate, led out to the north side of the castle.
It consisted of two rectangular towers linked by an irregular curtain wall.
The Ways of Horus consisted of a series of military forts, each with a well, that are depicted in detail in the king ’ s war scenes on the north wall of the Karnak Hypostyle Hall.
Merv's largest and best-preserved Abbasid köşk is the Greater Gyzgala ( Turkmen, " maiden's fortress "), located just outside the Soltangala's western wall ; this structure consisted of 17 rooms surrounding a central courtyard.
The primary blocking consisted of a wall of cemented limestone blocks, plastered and stamped with the seal of the Royal Necropolis ( with the jackal and nine captives motif ).< ref name =" reeves p. 42 "> Reeves, C. N., < cite > Valley of the Kings </ cite > ( Kegan Paul, 1990 ) p. 42 </ ref > Weigall later stated that a fragment of Tutankhamun's seal had been recovered from this original blocking .< ref > Weigall, A. E. P. B., < cite > The Treasury of Ancient Egypt </ cite > ( Rand McNally and Company, 1912 ) p. 208 </ ref > However, his statement is not corroborated by any of the other reports dating from the initial discovery, leaving Weigall's claim open to question .< ref > Davis, T. M., < cite > The Tomb of Queen Tiyi </ cite >, ( KMT Communications, 1990 ) p. vi .</ ref >< ref > Bell, M. R., < cite >" An Armchair Excavation of KV 55 ", JARCE 27 ( 1990 )</ cite > p. 136 </ ref >
This new style of mortuary architecture consisted of a large courtyard with a rock-cut colonnade at the far wall.
As the name suggests, these scarce wall cuckoo clocks consisted of a picture frame, usually with a typical Black Forest scene painted on a wooden background or a sheet metal, lithography and screen-printing were other techniques used.
Bernardo Rossellino's Bruni Tomb consisted of a shallow wall niche framed by pilasters and topped by a semi-circular arch.
It consisted of a dry limestone wall.
In the earlier stage of rib vaulting, the arched ribs consisted of independent or separate voussoirs down to the springing ; the difficulty, however, of working the ribs separately led to two other important changes: ( I ) the lower part of the transverse diagonal and wall ribs were all worked out of one stone ; and ( 2 ) the lower horizontal, constituting what is known as the tas-de-charge ( q. v.
Unfortunately, this ' heroic ' status consisted of Legion being one of the mutants responsible for generating a force wall to cut the mutants off from continuous assault and persecution from the rest of humanity, to the point that ' Moira ' was creating random soldiers simply for Legion and the other mutants to kill them and create the impression that they were ' safe '.

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He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.
At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.
We found that three men -- two carpenters and a helper -- can put up wall panels or trusses more economically than four men -- because four men don't make two teams ; ;
From the curio cabinet on its south wall and the bureaus beneath, you abstracted seventeen ivory, metal, wood, and stone sculptures of Oriental and African origin, two snuffboxes, and a jade-handled magnifying glass.
But during the same examination, two fingers may be inserted along the posterior wall ( the bottom of the vagina in the same position ) without any pain ; ;
About halfway back Pops groped against a wall and stopped, pulled away two loosely nailed wide boards at one end, and went through.
Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1981 by then 18-year-old Robert " Bob " Diamond, who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel.
In the 14th century the city was expanded in two stages, and a second defensive wall was constructed.
When the work was completed, three dragons rushed against the wall, and while the two of them which attacked those parts of the wall built by the gods fell down dead, the third forced its way into the city through the part built by Aeacus.
Soon after the sultan ’ s encouragement the Muslims broke the wall in two places and entered the city.
There are broadly speaking two different types of cell wall in bacteria, called Gram-positive and Gram-negative.
To the east of the Chapel of Saint Helena, the excavators discovered a void containing a 2nd century drawing of a Roman ship, two low walls which supported the platform of Hadrian's 2nd century temple, and a higher 4th century wall built to support Constantine's basilica.
Doors which slide between two wall panels are called pocket doors.
Each wall that the player has deployed permits the player to hold two more cards before being required to discard on a roll of seven.
In 1516, after a failed Navarrese-French attempt to expel the Spanish invaders from the kingdom, an attempt in which Francis ' brothers had taken part, the Spanish Castilian kingdom's Governor, Cardinal Cisneros, ordered family lands to be confiscated, the demolition of the outer wall, the gates and two towers of the family castle, the moat was filled, and the height of the keep was reduced in half.
A " blockbuster " or " roller " is a large piece, almost always done in a block shaped style, done simply to cover a large area solidly with two contrasting colours, sometimes with the whole purpose of blocking other writers from painting on the same wall.
In the crossed ladders problem, two ladders lie oppositely across an alley, each with feet at the base of one sidewall, with one leaning against a wall at height A and the other leaning against the opposite wall at height B, as shown.
On the wall behind the podium hung a picture of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, and two flags, later to become the official flag of Israel.
Imhotep's historicity is confirmed by two contemporary inscriptions made during his lifetime on the base or pedestal of one of Djoser's statues ( Cairo JE 49889 ) and also by a graffito on the enclosure wall surrounding Sekhemkhet's unfinished step-pyramid.
At the suggestion of Themistocles, all of the funerary sculptures were built into the city wall and two large city gates facing north-west were erected in the Kerameikos.

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