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The walls defining the enclosures of Khmer temples are frequently lined by galleries, while passage through the walls is by way of gopuras located at the cardinal points.
At Angkor, passage through the enclosure walls surrounding a temple compound is frequently accomplished by means of an impressive gopura, rather than just an aperture in the wall or a doorway.
alt = A man caving in muddy passage with helictite formations on the walls and ceiling
Ditches and moats must be passable in peace, yet able to be uncovered during a siege, and walls must be broken enough to allow easy passage, yet not compromise the security of the compound.
To complete the royal palace begun by Nabopolassar, nothing was spared, neither " cedar-wood, nor bronze, gold, silver, rare and precious stones "; an underground passage and a stone bridge connected the two parts of the city separated by the Euphrates ; the city itself was rendered impregnable by the construction of a triple line of walls.
To facilitate her passage through the ostiole the underside of the female's head is covered with short spines that provide purchase on the walls of the ostiole.
* diffraction through windows, and attenuated passage through walls, into the building
* reflection, diffraction, and attenuated passage through internal walls, floors and ceilings within the building
Teichoscopy or teichoscopia, meaning " viewing from the walls ," is a famous passage in the Iliad that takes place in Book 3, lines 121-244.
In the hamlet of Darshill, on the road from Shepton Mallet to Wells, there is a silk drying shed, known locally as a handle house, three walls of which are full of holes to allow the passage of air to aid in the process of drying teasle heads, which were used to raise the nap on cloth in the textile process.
The king sent Nehemiah to Jerusalem with letters of safe passage to the governors in Trans-Euphrates, and to Asaph, keeper of the royal forests, to make beams for the citadel by the Temple and to rebuild the city walls.
Arnoul, still searching for the source of the draught, hammered on the cave walls until he heard a hollow sound, pulled down the masonry in that area, and discovered a narrow passage.
Having unblocked the passage, Arnoul discovered a large round room with plastered walls.
In a passage in Iliad, Apollo tries three times to stop Patroclus in front of the walls of Troy, warning him that it is " over his portion " to sack the city.
Each of the chapels has a sanctuary accessed by a roofless passage with walls that depict false doors and latches.
The entrance hall to the south range has a groin vaulted passage with three arches and piers and its walls are decorated with grisaille paintings.
It does not point out that Joule's experimental arrangement performed essentially irreversible work, through friction of paddles in a liquid, or passage of electric current through a resistance inside the system, driven by motion of a coil and inductive heating, or by an external current source, which can access the system only by the passage of electrons, and so is not strictly adiabatic, because electrons are a form of matter, which cannot penetrate adiabatic walls.
At the eastern end of the Buochser See, where the containing walls of the lake-valley are directed from east to west, it is joined at an acute angle by the Bay of Uri, or Urner See, lying in the northern prolongation of the deep cleft that gives a passage to the Reuss, between the Bernese chain and the Alps of N. Switzerland.
* Locating and marking positions for pipe connections, passage holes, and fixtures in walls and floors
Another means of searching for axions is by conducting so called " light shining through walls " experiments, where a beam of light is passed through an intense magnetic field in an attempt to observe the conversion of photons into axions by allowing them to pass through an aluminium plate, blocking the passage of photons.
The sanctum and inner passage are enclosed by a path way for pradakshina, which has several lattices of different design, sculptured on the outer walls various figures like Ugranarasimha and Nataraja.
The old quiet tree shaded avenue has been completely swept away, along with the narrow lanes a cramped passage bounded on both sides by towering walls and full of right angled bends, which wended its crooked course between Loreto Convent cemetery and the garden of Nutgrove House.

walls and are
Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.
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.
Two walls of concrete blocks are constructed at least 20 inches apart.
The walls are held together with metal ties placed in the wet mortar as the walls are built.
Bunks, or materials to build them, may have to be put inside the enclosure before the shelter walls are completed.
In general, such apartments afford more protection than smaller buildings because their walls are thick and there is more space.
Inside, the walls are covered with blue and white tile, the floor with red and cream carpets.
They should be as straight as possible, as this will effect their ability to mesh properly when the walls are erected.
The battens covering the joints are of Af stock and are applied after the walls are erected.
As the pool is emptied, stand by to brush down the walls and bottom while they are still wet.
Arteries and veins are apparent by their black, blood-filled centers and the surrounding white walls.
But now many of these same builders are finding they can cut their costs more by teaming up with a dealer who has volume enough to afford the most efficient specialized equipment to deliver everything just where it is needed -- drywall inside the house, siding along the sides, trusses on the walls, roofing on the roof, etc..
The rate of the gas phase exchange reaction appears to be proportional to the first power of the absorbed light intensity indicating that the radical intermediates are removed at the walls or by reaction with an impurity rather than by bimolecular radical combination reactions.
not like the cracker-box construction of so many of the motel units that have stucco all over the outside but walls that are thin enough so you can hear every movement of the people in the adjoining apartment.
Walnut, wormy chestnut, pecan, three varieties of burl, hand-woven Philippine cane, ceramic tiles, marble are used to emphasize the feeling of texture and of permanence, the furniture to fit into rooms with tiled floors, brick or paneled walls, windows that bring in the outdoors.
Adobe had been in use by indigenous peoples of the Americas in the Southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, and the Andean region of South America for several thousand years, although often substantial amounts of stone are used in the walls of Pueblo buildings.
The footing and stem wall are commonly 24 and 14 inches, much larger than a frame house because of the weight of the walls.
Adobe walls usually never rise above two stories because they are load bearing and have low structural strength.
Taking into account the material from which the beams and walls are made, choosing the attachments may prove difficult.
In successive microsporogenesis, walls are laid down separating the daughter cells after each division.

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