Virgilio Canio Corbo, a Franciscan priest and archaeologist, who was present at the excavations, estimated from the archaeological evidence that the western retaining wall, of the temple itself, would have passed extremely close to the east side of the supposed tomb ; if the wall had been any further west any tomb would have been crushed under the weight of the wall ( which would be immediately above it ) if it had not already been destroyed when foundations for the wall were made.

In 1987, hospital functions on the eastern campus were transferred from the United States Department of Health and Human Services to the District of Columbia government, with the federal government retaining ownership of the western campus.

The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ended homesteading ; by that time, federal government policy had shifted to retaining control of western public lands.

Although heavily wooded in many rural areas and retaining a predominantly rural character in its western sector, York County is part of the greater Charlotte metropolitan region and includes Rock Hill, the county ’ s largest city, as well as the smaller cities of Tega Cay and York and the smaller towns of Clover, Fort Mill, Hickory Grove, McConnells, Sharon, and Lake Wylie.

There is evidence, based on an entry in the Ravenna Cosmography, that there may have been a sub-tribe in the western part of the territory known as the Cornovii, that appears to have been at least semi-independent at times, certainly retaining its independence after parts of Dumnonia came under Anglo-Saxon control between the 7th and 10th centuries.

Much has been done for education of late, but if the funds were tripled and quadrupled, that would hardly be enough … A new national literature may spring up, impregnated with western ideas, yet retaining its native spirit and character … By encouraging a study of their own ancient literature, as part of their education, a national feeling of pride and self-respect will be reawakened among those who influence the large masses of the people.

It further drew up plans for the demilitarization of the Straits and a rectification of the Turkish-Greek frontier in Eastern Thrace between the neighbourhood of Ganos on the Sea of Marmora and a point on the Bulgarian frontier in the western part of the Stranja mountains, leaving Rodosto to the Turks and placing Baba-Eske and Kirk Kilisse on the Greek side of the border, Greece thus retaining Adrianople.

The western section beyond the cutting was too steep for a road link, so, when the cable cars ceased, the portion near Belgrave Crescent was redeveloped as a short street serving several houses while retaining the pedestrian walkway through to Delta Street.

This created the bluestone retaining wall of the high bank along the western boundary.

Roughly in the middle of its course, the Araguaia splits into two forks ( with the western one retaining the name Araguaia and the eastern one being called Rio Javaés ).

The capital decoration of the two western most pillars of the nave ( either side of the West Door internal porch ) are mediaeval as are the bulk of the external gargoyle carvings ( some resited ) of the parapet of the Eastern Arm. It is to be regretted that Cottingham's intention of retaining the richly cusped West Poor with flanking canopied niches was overruled.

In 1581, Naranarayana the Koch king who ruled Kamata divided his kingdom along the Sankosh river retaining the western portion and gifting the eastern portion to Raghudeb, the son of his brother Chilarai.

Hanging on the western wall is Queen Victoria's burial flag, given to the college soon after her death.

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

If the western city wall was originally to the east of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, then the western hill, on which it is sited, would have been advantageous to an enemy.

However, a wall would imply the existence of a defensive ditch outside it, so an earlier wall could not be immediately adjacent to site of the tomb, which combined with the presence of the Temple Mount would make the city inside the wall quite thin ; essentially for the traditional site to have been outside the wall, the city would have had to be limited to the lower parts of the Tyropoeon Valley, rather than including the defensively advantageous western hill.

Later a 9-metre ( 29-ft ) high semi-circular wall was erected to guard the western approaches to the town.

The Roman legion surrounded Masada, and built a circumvallation wall and then a siege embankment against the western face of the plateau, moving thousands of tons of stones and beaten earth to do so.

The Roman army ( Legio X Fretensis ) surrounds the mountain fortress with a 7-mile long siege wall ( circumvallation ) and built a rampart of stones and beaten earth against the western approach.

View of the western enclosing wall of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.

Image: 0 Sainte Waudru-Mons 1. JPG | Bas-relief on the western wall in Saint Waltrude's Collegiate Church

At the western end the shingle bank rested against a stone ( further east becoming wood ) sea wall which ranged from 4 – 12 feet ( 1. 5 – 4 m ) in height.

The interior of the synagogue is laid out in the Romaniote way: the Bimah ( where the Torah scrolls are read out during service ) is on a raised dais on the western wall, the Aron haKodesh ( where the Torah scrolls are kept ) is on the eastern wall and at the middle there is a wide interior aisle.

The northern wall of the Mount, together with the northern section of the western wall, is hidden behind residential buildings.

A northern portion of the western wall may be seen from within the Western Wall Tunnel, which was excavated through buildings adjacent to the platform.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

This name was used in Turkish side by side with Kostantiniyye, the more formal adaptation of the original Constantinople, during the period of Ottoman rule, while western languages mostly continued to refer to the city as Constantinople until the early 20th century.

Casablanca (, original name in ) is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean.

According to tradition, the original flag from the Battle of Lyndanisse was used in the small campaign of 1500 when King Hans tried to conquer Dithmarschen ( in western Holstein in north Germany ).

From their original homelands in Scandinavia and far northern Europe Germanic tribes expanded throughout northern and western Europe in the middle period of classical antiquity, and southern Europe in late antiquity, conquering Celtic and other peoples and forming in 800 the Holy Roman Empire, the first German Empire.

Martial arts have crossed over into sports when forms of sparring become competitive, becoming a sport in its own right that is dissociated from the original combative origin, such as with western fencing.

Having the control over those more western ( in respect to the original homeland of the Polans ) tribes, Mieszko had entered the German sphere of influence.

Its original borders stretched from western Colorado to the southern California coast.

The original wire was sharp-teethed and contributed to western range wars.

The group left Virgin in 2003 with the independent release Countrysides, composed of eight country and western covers and one new, original song.

Temple of Hephaestus, a Doric order | Doric Greek temple in Athens with the original entrance facing east, 449 BC ( western face depicted ).

A commonly understood reference from western popular culture is the subtitle " A New Hope " from the original first installment ( now considered Episode IV ) in the Star Wars science fiction epic space opera.

In the late 1960s, Milland hosted rebroadcasts of certain episodes of the syndicated western anthology series, Death Valley Days under the title Trails West ; the series ' original host had been Ronald Reagan.

This resulted in a large division between the original group, the western Comanches, and the break away Kotsotekas, the eastern Comanches.

The road then continued east across the Ohio River into Wheeling in West Virginia, the original western end of the National Road when it was first paved.

* Kolomotu ' a ( Kolo meaning " town " or " settlement ", motu ' a meaning " old "), encompassing the city's original settlement at the old fort of Nukualofa, including the area of Tavatu ' utolu ( Longolongo ), Sopu ' o Vave ( now Sopu ' o Taufa ' ahau ), Tongata ' eapa, Tufuenga, Kapeta and all the western area where it was the traditional settlement of the Tu ' i Kanokupolu from Mumui the 13th Tu ' i Kanokupolu to Aleamotu ' a the 18th Tu ' i Kanokupolu.

Valinor was established on the western continent Aman when Melkor ( a Vala later named Morgoth, " the black foe ", by the Elves ) destroyed their original home on the island Almaren.

The passageway for each is vaulted, and has two aisles ( in the case of the triple gate, a third aisle exists for a brief distance beyond the gate ); the eastern aisle of the double gates and western of the triple gates reach the surface, the other aisles terminating some way before the steps – Warren believed that one aisle of each original passage was extended when the al-Aqsa Mosque blocked the original surface exits.

By 2007, it had declined to 10 % of its original size, splitting into four lakes – the North Aral Sea, the eastern and western basins of the once far larger South Aral Sea and one smaller lake between North and South Aral Seas.

In the channel's first years, shows that aired during its broadcast day included Welcome to Pooh Corner and You and Me Kid along with several foreign animated series and movies including Asterix, The Raccoons, Paddington Bear, and the Australian western Five Mile Creek ; the original late night schedule featured reruns of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.

Some scholars posit that the root rot-or rod-found in the name " Rhone " as well as in the name of many western European rivers, and whose original meaning seems to be " river ", is in fact Pre-Indo-European.

The surveyors also extended the boundary line to run between Pennsylvania and colonial western Virginia ( which became West Virginia during the American Civil War, on June 20, 1863 ), though this was contrary to their original charter ; this extension of the line was only confirmed later ( see Yohogania County for details ).

Soon, they were creating their own original Cuban-like compositions, with lyrics sung in French or Lingala, a lingua franca of the western Congo region.