In the early 19th century there was much interest in enclosing and " improving " the open moorland on Dartmoor, encouraged by Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt's early successes at Tor Royal near Princetown.

In 1780, a farm was reclaimed on the site of an ancient tenement near the Two Bridges, and in 1785, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt set about improving the moor at a place which he named Tor Royal, about south-east of Princetown.

In the Kushiel novels ( a series, beginning with " Kushiel's Dart " Tor, 2001 ), by Jacqueline Carey, the " Dàlraida " of the Kingdom of Alba figure prominently in a Royal marriage and subsequent alliance with France ( known in the series as Terre d ' Ange ).

He is claimed by classicists and idealists: the quadriga on the Brandenburger Tor and the allegorical frieze on the facade of the Royal Mint, both in Berlin, are judged among the happiest studies from the antique.

From geographical attractions ( such as Tor Bay ) to museums ( e. g. Royal Armouries ), all types of attraction have been promoted in this way.

Bride of the Monster is a 1955 sci-fi horror film starring Bela Lugosi, along with Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy and Loretta King Hadler.

Dr. Eric Vornoff ( Bela Lugosi ), is experimenting with nuclear power with the help of his mute assistant, Lobo ( Tor Johnson ).

Childe's Tomb is a reconstructed granite cross on the south-east edge of Foxtor Mires, about 500 metres north of Fox Tor on Dartmoor, Devon, England at.

The final pandemic originated in 1961 in Indonesia and is marked by the emergence of a new strain, nicknamed El Tor, which still persists today in developing countries.

Malherb is introduced as the younger son of a noble family and he builds the Fox Tor house to be the impressive gentleman's residence suggested by William Crossing rather than the humble cottage which it actually is.

Another example where HTTPS is important is connections over Tor ( anonymity network ), as malicious Tor nodes can damage or alter the contents passing through them in an insecure fashion and inject malware into the connection.

This is one reason why the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Torproject started the development of HTTPS Everywhere, which is included in the Tor Browser Bundle.

Other stories claim that the Grail is buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel or lies deep in the spring at Glastonbury Tor.

The physical evidence, in the form of pillow mounds is also plentiful, for example there are 50 pillow mounds at Legis Tor Warren.

Other project of note connected to SEUL is Tor ( anonymity network ).

Tor Nørretranders ( born June 20, 1955 ) is a Danish author of popular science.

Tor Nørretranders ' mother is Yvonne Levy ( 1920 -) and his father is Bjarne Nørretranders ( 1922-1986 ).

Weathering has also given rise to circular " rock basins '" formed by the accumulation of water and the repeated freezing and thawing – a fine example is to be found at Kes Tor on Dartmoor.

* Tor Bay, one of the sandy beaches near Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula in south Wales, so-called because the beach is framed by a huge outcrop of carboniferous limestone.

Glastonbury has been described as a New Age community which attracts people with New Age and Neopagan beliefs, and is notable for myths and legends often related to Glastonbury Tor, concerning Joseph of Arimathea, the Holy Grail and King Arthur.

The walk up the Tor to the distinctive tower at the summit ( the partially restored remains of an old church ) is rewarded by vistas of the mid-Somerset area, including the Levels which are drained marshland.

The Chalice Well is a holy well at the foot of the Tor, covered by a wooden well-cover with wrought-iron decoration made in 1919.

There is a Russian Orthodox burial ground ( Saint Lazarus chapel, 1894 ) and plots dedicated for the use of various Orthodox churches. Greek Orthodox community buried their dead since 1869, belonging to group 30 A, at Gate 2, behind the arcades, Romanian Orthodox community at the gate 3, Group 38th. The Bulgarian Orthodox Christians are buried in the same group 38. Serbian Orthodox community received their own plot in the group 68 B, 69 C, Tor 3 and group 27A contains the tombs of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Since 2000, there is a Baby burial ground close to Tor 3 ( group 35b ) where stillborn infants, dead babies, and young children up to 110 cm.

Mam Tor is near the top of Winnats Pass ( a steep and narrow limestone gorge ), forms the eastern end of Rushup Edge, and dominates the western end of the " Great Ridge ", one of the most famous, beautiful, and easy-to-reach ridgewalks in the Peak District and which separates the two arms of the Hope Valley: the valley of the River Noe ( Edale ) to the north, and the Peakshole Water ( Castleton ) to the south.

The counterpart of the Wiener Tor, the Linzer Tor, was located at the end of the Linzer Straße.

However, he rebuilt Frederick William I's city wall in stone, commissioning an improved Brandenburg Gate ( Brandenburger Tor ) at the end of the 18th century-this gate is now widely recognized as a symbol of Berlin.

File: Hound Tor Longhouse Hearth Stone. JPG | Hound Tor Longhouse open hearth stone and storage niches at inhabited end

At each end are dual towers at Frankfurter Tor and Strausberger Platz designed by Hermann Henselmann.

The historic Hallesches Tor at the southern end of Friedrichstraße and Mehringplatz was a gate of Berlin's 18th-century city wall, the road through it led via Tempelhof to the city of Halle.

The bay ends at the eastern end with the cliffs of High Tor ; but at low tide, a continuous sandy beach connects with Three Cliffs Bay beyond.

File: MT RRocks tor. pdf | Tor at the south end of the Ringing Rocks Pluton

It is the south-east corner of the parish of Edale and the end of the Great Ridge that runs from Rushup Edge to the west ( over Mam Tor, Hollins Cross and Back Tor ).

He asks Aerin to marry him at the end of the book, and she agrees, putting aside her " not-quite-mortal " part and thoughts of Luthe so she can better rule her kingdom as Queen with Tor.

Edward's host followed the line of the old Roman road, which ran through an ancient forest known as the Tor Wood, over the Bannockburn and into the New Park, a hunting preserve enclosed at the time of Alexander III.

The landslide scarred scenery of Mam Tor showing the collapsed road

This means inter alia that the roads radiating outwards east of the old main road axis ( today Erbische Straße and Burgstraße running from the former Erbisch Gate ( Erbischer Tor ) on Postplatz to Freudenstein Castle ), some of which run as far as the opposite side of the Münzbach valley, are very steep.

Leaving Castleton, the western road used to go over Mam Tor, but after continual collapses and repairs ( Mam Tor is called the " Shivering Mountain " because of its very loose shales ) it was eventually abandoned.

In November 1990, an ornate limestone ossuary was found while paving a road in the Peace Forest south of the Abu Tor neighborhood of Jerusalem.

The small burial mound is at the side of a minor road, about 1 mile ( 1. 6 km ) north west of Hound Tor, at the entrance to a green lane that leads to Natsworthy.

In Volume 1 of the Western Antiquary, dated October 1881, one F. B. Doveton asked for further details of a grave that he had noted by the side of the road to Hey Tor.

The original Kottbusser Tor was a southern city gate of Berlin ; the road through the gate led via the Neukölln suburb to the town of Cottbus.

From this junction, one minor road takes a different and hillier route to Chapel-en-le-Frith, and another heads for Mam Tor and Castleton by way of the Winnats Pass and a series of spectacular views.

It then drops down to the small Haverstraw Beach State Park and follows a road out of it into High Tor State Park, where the bare summit of the tor, the highest peak of the Palisades at 832 feet ( 253. 5 m ) affords the best views of this section of the Hudson Valley.