A parapet is a barrier that is an upward extension of a wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. The word comes ultimately...
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Camp Parapet was a Civil War fortification at Shrewsbury, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, a bit more than a mile upriver from the current city limits of...
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A parapet organ, (German: Brüstungsorgel), is a small or medium-sized independent organ that forms a unit with the parapet of the organ loft. A Rückpositiv...
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Parapet Peak is located at southern end of Mount Robson Provincial Park on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1921 by Cyril G...
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defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height), in which gaps...
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Temple of Athena Nike (section Friezes and parapets)
of its bastion were protected on the north, west, and south by the Nike Parapet, named for its frieze of Nikai celebrating victory and sacrificing to their...
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Cape Perpetua (redirect from Cape Perpetua Shelter and Parapet)
advantage of the height of the promontory. The Cape Perpetua Shelter and Parapet were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The Forest...
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Rain gutter (redirect from Parapet gutter)
excessive weight. Water from a pitched roof flows down into a valley gutter, a parapet gutter or an eaves gutter. An eaves gutter is also known as an eavestrough...
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Disappearing gun (redirect from Masking parapet)
carriage designs enabled the gun to rotate backwards and down behind a parapet, or into a pit protected by a wall, after it was fired; a small number...
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Stepped gable (redirect from Stepped parapets)
design at the top of the triangular gable-end of a building. The top of the parapet wall projects above the roofline and the top of the brick or stone wall...
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Merlon (redirect from Crenellated parapets)
A merlon is the solid upright section of a battlement (a crenellated parapet) in medieval architecture or fortifications. Merlons are sometimes pierced...
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Shrewsbury Cemetery, historically known as Camp Parapet Cemetery , is an old burial ground near New Orleans, Louisiana, on the site of a Confederate military...
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included: Parapet: a low wall on top of the rampart to shelter the defenders. Crenellation: rectangular gaps or indentations at intervals in the parapet, the...
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rows of corbels deeply keyed inside a wall support a projecting wall or parapet, has been used since Neolithic (New Stone Age) times. It is common in medieval...
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little wing, or by extension anything like a wing such as a battlement or parapet. The archaeologist Benjamin Mazar thought it referred to the southeast...
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Parapet Peak is a 2,463-metre (8,081-foot) mountain summit located in British Columbia, Canada. Parapet Peak is set within Garibaldi Provincial Park and...
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Denis Thatcher (section Below the Parapet)
thought his wife was "the best prime minister since Churchill." Below the Parapet (1996) is the biography by his daughter Carol. In it, he said that politics...
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Arcadia (album) (redirect from Wing of the Parapets)
3:57 8. "Arcadia Reprise" 0:57 9. "Izzit True What They Tell Me" 5:16 10. "Wings of the Parapets" 3:14 11. "I Love Our World" 5:45 Total length: 41:44...
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Ionic columns. The ground floor is hidden by a raised carriage ramp and parapet. The central three bays are situated behind a prostyle portico that was...
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There are at least two runic inscriptions in Hagia Sophia's marble parapets. They may have been engraved by members of the Varangian Guard in Constantinople...
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a truce for the day. One of his men bravely lifted his head above the parapet and others from both sides walked onto no man's land. Officers and men...
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lookouts for short, their repair being often undertaken simultaneously. A parapet wall or cornice tend to preclude eaves, as an alternate design, both favouring...
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Ross Castle (section Parapet)
oil on attackers at the front door, the only entrance to the castle. The parapet at roof level is 'crenellated' providing ups, 'merlons' and downs, 'crenels'...
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column. There may be a fold in the body wall, known as a parapet, at this point, and this parapet covers and protects the anemone when it is retracted. The...
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A more permanent structure, normally in stone, would be described as a parapet or the battlement of a castle wall. In warships, a breastwork is the armored...
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Captain Leslie Morshead in a trench at Lone Pine after the battle, looking at Australian and Ottoman dead on the parapet...
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Both ornamented and unornamented waterspouts projecting from roofs at parapet level were a common device used to shed rainwater from buildings until...
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is where we're going to stay. [...] I'm able to keep my head below the parapet. I get on with my work, I have a family, and I get on the Tube. It just...
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wall was 30 m high, which included merlons, a solid part of an embattled parapet usually pierced by embrasures. This wall was surrounded by another wall...
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assault difficult. Walls were topped with battlements which consisted of a parapet, which was generally crenellated with merlons to protect the defenders...
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