• Builders of Castles is a 1917 silent film drama directed by Ben Turbett. It starred Marc McDermott and Miriam Nesbitt, a real-life husband and wife team...
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    form of secret passage used as part of an escape from siege or captivity. In medieval times such tunnels were usually constructed by the builders of castles...
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    family of Thurn und Taxis remains well known as owners of breweries and former builders of castles. The family seat is Saint Emmeram's Abbey. His father...
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    Castles have been build in Kurdistan since ancient times, but most Kurdish castles were built in the Middle Ages by various Kurdish states, like the Ayyubids...
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    and 19th- and 20th-century homes built to resemble castles. Over the Middle Ages, when genuine castles were built, they took on a great many forms with...
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    kingdom. Following the Norman invasion of Ireland in the 1170s, under Henry II, castles were established there too. Castles continued to grow in military sophistication...
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    The restoration of castles and tower houses in Scotland, generally by private individuals and families, has been taking place for over a century[verification...
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    builders. Early castles attributed to him include Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, Chepstow Castle (Striguil) in South Wales, Snodhill Castle...
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    princess of Carbery from 1477 to 1506. For her own pleasure, she erected two castles. Katherine was probably born in 1452, in one of the Fitzgerald castles. Katherine...
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  • "Ballyportry Castle: History". celticcastles.com. Celtic Castles. https://www.celticcastles.com/castles/ballyportry-castle/ Searle, Mike. "Castles of Munster:...
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    castles were popularized in the area that became the Netherlands. The Normans introduced the design into England and Wales. Motte-and-bailey castles were...
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    heart") is dedicated to the history of Coral Castle and his builder Edward Leedskalnin. Bishop Castle, a one-man construction project near Rye, Colorado Ferdinand...
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    century Theodosian Walls of Constantinople influenced the builders of medieval castles many centuries later. In medieval castles, the area surrounded by...
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    Marc McDermott (category Australian people of Irish descent)
    Eugene Aram (1915) The Mystery of Room 13 (1915) The Price of Fame (1916) Whom the Gods Destroy (1916) Builders of Castles (1917) The Last Sentence (1917)...
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    (1915)*short The Catspaw (1916) The Last Sentence (1917) Infidelity (1917) Builders of Castles (1917) "Theatrical Gossip" (PDF). New York Times. June 14, 1898....
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    NTSC/PAL) - 2002 Bob's Castle Adventure (PC, NTSC/PAL) - 2003 Project: Build It (PS2, PAL only) - 2005 Bob the Builder: Festival of Fun (PS2, Wii, Nintendo...
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    capital of Liechtenstein, which it overlooks from an adjacent hilltop. The former owners, who were presumably also the builders, were the counts of Werdenberg-Sargans...
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    walls and towers into the defences. In addition castle builders may have improved the natural defences of the terrain by hewing into them to make the hillsides...
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  • (1917) Builders of Castles (1917) The Half back (1917) Gallegher (1917) Cy Whittaker's Ward (1917) The Courage of the Commonplace (1917) The Lady of the...
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    the walled compound that enclosed all but the north flank of the castle. The master builders João Fernandes and Vasco Brás were responsible for its construction...
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    The Prime Minister Builders of Castles (1917) as The Builder The Tell-Tale Step (1917) as Doctor Oppenheim Bertellini The Mystery of the Double Cross (1917)...
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    Attraction Bishop Castle Gets a Happy Ending". Westword. Retrieved 2023-08-21. Moses, Caro (28 July 2016). "Kid Carpet: Building castles on the Fringe"....
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    of these castles, three round tower castles and one octagonal tower palace castle, influenced Edward's decision to hire him to construct the castles in...
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    the ancestor of Irish clan, and that he was the builder of Castle Sween in Knapdale, Argyll. However, other sources suggest the castle was built in the...
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    mainland Estonia, who sent prisoners to the island "to fortify some of the castles, clear the railroads, carry snow and dig sand." At this point the newly...
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    overgrown List of Cadw properties List of castles in Wales Castles in Great Britain and Ireland Kenyon 2007, p. 4. Cadw. "Kidwelly Castle (Grade I) (11876)"...
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  • Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages (UK title: The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages; French: Quand les cathédrales étaient peintes...
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    Vieux-château de l'Île d'Yeu (category Monuments historiques of Pays de la Loire)
    Clisson, a great builder of castles, undertook the work with the aim of protecting the islanders in the event of foreign invasion. The longest of these had been...
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    architecture List of castles in Jordan Umayyad architecture "الوعيرة والعقبة قلاع في الاردن - سياحة كوم" [Al-Wu'airah and Aqaba castles in Jordan - tourism...
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  • "Trailer: 'Bugs Bunny Builders' Breaks Ground on Cartoonito July 25". Animation Magazine. Retrieved June 19, 2022. "Bugs Bunny Builders Breaks Ground July...
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