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    A gaiola pombalina (Pombaline cage; Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡɐjˈjɔlɐ]) is a masonry building reinforced with an internal wooden cage, developed as an...
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    Gaiola Island is one of the minor islands of Naples, off the city's Posillipo residential quarter, in the Metropolitan City of Naples and Campania region...
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  • Gaiola may refer to: Gaiola, a municipality in the Province of Cuneo, Italy Gaiola Island, an island in the Gulf of Naples, Italy Gaiola (construction)...
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    earthquake in Armenia, compared to precast frame-panels. One Japanese construction company has developed a six-foot cubical shelter, presented as an alternative...
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    São Francisco was regularly navigated by a type of passenger boat called gaiola (Portuguese for "cage"). These were paddle-wheel steamboats, some of them...
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    Fátima (Portuguese: Estação Rodoviária de Fátima) Cistern of Gaiola (Portuguese: Cisterna em Gaiola) Cistern of Ramila (Portuguese: Cisterna em Ramila) Cistern...
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    Cheradi Islands Cyclopean Isles Ferdinandea Flegrean Islands Gallinara Gaiola Grado Isola Bella Maddalena archipelago Mal di Ventre Molara Ortygia Pantelleria...
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  • Aramanha, Casais da Bica, Casais da Paraventa, Casais de Santa Helena, Casais Gaiolas, Casal da Palmeira, Casal das Cheiras, Casal das Sesmarias, Casal Sobreiro...
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    Aquileia, took refuge briefly at Grado; of the same period is the earliest construction of Grado's first cathedral, the first church of Santa Maria delle Grazie...
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  • Fusuma Gabion Gable Gablefront house Gable roof Gablet roof Gable stone Gaiola Galilee Gallery Galleting Gambrel Gaper Garbhagriha Garderobe Gargoyle Garland...
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    to have a new and perfectly ordered city, the king commissioned the construction of big squares, rectilinear, large avenues and widened streets – the...
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    November 2018. Bole 2011, p. 82. Construction de l'espace au Moyen Age: pratiques et représentations [Construction of space in the Middle Ages: practices...
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    innovation designed for this purpose consisted of a wooden skeleton called the gaiola pombalina (Pombal Cage), a flexible rectangular frame with diagonal braces...
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  • Odeon theatre, the imperial villa of Pausylipon, the submerged park of Gaiola, the palace of the Spirits and the cave of Seiano, the latter 770 metres...
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    initiation of major infrastructure projects on the island. These included the construction of new dams and roads, reforestation, agricultural zones on reclaimed...
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  • Curtis A Religiosa Portuguesa (The Portuguese Nun, 2009) by Eugène Green A Gaiola Dourada (The Gilded Cage, 2013) by Ruben Alves Opération Portugal (Portugal...
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    Roger I created several Catholic bishoprics while still allowing the construction of 12 Greek-speaking monasteries (the Greek language, monasteries, and...
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  • This construction effort was combined with extensive federal government grants for slum clearance, improved and increased housing and road construction and...
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    or to the nearby soil for use in the dry season. Most of the other constructions were destroyed during the Second World War. One notable exception is...
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    city at about 50 metres (160 ft) Parri’s Park, a big green park under construction in the suburbs of the city. Most important and populated: Centro storico...
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    Asinara for about 110 years, until the prison closed in December 1997. Construction on the island has been forbidden for the last century. In 1997 Asinara...
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    Mourão carried out operations "Silêncio", controlling telecommunications, "Gaiola", arresting "suspicious elements" already monitored by the police, and "Popeye"...
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    navigation upstream, so the prisoners continued on a river steamer, the gaiola ("cage"), to the port of Santo Antônio, and from there in smaller boats...
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    as well tours along the São Francisco using typical paddle steamers (gaiolas). Several waterfalls, the river itself, the semi-arid and rough caatinga...
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  • of Ceva became Lord of Priero and in 1387 plans were drawn up for the construction of the settlement, which forms the basis of today's Priero. The village...
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