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    In architecture, an apse (pl.: apses; from Latin absis, 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek ἀψίς, apsis, 'arch'; sometimes written apsis; pl.: apsides) is...
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  • Ada Programming Support Environment or APSE, was a specification for a programming environment to support software development in the Ada programming language...
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  • Look up apse, apses, apsis, apside, apsides, or apsidal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The apse or apsis or apside (plural: apses or apsides) are...
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    An apse line, or line of apsides, is an imaginary line defined by an orbit's eccentricity vector. It is strictly defined for elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic...
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    An apse chapel, apsidal chapel, or chevet is a chapel in traditional Christian church architecture, which radiates tangentially from one of the bays or...
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  • Jane Annabelle Apsion (born 17 September 1960 in Hammersmith, London) is an English actress best known for playing Monica Gallagher in the television comedy-drama...
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    Apse Heath is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight, UK. Apse Heath is centered on the intersection of Newport Road and Alverstone Road. At the 2011 Census the...
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  • Apse (pronounced "apps") was an American rock band signed to the UK label ATP Recordings [1] and Spanish label Acuarela Discos. The band moved through...
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    The Apse from La Seu d'Urgell is an apse exhibited at the National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona. The decoration on this apse is a noteworthy sample...
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  • Aina Apse (25 March 1926 – 24 February 2015) was a New Zealand potter. Her work is held in the permanent collections of Canterbury Museum and Christchurch...
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    The Fuentidueña Apse is a Romanesque apse dated 1175–1200 that was built as part of the San Martín Church at Fuentidueña, province of Segovia, Castile...
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    absidiale is a small or secondary apse, one of the apses on either side of the main apse in a triapsidal church, or one of the apse-chapels when they project...
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    The Apse of Sant Climent de Taüll (Catalan: Absis de Sant Climent de Taüll) is a Romanesque fresco in the National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona....
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    only one great cross in the apse like the Hagia Irene in Constantinople (after 740). There were similar crosses in the apses of the Hagia Sophia Church...
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    centre over the nave to admit a clerestory and lower over the side-aisles. An apse at one end, or less frequently at both ends or on the side, usually contained...
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    a basilica plan structure with three naves, each of them with a terminal apse, and large columns separating the side naves. Connecting to the church is...
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    a five-story visitors' center/cafe/gift shop; a bronze-casting apse; a ceramics apse; two large barrel vaults; a ring of apartment residences and quasi-public...
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    illustrating Biblical stories. Apse of the Church of St Justus, Segovia. Christ in Majesty was a common theme for the apse. A frieze of figures occupies...
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    della Pace in Rome.[page needed] These projecting arcs echo the shape of the apse at the eastern end of the building. The building is of two storeys of ashlar...
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    the mosaic inside the semi-dome of the apse inside the liturgical space. The mosaic in the semi-dome above the apse at the east end shows Mary, mother of...
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    A new aisle was added on the north side, and, in 1489, a semi-circular apse and ambulatory was added at the eastern end, with dramatic Flamboyant columns...
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    east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse. The chancel is generally the area used by the clergy and choir during worship...
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    Qusayr 'Amra or Quseir Amra, sometimes also named Qasr Amra (Arabic: قصر عمرة, romanized: Qaṣr ‘Amrah, lit. 'small qasr of 'Amra'), is the best-known of...
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    the intention of building a church inspired by the basilica at Loreto. The apse crypt of the church, funded by donations, was begun 19 March 1882, on the...
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    first cathedral in the world, founded 303 year AD. Byzantine architecture: Apse of Santa Maria Maggiore (Rome), decorated in the 5th century with this glamorous...
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    Patriarch of Alexandria. Pope Benedict XIV undertook the restoration of the apse mosaic and the frescoes of the central nave, and commissioned the painter...
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    Abbey in 1848. The original church design was never completed. Only the apse, choir (with aisles) and transepts were completed. The church was located...
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    planetary body about its primary body. The line of apsides (also called apse line, or major axis of the orbit) is the line connecting the two extreme...
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    the apse side walls are two famous mosaic panels, completed in 547. On viewer left (but privileged right side from perspective of Christ in apse) is a...
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    included in the walls of the newly built transept chapels. He rebuilt the apse into a rectangular shape and added a large stained-glass quadrifore window...
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