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    Tow hitch (redirect from Lunette ring)
    needed] A lunette ring is a type of trailer hitch that works in combination with a pintle hook on the tow vehicle. A pintle hook and lunette ring make...
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  • January 2, 2014. Flore Fauconnier. "Essilor rachète un site e-commerce de lunettes de vue". JDN. Retrieved January 2, 2014. Greg Holden (June 8, 2014). "Eyewear...
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    supported on corbel brackets, and above it a Madonna and Child in a half-lunette, with a canopy over all. At the time of its completion, the monument was...
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    curtain walls and bastions). Originally called a demi-lune, after the lunette, the ravelin is placed outside a castle and opposite a fortification curtain...
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    Royal Room. On its ceiling, Gregorio de Ferrari and Alexandre Haffner depicted a figure of Fame surrounded by lunettes illustrating the four seasons. Antoine's...
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    The Church of Our Lady of Protection (Portuguese: Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Amparo) is a 19th-century Roman Catholic church located in Santo Amaro, Bahia...
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    control centers, and storage facilities. Bunkers can also be used as protection from tornadoes. Trench bunkers are small concrete structures, partly dug...
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    extreme. "Fortresses... acquired ravelins and redoubts, bonnettes and lunettes, tenailles and tenaillons, counterguards and crownworks and hornworks and...
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    Juan Bautista Monegro, in Herrerian style. The barrel vault, inset with lunettes accommodating the windows, is lavishly decorated with frescos by Luca Giordano...
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    frescoes of the Sistine Chapel and in particular the ceiling and accompanying lunettes by Michelangelo have been subject to a number of restorations, the most...
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    inserted in an intermediate space between the lower wall and the large lunettes below the dome. The tombs are attached to the walls, with statues in niches...
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    joined laterally by semicircular arches, it also exhibits a balustrade and lunettes. The lateral naves, smaller in width and height, are enriched with small...
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    philosophy, jurisprudence, and the poetic arts, represented in tondi above the lunettes of the walls. The theme of this room is worldly and spiritual wisdom and...
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    Castle (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    provided a base from which raids could be launched as well as offered protection from enemies. Although their military origins are often emphasised in...
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    Eye of Horus (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    portrayed directly beneath the winged sun symbol that often appeared in the lunettes of stelae, and Eyes of Horus were placed above figures of common people...
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    was commissioned by Sforza to decorate the wall of the mausoleum. The lunettes above the main painting, formed by the triple arched ceiling of the refectory...
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    often an earthwork thrown up to breast or shoulder height to provide protection to defenders firing over it from a standing position. A more permanent...
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    original lunettes, transformed into ogee arches, are outlined with foliage and topped with statues of four military saints over the lateral lunettes and of...
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    works as a M50P1 (ASTM F2656) vehicle barrier. LOPS (lightweight overhead protection system), a lightweight roof protecting against mortar fire. Sangar kits...
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    also refer to the state procedure in France by which National Heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection...
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    support for a heavy gun turret. This evolved from earlier forms of gun protection that eventually led to the pre-dreadnought. The name barbette ultimately...
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    each wall: the side of the altar facing the nave is adorned with a marble lunette depicting the "Mystic Lamb." In the 16th century, several members of the...
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    Fortification (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    so the walls were sunk into ditches fronted by earth slopes to improve protection. The arrival of explosive shells in the 19th century led to another stage...
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    in which he stands. The figures in the lunettes refer to prophecies of the coming of Christ. The far left lunette shows the prophet Zechariah and the far...
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    (Germany) "L'Autorité de la concurrence sanctionne plusieurs fabricants de lunettes". L'Usine Nouvelle (in French). 2021-07-22. "L'Autorité de la concurrence...
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    Benaschi, and retouched by Petronsio. Benaschi also painted the triangular lunettes on the altar. The two imposing side Reliquaries, with 70 busts of saint...
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    griffins, similar to those from the dismantled Porta dei Mesi at Ferrara. The lunette depicts the Virgin holding the Christ child in high relief, centered between...
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    influence. The term is derived from the Latin word praesidium meaning protection or defense. In the Mediterranean and the Philippines, the presidios were...
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    protect from both blasts and fallout. Blast shelters are a vital form of protection from nuclear attacks and are employed in civil defense. There are above-ground...
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    Fort Beauregard in 1830. Another example are the Trois-Châtels and Tousey lunettes, both built at the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries, as well as...
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