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    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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    A parapet organ, (‹See Tfd›German: Brüstungsorgel), is a small or medium-sized independent organ that forms a unit with the parapet of the organ loft...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    used to light more earthenware lamps, which are placed in rows along the parapets of temples and houses, while some diyas are set adrift on rivers and streams...
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    that his court painter portrayed him. The man sits before an imitation parapet with three sets of painted inscriptions, each rendered to look as if chiselled...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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  • rubber, metal, asphalt, or roofing felt, and may be concealed behind a parapet or the eaves, or in a roof valley. Box gutters are essentially placed between...
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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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    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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