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  • Thumbnail for Portico
    A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or...
    12 KB (1,152 words) - 08:08, 28 August 2024
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    Agrippa's older temple. The building is round in plan, except for the portico with large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two...
    64 KB (7,567 words) - 17:02, 29 September 2024
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    construction continued with the addition of the semicircular South Portico in 1824 and the North Portico in 1829. Because of crowding within the executive mansion...
    104 KB (10,192 words) - 20:55, 27 September 2024
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    (Latin for the 'Portico of Octavia'; Italian: Portico di Ottavia) is an ancient structure in Rome. The colonnaded walks of the portico enclosed the Temples...
    6 KB (481 words) - 09:14, 27 July 2024
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    screening the door (Latin porta), it is called a portico. When enclosing an open court, a peristyle. A portico may be more than one rank of columns deep, as...
    6 KB (552 words) - 02:49, 27 September 2024
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    HarperCollins (redirect from Portico Books)
    HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along...
    74 KB (6,513 words) - 01:54, 19 September 2024
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    The Portico Dii Consentes (Latin: Porticus Deorum Consentium; Italian: Portico degli Dei Consenti), also known as the Area of the Dii Consentes or the...
    4 KB (334 words) - 12:47, 23 June 2024
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    The Portico Library, The Portico or Portico Library and Gallery on Mosley Street in Manchester, England, is an independent subscription library designed...
    13 KB (899 words) - 07:08, 23 September 2024
  • K. Polk East Portico, U.S. Capitol Roger B. Taney Chief Justice March 5, 1849 (Monday) Public Inauguration of Zachary Taylor East Portico, U.S. Capitol...
    53 KB (3,786 words) - 19:58, 15 September 2024
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    ceremonies had taken place on a platform over the steps at the Capitol's east portico. They have also been held inside the Old Senate Chamber, the chamber of...
    84 KB (6,458 words) - 08:02, 25 August 2024
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    completed around 1866 just after the American Civil War. The east front portico was extended in 1958. The building's Visitors Center was opened in the...
    95 KB (9,860 words) - 09:17, 29 September 2024
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    forum, an agora on three levels connected by stairways and dominated by a portico characterized by a colonnade. The complex process of national unity and...
    64 KB (7,071 words) - 15:05, 11 September 2024
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    A portico at the White House in Washington, D.C. is often confused with a porte-cochère, where a raised vehicle ramp gives an architectural portico the...
    5 KB (467 words) - 10:27, 21 August 2024
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    performed outside of the cella where the sacrificial altar was located, on the portico, with a crowd gathered in the temple precinct. The most common architectural...
    35 KB (4,542 words) - 16:21, 2 August 2024
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    was common and lawful, and the restaurant extended over the 42nd Street portico, which had been built on the sidewalk without authorization. This was common...
    20 KB (1,986 words) - 01:52, 29 September 2023
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    Porticus Aemilia (category Porticos of ancient Rome)
    Porticus Aemilia (Latin for the "Aemilian Portico") was a portico in ancient Rome. It was one of the largest commercial structures of its time and functioned...
    8 KB (623 words) - 09:46, 14 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Portico
    Lady Help of Christians Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in the Portico area of Prescot, Merseyside. It was founded in 1790 by the Society of Jesus...
    5 KB (348 words) - 16:56, 3 February 2023
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    in Europe. The Portico of Glory ("Pórtico da Gloria" in Galician) of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is a Romanesque portico by Master Mateo...
    49 KB (5,373 words) - 02:04, 19 August 2024
  • Portico di Caserta is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania, located about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of...
    2 KB (67 words) - 21:18, 10 August 2021
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    outwards on one of the non-gabled sides, above the main entrance, to form a portico (see photo). This is the feature which gives it its name. It is the most...
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