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accommodate an ancient spiral staircase leading up to the platform on top. The earliest triumphal column was Trajan's Column which, dedicated in 113...

of the Roman Forum. Completed in AD 113, the freestanding column is most famous for its spiral bas relief, which depicts the wars between the Romans and...

two spiral stairs between the pronaos and the cella are the oldest known to date (c. 480 BC). Column of Marcus Aurelius. An almost 30 m high spiral staircase...

Mathematical Games column in Scientific American a short time later. It is constructed by writing the positive integers in a square spiral and specially marking...

that end of the column. Spiral columns are cylindrical columns with a continuous helical bar wrapping around the column. The spiral acts to provide support...

The Solomonic column, also called barley-sugar column, is a helical column, characterized by a spiraling twisting shaft like a corkscrew. It is not associated...

Solomonic column, sometimes called "barley sugar", begins on a base and ends in a capital, which may be of any order, but the shaft twists in a tight spiral, producing...

Constantinople built in the early 5th century AD. The marble column was historiated with a spiralling frieze of reliefs on its shaft and supported a colossal...

(12 ha) city park called Astor Park. The 125-foot (38 m)-tall column has a 164-step spiral staircase ascending to an exterior observation deck at the top...

The Archimedean spiral (also known as Archimedes' spiral, the arithmetic spiral) is a spiral named after the 3rd-century BC Greek mathematician Archimedes...

disagreement over whether to classify them as true tornadoes. These spiraling columns of air frequently develop in tropical areas close to the equator and...

younger Population I stars. A spiral galaxy maintains its spiral arms due to density wave theory. Below is a list of notable spiral galaxies with their own...

It is a Doric column featuring a spiral relief: it was built in honour of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and modeled on Trajan's Column. The Imperial Monument...

damage to the sharp edges of the flutes along the bottom part of the column. Spiral fluting is a rather rare style in Roman architecture, and even rarer...

a street circle, the column is also accessible to pedestrians through four tunnels, according to plans by Albert Speer. A spiral staircase leads to a...

exercising person. Sea smoke has a turbulent appearance and may form spiraling columns. It is usually not very high and lookouts on ships can usually see...

long or [18-column]...table. In 1954, Tomkeieff referred to the three principle types of periodic table as helical, rectilinear, and spiral. He added that...

The Downward Spiral is the second studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on March 8, 1994, by Nothing Records in the...

longest spiral stair belonged to the 2nd century AD Trajan's Column in Rome. Measuring a height of 29.68 m, it surpassed its successor, the Column of Marcus...

individually distinguished by the naked eye. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a D25 isophotal diameter estimated at 26.8 ± 1.1 kiloparsecs...