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  • Thumbnail for Horvat Sumaqa
    Horvat Sumaqa (category Articles with short description)
    site incorporates several dozen long, notched stone pillars serving an unknown purpose; pillars of this type have not been discovered elsewhere in Israel...
    10 KB (1,124 words) - 12:03, 4 June 2024
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    north to south: the Master Pillar, the Journeyman Pillar and, most famously, the Apprentice Pillar. These names for the pillars date from the late Georgian...
    35 KB (4,446 words) - 12:22, 10 June 2024
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    Piazza San Marco (category Articles with short description)
    1990s, when capitals were found, which matched the pillars. Beyond these pillars, opposite the corner of the Basilica, is a great circular stone of red...
    44 KB (6,315 words) - 13:34, 18 May 2024
  • The Pillars of the Earth is an eight-part 2010 television miniseries, adapted from Ken Follett's 1989 novel of the same name. It debuted in the U.S. on...
    30 KB (2,115 words) - 23:48, 28 March 2024
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    frame-work of buildings of iron pillars and beams was not new, but no one in New York was daring enough to experiment with it until Peter Gilsey determined...
    6 KB (736 words) - 17:21, 8 January 2024
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    Sun Temple, Modhera (category Religious buildings and structures completed in 1026)
    capital similar to small pillars crowned with makara brackets if eight stilted pillar and dwarfs in the rests. the eight stilted pillars have one more shaft...
    28 KB (3,009 words) - 11:59, 10 June 2024
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    side. The centre of the building is constructed from a grid of concrete pillars, 14 m (46 ft) apart, supporting cantilevered concrete slab floors. The...
    4 KB (417 words) - 13:41, 21 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Presidential Office Building, Taipei
    features a grand marble staircase and porch lined with Ionic and Corinthian pillars. The two-part main building, six stories high, mainly houses government...
    16 KB (1,479 words) - 07:19, 14 April 2024
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    Hawa Mahal (category Articles with short description)
    The inner face on the back side of the building consists of chambers built with pillars and corridors with minimal ornamentation, and reach up to the...
    11 KB (1,074 words) - 10:08, 10 June 2024
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    Lak Mueang (redirect from City Pillars)
    ISBN 978-974-480-103-6. "The power of city pillars(http://www.chiangmai1.com/news/city-pillars.shtml)". "Lak Muang Bangkok's City Pillar(http://www.thailandsworld.com/...
    10 KB (1,174 words) - 14:54, 26 May 2024
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    Blue Mosque, Istanbul (category Religious buildings and structures completed in 1616)
    dome is supported by four massive cylindrical pillars. The transition between the central dome and the pillars is achieved by four long, smooth pendentives...
    40 KB (4,506 words) - 20:51, 4 May 2024
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    rose from the basement into the tower. Four pillars were placed at each corner of the tower and six more pillars were placed in the elevator shafts. Each...
    107 KB (10,924 words) - 20:46, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra
    Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra (category Infobox religious building with unknown affiliation)
    The actual mosque building on the western side has 10 domes and 124 pillars; there are 92 pillars on the eastern side; and 64 pillars on each of the remaining...
    23 KB (2,673 words) - 06:08, 19 May 2024
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    Sanchi (category 3rd-century BC religious buildings and structures)
    sanctum with a portico and four pillars. The interior and three sides of the exterior are plain and undecorated but the front and the pillars are elegantly...
    172 KB (10,208 words) - 11:24, 9 June 2024
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    Diwan-i-Khas (Red Fort) (category Articles with short description)
    the gilded pattern on one of the pillars fronting the hall. In the riverbed below the hall and the connected buildings was the space known as zer-jharokha...
    5 KB (590 words) - 02:21, 17 October 2023
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    pillared Roman portico from Thessalonica known as Las Incantadas, which was also made up of tall columns, an architrave above them and pillars with reliefs...
    10 KB (1,152 words) - 21:13, 17 April 2024
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    that time. Religious activity associated with the pillar was revived in the 1990s and the monastery building had been restored within the framework of...
    11 KB (1,064 words) - 14:35, 25 March 2023
  • Belvedere (M. C. Escher) (category Articles with short description)
    viewer's perspective, all the pillars on the middle floor are the same size at both the front and back, but the pillars at the back are set higher. The...
    3 KB (409 words) - 21:18, 24 November 2021
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    Las Incantadas (category Demolished buildings and structures in Greece)
    congregating. So the slab that was over the pillars with the reliefs was removed first, and then the pillars themselves. One of them, that of the goddess...
    54 KB (6,170 words) - 15:39, 13 May 2024
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    Chennakeshava Temple, Belur (category Religious buildings and structures destroyed in the Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent)
    temple. The pillars are of three sizes. Two pillars are particularly notable. One is the so-called Narasimha pillar which is carved with miniature figures...
    45 KB (5,232 words) - 05:28, 15 May 2024
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