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  • Thumbnail for The Rider's Halting Place
    The Rider's Halting Place is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Philips Wouwerman, active between 1639 and his death in 1668. He was a prolific...
    2 KB (75 words) - 00:30, 7 March 2024
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    halting site (or a halting bay site) is purpose-built residential accommodation for Travellers provided by a local municipal authority. The halting site...
    50 KB (4,763 words) - 07:54, 7 July 2024
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    Chadia Parab, is reached, 480 feet, above the plain; and the second halting-place at Dholi-deri, 1000 feet above the plain. From here the ascent becomes...
    25 KB (2,774 words) - 08:45, 20 November 2024
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    Ayodhya (category Populated places along the Silk Road)
    between the two cities, and the Sutta Nipata mentions Saketa as the first halting place on the southward road from Shravasti to Pratishthana. Fourth century...
    76 KB (7,510 words) - 02:18, 7 November 2024
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    reach the Guggi Glacier, which could be ascended to a plateau. This halting place was reached in about three hours. Above the bergschrund was a second...
    17 KB (1,750 words) - 19:20, 3 November 2024
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    platforms, though it may still be distinguished from a halt, a stopping or halting place that may not even have platforms. Many stations, either larger or smaller...
    47 KB (4,980 words) - 12:29, 21 November 2024
  • Tre Taverne (category Populated places established in the 3rd century BC)
    28:15). The "Tres Tabernae was the first mansio or mutatio, that is, halting-place for relays, from Rome, or the last on the way to the city. At this point...
    4 KB (564 words) - 13:54, 24 October 2024
  • 'the first halting-place for caravans on the northern road from Jerusalem' (Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Sinai and Palestine, p. 210); or a place called by...
    99 KB (12,253 words) - 08:19, 11 November 2024
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    altitude of 10,000 ft. Only 4 km from here is Bhujbasa, the only night halting place on the way with buildings. One can stay at the GMVN Bungalow, or at...
    6 KB (699 words) - 00:20, 4 June 2024
  • Halting State is a novel by Charles Stross, published in the United States on 2 October 2007 and in the United Kingdom in January 2008. Stross has said...
    7 KB (740 words) - 11:21, 27 March 2024
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    Church in Hockeln Church in Hockeln St. John's Church in Wesseln Railway halting place in Wesseln Bad Salzdetfurth is twinned with: Benicàssim, Spain Bochnia...
    7 KB (688 words) - 17:57, 18 February 2022
  • camped at Sabo Ki Talwandi. This acted as a damdamā, or halting place (lit. "breathing place"), and is now the site of Takht Sri Damdamā Sahib. That year...
    24 KB (2,059 words) - 06:06, 8 October 2024
  • Way). The Appii Forum and the "Three Taverns" are mentioned also as a halting place in the account of Paul's journey to Rome (Acts xxviii. 15). Under Nerva...
    2 KB (296 words) - 10:35, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alberico Gentili
    German university towns of Tübingen and Heidelberg. At their first halting place, Ljubljana, Matteo, doubtless through the influence of his brother-in-law...
    17 KB (1,902 words) - 07:20, 9 November 2024
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    the Oddera community engaged in construction activity used this place as a halting place for greasing their cartwheels with oil, before crossing the Tungabhadra...
    34 KB (2,359 words) - 02:39, 13 November 2024
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    line of march along the coast, and in this manner they reached their halting-place." Baha al-Din also described the difference in power between the Crusader...
    33 KB (4,417 words) - 05:00, 20 November 2024
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    the year six hundred and two, Happened on the road to Ghazni at the halting-place of Damyak. — Tabakāt-i-Nāsirī, 1260 CE. According to some sketchy accounts...
    72 KB (9,227 words) - 09:55, 17 November 2024
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    summoned to God's mercy at the five times [of prayer]! May it be a halting place for worshippers and ascetics! She built a school, fountain, bath and...
    116 KB (15,966 words) - 21:28, 21 November 2024
  • region to the north and the Pangong region to the south. It was a key halting place on the trade route between Turkestan and Tibet. It was also a site of...
    33 KB (3,464 words) - 21:54, 20 April 2024
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    to Windsor or Maidenhead by way of Slough, and had been a convenient halting-place for travellers before the introduction of railways. Local bus services...
    13 KB (1,431 words) - 17:12, 27 September 2024
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