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or rivers (levees) The term wall comes from the Latin vallum meaning "an earthen wall or rampart set with palisades, a row or line of stakes, a wall, a...

from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west of what is now northern England, it was a stone wall with large ditches in...

The Great Wall of China (traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng, literally "ten thousand li long wall") is a series...

Wall Gap (長城口), so named because the southern Yan wall of the Warring States period crossed the Juma River here into Liao territory. The Great Wall Gap...

natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers. While the Ming walls are generally referred to as "Great Wall" (changcheng) in modern times, in Ming times...

semi-circular towers were added to the city walls to provide platforms for ballistae and the present state of the river wall suggests hurried repair work around...

between Broadway in the west and South Street and the East River in the east. The term "Wall Street" has become a metonym for the financial markets of...

The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, pronounced [bɛʁˌliːnɐ ˈmaʊɐ] ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic...

stream to get more riverfront property. Today, over 200 miles of walls line the river's banks from Teddington down to its mouth in the North Sea; they defend...

wall is intended to protect, elements of the terrain such as rivers or coastlines may be incorporated in order to make the wall more effective. Walls...

earnest after the draining of Wapping marsh, and the consolidation of the river wall in the late 16th century. Many of the original buildings were demolished...

in the River Humber; [...] )". The London Gazette (27736): 7493–97. 18 November 1904. A river wall or quay [...] on the foreshore of the River Humber...

the River Thames took place between the late 1st and mid-3rd centuries, highlighting that between these periods no wall stood against the river. After...

The Aurelian Walls (Italian: Mura aureliane) are a line of city walls built between 271 AD and 275 AD in Rome, Italy, during the reign of the Roman Emperor...

point where the old Roman walls and River Fleet met the River Thames, just east of what is now Blackfriars Station. The north wall of the castle used as its...

The River Wandle is a right-bank tributary of the River Thames in south London, England. With a total length of about 9 miles (14 km), the river passes...

the medieval river wall. The wall was built to reclaim riverside marshland and to protect it from the tides. Houses were built, on the wall itself at first...

Look up wall of sound in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Wall of Sound (also called the Spector Sound) is a music production formula developed by...

hit Devon in 35 years. The Exe river wall was damaged at Turf and Powderham. On the coastal section the dividing wall between the footway and railway...

2017. "Colter Wall performing Sunday at former Grand Ole Opry". May 4, 2016. Newman, Melinda (February 12, 2016). "Lana Del Rey, Rivers Cuomo, Josh Groban...