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    A spandrel is a roughly triangular space, usually found in pairs, between the top of an arch and a rectangular frame, between the tops of two adjacent...
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    In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic trait that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product...
    17 KB (2,093 words) - 13:42, 4 September 2024
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    first wholly stone open-spandrel segmental arch bridge, allowing a greater passage for flood waters. Bridges with perforated spandrels can be found worldwide...
    27 KB (2,985 words) - 02:18, 10 November 2024
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    (Russian: 9М113 «Конкурс»; English: "Contest"; NATO reporting name AT-5 Spandrel) is a Soviet SACLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile. A development of the...
    27 KB (1,905 words) - 09:40, 19 November 2024
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    clasps a round loaf in her hand. Jesse spandrel, before restoration Jesse spandrel, after restoration. In this spandrel, a young woman who may represent the...
    10 KB (981 words) - 20:18, 9 October 2024
  • "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme", also known as the "Spandrels paper", is a paper...
    17 KB (1,876 words) - 21:20, 29 September 2024
  • named Zhaozhou, in Hebei, China Zhaozhou Bridge (赵州桥), world's oldest open-spandrel fully stone segmental arch bridge, in Zhao County Zhaozhou, Hebei (赵州镇)...
    634 bytes (115 words) - 14:12, 11 April 2024
  • The Deadly Assassin is the third serial of the 14th season of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in...
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    the process was complete and the corner spandrels of the chapel had been converted into the doubled-spandrel triangular pendentives of the finished design...
    115 KB (13,636 words) - 13:46, 26 October 2024
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    pinyin: Ānjì Qiáo; lit. 'Safe crossing bridge') is the world's oldest open-spandrel segmental arch bridge of stone construction. Credited to the design of...
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    1979 paper entitled, "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm", which introduced the architectural term "spandrel" into evolutionary biology...
    101 KB (10,577 words) - 15:52, 7 November 2024
  • (3M11 Falanga) AT-3 Sagger (9M14 Malyutka) AT-4 Spigot (9M111 Fagot) AT-5 Spandrel (9M113 Konkurs) AT-6 Spiral (9M114 Shturm) AT-7 Saxhorn (9M115 Metis) AT-8...
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    louvers, and photovoltaic panels. Infills are also referred to as spandrels or spandrel panels. Float glass is by far the most common curtain wall glazing...
    32 KB (4,320 words) - 16:00, 5 September 2024
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    000 reflective glass panels and aluminium and textured stainless steel spandrel panels with vertical tubular fins. The architectural glass provides solar...
    116 KB (9,191 words) - 16:34, 19 November 2024
  • molecular evolution. In 1979, he and Stephen Jay Gould introduced the term "spandrel" into evolutionary theory. From 1973 to 1998, he held an endowed chair...
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    pronunciation: [ˈponte ˈvɛkkjo]; "Old Bridge") is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno, in Florence, Italy. The only bridge...
    14 KB (1,635 words) - 01:46, 23 August 2024
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    4 acres (0.57 ha) site had a value of $3.2 million. In December 2020, Spandrel Development Partners purchased the two parcels totaling 2.8 acre site at...
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    bridge is also historically significant as it is the world's oldest open-spandrel stone segmental arch bridge. European segmental arch bridges date back...
    71 KB (6,949 words) - 14:52, 6 November 2024
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    Catastrophism Lamarckism Orthogenesis Mutationism Saltationism Structuralism Spandrel Theistic Vitalism Teleology in biology Related Biogeography Ecological...
    240 KB (24,900 words) - 23:29, 21 November 2024
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    structure was constructed of prefabricated modular pieces connected by spandrel plates. From the 7th floor to the ground level, and down to the foundation...
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