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Interior slope: the back of the rampart on the inside of the fortification; sometimes retained with a masonry wall but usually a grassy slope. Parapet (or breastwork) which protected and concealed the defending soldiers. Banquette: a continuous step built onto the interior of the parapet, enabling the defenders to shoot over the top with small ...
Castell Coch ( Welsh for 'red castle'; Welsh pronunciation: [ˈkas.tɛɬ koːχ]) is a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle built above the village of Tongwynlais in South Wales. The first castle on the site was built by the Normans after 1081 to protect the newly conquered town of Cardiff and control the route along the Taff Gorge.
The opening scene "Kilroy was here" graffiti at Bikini Atoll, atomic bomb test film in 1946. Kilroy was here is a meme [ 1] that became popular during World War II, typically seen in graffiti. Its origin is debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle became associated with GIs in the 1940s: a bald-headed man (sometimes ...
Eilean Donan ( Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Donnain) is a small tidal island situated at the confluence of three sea lochs ( Loch Duich, Loch Long and Loch Alsh) in the western Highlands of Scotland, about 1 kilometre ( 5⁄8 mi) from the village of Dornie. It is connected to the mainland by a footbridge that was installed early in the 20th century ...
Lincoln Castle is bounded by a stone curtain wall, with ditches on all sides except the south. From an early stage, the outer walls which enclose the site were built in stone and they date from before 1115. On the south side the walls are interrupted by two earthen mounds called mottes. One is in the south-east corner, and was probably an ...
August 1, 2024 at 12:01 PM. Vadim Krasikov, the Russian at the center of Thursday's mass prisoner swap, has long topped the Kremlin's list for an exchange. President Vladimir Putin hinted earlier ...
Cape Coast Castle. / 5.10361°N 1.24111°W / 5.10361; -1.24111. Cape Coast Castle ( Swedish: Carolusborg) is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of West Africa (now Ghana) by European traders. It was originally a Portuguese "feitoria" or trading post, established in 1555, which was ...
Cyclopean masonry. Cyclopean masonry is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and with clay mortar or [1] no use of mortar. The boulders typically seem unworked, but some may have been worked roughly with a hammer and the ...