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Space shuttles for sale. Asking price? Out of this world.(N)
The Virginian Pilot
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December 21, 2008
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By Robert Block
The Orlando Sentinel
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
NASA is telling museums across the country that have expressed interest in obtaining a genuine space shuttle that it's really going to cost them.
How much? A mere $42 million - including $6 million for shipping and handling.
That's NASA's price tag for cleaning up each of the three remaining shuttles - now scheduled to be retired in 2010 - and delivering one to an airport near the museum.
NASA has never charged institutions such as the Smithsonian's National Air ...
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Africa.(author visits Abu Simbel, Egypt)(Brief Article)(Column)
Magazine article from: International Travel News
; ...tremendous statues surrounded us in the Hypostyle Hall. On some of the mural reliefs...paintings of flying vultures. Beyond the Hypostyle Hall is a vestibule divided into three...enter the doorway of the temple, the Hypostyle Hall is divided into three aisles by...
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GIZA BREAK TRAVEL TRAVEL EGYPT IS A LAND OF ADVENTURE - PACKED WITH TEMPLES, TREASURES AND TOMBS
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...stunningly intact including the early Christian graffiti. The hypostyle hall a forest of massive stone pillars has an intact roof...and Notre Dame cathedrals could be lost in it. The Great Hypostyle Hall with its 134 columns is still the largest room of any...
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(pounds) 100m housing project for Oatlands aims to breathe new life into run-down riverside; Parklife plan for Gorbals
Newspaper article from: Evening Times
; ...Scotland Housing Association, Tay Homes, architects CZWG and Hypostyle - has come up with a scheme called The Inhabited Park. It...quieter, cleaner environment. Architect Gerry Henaughen of Hypostyle said: "In that area the Clyde is absolutely beautiful and...
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Hit list
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...differing as those of Gordon Benson of Benson & Forsyth and Hypostyle's John Garrett. Benson is one of the established stars...likes of Frank Gehry, Richard Meier and James Stirling. Hypostyle has built its reputation in the area of urban regeneration...
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Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...represent an architectural type, such as the basilica or the hypostyle hall. These headings rather represent religious and secular...monumental types. For example, early mosques were generally vast hypostyle halls; medieval mosques often employed the iwan plan; while...
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Mosques: Cultural Representatives of Bygone Era.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
; ...In places like Damascus, Kairouan, Cordoba, wherever hypostyle halls had been the style, it was easier to convert these...than create entirely new structures," says the author. A hypostyle hall is a hall or other large space with a roof supported...
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Exploring eye: stumbling upon Delhi's Hauz Khas complex, the AR finds a marriage of medieval architecture and modern consumerism.(Viewpoint essay)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review
; ...formed of residential areas for scholars or perhaps ablution spaces. I saw small groups of trendy student types sitting in the hypostyle sections of the building, talking quietly and enjoying the cool shade and views out over the tank, now occupied by parkland...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Pyramid selling; Children and ancient culture really can mix in Egypt - with the right guides.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ...There was amazement, too, at the sheer scale of things: the vast facade of Queen Hatshepsut's temple at Luxor; the main hypostyle hall at Karnak with its 134 columns, each 22 metres high and, of course, the Pyramids at Giza. "I had no idea they would...
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 "Mosaic (Winnipeg)")
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Gaudi's architecture: a poetic form.(Antoni Gaudi)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
; ...between 1900 and 1914). Through two iron gates we enter into a magical garden where a grand stairway leads us to a large hypostyle hall. This hall supports a large upper plaza delimited by a continuous balustrade bench that twists in a serpentine manner...
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The times they are a-changin' as Glasgow's women overtake men
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...there are a lot at an age where they are beginning to get to the top of the tree in their career." Outside her work with Hypostyle Architects, where she is an associate director, Miss Meneely says the city is also much more "woman-friendly". "It...
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