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stoa
stoa , in ancient Greek architecture, an extended, roofed colonnade on a street or square. Early examples consisted of a simple open-fronted shed or porch with a roof sloping from the back wall to the row of columns along the front. Later stoas were often immense, running to two stories, each with a... Read more |
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storey
storey, story. Volume between the floors of a building or between its floor and roof. Storeys are defined as basement (wholly or partly underground), ground (in the USA first and in France rez-de-chaussée), first (or piano nobile if containing the principal rooms), second, third, etc., then... Read more |
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triforium
triforium , in church architecture, an arcaded gallery above the arches of the nave. In the interiors of medieval churches each bay of the nave wall customarily had three divisions in its height—arcade, triforium, and clerestory. The triforium was thus located beneath the clerestory windows... Read more |
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dormer
dormer. Projecting framed structure set vertically on the rafters of a pitched roof, with its own roof (pitched or flat), sides (dormer cheeks), and a window set vertically in the front. It will often have a small gable or pediment (dormer-head) over the window if the roof is pitched at right... Read more |
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pagoda
pagoda , name given in the East to a variety of buildings of tower form that are usually part of a temple or monastery group and serve as shrines. Those of India (see stupa ) are chiefly pyramidal structures of masonry, tapering to an apex and elaborately adorned with carving and sculpture. In... Read more |
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, play by Tennessee Williams, produced and published in 1955 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize.On his sixty‐fifth birthday, Big Daddy Pollitt, vulgar, fat, ruthless, and the richest cotton planter of the Mississippi Delta, is surrounded by his family: Brick, his favorite son,... Read more |
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Mansard
mansard roof , type of roof, so named because it was frequently used by the French architect François Mansart . It was not devised by him but was used early in the 16th cent., as in portions of the palace of the Louvre designed by Pierre Lescot. It became particularly characteristic of... Read more |
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mansard roof
mansard roof , type of roof, so named because it was frequently used by the French architect François Mansart . It was not devised by him but was used early in the 16th cent., as in portions of the palace of the Louvre designed by Pierre Lescot. It became particularly characteristic of... Read more |
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Hal Prince
Hal Prince (Harold Smith Prince), 1928-, American theatrical producer and director, b. New York City. After working as an assistant stage manager, Prince became at 26 the coproducer of Pajama Game, a major Broadway musical of 1954. He followed this with many more successful productions, including... Read more |
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Chicago Fire
CHICAGO FIRE CHICAGO FIRE. Modern Chicago, Illinois, began its growth in 1833. By 1871 it had a population of 300,000. Across the broad plain that skirts the Chicago River's mouth, buildings by the thousand extended, constructed with no thought of resistance to fire. Even the sidewalks were of... Read more |
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Whats On
...0000 Headline: Whats On Byline: Amanda...Events Jerusalem Stories about Fire In conjunction...Aviv Fiddler on the Roof - Hear the classic musical in the story's original language...Toren. It tells the story of Aston, a man...Literary Adult ... |
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Whats on
...Post 11-24-2003 Headline: Whats onByline: Written and compiled...perfume shop in the 1930s, the story revolves around two antagonist...Sheldon Harnick of Fiddler on the Roof renown. At 8 p.m., Beit...age. Topics of her song and story show include growing up ... |
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COLUMN: Whats better than an Explorer? An Urban Explorer!
...getting ready to lunge at me. We eventually made it to the roof of the three-story building and took some pictures of the Columbia skyline. It...prestigious urban explorer. Just call me Sir Phil de Watson. * Any stories involving illegal activities in this column are ... |
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[ Whats Hot! ] Places we should've lived
...WE'VE HAD A FEW: Surely we've told you by now the sad story of how we never ended up in a sprawling castle high up in Belmont...The Bartlow-Poppler House, a 1930 Moorish home with a domed roof and a garden collection of architectural carvings. The Molina... |
 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Elk Grove plans village hall debut.(News)
...able to tour the two-story building with a lower level, which also has whats called a living roof. The village has put in...less water runoff from the roof into the storm sewer system...being rebuilt as a two-story facility attached to the... |
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Raising the roof It's been a long road to opening the Coliseum
...Coliseum opens in Bloomington, and The Pantagraph has a series of stories each day this week on the new downtown facility. Sunday: From...Coliseums impact on similar Central Illinois venues. Thursday: Whats it take to convert the field from football to ice show to concert... |
 "The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)")
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Nowhere to go -- Insurance lapsed before storm destroyed roof
...Benefit Fund account is at Suntrust Bank. On the Web To see video of the Marshalls, click on the link with this story at commercialappeal.com or go directly to http:// www.commercialappeal.com/videos/detail/whats-left-behind/ |
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Soldier tells story of patriotism, dedication
...University. Williams said his time in Iraq helped him realize whats important in life and how to take advantage of every day. He...on Christ," he said. "It was a good feeling to sit on the roof in the hot Iraqi nights and talk to Him." In addition to his... |
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New club, but the same old story for warhorse Lennon; Bark in business:...
Byline: BRIAN SCOTT KILMARNOCK 1 NOTTINGHAM FOREST 3 SO, whats new with Neil Lennon? Not a lot, other than that hes moved...dusting himself down, the same visiting player drove intothe roof of the net. Lennon proceeded to fall foul of referee Chris... |
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Farmhouse transformed into unique reflection of its owner
...and piecing more than 500 pieces of sandpaper for the roof shingles alone. "People come in - they cant believe whats on the ceiling," she said. Ron works as a rolloff...stepping into a Stephen King novel. But that is another story ... |
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