Immediately, the chief appeared at the palisades, rubbing sleep from his eyes, but still awake enough to raise the alarm. |
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Already in this phase the village was surrounded by two wooden palisades defending the upper and lower slopes. |
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Altogether, though, with the palisades which were 23 feet in length and supported by marble columns at each end, the weight was 40 tons. |
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This distinctive industry may have been tied to new timbering practices, such as posts and palisades at the town and mound centers. |
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Early French St. Louis was a compact settlement, and lots were enclosed with palisades. |
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It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls. |
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The daimyo and their warriors also built numerous stockades, palisades, and barricades of wood. |
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At the south end we have those Maori palisades lining the road but the entrance to the CBD is a line of white crosses. |
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For each section, terram was laid, sandbags placed to hold it in position, and then the lines of historic palisades and piles were sandbagged. |
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It was a fort-looking place, nestled in a valley and surrounded by tall wooden palisades. |
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Most books mark the route's end where Santa Monica Boulevard intersects Ocean Avenue, on the palisades above Santa Monica State Beach. |
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Building banks or palisades of bamboo is one defence, but each year the work has to be repeated. |
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This experience is even more pronounced in the Double Torqued Ellipses, which consist of two curving palisades nested one inside the other. |
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The African village required construction of yellow and black native huts, palisades, sacrificial altars, and jungle backdrop. |
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It is a rousing thing to find yourself crossing the George Washington Bridge, the skyline of Manhattan falling away as the green palisades of New Jersey surge forward. |
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Firewood and the logs used for buildings and palisades were hewn with axes, adzes and wedges. |
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Additional mines were used to destroy the palisades of the covered passage and the supporting walls of the counterscarp or scarp, thus facilitating entry into the fortress. |
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The Foxes' forts were remarkable structures, with double palisades, an earth parapet and a ditch. |
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Without these refuges, colourfully known as the palisades of Vogt, the transplanted stem cells could not survive. |
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In its first form, the fort was a simple field fortification of shallow ditches, earth banks, and timber palisades. |
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Groups of men built houses and palisades, fished, hunted, and engaged in military activities. |
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At Michilimackinac, for example, the Ojibwa warriors were playing lacrosse outside the palisades. |
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The Iroquois and Hurons lived in fortified villages, surrounded by palisades. |
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Carry out historical research and archaeological assessment of bastions and palisades prior to undertaking any further work on the palisade. |
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A steel framework and timbers mark the location of palisades, buildings and bastions. |
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Their corridor was delimited on either side by approximately 2 meter high palisades that must have resembled tall antennas. |
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Wooden palisades enclosed a small group of buildings warmed by smoking fires that eventually inspired the construction of chimneys. |
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More than 14000 metres of palisades woven with palms have been constructed along the wind corridors. |
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It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls, so that Roman missile engines could more effectively engage them. |
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Huts, fences and palisades are often fashioned from saplings and shoots, and basketry is thus commingled with comforting notions of home, security and comfort. |
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Although the British had an advantage in arms, Maori had an advantage in tactics, and their pa of earth and wooden palisades absorbed artillery shells. |
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Such enclosures were walled and did not differ from profane fortifications areas usually of triangular shape at the confluence of two rivers, fortified with earthwork and palisades, especially on the access side. |
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Natural palisades are used in a very versatile way: in the playground equipment industry, they form usually the earthbound pieces, props and posts. |
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These bases were prepared in advance, often by capturing an estate and augmenting its defences with surrounding ditches, ramparts and palisades. |
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Commemorative integrity is not currently being achieved at Fort George, largely due to the advanced deterioration of the palisades and revetments. |
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Telia hypophyllous and on cones, waxy, reddish, linear, confluent, composed of single palisades of sessile teliospores that form just beneath and within the epidermis. |
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A deep trench and a row of strong palisades encircled the whole. |
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The prevalence of warfare in the later phases of Maori history led to the construction of defensive earthworks and palisades around hilltop villages. |
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Where there were few or no natural barriers, the villages utilized some type of fortification, including ditches and palisades. |
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Recreate a Heritage Village, including a rustic 4,000 ft2 Longhouse and performance area, a fully equipped retail and food services building, and a smokehouse, all enclosed in log palisades. |
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A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls made of logs placed side by side vertically with the tops sharpened to provide security. |
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Occasional disputes concerning right of way may have led to sieges during which the attackers would attempt to set fire to the fort, with the defenders throwing tree trunks onto them from the top of the palisades. |
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It was built, in the late 11th or early 12th century of earth with timber palisades for defence and a one or two storey wooden dwelling. |
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Engineering was also institutionally ingrained in the Roman military, who constructed forts, camps, bridges, roads, ramps, palisades, and siege equipment amongst others. |
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The Saxon architect had exhausted his art in rendering the main keep defensible, and there was no other circumvallation than a rude barrier of palisades. |
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The Palisades, large, rocky cliffs along the west bank of the river, begin along the west bank of the river opposite the Bronx. |
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The Palisades Interstate Park Commission protects the Palisades on the west bank of the river. |
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It represents a period of time that is not well understood in the industry,'' Pacific Palisades archeologist John Foster said last week. |
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Also, Palisades Petroleum Corporation is pleased to announce that the partners have chosen Remuda Energy Development, LLC of Billings, Montana to be the drilling contractor. |
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