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- capital of Constantinople with a 30-meter (100-foot) pillar, built of seven stacked porphyry drums. This pillar still stands. A triumphant last use were ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- today and people could reach the area on foot. Toward the end of the last ... among inhabitants of Cape Town, had set foot on the island. It is not generally ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 21:08, 16 April 2023
- to the Sacred Valley. The “Inca Trail” foot track is promoted as the best ... such as the "Chaquitaclla" (foot plough). Cusco's main ...22 KB (3,238 words) - 06:49, 12 January 2024
- Great chose the area on a terrace at the foot of mountains to build a city ... south-east corner of the Terrace, at the foot of the mountain. ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- produces aerial stem tubers on 12 to 25 foot tall vines; the tubers fall to the ground and grow. Plectranthus esculentus of the mint family ...10 KB (1,640 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
- his home town. His sarcophagus was discovered at the foot of the tower in 1820. The tower first acquired a lean after the third floor was built ...8 KB (1,257 words) - 18:48, 25 October 2022
- pursuing education at home, he resolved to go by foot to Moscow. An opportunity occurred when he was seventeen, and through the intervention of ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- up the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula. A 984-foot (300-meter) causeway links ... harbor, which can berth vessels of 36-foot (11-meter) draft. Gbessia ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
- A 200 foot (90 m) TV tower that can be viewed from afar stands as the city's main landmark. ==City institutions== A center of Buddhist ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 04:26, 18 April 2024
- quot;) — also known as Podarge ("fleet-foot") — and Ocypete ("the swift wing"). [[Image:508px-Phineus Boreads Louvre G364 ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 22:03, 14 December 2022
- an annual 30-day gathering that including foot races, and stone throwing ... only event held was the stadium-length 600 foot race or "stade." ...24 KB (3,812 words) - 04:52, 1 May 2023
- His design called for a 600-foot (183 meter-) tall obelisk—an upright ... up to the monument, though approaching on foot or on bicycle should be unimpeded ...23 KB (3,484 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- by long neck and legs, and two toes on each foot, with the nail of the larger ... The bird has just two toes on each foot (most birds have four), with ...28 KB (4,283 words) - 10:51, 11 March 2023
- the upper strata of what is now the 400-foot (122 m) Chacra Mesa, it cut ... or support structures; it once had a 39-foot (12 m) passageway leading ...30 KB (4,488 words) - 00:10, 4 December 2023
- of his youth, in which he propped one foot onto a table, then swung the ... spent $300,000 to build a 10,000-square-foot home in Beverly Hills. Later ...28 KB (4,366 words) - 18:53, 22 November 2023
- :They shall have stars at elbow and foot; :Though they go mad they shall be sane, :Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; ...9 KB (1,416 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- 200 and 18,000 ft). They generally lie between the foot of a continental rise and a mid-oceanic ridge. * Continental margin: The continental shelf ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- Man and the Sea, was storied to have caught an 18-foot marlin in order to sell its meat at market. ==Overview and description== The Istiophoridae ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 16:04, 6 November 2022
- amounts of locally mined mica, in layers up to one-foot thick. Garrett G. Fagan, ed., Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents ...9 KB (1,317 words) - 16:34, 9 November 2022
- Monument to Benedict Arnold's injured foot at Saratoga National Historical ... the conflict, when he was wounded in the foot. Arnold was to later switch ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 10:21, 22 September 2023
