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1pile — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a heap of things laid or gathered upon one another (a pile of leaves). 2 a a large imposing building (a stately pile). b a large group of tall buildings. 3 colloq. a a large quantity. b a large amount of money; a fortune (made his …
2Place des Vosges — Paris streetbox arr num=3e, 4e streetname=Place des VOSGES x=140 y=82 paris arr1=IIIe arr2=IVe quarter=Archives . Arsenal . begins=rue de Birague, 11 bis ends=rue de Béarn, 1 length=140 m width=140 m creation=July 1605. denomination= area caption …
3Screw-pile lighthouse — Screw pile lighthouses stand on piles that are screwed into sandy or muddy sea or river bottoms. The first screw pile lighthouse was built by blind Irish engineer Alexander Mitchell. It was constructed in 1838 at the mouth of the Thames and was… …
4Charvet Place Vendôme — Type Privately held company Industry fashion Founded Paris, France 1838 (1838) …
5Noah Ogle Place — Bud Ogle Farm U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district …
6Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …
7Colorado (game) — Colorado is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. It is a game of card building which belongs to the same family as Strategy, Sir Tommy, Calculation and Sly Fox. First, twenty cards are dealt in any arrangement… …
8Indonesian architecture — reflects the diversity of cultural, historical and geographic influences that have shaped Indonesia as a whole. Invaders, colonisers, missionaries, merchants and traders brought cultural changes that had a profound effect on building styles and… …
9George Chorpenning — George W. Chorpenning Jr. (whose last name sometimes appears as Chorpening ) was a pioneer in the transportation of mail, freight, and passengers through the arid and undeveloped western regions of the United States. His efforts in the 1850s were …
10Caisson (engineering) — In geotechnical engineering, a caisson is a retaining, watertight structure used, for example, to work on the foundations of a bridge pier, for the construction of a concrete dam, or for the repair of ships. These are constructed such that the… …
