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- was depicted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo.]] The accounts in Kings and Chronicles declare Hezekiah to be one of the best of Judah ...20 KB (3,364 words) - 02:59, 8 March 2024
- female hangs these eggs in strings from the ceiling of her lair, or individually attaches them to the substratum depending on the species. The female ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 10:16, 11 March 2023
- Image:Bauhaus-Dessau Festsaal Bühnenbeleuchtung.jpg|Ceiling with light fixtures for stage. Image:Bauhaus-Dessau Wohnheim Balkone.jpg|Studio wing. ...21 KB (3,071 words) - 03:07, 26 September 2023
- 140|ft, with a skylight set into a 72-foot-high ceiling. The main façade of the building features marble sculpture by John Quincy Adams Ward in the ...22 KB (3,309 words) - 21:49, 14 November 2022
- detail, such as the spreading bloodstain on the ceiling at the end of Tess or little Jude's suicide note in Jude The Obscure; he kept clippings ...20 KB (3,171 words) - 21:15, 30 April 2023
- riders can see the moving cab through its glass ceiling as it rises and lowers through the shaft. Music plays and various animations are also displayed ...49 KB (7,939 words) - 16:09, 13 February 2024
- from occupants and deposits falling from the ceiling slowly raised the floor. The floor ultimately was raised an additional seven to eight feet (2 ...23 KB (3,387 words) - 23:06, 21 October 2023
- user was so heavy it had to be suspended from the ceiling, and the graphics comprising the virtual environment were simple wireframe model rooms. The ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- with 1,200 coal bags suspended from the ceiling over a coal brazier with ... Hundred Coal Bags Suspended from the Ceiling over a Stove"] Retrieved ...46 KB (6,796 words) - 23:55, 26 February 2023
- that you need to turn your hips towards the ceiling temporarily. By stepping one leg over the other and putting your foot to the mat, you are executing ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- a small room within the temple with its own low ceiling. Walter Miller has argued that the stone block 3.5-4 feet, that Courby described as being ...24 KB (3,809 words) - 21:08, 14 April 2023
- Socrates with Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling and Raphael's Stanze, and one, after ten visits to the Salon, described it as "in every ...24 KB (3,977 words) - 08:23, 18 March 2024
- Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet Detail from a ceiling fresco; Chehel Sotoun Palace; Isfahan]] The greatest of the Safavid monarchs, Shah Abbas ...23 KB (3,547 words) - 18:36, 22 December 2022
- (February–September 1519) was the ceiling decoration of a private chamber of the mother-superior (abbess Giovanna Piacenza) of the convent ...26 KB (3,834 words) - 19:48, 9 April 2024
- it and this monster of a heavy bag went up to the ceiling, Thump!!! And came back down. I still can't believe the power that guy had." ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 16:58, 29 April 2020
- against the Maximum Price Act, a price ceiling on grain, on the grounds it would cause hoarding and stir resentment. On May 20, 1793, the moderate ...26 KB (3,903 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- with standing screen, sliding door, wall, and ceiling paintings made by Kano Eitoku. During this time, Oda's tea master Sen no Rikyu established ...25 KB (4,007 words) - 23:52, 17 November 2022
- Chechen house has no windows – a square floor-to-ceiling opening was closed for the night with a shutter. A fire constantly burning in an earthen fireplace ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- was also commissioned to paint an allegorical ceiling for the King's bedchamber at Whitehall Palace, Now in Nottingham Castle Museum ...28 KB (4,229 words) - 02:57, 2 May 2024
- space in which powerful winches come down from the ceiling to move the giant fossil bones about. Upstairs in the museum attic there are yet more storage ...26 KB (3,976 words) - 06:38, 25 July 2023
- Ghraib prison: prisoners suspended from the ceiling and beaten to death; widespread "waterboarding"; prisoners "disappeared" to ...30 KB (4,487 words) - 00:59, 9 January 2023
- George's Hall, a vast room which has a ceiling decorated with the coats of arms of past and present members of the Order of the Garter ...30 KB (4,758 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- use; however, by projecting 10,000 stars on the ceiling, it is classified as semi-professional. [http://www.kilian-nakamura.com/blog-english/ ...27 KB (4,171 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- 400px|Fred Astaire dancing on the walls and ceiling]] Astaire is credited with two important innovations in early film musicals. First, his insistence ...26 KB (3,902 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- its operations. Thus, there is a “ceiling” rate, setting the maximum ... As part of that agreement, the regular budget ceiling was reduced ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- foreign patrons still occupied him, such as the ceiling paintings for the Banqueting House at Inigo Jones's Palace of Whitehall, but he also explored ...28 KB (4,301 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- Monsieur became a Parisian showcase, with floor to ceiling mirrors, zebra skin upholstery, full of antiques, and decorated in exquisite, or exotic, taste ...27 KB (4,506 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- one of the Hindu god Vishnu on the ceiling. The opulent Amba Vilas hall, has a carved teakwood ceiling, white marble floors, semi-precious inlay ...57 KB (8,382 words) - 23:21, 21 October 2023
- based on the research he'd done in Brazil, and Ceiling Unlimited, sponsored by Lockheed/Vega and which was a wartime salute to advances in aviation ...56 KB (8,968 words) - 02:19, 18 November 2022
- 027.jpg|thumb|Michelangelo's Jeremiah on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel]] Like all true biblical prophets, Jeremiah strongly condemned ...32 KB (5,493 words) - 08:37, 31 July 2022
- window, and crawling up the walls and over the ceiling. Financial hardship befalls the family, and the sister's caretaking deteriorates. Devoid ...29 KB (4,338 words) - 09:35, 11 April 2024
- Athens, and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling are the textbook examples of this period. ===Architecture=== [[Image:Petersdom von Engelsburg ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- animals skins. Food was hung to dry from the ceiling. The larger houses included partitions to separate family groups. The wealthy built extraordinarily ...29 KB (4,491 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
- required thick stone walls to support the high ceiling, some temples utilized repeated arches, or a corbeled vault, to construct what the Maya referred ...31 KB (4,849 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- * Putting a ceiling (limit) on one's desires is sadhana (Spiritual discipline). * Celibacy after age of 50. * Everything that has been created ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 15:00, 23 October 2023
- spending has been for Congress to legislate a debt ceiling. This is a temporary restraint in most democracies because the citizens they represent also ...40 KB (6,064 words) - 16:22, 18 June 2023
- the case only theoretically, it sets a natural ceiling on the amount of LVT that can be levied. The exception to this would be when the jurisdiction ...37 KB (5,677 words) - 23:33, 3 July 2023
- glyphs. Inside one of the chambers, near the ceiling, is a painted hand print. ===Old Chichen=== "Old Chichen" is the nickname for a ...32 KB (4,966 words) - 20:59, 9 December 2023
- quot;), which referred to the hall's silver ceiling and golden pillars, radiating light that could be seen from a great distance. ...36 KB (5,860 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- items. The main gallery, with its high arched ceiling, also serves double duty as the annual site of the Met's elaborately decorated Christmas tree. ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- Near his hearth a larder hung from the ceiling; gammons and slices of bacon dried and salted were wanting, but old cheeses, their rounded surface ...37 KB (5,561 words) - 17:22, 24 November 2023
- was depicted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo.]] A prophet (from the Greek word προφήτης, meaning one who "utters forth ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- scone on a piece of string hanging from the ceiling, without using hands. ====Wales==== In Wales, Halloween is known as Nos Calan Gaeaf (the beginning ...37 KB (5,487 words) - 23:07, 3 August 2023
- and rubble, and the upper walls of mudbrick. Ceiling timbers held up the roofs. ===Palaces=== [[Image:Palace of Knossus.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Ruins ...35 KB (5,383 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- like if he was hanging upside down from the ceiling. Clearly their ideas were out-stripping the technology that was available at the time. ...38 KB (5,974 words) - 15:30, 30 April 2023
- herself immune by antidotes, he tampered with the ceiling of her bedroom, contriving a mechanical device for loosening its panels and dropping them upon ...39 KB (6,311 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- Siptah, which is well decorated, especially the ceiling decoration.Davis (2001), 1. ===Twentieth Dynasty=== The first ruler of the dynasty, Setnakhte ...45 KB (7,190 words) - 20:00, 27 April 2020
- *藻井 Caisson domed or coffered ceiling *軒 （轩） xuan (Verandas with windows) *榭 xie (Pavilions or houses on terraces) *屋 wu (Rooms ...41 KB (6,198 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- a room designed in such a way that the walls, ceiling and floor will absorb all sounds made in the room, rather than bouncing them back as echoes. They ...40 KB (6,250 words) - 17:00, 5 April 2024
- stars on its dining room ceiling above the tables favored by its most famous celebrity patrons, and that may have served as an early inspiration ...43 KB (6,309 words) - 19:40, 23 July 2022
- the sanctuary area seen above, along the ceiling.]] In Japan, altars are found in Shinto shrines. Originating in ancient times, Himorogi (神籬 ...49 KB (7,532 words) - 23:19, 9 May 2024
- Palace murals and his restoration work and ceiling in the National Theater are well known and admired. There are seven indigenous peoples in Panama: ...42 KB (6,441 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- Ms Merkel stopped short of suggesting that a ceiling on social spending might be one yardstick for measuring competitiveness, she hinted as much ...49 KB (6,775 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- antennae (or their theoretical extensions to the ceiling) without contacting them. === The ball === Volleyball (ball) The volleyball is made of ...62 KB (10,612 words) - 21:01, 3 May 2023
- structures, such as murals (壁画), ceiling paintings, cave paintings, and tomb paintings, became widespread. An example is the paintings in ...47 KB (7,130 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- In 1877, the bell was hung from the ceiling of the Assembly Room by a chain with thirteen links. Kimball, 68. [[File:Bell in case.png|thumb|right ...54 KB (8,496 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- separate units with a common demising wall or floor-ceiling assembly. The description can be different depending on the part of the US, but generally ...54 KB (8,047 words) - 01:58, 9 January 2023
- in Marseille; height under the ceiling of 2.26|m|abbr=off ... other unusual features, including floor to ceiling panels of glass in the meeting ...107 KB (16,223 words) - 20:24, 30 June 2023
- in the new tunnels which sprouted in 2004, and a ceiling collapse in 2007. == Law, government and politics == [[Image:MassachusettsStateHouse ...52 KB (7,434 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2023
- [[Image:Manastirea Hancu ceiling.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The ceiling (cupola) of Hancu monastery, founded in 1678.]] The majority of Moldovans are ...57 KB (8,247 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- [[File:Ceiling decorations in Hagia Sofia.jpg|thumb|upright|Ceiling ... a circle, which would indicate it to be a ceiling mosaic, possibly even of ...227 KB (32,955 words) - 20:31, 5 May 2024
- bullet went through his coat and out through the ceiling. It may be presumed from Earp's discussion of the problem in Lake's pseudobiography ...59 KB (9,719 words) - 14:12, 20 May 2023
- of suspending the criminal from the ceiling by a pulley with weights tied to the ankles, with a series of lifts and drops, during which arms ...61 KB (9,267 words) - 12:36, 18 September 2023
- #039;s commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel two hundred years later. However, Giotto did not have the skill required to paint ...62 KB (9,799 words) - 14:29, 27 January 2023
- parts of Africa and the Middle East and glass ceiling practices that impede women's advancement in developed economies) in order to understand ...71 KB (9,858 words) - 17:15, 26 March 2024
- imposed a 4.5 percent interest rate ceiling, creating a massive shortage in borrowable funds. This was resolved by setting up a series of dummy ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- for dark tourism. Its interior walls, ceiling and foundations are adorned by human remains. It is the only such monument in Poland, and one of ...101 KB (14,057 words) - 17:18, 7 May 2024
- The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel]] Religious attitudes towards images can be divided into two groups ...102 KB (16,134 words) - 19:54, 31 December 2023
- German air attack mid-meeting, and part of the ceiling of Patton's office collapsed around them. Speaking later of the German pilots who had struck ...100 KB (15,023 words) - 13:47, 12 November 2022
- it is the Congress of the Union that sets the ceiling to internal and external public debt issued by the city government. url = http://www.finanzas ...184 KB (26,093 words) - 20:54, 1 February 2024
