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Air Castles started as the solo project of then 19-year-old Swedish-born singer-songwriter, Max Mansson. Produced by Magnus Lindberg of Cult Of Luna , the debut EP , Night and Day , was released later that year on Mansson's own label Winter Hymns Records.
When used as a verb, its meaning is "to stay in expectation of"; as a noun, it denotes a minstrel watchmen. Waite is an occupational name for a watchman either in a town or castle from Anglo-Norman French waite ‘watchman member of the watch’ (of ancient Germanic origin; compare Wachter / Wächter). [2] The following are named Waite.
Originally recorded in 1970, "Castles in the Air" was McLean's first American single release, preceding "American Pie". The original version of "Castles in the Air" was included on the Tapestry album. In February 1971, it was released as the first single from the album and reached No. 40 on the Billboard Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary chart.
A heavy wooden or metallic grid vertically-sliding down and thus blocking the main gateway of a medieval castle or fortification. Porte-cochère An often ornate porch- or portico-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building through which vehicles can pass in order for the occupants to alight under cover, protected from the weather.
Castle in the Air may refer to: Castle in the Air, a 1949 play by Alan Melville; Castle in the Air, a 1952 British comedy film based on the play; Castle in the Air, a 1990 young adult fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones; the Castle in the Air, in the children's book The Phantom Tollbooth, where the princesses of Rhyme and Reason are banished
The origin of the English word barbican is thought to be found in either Persian or Arabic (see here or here).. Paul Deschamps (1888–1974) interpreted the Arabic word 'bashura[h]' as used in 13th-century chronicles to mean barbican, a defensive structure placed ahead of a gate but this has been debunked, 'bashura' denoting rather an entire section of the outer fortifications, which may ...
“The Sand Castle” is made up of intentionally simple elements: an abandoned island, a creaky old lighthouse, an intermittently working radio. And at its center is a family of four: a doting ...
In Germany the castellan was known as a Burgmann, or sometimes Hauptmann ("captain"), who reported to the lord of the castle, or Burgherr, also often known as the burgrave (Burggraf). The burgmann may have been either a free noble or a ministerialis, but either way, he administered the castle as a vassal.