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The Vasari Corridor (Italian: Corridoio Vasariano) is an elevated enclosed passageway in Florence, central Italy, connecting the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti. Beginning on the south side of the Palazzo Vecchio, it joins the Uffizi Gallery and leaves on its south side, crossing the Lungarno dei Archibusieri, then following the north ...
Thapsakos' identification with Europos (the Hellenistic name of Carchemish) finds some support from a corrupt passage in Plinius' Naturalis Historia. In his description of places along the Euphrates, from source to mouth, he gives the following account of the right bank of the Euphrates between Zeugma and Sura. [7] "And in Syria [it flows past ...
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Murder holes at Bodiam Castle. A murder hole or meurtrière is a hole in the ceiling of a gateway or passageway in a fortification through which the defenders could shoot, throw or pour harmful substances or objects such as rocks, arrows, scalding water, hot sand, quicklime, or boiling oil, down on attackers.
The first wire says "2,2" place the wire where the 2ND column and the 2ND row connects. If the second one says "4,1", place the wire where the 4Th column (on top) and the 1st row connect. Please ...
Strabo, in a corrupt passage, assigns to it the same situation, and places it in the neighbourhood of Scollium or Mount Scollis. [2] Pausanias says that it was 80 stadia from the city of Elis. [1] Diodorus gives 70 stadia as the distance, [3] and Pliny the Elder 12 Roman miles. [4]
In a corrupt passage of Strabo this temple is said to be 100 stadia equidistant from Lepreum and the "Annius" (τοῦ Ἀννίου); [8] for the latter name we ought to read Alpheius and not Anigrus, as some editors have done. [9] In the neighbourhood of Samicum there were celebrated medicinal springs, which were said to cure cutaneous diseases.