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  2. Floating cities and islands in fiction - Wikipedia

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    City in the Sky, the seventh dungeon level of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Skyloft, the town in which The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword begins. The numerous sky islands in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption features SkyTown, a research facility suspended within the atmosphere of a gas giant named ...

  3. Sakabashira - Wikipedia

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    "Sakabashira" (逆柱) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Sekien Toriyama. Sakabashira (逆柱, さかばしら) or sakasabashira (逆さ柱, さかさばしら), meaning "reverse pillar," is a folk belief about wooden structures in Japan, and it refers to reversing the vertical direction of a tree from its original direction of growth when using it to make a pillar in a wooden building.

  4. Eight Pillars - Wikipedia

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    The Eight Pillars (Chinese: 八柱, bāzhù) also known as Eight Pillars of the Sky are a concept from Chinese mythology. Located in the eight cardinal directions, they are a group of eight mountains or pillars which have been thought to hold up the sky. They are symbolically important as types of axis mundi and cosmology. Their functions in ...

  5. Pillar (landform) - Wikipedia

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    A pillar is a landform, either of rock or earth, defined by the USGS as: "Vertical, standing, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower)." [ 1 ] Some examples of rock pillars are Chambers Pillar , Katskhi pillar , Pompeys Pillar , and Pillar Rock .

  6. Light pillar - Wikipedia

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    A light pillar or ice pillar is an atmospheric optical phenomenon in which a vertical beam of light appears to extend above and/or below a light source. The effect is created by the reflection of light from tiny ice crystals that are suspended in the atmosphere or that comprise high-altitude clouds (e.g. cirrostratus or cirrus clouds ). [ 1 ]

  7. Atlas (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The body of many Atlantes turns into a rectangular pillar or other architectural feature around the waist level, a feature borrowed from the term. The pose and expression of Atlantes very often show their effort to bear the heavy load of the building, which is rarely the case with terms and caryatids.

  8. Sun dog - Wikipedia

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    Also visible are parts of the 22° halo (the arcs passing through each sun dog), a sun pillar (the vertical line), and the parhelic circle (the horizontal line). A sun dog (or sundog ) or mock sun , also called a parhelion [ 1 ] (plural parhelia ) in atmospheric science , is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to ...

  9. Hope for the Flowers - Wikipedia

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    Hope for the Flowers is an allegorical novel by Trina Paulus. It was first published in 1972 and reflects the idealism of the counterculture of the period. Often categorized as a children's novel, it is a fable "partly about life, partly about revolution and lots about hope – for adults and others including caterpillars who can read".