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A meta was a tall conical object in a Roman circus that stood at either end of the central spina, around which racing chariots would turn. The Meta Sudans had the same shape, and also functioned as a similar kind of turning point, in that it marked the spot where a Roman triumphal procession would turn left from the via Triumphalis along the east side of the Palatine onto the via Sacra and ...
General Pico Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de General Pico) (IATA: GPO, ICAO: SAZG) is an airport serving General Pico, a town in the La Pampa Province of Argentina. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The airport is 2 kilometres (1 mi) south of General Pico.
The first permanent post office in the country was established by the British in Colombo in 1882, when the country was a crown colony. [1] It was housed in several different locations until the construction of the General Post Office building at 17 Kings Street (now known as Janadhipathi Mawatha), Colombo Fort, opposite the-then Governor's residence at King's House (now the President's House ...
The Colosseum and the ongoing works for the future metro station of line C. The opening of the station is expected in 2025, in conjunction with the 2025 Jubilee. [1] Colosseo is a station on Line B of the Rome Metro. It was opened on 10 February 1955 and is located, as its name suggests, in the Monti rione on via del Colosseo near the Colosseum.
The Giant Pirates are back in One Piece, here's everything you need to know about the Giant Warrior Pirates.
The GPO was designed by architect K. M. Tseng, as a 5-storey building, and the foundation to support another 2, up to the maximum permitted height of 120 feet. [4] The building houses the first central vacuum-cleaning system in Hong Kong, without the need to change bags.
Statius claims that Emperor Domitian was largely responsible for the completion of the temple, not Vespasian - this issue remains controversial within the archaeological world today. [3] The Temple of Peace is part of the Imperial Fora which is "a series of monumental fora (public squares), constructed in Rome over a period of one and a half ...
The Colosseum. Centred on the Oppian Hill, Regio III was bordered to its south east by the Via Tusculana, to the north by the Clivus Suburanus, and to the west by the Via Labicana. A measurement taken at the end of the 4th century recorded that the perimeter of the region was 12,350 Roman feet (approximately 3.65 km). [1]