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  2. FSU Legacy Walk - Wikipedia

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    Legacy Walk medallions and garnet banners are placed to guide visitors along the mostly concrete paths. Raised brick podia display information and maps describing events and people are positioned at intervals on the walk. [1] Bronze statues and monuments reflect the pride and history of the school's alumni and students.

  3. History of construction - Wikipedia

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    Bronze could be cast into desired shapes and, if damaged, could be recast increasing the types of tools developed in this period. Copper and bronze were used for the same types of tools as stone but the less brittle, more durable material cut better. These advantages caused the switch from stone tools to metal tools.

  4. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an MMORPG - Wikipedia

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    Brick vaporizing: Only SGMs and players approved by SGMs, dubbed the Arch Mages, allowed to carry this. Anyone with it can permanently vaporize a dungeon's bricks. It is used when one attempts to reveal another player's secret plans and weaknesses. The blueprint for constructing a vaporized brick is kept in a vault visible only to these players.

  5. Brick House (Leigh) - Wikipedia

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    Brick House is a 16-foot (4.9 m) tall bronze bust of a black woman by Simone Leigh, installed along New York City's High Line from 2019 to 2021. [2] [3] [4] [5 ...

  6. Urkesh - Wikipedia

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    Urkesh is the only third millennium site that can be securely associated with the Hurrians. [3] Throughout the Bronze Age, the city was a major Hurrian center. [4] Seal inscriptions give evidence for a city ruler with the Hurrian name of Tupkish, and his queen with the Akkadian name of Uqnitum.

  7. Brickwork - Wikipedia

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    A "face brick" is a higher-quality brick, designed for use in visible external surfaces in face-work, as opposed to a "filler brick" for internal parts of the wall, or where the surface is to be covered with stucco or a similar coating, or where the filler bricks will be concealed by other bricks (in structures more than two bricks thick).

  8. Mudbrick - Wikipedia

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    Mudbrick or mud-brick, also known as unfired brick, is an air-dried brick, made of a mixture of mud (containing loam, clay, sand and water) mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw. Mudbricks are known from 9000 BCE. From around 5000–4000 BCE, mudbricks evolved into fired bricks to increase strength

  9. Construction of Gothic cathedrals - Wikipedia

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    Once the keystone was in place, the ribs could stand alone, Workers then filled in the compartments between the ribs with a thin layer of small fitted pieces of brick or stone. The framework was removed. Once the compartments were finished, their interior surface, visible from below, was plastered and then painted, and the vault was complete. [19]