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Easter Aquorthies stone circle showing the recumbent stone and two flankers. The particular characteristic of recumbent stone circles is that, as well as being a ring of upright stones , they have a large stone lying on its side along the perimeter of the circle towards south to southwest. On both sides are particularly tall orthostats.
Medieval life-size recumbent effigies were first used for tombs of royalty and senior clerics, before spreading to the nobility. A particular type of late medieval effigy was the transi, or cadaver monument, in which the effigy is in the macabre form of a decomposing corpse, or such a figure lies on a lower level, beneath a more conventional effigy
Recumbent may refer to: Recumbence, the act or state of lying down or leaning; Recumbent bicycle, a bicycle, tricycle or quadricycle which places the rider in a reclined or supine position; Recumbent effigy, a tomb sculpture of the deceased; Recumbent stone circles, a variation on the more familiar standard stone circles found throughout the UK
Recumbent Figure 1938 (LH191) [1] is an early sculpture by Henry Moore. It was commissioned by the architect Serge Chermayeff for his modernist villa at Bentley Wood , near Halland , Sussex . At the time it was made, it was Moore's largest stone sculpture.
5BX and XBX booklets on display at the infirmary in the Diefenbunker museum, June 2018.. The Royal Canadian Air Force Exercise Plans are two exercise plans developed for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) by Dr. Bill Orban in the late 1950s, first published in 1961. [1]
Rumsfeld stated that the Soviet Union was a "clear and present danger," especially following the end of the Vietnam War, which Rumsfeld described as the USSR's chance to build up its domination. [16] On November 17, 1975, Rumsfeld was confirmed as Secretary of Defense by a vote of 97–2. [ 16 ]
The International Human Powered Vehicle Association (IHPVA) was started in 1975 by Jack Lambie and California college professor, Dr. Chet Kyle, who challenged his students to build a faster bicycle. The recumbent design (banned in 1934) and the use of additional streamlined devices (banned in 1914) were allowed back into a sanctioned competition.