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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
Orban, creating the program as a public servant, received no additional income from the success of the plan. [9] [10] In English, it was republished throughout the 1960s, 70s, 80s and in 1992. [11] [12] [13] John Walker's book The Hacker's Diet (first published in 1991) contains a simplified version, that is claimed to be suitable for everyone ...
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
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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.
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Drombeg stone circle in Ireland, showing the small recumbent stone visible through the gap between the large portal stones opposite. Irish recumbent stone circles take a rather different form, with the recumbent being small and placed in an isolated position on the southwest side while the two tallest stones, known as portals, stand opposite on the northeast side. [1]
Wijers rode a production version of the M5 carbon high-racer recumbent modified with dual disk carbon wheels and a fixed-gear freewheel. Wijers became the first unfaired recumbent rider to exceed 50 km. [ 6 ] On May 15, 2009, 26-year-old Aurélien Bonneteau set a new WRRA unfaired world record of 50.52 km (31.40 mi) in Bordeaux-Lax, France, at ...