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A banquet hall, function hall, or reception hall, is a special purpose room, or a building, used for hosting large social and business events.Typically a banquet hall is capable of serving dozens to hundreds of people a meal in a timely fashion.
Falcon Lair is an estate above Benedict Canyon in Bel Air, Los Angeles. The estate was built in 1925 by Rudolph Valentino, who named it after his unproduced film, The Hooded Falcon. [1] It is better known as a residence of heiress Doris Duke. [2] [3] Valentino bought the 4-acre (1.6 ha) estate in 1925 for US$175,000 (equivalent to $3,040,000 in ...
Banquette (along the wall on the right) on the Alhambra fortress in Spain. A banquette (French pronunciation:), rampart walk or parapet walk is a small footpath or elevated step along the inside of a rampart or parapet of a fortification. Musketeers atop it were able to view the counterscarp, or fire on enemies in the moat.
The Falcon was designed as a high-end, two-place ultralight trainer. It features a parachute-style high-wing, two seats in tandem or just a single seat, tricycle landing gear and a single 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 liquid-cooled engine in pusher configuration as standard equipment. [1] [2]
It is 33.4 m (110 ft) long and has a 33.6 m (110 ft)-wide, high aspect ratio carbonfibre wing, a first for a Dassault business jet. [1] It is powered by two Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X engines with over 80 kN (18,000 lbf) thrust, with a titanium fan blisk, a 10-stage HP compressor, a two-stage shroudless HP turbine and a four-stage LP turbine. [1]
The largest falcon is the gyrfalcon at up to 65 cm (26 in) in length. The smallest falcon species is the pygmy falcon, which measures just 20 cm (7.9 in). As with hawks and owls, falcons exhibit sexual dimorphism, with the females typically larger than the males, thus allowing a wider range of prey species. [10]
The Ford Falcon (BA) is a full-sized car produced by Ford Australia from 2002 to 2005. It was the second significantly re-engineered iteration of the sixth generation of the Falcon , and also included the Ford Fairmont (BA) —the luxury-oriented version.
Maltese Falcon is a full-rigged ship using DynaRig technology, which was built by Perini Navi in Tuzla, Istanbul, and commissioned by her first owner, Tom Perkins. She is one of the world's most complex and largest sailing yachts at 88 m (289 ft), similar in size to the Athena and Eos .