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A rehal [a] (Urdu: رحل, Hindi: रिहल, Bengali: রেহাল, Arabic: رَحْل) [1] or rahle (Turkish: rahle) or tawla (Arabic: طاولة), is an X-shaped, foldable book rest or lectern used to hold religious scriptures for reverent display, as well as during reading or recitation. It is designed to collapse into a flat form for ...
The width of a lectern can range from a slender pole to as wide as the lectern's top section. Some modern lecterns feature motorised height adjustment, and sometimes come equipped with a small podium on which to stand. [1] In addition to their utilitarian reading use, lecterns are often designed with aesthetics in mind.
A podium (pl.: podiums or podia) is a platform used to raise something to a short distance above its surroundings. In architecture a building can rest on a large podium. [ 1 ] Podiums can also be used to raise people, for instance the conductor of an orchestra stands on a podium as do many public speakers .
In 1996, for the first time, speakers at the Democratic National Convention, held at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, used a four-teleprompter system: as can be seen at another convention in image (A), the first three prompters are placed to the left, right and in front of the speaker, the latter embedded within the speaker's lectern ...
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan used a Blue Goose lectern to give the "Tear down this wall!" speech in West Berlin. Described by Politico as "bulky" and "formal", [4] and named by the United States Secret Service after the color of its top and its gooseneck microphone, [5] the bullet-resistant [2] or bullet-proof [5] Blue Goose lecterns are boxy, with a dark blue desk section and dark panels ...
Trump wrote in a typical all-caps post on Truth Social in March that he would debate Biden "anytime, anywhere, anyplace" — a sentiment repeated on the front of the empty lectern at Tuesday's rally.
A bema is an elevated platform used as an orator's podium. The term can refer to the raised area in a sanctuary . In Jewish synagogues , where it is used for Torah reading during services, the term used is bima or bimah .
Eagle lecterns in stone were a well-established feature of large Romanesque pulpits in Italy. The carved marble eagle on the Pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery by Nicola Pisano (1260) is a famous example, and they also feature on his Siena Cathedral Pulpit (1268), and his son's at Sant' Andrea, Pistoia (Giovanni Pisano, 1301).