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2. Pole marquee - Wikipedia

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   The basic design has changed little in thousands of years. A pole marquee consists of a roof canopy supported by tall central poles ("king poles") tensioned using side lines connected to ground pins (or stakes) and smaller supporting poles ("side poles"). The king poles support the bulk of the weight, while the side poles give the fabric shape ...

3. Baldachin - Wikipedia

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   A baldachin, or baldaquin (from Italian: baldacchino), is a canopy of state typically placed over an altar or throne. It had its beginnings as a cloth canopy, [ a ] but in other cases it is a sturdy, permanent architectural feature, particularly over high altars in cathedrals , where such a structure is more correctly called a ciborium when it ...

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5. King post - Wikipedia

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   The king post is the central, vertical member of the truss. Crown posts in the nave roof at Old Romney church, Kent, England. A king post (or king-post or kingpost) is a central vertical post used in architectural or bridge designs, working in tension to support a beam below from a truss apex above (whereas a crown post, though visually similar, supports items above from the beam below).

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7. Post (structural) - Wikipedia

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   King – 1) (U.S.) A single, central post in a roof truss in tension between the rafters and a tie beam (bottom chord), or 2) (U.S.) A short of the tie beam only supporting the rafters via struts. 3) (U.K.) A king post specifically carries a ridge beam otherwise is called a king strut. "King post" was formerly used to describe a crown post in ...

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9. Throne - Wikipedia

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   The word throne itself is from Greek θρόνος (thronos), "seat, chair", [4] in origin a derivation from the PIE root *dher-"to support" (also in dharma "post, sacrificial pole"). Early Greek Διὸς θρόνους ( Dios thronous ) [ 5 ] was a term for the "support of the heavens", i.e. the axis mundi , which term when Zeus became an ...