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  2. Pier (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    A concrete girder bridge pier during construction prior to installation of the bridge deck and parapets, consisting of multiple angled pylons for support (bottom), a horizontal concrete cap (center), and girders (top) with temporary wood bracing A quadruple compound pier supporting the fly-over at the traffic junction 24 Oktoberplein (Utrecht ...

  3. Stilt house - Wikipedia

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    Reconstruction of Latte period Chamorro buildings raised on capped stone pillars called haligi. Building structures on pilings is believed to be derived from the design of raised rice granaries and storehouses, which are highly important status symbols among the ancestrally rice-cultivating Austronesians.

  4. Shinbashira - Wikipedia

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    The central pillar of Gojuu-no-tou at Hōryūji has a height of 31.5 m with a diameter of 77.8 cm at base, 65.1 cm in the middle and approximately 24.1 cm at the midpoint on the spire. Such huge pillars had to be divided into three sections: from the base stone to the third floor; from the fourth story to the point where the spire begins, and ...

  5. Pillar (landform) - Wikipedia

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    A pillar is a landform, either of rock or earth, defined by the USGS as: "Vertical, standing, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower)." [ 1 ] Some examples of rock pillars are Chambers Pillar , Katskhi pillar , Pompeys Pillar , and Pillar Rock .

  6. Keystone (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    In Christianity, Psalms 118:22, [6] translated in the Authorized Version as "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner", is taken to refer to Jesus. Referring to the Book of Mormon , Joseph Smith said that it "was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get ...

  7. Pillar of Liberty - Wikipedia

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    Seven months later, a 10-12' classical pillar of dark New England granite, likely dug from somewhere between the central village and West Dedham, [8] was added with a bust of William Pitt the Elder. [ 10 ] [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 9 ] The bust was carved by Simeon Skilling, a Boston craftsman best known producing figureheads for ships.

  8. One Pillar Pagoda - Wikipedia

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    The temple is built of wood on a single stone pillar 1.25 meters in diameter and 4 meters in height, and it is designed to resemble a lotus blossom, which is a Buddhist symbol of purity, since a lotus blossoms in a muddy pond. In 1954, the French Union forces destroyed the pagoda before withdrawing from Vietnam after the First Indochina War. It ...

  9. Western Railroad Stone Arch Bridges and Chester Factory ...

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    The Chester Factory depot is a contributing element of the Chester Factory Village Historic District. The two stone bridges included in the landmark designation, as well as the historic roadbed, are part of the Middlefield–Becket Stone Arch Railroad Bridge District ; the bridges are listed as numbers 5 and 6 in that collection.

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