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  2. Catafalque - Wikipedia

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    Catafalque. A catafalque is a raised bier, box, or similar platform, often movable, that is used to support the casket, coffin, or body of a dead person during a Christian funeral or memorial service. [1] Following a Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, a catafalque may be used to stand in place of the body at the absolution of the dead or used during ...

  3. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    The French term for a raised platform or dais. In the Levant, the estrade of a divan is called a Sopha, from which comes our word 'sofa'. [39] In historical gardening, an estrade plant was pruned and trained with the main stem bare in sections, to achieve an appearance often likened to a "wedding cake". [40] Eustyle

  4. Ziggurat - Wikipedia

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    Each ziggurat was part of a temple complex with other buildings. Before the ziggurats there were raised platforms that date from the Ubaid period during the sixth millennium BCE. [7] The ziggurats began as platforms (usually oval, rectangular or square). The ziggurat was a mastaba-like structure with a flat top.

  5. Dais - Wikipedia

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    Dais. A drawing of a dais with throne under a baldachin. King George VI standing on a dais while reviewing a parade in 1946. A dais or daïs (/ ˈdeɪ.əs / or / ˈdeɪs /, American English also / ˈdaɪ.əs / but sometimes considered nonstandard) [1][2][3][4] is a raised platform at the front of a room or hall, usually for one or more speakers ...

  6. Airplane Mode (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Airplane Mode is a 2020 simulation video game developed by Hosni Auji and Bacronym and published by AMC Games. [1] It was released on October 15, 2020 for Windows and macOS.In the game, players control a plane passenger as they go on a flight that lasts multiple hours in real time.

  7. Architecture of Mesopotamia - Wikipedia

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    The earliest examples of the ziggurat were raised platforms that date from the Ubaid period [20] during the fourth millennium BC, and the latest date from the 6th century BC. The top of the ziggurat was flat, unlike many pyramids. The step pyramid style began near the end of the Early Dynastic Period. [21]

  8. Pulpit - Wikipedia

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    This was originally a raised platform from which the Epistle and Gospel would be read, and was an option to be used as a preacher's platform for homilies, though there were others. Saint John Chrysostom (died 407) is recorded as preaching from the ambo, but this was probably uncommon at this date. In cathedrals early bishops seem often to have ...

  9. Hattusa Green Stone - Wikipedia

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    The Hattusa Green Stone is a roughly cubic block of nephrite standing in the remains of the Great Temple at Hattusa, capital of the Hittites in the late Bronze Age. Now on the hill above Boğazkale, in the Turkish Province of Çorum, Hattusa is a World Heritage Site. The original purpose of the stone is unknown, but it is a tourist attraction ...