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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. Awning - Wikipedia

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   A Roman poet Lucretius, in 50 BC, said "Linen-awning, stretched, over mighty theatres, gives forth at times, a cracking roar, when much 'tis beaten about, betwixt the poles and cross-beams". Among the most significant awnings in the ancient world was the velarium , the massive complex of retractable shade structures that could be deployed above ...

4. Canopy (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Canopy over a doorway in Fergana, Uzbekistan Canopied entrance to the New York City Subway at the 14th Street–Union Square station. A canopy is a type of overhead roof or else a structure over which a fabric or metal covering is attached, able to provide shade or shelter from weather conditions such as sun, hail, snow and rain. [1]

5. Trump's agenda in trouble? What the Republican revolt on ...

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   WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump failed the first big test of whether he can hold together fractious Republicans to pass his second-term agenda when 38 GOP House members bucked him on ...

6. Ciborium (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Columns 6th century, and canopy from 1277. The ciborium arose in the context of a wide range of canopies, both honorific and practical, used in the ancient world to cover both important persons and religious images or objects. [5] Some of these were temporary and portable, including those using poles and textiles, and others permanent structures.

7. Florida family’s New Year’s Eve celebration turns tragic ...

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   A Florida family's New Year's Eve celebration turned to tragedy after a 10-year-old girl was struck and killed by a stray bullet from "celebratory gunfire" just moments after ringing in the new ...

8. St. Peter's Baldachin - Wikipedia

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   St. Peter's Baldachin (Italian: Baldacchino di San Pietro, L'Altare di Bernini) is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the city-state and papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy. The baldachin is at the center of the crossing, and ...

9. Trump says he will use military for deportations to fullest ...

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   President-elect Donald Trump will use the U.S. military to the fullest extent of the law to support his mass deportation effort, he told TIME magazine in an interview published on Thursday ...