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Terraria (/ t ə ˈ r ɛər i ə / ⓘ tə-RAIR-ee-ə [1]) is a 2011 action-adventure sandbox game developed by Re-Logic. The game was first released for Windows and has since been ported to other PC and console platforms.
City in the Sky, the seventh dungeon level of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Skyloft, the town in which The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword begins. The numerous sky islands in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption features SkyTown, a research facility suspended within the atmosphere of a gas giant named ...
"Sakabashira" (逆柱) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Sekien Toriyama. Sakabashira (逆柱, さかばしら) or sakasabashira (逆さ柱, さかさばしら), meaning "reverse pillar," is a folk belief about wooden structures in Japan, and it refers to reversing the vertical direction of a tree from its original direction of growth when using it to make a pillar in a wooden building.
Retreat mining is the removal of pillars in the underground mining technique known as room and pillar mining. In the first phase of room and pillar mining, tunnels are advanced into the coal or ore body in a rectangular pattern resembling city streets. Pillars are left between tunnels to support the weight of the overburden.
The Eight Pillars (Chinese: 八柱, bāzhù) also known as Eight Pillars of the Sky are a concept from Chinese mythology. Located in the eight cardinal directions, they are a group of eight mountains or pillars which have been thought to hold up the sky. They are symbolically important as types of axis mundi and cosmology. Their functions in ...
The herma or herm is a classical boundary marker or wayside monument to a god which is usually a square pillar with only a carved head on top, about life-size, and male genitals at the appropriate mid-point. Figures that are rightly called Atlantes may sometimes be described as herms.
The Katskhi pillar (10/2019) In historical records, the Katskhi pillar is first mentioned [1] by the 18th-century Georgian scholar Prince Vakhushti, who reports in his Geographic Description of the Kingdom of Georgia: "There is a rock within the ravine standing like a pillar, considerably high. There is a small church on the top of the rock ...
The Totem Pole is a pillar or rock spire found in Monument Valley. [3] It is a highly eroded remnant of a butte.. Deserts at the end of the Permian period, 260 million years ago, formed the De Chelly and Wingate Sandstones that make up the buttes, totems, and mesas in Monument Valley.