A palisade is a Medieval wooden fence or wall of variable height, used as a defensive structure. Typical construction was to use small and medium trunks of trees aligned vertically, with no spacing in between. The trunks would be driven into the ground, and may or may not be reinforced with additional construction. Height of the palisade ranged from a few feet like a fence, to ten feet or more. As a defensive structure, palisades ...

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• To dream of the palisades, denotes that you will alter well-formed plans to please strangers, and by so doing, you will impair your own interests.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

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During a siege a counterscarp is an earthenwork or wooden palisade built behind a breach in the walls of a fortress, or a city, made by the attackers guns. Its purpose hinder and frustrate an attack made by the forlorn hope. This was a strategy used many times by defenders of fortifications, for example by the Irish defenders during the Siege of Limerick on 27 August 1690. Other related archives1690, 27 August, Siege of Limerick, forlorn hope, siege

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A tzompantli is a type wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican civilizations, which was used for the public display of human skulls, typically those of war captives or other sacrificial victims. Tzompantli - Distribution. Tzompantli - General. It was most commonly erected as a linearly-arranged series of vertical posts connected by a series of horizontal crossbeams. The skulls were pierced or threaded laterally along these horizontal stakes. An alternate arran ...

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Brentwood is a district in the West Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California, United States. Located at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains, Brentwood is bordered by Pacific Palisades on the west, Santa Monica on the south and southwest, West Los Angeles on the southeast, Bel-Air on the northeast, Westwood on the east, and Sherman Oaks on the north. The district is bounded by the San Diego Freeway on the east, Wilshire Boulevard on the south, the Santa Monica city limits on the west, and the ridgeline of the Santa Monic ...

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The cliffs are the margin of a diabase sill, formed approximately 200 million years ago at the close of the Triassic Period by the intrusion of molten magma upward into sandstone. The molten material cooled and solidified before reaching the surface. Subsequent water erosion of the softer sandstone left behind the columnar structure of harder rock that exists today. The cliffs are approximately 1000 ft (300 m) thick in sections and were probably originally 1000 ft ...

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Palisades Park is located at 40°50'45" North, 73°59'41" West (40.845742, -73.994795)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 3.3 km² (1.3 mi²). 3.1 km² (1.2 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 4.72% water. ...

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As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 17,073 people, 6,247 households, and 4,447 families residing in the borough. The population density is 5,447.9/km² (14,112.4/mi²). There are 6,386 housing units at an average density of 2,037.7/km² (5,278.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough is 48.27% White, 1.38% African American, 0.19% Native American, 41.09% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 5.80% from other races, and 3.24% from two or more races. 16 ...

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Originally the home of the Inceville movie studio, the first of the many "movie ranches" used for making western films and housing a small number of mostly Latino fishermen, the area was first subdivided in the 1920s and settled by Methodists. One subdivision has streets named for Methodist missionaries. For many decades it had a virtual ban on local drinking, a Chinese restaurant famously holding the only liquor license in town. The Presbyterian Church formerly owned a conference center in Temescal Canyon before it was sold to become part o ...

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Susanna Hoffs - Early life. Hoffs (birth name: Susanna Lee Hoffs) was born in Newport Beach, California to a Jewish family. Her mother was a fan of The Beatles and played their records for Hoffs when she was a child. She began playing the guitar in her teens, and hooked up with Vicki Peterson and Debbi Peterson who needed a singer for their band, which would later become The Bangles. Susanna attended Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. In 1980, she graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a BFA in Art History. See also:

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The museum is located at: 17985 Pacific Coast Highway Pacific Palisades California USA Admission to the Getty Villa is free but timed tickets must be obtained in advance. There is a $7.00 charge for parking. The museum is open Thursday to Monday 10am – 5pm. It is closed Tuesday, Wednesday and on January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving and December 25. ...

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Archaeological surveys have shown that stave churches, as they are best represented today by the Borgund stave church, descend from palisade constructions and later churches with earth-bound posts. The palisade constructions are known from buildings from the Viking era. Logs were split in two halves, rammed into the ground and given a roof. A simple construction yet very strong. If set in gravel the wall could last for decades, even centuries. Remains of buildings of this type are found over much of Europe. An archaeological survey in Lund uncov ...

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Stave church, Stave church - Construction, Stave church - Single nave church Type A, Stave church - Church with a raised roof Type B, Stave church - History, Stave church - Architecture and decoration, Stave church - Dating of churches, Stave church - The old stave churches, Stave church - Later stave churches and replicas, Stave church - Archaeological sites and dismantled churches, Stave church - Footnote

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The site for Cove Fort was selected by Brigham Young because of its location approximately half way between Fillmore, then the capitol of the Utah Territory, and the nearest city, Beaver. It provided a waystation for people traveling the Mormon Corridor. A town would have been constructed at the Cove Fort site, but the water supply was inadequate to support a sizable population. Another key factor in the selection of the site was the prior existence of a wooden-palisade fort, Willden Fort, which provided shelter and safety for ...

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The defences on Kambula consisted of a hexagonal laager formed with tightly locked together wagons, and a separate kraal for the cattle, constructed on the edge of the southern face of the ridge. Trenches and earth parapets surrounded both sections, and a stone-built redoubt had been built on a rise just north of the kraal. A palisade blocked the hundred yards between the kraal and redoubt, while four 7-pounders were positioned between the redoubt and the laager to cover the northern approaches. ...

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Battle of Kambula, Battle of Kambula - Prelude, Battle of Kambula - Kambula’s Defences, Battle of Kambula - The Battle, Battle of Kambula - Results

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The first castle on this site is believed to have been built by Juhel (aka Judhael) who was one of William the Conqueror’s lieutenants. The manor of Totnes was granted to him in 1068, and in order to cement his control over the area he constructed a fortification and founded a priory within the town. However, this first construction probably consisted of a wooden palisade and tower. On the death of William I, Juhel lost his lands, possibly as a result of his support for the Rebellion of 1088. The manor of Totnes was then granted to ...

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The district includes the complete cities of Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Hidden Hills, Malibu, Westlake Village, West, and Woodland Hills, as well as such areas of Los Angeles as Beverly-Fairfax, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Beverlywood, Topanga, Agoura, Chatsworth and Westwood. Rep Waxman's district office is at 8436 West Third Street, Suite 600 Los Angeles, California 90048. His Washington office ...

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The trail was originally conceived by Benton MacKaye, a forester who wrote his original plan shortly after the death of his wife in 1921. MacKaye's utopian idea detailed a grand trail that would connect a series of farms and wilderness work/study camps for city-dwellers. In 1922, at the suggestion of Major William A. Welch, director of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, his idea was publicized by Raymond H. Torrey with a story in the New York Evening Post under a full page banner headline reading "A Great Trail from Maine to Georgia!"; the idea was quickly adopted by the new Palisades Interstate ...

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Appalachian Trail, Appalachian Trail - The Trail, Appalachian Trail - Marking, Appalachian Trail - Hiking, Appalachian Trail - Accommodations, Appalachian Trail - Trail Towns, Appalachian Trail - States Included, Appalachian Trail - Georgia, Appalachian Trail - North Carolina, Appalachian Trail - Tennessee, Appalachian Trail - Virginia, Appalachian Trail - West Virginia, Appalachian Trail - Maryland, Appalachian Trail - Pennsylvania, Appalachian Trail - New Jersey, Appalachian Trail - New York, Appalachian Trail - Connecticut, Appalachian Trail - Massachusetts, Appalachian Trail - Vermont, Appalachian Trail - New Hampshire, Appalachian Trail - Maine, Appalachian Trail - History, Appalachian Trail - Thru-hiking information, Appalachian Trail - Travel literature

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The site was first visited in 1615 by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain. The British established a trading post in the area in 1722 and fortified it with a log palisade later called Fort Oswego. In 1755 they added Fort Ontario on the northeast side of the river. Permanent settlement began in the early 19th century, and a branch of the Erie Canal reached the area in 1829. The city was incorporated in 1848. When the city incorporated its area and population were removed from the figures reported for the towns. The State University of New York ...

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Oswego New York, Oswego New York - History, Oswego New York - Geography, Oswego New York - Demographics, Oswego New York - Political issues

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Gate Pa is the name given to provocative fortress the Maori built only 5km from the main British base at Tauranga. The name comes from it appearance, the palisade looked liked a picket fence while a higher part in the middle resembled a gate. By the end of April the British were ready to attack. They had 1700 men and were opposed by merely 230 Maori, it looked like a good opportunity to score a decisive victory. A heavy bombardment was begun at daybreak on 29 April 1864 and continued for eight hours; the British had 15 artillery piece ...

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Tauranga Campaign, Tauranga Campaign - The origins of The Tauranga Campaign, Tauranga Campaign - Maketu, Tauranga Campaign - The Battle of Gate Pa, Tauranga Campaign - The Battle of Te Ranga

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