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    The Hall of Columns is a more than 100-foot-long (30 m) hallway lined with 28 fluted columns in the south wing extension of the United States Capitol...
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    peace treaty that he signed in Year 21 of his reign. In 1899, eleven of the massive columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall collapsed in a chain reaction, because...
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    Hypostyle Hall of Karnak (c. 1224 BC), where 134 columns are lined up in sixteen rows, with some columns reaching heights of 24 metres. One of the most...
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    National Statuary Hall Collection holds statues donated by each of the United States, portraying notable persons in the histories of the respective states...
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    coffin containing Stalin's body was put on display at the Hall of Columns in the House of the Unions, remaining there for three days. On 9 March, the...
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    Lonja de la Seda (category Bien de Interés Cultural landmarks in the Province of Valencia)
    Fisheye view of The Hall of Columns ceiling Royal arms of Kingdom of Valencia in the Llotja View of the Orange Garden courtyard The Hall of Columns Some Gargoyles...
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    Hall of Columns at Karnac, seen from without. 182. View looking across the Hall of Columns, Karnac. 183. Part of the ruins of a temple on the Island of Bigge...
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    Hypostyle (redirect from Hypostyle Hall)
    ˈhɪpə-/) hall has a roof which is supported by columns. The term hypostyle comes from the ancient Greek ὑπόστυλος hypóstȳlos meaning "under columns" (where...
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    the Exhibition Hall of the Capitol Visitor Center was used for President Lincoln. The Hall of Columns is located on the House side of the Capitol, home...
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    situated on the islet of Megaride, the so-called "hall of columns" derived from the Roman columns still standing. Other parts are visible on the Pizzofalcone...
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    Statuary Hall is a chamber in the United States Capitol devoted to sculptures of prominent Americans. The hall, also known as the Old Hall of the House...
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  • style of intercolumniation in which the distance between columns is at least four diameters. The large interval between columns necessitates the use of a...
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    such a hall of columns surrounds a patio or garden, it is called a peristyle rather than a peristasis. In ecclesial architecture, it is also used of the...
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    scenes from the life of Solomon. The Hall of Columns has a ceiling fresco by Giaquinto, representing The Sun before Which All the Forces of Nature Awaken and...
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    distributed throughout the Capitol, mainly in the Hall of Columns and the connecting corridors of the House and Senate wings. Legislation was introduced...
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    two-story drum with a ring of forty columns forming a peristyle surrounding the lower half of the drum. The upper part of the drum was enriched with decorated...
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    picture of ivy covered Columns 1930-45 postcard of the "Historic Columns Missouri University" The Columns in the snow The Columns with Jesse Hall in the...
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    Austrian Parliament Building (category Seats of national legislatures)
    Offensive. Parts of the interior, such as the former House of Lords Chamber and the Hall of Columns, were completely destroyed. It was in the old Abgeordnetenhaus...
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    Flights of steps would lead up between the lions to the pedestal of the column. Several other entrants also submitted schemes for columns. The second...
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    Mitla (section Columns Group)
    is called the Palace or the Grand Hall of Columns. It measures 120 by 21 feet (36.6 by 6.4 m) and has six columns of volcanic stone that once supported...
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    Persian columns or Persepolitan columns are the distinctive form of column developed in the Achaemenid architecture of ancient Persia, probably beginning...
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    and so, after another 18 months, during which the Senate made use of the Hall of Columns in the Sejm, work on the new Senate chamber finally began. The project...
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    the lighting of the hall of columns was obtained over the stone roofs of the adjoining aisles, through gaps left in the vertical slabs of stone. Clerestory...
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    1834 Greek Revival Corinthian columns of the Sturdivant Hall, Selma, Alabama, US, inspired by those of the Tower of the Winds, by Thomas Helm Lee, 1852-1856...
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    crypt is the large circular room filled with forty neoclassical Doric columns directly beneath the United States Capitol rotunda. It was built originally...
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    Ionic order (redirect from Ionic columns)
    columns. The Ionic capital is characterized by the use of volutes. The Ionic columns normally stand on a base which separates the shaft of the column...
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    Pillar Hall (Колонный зал, Kolonnyy zal) in place of the interior courtyard of the building. The hall was named after 28 internal Corinthian columns, all...
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    Cannon House Office Building (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
    The colonnades with thirty-four Doric columns that face the Capitol are echoed by pilasters on the sides of the building, and very inspired by the Louvre...
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    vestibule and a large pillared hall, in which there were sockets in the floor that would have fixed 23 statues of Khafre. These columns have since been plundered...
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    the paradox. Numerous examples of letters from readers of Savant's columns are presented and discussed in The Monty Hall Dilemma: A Cognitive Illusion...
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