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    7757611; 35.2361056 The Southern Wall (Hebrew: הכותל הדרומי HaKotel HaDromi) is the retaining wall of the Temple Mount at the southern end. It was built during...
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    See media help. The Western Wall (Hebrew: הַכּוֹתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי, romanized: HaKotel HaMa'aravi, lit. 'the western wall', often shortened to the Kotel...
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    Finding of Moses; several of the Popes; and two sets of Ancestors. The southern wall is decorated with the Stories of Moses, painted in 1481–1482. Starting...
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    least partially preserved (the Single, Triple, and Double Gates in the southern wall),[citation needed] with several other gates discovered by archaeologists...
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    of the mosque was occupied by the Royal Stoa, a basilica running the southern wall of the enclosure. The Royal Stoa was destroyed along with the Temple...
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    Gates); southern wall, underneath al-Aqsa Mosque Triple Gate; southern wall, outside Solomon's Stables/Marwani Mosque Single Gate; southern wall, outside...
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    Galaxy filament (redirect from Galaxy wall)
    filaments are the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of walls of galactic superclusters. These massive, thread-like formations can commonly...
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    The Great Wall of China (traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng, literally "ten thousand li long wall") is a series...
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    operating under the belief that the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount as it stood in their time was the Southern Wall of the Biblical era, argued that the...
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    to the southern wall. The southern wall of this hall also marks the qibla. The central axis of the prayer hall, perpendicular to the qibla wall, is marked...
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    which has been quite intensively excavated, especially along the southern and western walls. This article deals both with the Temple Mount compound, and with...
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    romanized: Novodevichye kladbishche) is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most...
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    City walls. Broad Wall (Jerusalem) – city wall of Jerusalem from the time of Hezekiah (ca. 700 BCE) Southern Wall of the Temple Mount Western Wall – also...
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    opening into the eastern wall a short distance south of the Golden Gate. Temple Mount entry restrictions Southern Wall Walls of Jerusalem Elaine McArdle...
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    Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Hadriani, also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Aelium in Latin) is a former defensive fortification of the...
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    is also called the Southern Great Wall, the Great Southern Wall, or just the Southern Wall, in reference to the Northern Great Wall. The structure is 8000 km/s...
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    property only a few feet away from the castle's walls. The pool and the pit beside the southern wall are quarries. The east and west quarries have been...
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    but now plugged, gates on the southern side that led through colonnades to the top of the platform. The Southern wall was designed as a grand entrance...
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    since Mamluk Sultan Qaitbay's reconstruction of 1481. Only the outer southern wall, draped in green cloth, can be seen through the grills built several...
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    also slightly irregular due to the fact that its northern wall is still the old southern wall of the first mosque, which is at a slightly different angle...
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    Diocletian's Palace (category City walls in Croatia)
    shore facades. A monumental gate in the middle of each wall led to an enclosed courtyard. The southern 'Sea Gate' (the Porta Meridionalis) was simpler in...
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    preserved (the double Golden Gate in the eastern wall, and the Single, Triple, and Double Gates in the southern wall), with several other gates discovered by...
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    sections of the Dadu city walls remain, as well as parts of the moat system in those areas. The southern half of the rammed earth wall of the barbican at Suqingmen...
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    Nuruosmaniye Mosque to curve around the southern wall of the Hippodrome, and then going northeast to meet the old walls near the Bosporus. The Patria also...
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    the wall was considered militarily redundant and physically obstructive for the eastward urban expansion of Old San Juan. The former southern wall extended...
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    observed to align with the rising of the star Canopus toward which its southern wall is directed, while its minor axis (its east–west facades) roughly align...
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    The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest/EMI and Columbia/CBS Records. It is...
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    (prayer niche) called Miḥrāb Dāwūd, built into the inner side of the Southern Wall of the Haram esh-Sharif/Temple Mount. During the 2nd century BCE, the...
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    bread, t3-rtḥ bread, roasted wheat, white and green zẖt barley. On the southern wall, another man is depicted behind the Heri-wedjeb-priest, holding a large...
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    stability of the Southern Wall. The excavations are thought to have been responsible for creating a large, visible bulge in the Southern Wall that threatened...
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