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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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  • Vallum is either the whole or a portion of the fortifications of a Roman camp. The vallum usually comprised an earthen or turf rampart (Agger) with a...
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    The Vallum is a huge earthwork associated with Hadrian's Wall in England. Unique on any Roman frontier, it runs practically from coast to coast to the...
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  • vallum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A vallum is the whole or a portion of the fortifications of a Roman camp. Vallum may also refer to: Vallum...
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    mucous membrane; the margin of the depression is elevated to form a wall (vallum), and between this and the papilla is a circular sulcus termed the fossa...
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    The Antonine Wall (Latin: Vallum Antonini) was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland...
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    Voice. Her name and imagery are featured in Crowley's "Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni". In her most abstract form, Babalon represents the female sexual...
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    must be the Vallum, the adjoining earthen barrier immediately south of Hadrian's Wall. Where Bede got it wrong was in attributing the Vallum to Septimius...
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    from oceans (seawalls) or rivers (levees) The term wall comes from Latin vallum meaning "...an earthen wall or rampart set with palisades, a row or line...
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    Gothica. The vallum of Brazda lui Novac starts from Drobeta, nowadays it is visible to Ploiești. There is some evidence that the vallum eastern limit...
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    Phallic Carvings in the North of Roman Britain". In Parker, A (ed.). Ad Vallum: Papers on the Roman Army and Frontiers in celebration of Dr Brian Dobson...
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    miles (117 km), spanning the width of Britain; the Wall incorporated the Vallum, a large rearward ditch with parallel mounds, and was built primarily for...
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    [Antoninus's Route of the Britains], "Iter V. A Londinio Lugvvallium Ad Vallum" [Route 5: From Londinium to Luguvalium at the Wall], p. 96. Published posthumously...
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    rebuilding of the city enclosure began when az-Zahir Ghazi removed the vallum of Nur ad-Din—which by then outlived its temporary need—and rebuilt the...
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    the eponychium covering the proximal strip of the lunula. The nail wall (vallum unguis) is the cutaneous fold overlapping the sides and proximal end of...
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  • instructions of the ninth degree of the O.T.O. (Sex Magick) Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni - A perfect account of the task of the Exempt Adept considered under...
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  • coins, from which it appears that he had obtained renown by storming a vallum, and had hence obtained the surname of Vala, which, according to the usual...
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    Her name and imagery feature prominently in Crowley's "Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni". In her most abstract form, Babalon represents the female sexual...
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    Phallic Carvings in the North of Roman Britain". In Parker, A (ed.). Ad Vallum: Papers on the Roman Army and Frontiers in celebration of Dr Brian Dobson...
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    excavations at Birdoswald with John Gillam, before completing her thesis The Vallum Reconsidered, for which she received a doctorate from Durham University...
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  • entirely within the vallum ("wall"), which could be constructed under the protection of the legion in battle formation if necessary. The vallum was quadrangular...
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    July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (Iter V: Item a Londinio Luguvalio ad vallum mpm clvi sic) Friederich Nicolaus, Berlin, 1848. See also Reynolds, Thomas...
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  • German humanist writer, known for his Vallum humanitatis (1518). He was a pupil of Rudolph von Langen. Vallum humanitatis, sive Humaniorum litterarum...
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    average distance between fortifications is 1 km. The vallum shows signs of reconstruction. The last vallum to be built, the Stone Dyke, is also made of earth...
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    Newcastle College, with approximately 45,000 students. In Roman times the Vallum, a defensive barrier behind Hadrian's Wall, reached its easternmost limit...
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  • to death with a claw hammer on 30 May 2015 by her boyfriend Joshua Vallum. Vallum was a member of the Latin Kings gang, which forbids homosexual activity...
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    Petrosidius aquilifer, cum magna multitudine hostium premeretur, aquilam intra vallum proiecit; ipse pro castris fortissime pugnans occiditur" (Julius Caesar...
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    Limes Moesiae was the conjunction of two, and sometimes three, lines of vallum, with a Great Camp and many minor camps spread through the fortifications...
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  • may have lived in the paramilitary zone between the Antonine Wall and the Vallum to the south. The term "areani" means "people of the sheep-folds", and many...
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    Hadrian's Wall at Heddon-on-the-Wall, with the Vallum ditch running parallel in the background, behind the fence....
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