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unusual facts about Doorway


Doorway

"The Doorway", the season six, 2-hour premiere episode of the television series Mad Men


Chiesa di San Costanzo

In the lower part, there is a doorway dating from the fourteenth century, surmounted by the crest of the Counts of Anjou, while in the upper part there are two of the priest's house windows.

Child's Ercall

The village church has a 12th-century doorway, a 13th-century arcade and 14th-century aisle, as well as stained glass by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Cill Chriosd

The church doorway, in the south wall, has splayed jambs and check and square sconsions.

Copán

The outer doorway is framed by the giant mask of a deity, and has stylistic similarities with the Chenes regional style of distant Yucatán.

Hofn Air Station

From bases located at Archangel and Murmansk, Soviet aircraft would stream down to the North Cape in Norway towards the Gap which was use as a doorway to the vast Atlantic.

Hungarian art

Many beautiful village churches survive from this periods, both round churches (Szalonna, Kallósd and Nagytótlak), and those with western tower and southern doorway at Nagybörzsöny, Csempeszkopács, Őriszentpéter, Magyarszecsőd, Litér, Velemér and Zalaháshágy.

Krautwiller

A Romanesque doorway (today walled up) was originally the entrance to this ancient chapel dedicated to Saint Ulrich.

Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema

She specialised in highly sentimental domestic and genre scenes of women and children, often in Dutch 17th-century settings and style, like Love's Beginning, Hush-a-bye, The Carol, At the Doorway (c.1898, shown right) and Sunshine.

Lozells

The Royal Oak pub on Lozells Road (now a shop) has a doorway by William Bloye.

Maximón

In the town of Santiago Atitlán, when clothing of Maximón's effigy is washed during the week before Easter, the waste water is saved and distributed as holy water to local shop keepers, who believe that when sprinkled around the threshold of the shop doorway, the water will entice customers into the shop to make a purchase.

Nightrise

Jamie and Scott use a hidden doorway in a cave at Lake Tahoe, and emerge in Cuzco, Peru at the Santo Domingo church.

Rothbury

Near the town's All Saints' Parish Church stands the doorway and site of the seventeenth century Three Half Moons Inn, where the Earl of Derwentwater stayed with his followers in 1715 prior to marching into a heavy defeat at the Battle of Preston.

Shadoevision

Norman Jones is just a run-of-the-mill CPA until he stumbles through a mysterious doorway into an alternate reality onto a spaceship where a talk show that is evolving mankind broadcasts from.

St Gregory's Church, Vale of Lune

The doorway to the porch is on the west side, over which is a small gable containing the Ingmire Hall cross.

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Wyken

The church was originally built in the 12th century CE, and the original doorway and nave and chancel survive.

St Peter's Church, Cambridge

It has a 13th-century south doorway, and a 12th-century font, decorated with mermen at the angles.

Stalled Out in the Doorway

Stalled Out in the Doorway is the debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter Tomi Swick, released August 15, 2006.

Synagogue in the Agora of Athens

During an excavation in the summer of 1977, a piece of Pentelic marble apparently once part of a curvilinear frieze over a doorway or niche was discovered a few meters from the northeast corner of the Metroon.

The Builders

Then, in further questioning Basil about the work, Stubbs finds out maybe he was not called in for nought after all; while making a doorway leading into the kitchen, which was on a load-bearing wall, O'Reilly had used a wooden lintel for the support frame rather than a concrete one or Rolled Steel Joist.

The Head of Janus

This transformation is brought about, not by experimentation with chemicals as in Stevenson's original, but through the supernatural agency of a bust of Janus (the Roman god of the doorway), which Warren / O'Connor purchases in the opening sequence as a gift for his sweetheart, Jane Lanyon (Margarete Schlegel).

The School of Restoration Arts at Willowbank

Designed by architect, John Latshaw, and built of local Whirlpool sandstone, the building is characterised by the rare features of eight hand-carved columns running its full two-story height, and by a front doorway of Greek design.

Valerie Mewes

Stephen Ward, who was to become one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo Affair, claims to have met Mewes in a doorway in Oxford Street during a thunderstorm at night.

Waveland State Historic Site

The main doorway of the mansion is considered to be an exact replica of the doorway of the north entrance to the Erechtheion at the Acropolis in Athens.


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