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unusual facts about The Walls


Rathangan, County Kildare

Damien Dempsey, Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club, The Blizzards, The Walls, Jack L, and John Spillane have all performed in the town as part of the Lughnasa since 2004.



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557 Constantinople earthquake

In early 559, attacking Huns managed to pass through damaged areas of the Walls.

826michigan

Some programs also allow for less traditional publishing opportunities; in both 2008 and 2009, student poetry was displayed on the walls of the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority bus fleet.

A.C.L. Carlleyle

In 1867-68, Carlleyle discovered paintings on the walls and ceilings of rock shelters in Sohagighat, district Mirzapur.

All Saints Church, Ulcombe

The walls feature wall paintings in various locations including St Michael defeating Satan, a number of crucifixions and Dives and Lazarus.

Arcata Theatre

Inside details were in the Art Deco style, including cumulus clouds painted on the ceiling and Murals of swimming mermaids painted on the walls.

Bathroom sex

David O. Sacks and Peter Thiel, in their book The Diversity Myth, noted that at Stanford University, holes were drilled in the walls between toilet stalls in men's bathrooms, specifically in those located in the history department and in the libraries.

Battle of Bergerac

An Anglo-Gascon Army commanded by Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Derby, defeated a French force under Henri de Montigny, Seneschal of Périgord, outside the walls of Bergerac, leading to the loss of the town.

Battle of Buena Vista

Meanwhile Wool rallied the broken regiments using the walls of the hacienda at Buena Vista as a defensive position supported by a battery under Thomas W. Sherman and two regiments of dragoons.

Berks and Hants Railway

Mortimer railway station on the Basingstoke branch is a good example of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's "chalet" style station; the main building has a wide roof that extends beyond the walls on all four sides to give shelter to passengers and there is a small waiting shelter on the opposite platform that is in matching style.

Botolphs

Inside Botolph's church the walls bear many plaques commemorating the local Penfold family, whose descendents emigrated to Australia and are now famous for wine production under the Penfolds label.

Casino Luxembourg

With a view to using the building for art exhibitions during Luxembourg City's year as European Cultural Capital in 1995, the Swiss artist Urs Raussmüller of Schaffhausen's Hallen für Neue Kunst was charged with adapting the casino into an exhibition space for a limited period by creating substantially more hanging space than could be provided by the walls in the various rooms.

Endowment House

In 1856, William Ward painted the walls of the creation room to represent the Garden of Eden, the first such temple mural.

Final Witness

On the walls near her body, he had spray-painted pleas for help with his pain and his "total failure".

FoodLand

Part of this effort included ads placed along the walls of the rink at the Civic Arena for the Pittsburgh Penguins during their Stanley Cup championship years in the early 1990s.

Geoffrey de Morton

In addition it appears that none of the money was actually spent on upkeep of the walls, which might have had disastrous consequences during the Bruce campaign in Ireland.

Gurjara-Pratihara

Beautifully carved panels are also seen on the walls of temples standing at Osian, Abhaneri and Kotah.

Heilbronn Hauptbahnhof

The floor of the lobby is made of Jurassic limestone tiles, and the walls are covered with Jurassic and Travertine panels.

Indirectly struck idiophones

112.13 Vessel rattles - Rattling objects enclosed in a vessel strike against each other or against the walls of the vessel, or usually against both.

Irgenhausen Castrum

In 1897 stones of the ruined building (believed at the time to be those of a medieval castle) were used for the construction of a factory nearby; the dilapidation was stopped by the Antiquarische Gesellschaft in Zürich in order to start archaeological investigations, carried out between 1898 and 1908, and to preserve the walls.

Liang Congjie

Liang's father, architect Liang Sicheng, had led attempts to prevent the destruction of the walls surrounding Beijing with the land to be used for the construction of highways.

Marittima

The walls of the single nave, once adorned with numerous paintings, are now home to only those of Saint Francis of Assisi and Immacolata.

Oblique projection

In French, the « cavalier » (literally rider, horseman, see Cavalry) is an artificial hill behind the walls that allows to see the enemy above the walls.

Palermo Cathedral

The mosaic portraying the Madonna is from the 13th century, while the two monuments on the walls, works of the early 18th century, represents King Charles III of Bourbon and Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, the latter of which was crowned here with his wife Anne Marie d'Orléans in December 1713.

Pat LoBrutto

The walls were lined with popular fiction and non-fiction; Greek and Roman classics; beautifully bound volumes from the 19th Century; complete sets of Shakespeare, Dickens, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain, and Edgar Allan Poe.

PatchWerk Recording Studios

The walls in the hallways are decorated in Gold and Platinum plaques from the likes of Ras Kass, OutKast, Goodie Mob, TLC, 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Missy Elliott, Beyoncé, Madonna, Too $hort, Lil Jon, Ludacris, T.I., Young Jeezy, Birdman and Lil Wayne, to name a few.

Peter Boizot

At PizzaExpress and the jazz clubs he commissioned pop artists such as Sir Peter Blake, Eduardo Paolozzi and Enzo Apicella to fill the walls of the establishments.

Petronas Towers

According to Laozi, the reality of a hollow object is in the void and not in the walls that define it.

Pitigliano

: Built outside the walls during the Renaissance, and together with the nearby monastery of the same name at the behest of the Orsini, was designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. The religious building, partially destroyed by fire in the early 20th century, stands on the hill Strozzoni north of the center.

Pittura infamante

Konrad von Landau, painted on the walls of Bologna for treachery; in response Landau created his own "pittura infamante" on the saddle of his horse, depicting the local politicians hung upside down by their feet in the hand of a giant whore.

Pontifical Academy of Archaeology

The Academy succeeded in obtaining, from Pope Pius IX, a decree for the demolition of the houses on the left side of the Rotonda (Pantheon), and also protested against the digging of new holes in the walls.

Remuh Cemetery

During the German occupation of Poland, the Nazis destroyed the cemetery tearing down the walls and hauling away tombstones to be used as paving stones in the camps, or selling them for profit.

Reportedly haunted locations in Alabama

The Boyington Oak in Mobile, a Southern live oak that reportedly grew from the grave of Charles Boyington in the potter's field just outside the walls of Church Street Graveyard.

Rossgarten

Located outside of the walls was Kalthof to the east and the Pferderennbahn, or horse racing track, in Carolinenhof to the northeast.

Ruthmere Mansion

In the hallway are a doll collection, a grandfather clock and art hanging on the walls and stairwell, including The Lost Profile by William Morris Hunt, a portrait of the painters' wife, and a self-portrait by Samuel F. B. Morse.

Sack of Amorium

The city's fortifications were strong, with a wide moat and a thick wall protected by 44 towers, according to the contemporary geographer Ibn Khordadbeh, and the caliph assigned each of his generals to a stretch of the walls.

Sagrestia Vecchia

Set along one of the walls is the porphyry and bronze sarcophagus of Giovanni and Piero de' Medici by Verrocchio.

Śajvo

Within the walls of the bookstore readings performed such leading figures of Ukrainian literature, as Ostap Vyshnya, Maksym Rylsky and Pavlo Tychyna.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden

When the church extension work was carried out, the floor was covered with ceramic tiles designed by Edward William Godwin and the walls decorated with 1881 wall paintings in the Aesthetic Movement style by Heaton, Butler and Bayne that depict the Nativity, the Four Evangelists and the Prophets.

St. Anne Shell Chapel

As the chapel was being built, Sister Mary Joseph Le Fer de la Motte had the idea to line the walls with iridescent river shells from the nearby Wabash River.

Stockel metro station

Murals on the walls across each of the tracks from the single island platform illustrate more than 140 characters from Hergé's comic The Adventures of Tintin.

Tear down the wall

a CROSS//the EARTH Tear Down the Walls, the 11th album by the Australian music group Hillsong United

Testerton

By the end of that century the parish church of Saint Remigius was already very ruined, and at some point after this time the walls were completely removed.

The Haçienda

As well as club nights there were regular concerts, including one in which Einstürzende Neubauten drilled into the walls that surrounded the stage.

The Walls Fell Down

"The Walls Fell Down" is a third single by the English rock duo The Marbles, Lead vocals by Graham Bonnet it was released in March 1969, and it was written and produced by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, of the Bee Gees, and was also produced by Robert Stigwood, It reached #28 in the United Kingdom, but in the Netherlands it reached #3.

Troy VII

These dates correspond closely to the mythical chronology of Greece as calculated by classical authors, placing the construction of the walls of Troy by Poseidon, Apollo and Aeacus at 1282 BC and the sack of Troy by the Greeks at 1183 BC.

Tungchow Mutiny

In July, a detachment of approximately 800 troops of the Chinese 29th Army, under the command of General Sung Che-yuan and loyal to the Kuomintang government, camped outside the walls of Tongzhou.

Walls of Thessaloniki

The northern part of the walls adjoins the acropolis of the city, which formed a separate fortified enceinte, and within it lies another citadel, the Heptapyrgion (popularly known by its Ottoman name, Yedi Kule).

William Sanders Scarborough

However, in 1892, Scarborough gave a lecture on Plato at the University of Virginia with pictures of Jefferson Davis and other confederate leaders on the walls and no other African Americans allowed into the room except as servants.