The city's monuments date mostly from the Hellenistic period and include the acropolis, an Apollo temple and an agora. |
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Buddhist temple coins here in Japan are inscribed with kana syllables, not kanji ideograms. |
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The acropolis and the temple area Little is left of the acropolis, which was the highest spot of the town. |
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A long, jagged scar, starting just below his right temple and ending somewhere beneath his jerkin, showed brightly against his dark skin. |
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The loss of the temple was a divine judgment on account of the unfaithfulness of the priests, scribes and Sanhedrin elders. |
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There is a large khor between Gubbet Selim and Nilwaj on the side of which exist the ruins of an old temple. |
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The Wat Pho temple is known for its 46 meter long statue of reclining Buddha and the largest collection of Buddhas in the country. |
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Vestiges of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, bastions and oil mills are also well preserved. |
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For temple ceremonies, women wear a sabuk belt wrapped around the body up to the armpits, with a kebaya jacket over it. |
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The temple rises from the valley floor in three colonnaded terraces connected by ramps. |
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Significantly, Augustus moved the Sibylline books from the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus to the temple of Apollo Palatinus. |
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The temple was constructed over a period of 30 years, and illustrates some of the most beautiful examples of Khmer and Hindu art. |
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Tradition, in fact, takes back the antiquity of the temple, not by centuries, but by aeons. |
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Short excursions from the city take you to the ancient cities of Lindos, with its temple of Athena on its acropolis overlooking the sea. |
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This monticule was known as the site where the splendid temple had been built centuries ago. |
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As The Jackhammer rattled my cage with uppercuts and hooks to the temple, I defended myself, but only made a nominal effort to punch back. |
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Some French prisoners, who were Freemasons, carved bone snuff boxes depicting a Masonic temple and the all-seeing eye. |
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The text breaks into the temple of Russian literature with its lively and trembling, shocking and abrupt style. |
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Now, people also take care that they don't damage inscriptions, mainly during temple renovations and while whitewashing the temple walls. |
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This rambling temple complex is the largest wooden building in the world. |
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There is evidence of religious significance in the buildings, and what is called the temple was the royal residence and served as a sort of acropolis. |
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Phespirit never came across an acropolis or an Apollo temple or an agora. |
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Hundreds of thousands who had already arrived crowded into the temple on Tuesday behind the president to view the book, a collection of verses by Sikh gurus of the past. |
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The temple is thought to be an entrance to an important complex of buildings long since lost to the corrosive effects of the steamy Javan environment. |
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He'd been meditating when the first wave arrived, almost washing into the temple, and now he was coordinating the distribution of aid to approximately 2000 people. |
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Siem Reap is the nearest town to the Khmer temple of Angkor Wat. |
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In the carving, the temple is depicted with a classical pediment front and a colonnade of columns supporting the structure. |
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Celebrities flocked to this glamorous and buzzy temple of literature and culture. |
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Judging by the well-preserved remains it has been inferred that within the acropolis there had been the temple of god Apollo and Dionysous as well as the hippodrome. |
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When we arrived into Lalish, arches with symbols representing the sun indicated we were nearing the temple complex. |
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The adorned temple of Haldi was described as having multiple gates, where large numbers of animals were sacrificed. |
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In the center of the red stripe is a white temple, representing the main temple of Angkor Wat, the capital city of the Khmer empire from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. |
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Finally, we came to the ornately carved temple portal itself, adorned with an image of a snake to its side. |
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One temple on the acropolis bears cuts in its marble where the shields of slain enemies were displayed. |
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The most famous adytum in Greece was in the temple of Apollo at Delphi. |
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The portion of any street which passed a temple or public building was repaired by the aediles at the public expense. |
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Exhibits within the temple precincts are susceptible to warm air which had the effect of drawing corrosive salts out of the Roman stonework. |
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Where funds permitted, a classical temple portico with columns and a pediment might be used at the west front. |
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Sometimes their eyes are described as being pointed upwards at the temple ends. |
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On the Pratipada the kalasthapna ceremony is performed by the Chief himself in the Maoli temple. |
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One such site featured in her work is the temple site of Abu Simbel, depicted in Death on the Nile. |
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Things were much the same in the government and temple records on papyrus of Ancient Egypt. |
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With irresistible majesty and authority our Saviour removed the exchange, and drove the mercat out of the temple. |
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The concept of temple states centred on religious shrines occurs in some discussions of the ancient world. |
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Govinda's temple and restaurant, run by the Hare Krishnas in Swansea, is a focal point for many Welsh Hindus. |
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There are also temples in Edinburgh and Dundee with plans announced in 2008 for a temple in Aberdeen. |
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In 1926, Doyle laid the foundation stone for a Spiritualist temple in Camden, London. |
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The other great buildings were the temple, which were monumental complexes preceded by an avenue of sphinxes and obelisks. |
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In the town of Aegae in Euboea, he was known as Poseidon Aegaeus and had a magnificent temple upon a hill. |
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This was Arthur's O'on, a circular stone domed monument or rotunda, which may have been a temple, or a tropaeum, a victory monument. |
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The temple walls are decorated with many examples of the work of both Sherab Palden Beru and his western pupils. |
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They all had a grid plan and a forum, and sometimes a temple, a basilica, thermae or an aqueduct, like Carhaix. |
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Monuments from the Roman period are rare, but include a large temple in Corseul and scarce ruins of villas and city walls in Rennes and Nantes. |
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His collection fell as booty to Pompey the Great, who deposited it in a temple in Rome. |
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The Sikh Golden temple, the Harmandir Sahib, is a building covered with gold. |
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One such instance portrays an angry Jesus driving dishonest market traders from the temple. |
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Furthermore, the Gospels contain numerous attacks on the Sadducees, a sect of Judaism that was wiped out with the destruction of the temple. |
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The Hindu community's payasams, especially those made at temples, like the Ambalappuzha temple, are famous for their rich taste. |
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Though outarmed, Maccabee's forces pushed the enemy soldiers out of Jerusalem, and retook the sacred temple. |
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Nearby, immense catacombs and columbaria have been opened which may have been appendages of the temple. |
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The temple was built in the Ptolemy era and dedicated to Osiris, which finished the construction of Alexandria. |
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A massive prehistoric stone wall surrounded the ancient temple of Ness of Brodgar 3200 BC in Scotland. |
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However, these estimates are based on people affiliated with a temple, rather than the number of true believers. |
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Its usually sponsored by a local shrine or temple, though they can be secular. |
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Supplicants burn paper money and joss sticks, and pray for good fortune to the temple deity, Tua Pek Kong. |
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Yet temple prostitution played an important role in Astarte's cult at Phoenicia. |
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The great temple was destroyed by the Spanish during the construction of a cathedral. |
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Of course there will be a collection of unprecedented merit in the temple about to be raised in Albertopolis. |
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Traditionally, Chinese families will visit the temple before gathering in families for a hearty meal and exchange of angpao or lucky money. |
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The reflection of a greater thing claimed her and taught her, held her like a bayadere in a temple court. |
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In the courtyard of the Ambaji temple near Mount Abu the Navaratri festival is celebrated with Bhavai performances. |
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One deep wound had been inflicted upon the temple, apparently with some blunt instrument, which had penetrated the brain. |
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A further twenty-six well-preserved statues were discovered in 1989 where they had been buried in a cachette under the floor of the temple. |
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The procession began, and the celebrants filed into the temple patio to dance the Dance of the Serpent. |
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The temple of Janus with his two controversal faces might now not unsignificantly be set open. |
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Ah Ching went to the temple on her behalf on every major festival to kou chim, that is to ask one's fortune through the use of fortune sticks. |
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Asatruarfelagid lacks a central religious temple, or hof in Icelandic. Constructing a hof has been high on the members' wish list for many years. |
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The columns of the Melqart temple at Tyre were also of religious significance. |
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Examples include Tibetan singing bowls, temple bells of many sizes and shapes, gongs, Javanese gamelan and other bronze musical instruments. |
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He refused the request of Alexandrian Greeks to dedicate a temple to his divinity, saying that only gods may choose new gods. |
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Claudius' temple was left unfinished after only some of the foundation had been laid down. |
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The founding of a Roman temple to Claudius at Camulodunum was one of the impositions that led to the revolt of Boudica. |
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Boudica's army fell on the poorly defended city and destroyed it, besieging the last defenders in the temple for two days before it fell. |
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To add insult to injury, the Romans had erected a temple to the former emperor Claudius in the city, built at local expense. |
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Behind the cella was a room or rooms used by temple attendants for storage of equipment and offerings. |
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The form of the Roman temple was mainly derived from the Etruscan model, but using Greek styles. |
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The Mithraic relief located in Micklegate suggests the location of a temple to Mithras right in the heart of the Colonia. |
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Constantine built the new Church of the Holy Apostles on the site of a temple to Aphrodite. |
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And I would ask counsel to check his sense of humor at the door. My courtroom is a temple of decorum, and I do not tolerate jibber-jabber. |
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The Celtic gods were worshipped at the temple of Sulis at Bath and possibly the temple on Brean Down. |
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A culture of megalithis temple builders then either supplanted or arose from this early period. |
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Animal bones and a knife found behind a removable altar stone suggest that temple rituals included animal sacrifice. |
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Archaeologists speculate that the temple builders fell victim to famine or disease, but this is not certain. |
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The Kantajew Temple and Dhakeshwari Temple are excellent examples of late medieval Hindu temple architecture. |
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These texts discuss theology, philosophy, mythology, Vedic yajna, Yoga, agamic rituals, and temple building, among other topics. |
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Bhindranwale and his accompanying followers, as well as many innocent Sikhs visiting the temple, were killed during the army's operations. |
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Dhul Khalasa is referred to as both an idol and a temple, and it was known by some as the Ka'ba of Yemen, built and worshipped by pagan tribes. |
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Public religious ceremonies of the official Roman religion took place outdoors, and not within the temple building. |
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In newly planned Roman cities the temple was normally centrally placed at one end of the forum, often facing the basilica at the other. |
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This flexibility has allowed the Roman temple front to be used in buildings made for a wide variety of purposes. |
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Examples of modern buildings that stick more faithfully to the ancient rectangular temple form are only found from the 18th century onwards. |
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Rajaraja Chola I of the Chola Dynasty in South India built the world's first temple entirely of granite in the 11th century AD in Tanjore, India. |
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In 2008 a Hindu temple was constructed in Blandford Forum for the Gurkhas based at the town's military camp. |
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Erecting a deepastambha in front of a temple is still a general practice in western and southern India. |
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When the Big Temple in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu was built, there were elaborate measures taken to provide lighting for the temple. |
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When the goddess has had her fill she is returned to her temple by the priests. |
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They had a special goddess of the ford called Ritona and a temple dedicated to Uorioni Deo. |
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Octavian forcibly entered the temple of the Vestal Virgins and seized Antony's secret will, which he promptly publicized. |
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A temple dedicated to Isis Panthea and Magna Mater was discovered in 2000 and is open to the public. |
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It is said that he was desirous of erecting a temple to Jesus but was dissuaded by the pagan priests. |
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In many societies, literacy was restricted to the elite classes, such as the clergy or the bureaucracy of court or temple. |
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Rodnover worshippers at the wooden temple of the Slavic Kremlin, Podolsky District, Moscow Oblast. |
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Since Olsen's survey, however, archaeological evidence of temple buildings has come to light in Scandinavia. |
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In the area of architecture, a few examples of the Ionic order can be found as far as Pakistan with the Jandial temple near Taxila. |
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The Sam Poo Kong temple in Semarang was built to commemorate Zheng He's voyage to Java. |
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Phimai, Prasat Phimai is the largest temple in the country from the Khmer Empire. |
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Liu was a painter, calligrapher, poet, and mathematician, and he became Kublai's advisor when Haiyun returned to his temple in modern Beijing. |
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From the Maldives, he carried on to Sri Lanka and visited Sri Pada and Tenavaram temple. |
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Large statues of a meditating figure unite the human figure with the symbolism of temple and tower. |
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World religions regard the body itself as a temple and prayer as a column uniting earth to heaven. |
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This duty extended to lodging and medical treatment of pilgrims to the temple at Jerusalem. |
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The Gujarati community is settled mostly around the Jain temple in and around the Valliyangadi. |
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One of the most important duties of the king was to build a temple or a Buddha statue as a symbol of prosperity and peace. |
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After circling around the temple once or three times, the procession halts in front of the closed doors. |
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The temple shrines contained between one and three rooms, and were dedicated to important deities. |
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Many had officially recognized cults large enough so that the deity was represented in the central temple precinct of the capital Tenochtitlan. |
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The burial dates back to the 1480s and lies at the foot of the main temple in the sacred ceremonial precinct of the Aztec capital. |
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In addition to the great temple of Quetzalcoatl and various palaces, the city had 365 temples. |
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In response, de Alvarado ordered a preemptive slaughter of Aztec nobles and priests celebrating a festival in the city's main temple. |
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Furious at the prophecy, Atahualpa went to the sanctuary, killed the priest, and ordered the temple to be destroyed. |
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On 13 March 2008, archaeologists discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, roadway and aqueduct system at Saksaywaman. |
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The temple was destroyed by its Spanish invaders who, as they plundered, were determined to rid the city of its wealth, idolaters and shrines. |
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Nowadays, only a curved outer wall and partial ruins of the inner temple remain at the site. |
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The Wanli Emperor granted this request and designated a Buddhist temple for the purpose. |
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A temple is pseudoperipteral if it has the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or at one end. |
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Depending on what practice the practitioner wishes to undertake, it can be done at a temple or at home. |
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It should not be confused with a temple name, by which many leaders are known. |
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The previous temple building traditions in South India came together in the Vijayanagara Architecture style. |
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It is usually done to purify the temple after a renovation or simply done to renew the purity of the temple. |
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The ceremony is generally held when new Jain temple is erected or new idols are installed in temples. |
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Leaders of Wuyue were noted patrons of the arts, particularly of Buddhist temple architecture and artwork. |
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One can see this symbol as a decorative element on Taoist organization flags and logos, temple floors, or stitched into clerical robes. |
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The site of the temple is known as the Plan de Jupiter, located on a knoll on the Italian side of the pass. |
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The coins and votive tablets found at the site of the temple roughly date the upper limit of Roman control of the pass. |
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The temple has all the major Hindu deities and is dedicated to the Lord Mahavira of the Jains. |
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They built forts in the mountains which are studied today, as are the ruins of a large Samnite temple and theater at Pietrabbondante. |
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Because he was chaste, the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews. |
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Blessed art thou in the holie temple of thie glorie, and superpraised and superglorious for euer. |
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Again Abdullah listened intently, his eyes closed, his ten fingers forming a temple of his hands in front of him. |
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She also describes herself as a Hindu temple-goer who visits the temple on a regular basis. |
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The De Immensa is... a prolonged hymn of wonder and praise and intellectual exaltation, sung in the temple of immensity. |
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I could overlook an unsnipped tip, but this clueless? He had never heard the words synagogue or temple? I couldn't handle it. |
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The Ven. U Warthawa knelt down in the temple of the monastery to worship before the image of the Buddha. |
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And his discreete father, being safe according to his vowe, hanging vp his wings in the temple of Appollo. |
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He explained that the hill was a Zoroastrian fire temple which was burnt down during the Achaemenian reign and remained desolate for a long time. |
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They suggest that these tiles may have come from a temple dedicated to the Assyrian god Adad and the Urartian god Haldi. |
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We look forward to his pending republication of the double temple dedicated to Anu and Adad. |
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Most importantly, the streamlined temple houses a built in air chamber with enough flotation to make the glasses unsinkable. |
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Within the temple, they found a cache of treasure hoarded for centuries. |
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With a square ground plan, the pyramid rises on terraces, with staircases leading up on all four sides to the temple of Quetzalcoatl on top. |
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Kaleka, 65, was a cofounder of the temple and father of two sons. |
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He watched with amazement and relief as the men, his men, his heroes, reconsecrated the temple and rekindled the Ner Tamid, the Eternal Flame. |
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I plucked them from the crevice, hoping not to find a bent temple. |
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For a cheat's DIY version, just do a small, normal plait on both sides, starting at the temple, and secure with kirby grips. |
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A variety of Roman remains have been found, including Pagans Hill Roman temple in Chew Stoke, Low Ham Roman Villa and the Roman Baths that gave their name to the city of Bath. |
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In Bali, Indonesia, the black fibres of Arenga pinnata called ijuk is also used as thatched roof materials, usually used in Balinese temple roof and meru towers. |
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He added the temple of Peace and the temple to the Deified Claudius. |
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The city has a sizeable Indian community and the Lakshmi Narayan mandir which opened in April 2008 is the largest Hindu temple in northern England. |
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When a street passed between a public building or temple and a private house, the public treasury and the private owner shared the expense equally. |
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The Pantheon was much the largest and most accessible complete classical temple front known to the Italian Renaissance, and was the standard exemplar when these were revived. |
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Lands were donated to or conquered for the temple for this sole objective. |
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I mock them all who have served me ill of late and chiefly this cheat of Judah, whose temple we have plundered and whose golden vessels are my wash-pots. |
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The most important of these scenes shows the king leaving his palace with the goddess of writing, Seshat, in order to lay out the foundations for the temple. |
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The long, skewerlike dagger flashed and fell. The dealer struggled like a hen, striking his temple on the shelf, and then tumbled on the floor in a heap. |
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The city and temple of Jerusalem were completely destroyed, its most valuable treasures carried off by the Roman army, and nearly 100,000 people were captured and enslaved. |
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Mendut Vihara, a Buddhist monastery near Mendut temple, Magelang. |
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In these temple fronts with columns and a pediment are very common for the main entrance of grand buildings, but often flanked by large wings or set in courtyards. |
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And he made a scourge of smale cordes, and drave them all out off the temple, bothe shepe and oxen, and powred doune the changers money, and overthrue their tables. |
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A temple of Hephaestus also stood on Pharos at the head of the mole. |
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The Walhalla temple above the Danube near Regensburg, Germany. |
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Gandhi was most likely the first Jain and the first Gujarati to travel to the United States, and his statue still stands at the Jain temple in Chicago. |
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The Roman form of temple developed initially from Etruscan temples, themselves influenced by the Greeks, with subsequent heavy direct influence from Greece. |
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Ludwig I of Bavaria had Aventinus' bust erected in the Walhalla temple. |
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Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. |
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The ordinary worshipper rarely entered the cella, and most public ceremonies were performed outside, on the portico, with a crowd gathered in the temple precinct. |
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The inscription praises Buddha and describes the fleet's donations to the famous Tenavarai Nayanar temple of Tondeswaram frequented by both Hindus and Buddhists. |
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The temple is officially known as the Preston England Temple. |
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Sikh communities are in East and West London, particularly Southall in the western borough of Ealing, which is also home to the largest Sikh temple in the capital. |
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Their construction and maintenance was a major part of ancient Roman religion, and all towns of any importance had at least one main temple, as well as smaller shrines. |
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Here are the temple at Bassae, both as reconstructed by Laubin and drawn by Cockerell, and the Temple of the Giants at Agrigentum and one of its straining atlantes. |
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Already, while alive, he received the widespread private worship of a living Princeps and was worshipped in Britannia in his own temple in Camulodunum. |
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The terms of this treaty, including the fixed borders between the two countries, are recorded in a bilingual inscription on a stone pillar outside the Jokhang temple in Lhasa. |
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The heathens poured out the blood of saints around the altar, and trampled on the bodies of saints in the temple of God, like dung in the streets. |
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The Tamil Brahmins are primarily settled around the Tali Siva temple. |
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In all cases, it ultimately meant the symbolic integration in the Assyrian worldview, with its centre in the religious capital and the unique temple of Assur. |
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And hit fortuned that after.iii. dayes, they founde hym in the temple sittinge in the middes of the doctours, both hearynge them, and posinge them. |
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Widow Twankey's sensational outfits range from a PVC dress based on a bottle of Vanish for the Slosh scene and a bright red Chinese lampshade tiered Chinese temple. |
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Diwata in Mindanao, and the temple complex of Medang in Java. |
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Members of the Indian expatriate population have the option of worshiping at the large Hindu temple in the city, or at the Sikh gurdwara along United Nations Avenue. |
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The most representative building of that era was the temple. |
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By the Classic period, temple roofs were being topped with roof combs that extended the height of the temple and served as a foundation for monumental art. |
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There are Sikh communities in East and West London, particularly in Southall, home to one of the largest Sikh populations and the largest Sikh temple outside India. |
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A common sight in India is a crowd of people gathered in the courtyard of a temple or at the doorway of a streetside shrine for the darshan of the deity. |
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Tenochtitlan's main temple complex, the Templo Mayor, was dismantled and the central district of the Spanish colonial city was constructed on top of it. |
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Each temple was under the supervision of its chief priest or priestess. |
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The Elizabethan antiquarian William Camden argued that a temple to the goddess Diana had stood during Roman times on the site occupied by the medieval St Paul's Cathedral. |
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Cut some shapes at Madeira's grooviest temple to the god of night. |
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In the 20th century, the temple was tunnelled by archaeologists. |
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Eleven years later, in 586, after another senseless revolt, Jerusalem was destroyed and Yahweh's temple, his objective correlative on earth, was burned to the ground. |
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There was a temple to Poseidon and a statue of Arion riding the dolphin. |
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Its massive Roman walls still survive, and excavations have revealed a forum, a temple, baths, amphitheatre, shops, and many comfortable houses with mosaic floors, etc. |
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John the Baptist's at Perth on 11 May on Christ cleansing the temple. |
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Odd was the chieftain of Borgarfjord on the south side of Hvita then. He was the godi of the temple to which everyone living south of Skardsheidi paid tribute. |
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He was tribune of the plebs in 66 and praetor on June 68, during which time he was ordered by the Governor of Spain Galba to take an inventory of the temple treasures. |
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The simplest form of the rectangular temple was that in which the two side walls were carried out from the naos to form the porch at one or both extremities of the building. |
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The pujari at the Kalika Mata temple lightly tolls the bell and then in a voice that is as clear and crystalline as the sky this morning sings the Surya Stotra. |
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For when the leader was come into Persia, and the army with him that seemed invincible, they were slain in the temple of Nanea by the deceit of Nanea's priests. |
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One of the bas reliefs decorating the temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia depicts a demon performing such an abortion upon a woman who has been sent to the underworld. |
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The famous row of four colossal statues outside the main temple at Abu Simbel each show Rameses II, a typical scheme, though here exceptionally large. |
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The practice of dedicating temples to different deities came into vogue followed by fine artistic temple architecture and sculpture style of Vastu Shastra. |
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The temple paintings and carvings used birds, elephants, wild animals, flowers and trees, and the Traditional 18 Dances display the dancing of birds and animals. |
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Nameboard with Tamil at Koneswaram temple at Thirukonamalai, Sri Lanka. |
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In the beginning of Paradise Lost, as well as throughout the poem, there are several references to the rise and eventual fall of Solomon's temple. |
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In 1942, Jiao Juyin directed the play in a Confucian temple in Sichuan Province, to which the government had retreated from the advancing Japanese. |
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The entasis varies in different temples and is not found in some, as, for instance, the temple of Athena Nike and in the east portico of the Erechtheum. |
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Remains of Roman rural temples have been excavated on Farley Heath and near Wanborough and Titsey, and possible temple sites at Chiddingfold, Betchworth and Godstone. |
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In the early afternoon, the hare pie is spread on the ground at a dip at the top of Hare Pie Bank, which is possibly the site of an ancient temple. |
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