WebA defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple palisades or earthworks to extensive military fortifications with towers, bastions and gates for access to the city. From ancient to modern times, they were used to enclose settlements.

WebThe Kansas City Star is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri.Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. The Star is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S. Truman and as the newspaper where a young Ernest Hemingway honed his writing style. The paper is the major newspaper of the …

WebThe Derinkuyu underground city (Cappadocian Greek: Μαλακοπή Malakopi; Turkish: Derinkuyu Yeraltı Şehri) is an ancient multi-level underground city in the Derinkuyu district in Nevşehir Province, Turkey, extending to a depth of approximately 85 metres (279 ft).It is large enough to have sheltered as many as 20,000 people together with their livestock …

WebMcDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms", as protected under the Second Amendment, is incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and is thereby enforceable against the states.The decision …

WebManhattan (New York County) is the geographically smallest and most densely populated borough; is the symbol of New York City, as home to most of the city's skyscrapers and prominent landmarks, including Times Square and Central Park; and may be locally known simply as The City. Manhattan's (New York County's) population density of 72,033 …

WebYork has, since Roman times, been defended by walls of one form or another. To this day, substantial portions of the walls remain, and York has more miles of intact wall than any other city in England. They are known variously as York City Walls, the Bar Walls and the Roman walls (though this last is a misnomer as very little of the extant stonework is of …

WebThe Gum Wall is a brick wall covered in used chewing gum under Pike Place Market in Downtown Seattle.It is located on Post Alley near Pike Street, south of the market's main entrance off 1st Avenue.Parts of the gum coating alongside the walls are several inches thick, and the coating is 15 feet (4.6 m) high along a 50-foot-long (15 m) section. The …

Web33 Thomas Street (formerly the AT&T Long Lines Building) is a 550-foot-tall (170 m) windowless skyscraper in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan, New York City.It stands on the east side of Church Street, between Thomas Street and Worth Street.The building is an example of the Brutalist architectural style. It is a telephone exchange or wire center building which …

WebThe C Eighth Avenue Local is a 19-mile-long (31 km): 1 rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway.Its route emblem, or "bullet", is blue since it uses the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Midtown Manhattan.. The C operates at all times except late nights between 168th Street in Washington Heights, Manhattan, and Euclid Avenue in East New …

WebMutianyu (Chinese: 慕田峪; pinyin: Mùtiányù) is a section of the Great Wall of China located in Huairou District within the city limits of Beijing 70 kilometers (43 mi) northeast of the center of the city. The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall is connected with Jiankou in the west and Lianhuachi in the east. As one of the best-preserved ...