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Bar gates, especially manually operated ones, are often counterweighted to allow easier manual control. [7] Bar gates are frequently paired end to end or closely offset to block traffic in both directions. Some bar gates also have a second arm which hangs 30 to 40 cm below the upper arm when lowered to increase approach visibility.
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The room above the gate itself was probably added shortly after 1400 and the town steward books mention a banquet held there in 1434. [12] It was originally used as the city's guildhall, until the 1770s. [13] It was at this point that the city began to grow to the north of the gate. [14]
In Bill Gates' new autobiography, "Source Code: My Beginnings" (published February 4 by Knopf), the computer pioneer and philanthropist writes of his formative years, and the experiences that led ...
A "great ditch", later called Bar Dike, had been built on west side of the town by 1169, and by the 13th century there were a couple of formal gateways to the town: North Bar and South Bar (later called Keldgate Bar). [1] In 1322, however the town of Beverley petitioned parliament, requesting that they be allowed to build a protective town wall ...
Bagua is a group of trigrams—composed of three lines, each either "broken" or "unbroken", which represent yin and yang, respectively. [1] Each line having two possible states allows for a total of 2 3 = 8 trigrams, whose early enumeration and characterization in China has had an effect on the history of Chinese philosophy and cosmology.
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War is a nonfiction book written by Robert M. Gates, a former U.S. secretary of defense. It was published in January 2014 by Alfred A. Knopf . The book recounts Gates's service in the George W. Bush administration (2006–2009) and the Obama administration (2009–2011), including his experiences managing the ...
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