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The word originates from the French caponnière, meaning "chicken coop" (a capon is a castrated male chicken [1]). [ 2 ] In some types of bastioned fortifications, the caponier served as a means of access to the outworks , protecting troops from direct fire; they were often roofless.
People in the Castle of Bastille, (Musée de la Révolution française). An eyewitness painting of the siege of the Bastille by Claude Cholat A plan of the Bastille and surrounding buildings made immediately after 1789; the red dot marks the perspective of Claude Cholat's painting of the siege. Flag of the regiment defending the Bastille
A castle doctrine, also known as a castle law or a defense of habitation law, is a legal doctrine that designates a person's abode or any legally occupied place (for example, an automobile or a home) as a place in which that person has protections and immunities permitting one, in certain circumstances, to use force (up to and including deadly force) to defend oneself against an intruder, free ...
The Buena Park castle joins its sister location in New Jersey as the second to unionize.
Stormveil Castle is a fictional castle depicted in the 2022 action role-playing game Elden Ring, developed by FromSoftware. It is the game's first "legacy dungeon", a self-contained dungeon crawl designed to be reminiscent of earlier games in the Dark Souls series. As such, it also functions as a tutorial for the game's mechanics.
Knock-and-announce rule; Castle doctrine Semayne's Case (January 1, 1604) 5 Coke Rep. 91, is an English common law case reported by Sir Edward Coke , who was then the Attorney General of England . In the United States, it is recognized as establishing the " knock-and-announce " rule.
Not that much happens in “The Sand Castle.” Rather, there are various incidents (a fishing expedition gone awry, a mysterious object appears under the sand, a storm ravages the lighthouse).
Evreinov's dramatic creation was extremely influential in the commemoration of the deposition of the Provisional Government, which in reality took place at night and was much less dramatic than depicted either in Evreinov's spectacle or in Sergei Eisenstein's feature film October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927).