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Reconstruction of a palisade in a Celtic village at St Fagans National History Museum, Wales Reconstruction of a medieval palisade in Germany. A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a row of closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall.
The Palisades, also called the New ... Palisade is derived from the same root as the word pole, ultimately from the Latin word palus, meaning stake. A "palisade" is ...
At the perimeter of the cove are completed sections the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway, offering views of Manhattan and the Palisades. The name Weehawken comes from the Lenape, and can translate as "at the end of", [1] either the Hudson Palisades or the stream which flowed from them into the cove, later the site of the nearby Lincoln Tunnel.
The name "Pacific Palisades" comes from the term for a tall wooden fence ... Mean daily maximum °F (°C) ... Palisades Rocks The Fourth is a Palisadian tradition ...
Palisades Park (Freddy Cannon song), a hit song by Freddy Cannon; Palisades Park (Counting Crows song), a song by Counting Crows; Palisade Avenue (Hudson Palisades) in Hudson and Bergen, New Jersey; Palisades Center, a major shopping center in West Nyack, New York; Palisades Charter High School, in Los Angeles, California; Palisades Dam, Idaho
The Palisades Sill as seen from the Palisades Interstate Parkway. The Hudson River is the background. The Palisades Sill is a Triassic, 200 Ma diabase intrusion. It extends through portions of New York and New Jersey. It is most noteworthy for The Palisades, the cliffs that rise steeply above the western bank of the Hudson River.
Two experts appointed by the World Health Organization to investigate allegations that some of its staffers sexually abused women during an Ebola outbreak in Congo dismissed the U.N. agency’s ...
After making this climb, LeConte is quoted as writing in a letter, "I have called the peak merely the North Palisade. Put Dusy's name on some less imposing mass, and give us a name to be handed down through all time." [11] The peak has been called North Palisade since that day, and received official recognition by the U.S. Board on Geographic ...