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The site core with its stone walls encloses an area approximately 1.5 by 0.5 kilometres (0.93 mi × 0.31 mi) and it contains 92 artificial islets—stone and coral fill platforms—bordered by tidal canals. [11] The name Nan Madol means "within the intervals" and is a reference to the canals that crisscross the ruins. [12]
It used stone arches and waterproof cement. [40] On it is written: Sennacherib king of the world king of Assyria. Over a great distance I had a watercourse directed to the environs of Nineveh, joining together the waters.... Over steep-sided valleys I spanned an aqueduct of white limestone blocks, I made those waters flow over it.
A stone pillar at Vazhappally Maha Siva Temple (വാഴപ്പള്ളി ക്ഷേത്രം) which is attributed to Perumthachan with its four identical sides made using a dovetail joint trick which was only later understood.
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Kigilyakhs in the Ulakhan-Sis Range Kigilyakhs on Chetyryokhstolbovoy Island, East Siberian Sea. Kigilyakh or kisiliyakh [1] (Russian: кигиляхи; Yakut: киһилээх, meaning "stone person") are pillar-like natural rock formations looking like tall monoliths standing more or less isolated.
The Manpupuner rock formations. The Manpupuner rock formations (Man-Pupu-Nyor; Mansi: Мань-Пупыг-Нёр [manʲ.pupiɣ noːr], literally ’Small Idol Mountain’; Komi: Болвано-Из [bolvano iz], literally ’Idol Stone’) are a set of 7 stone pillars located west of the Ural Mountains in the Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the Komi Republic.
The Tower of Hanoi (also called The problem of Benares Temple [1] or Tower of Brahma or Lucas' Tower [2] and sometimes pluralized as Towers, or simply pyramid puzzle [3]) is a mathematical game or puzzle consisting of three rods and a number of disks of various diameters, which can slide onto any rod.
A padrão (Portuguese pronunciation: [pɐˈðɾɐ̃w], standard; plural: padrões) is a stone pillar left by Portuguese maritime explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries to record significant landfalls and thereby establish primacy and possession. They were often placed on promontories and capes or at the mouths of major rivers.