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The castle is bordered on two sides by the Tumblestone River and the Red Fork. The third side fronts on a massive manmade ditch. It was built by Ser Axel Tully on land he received from the Andal King Armistead Vance. The castle is the location of Robb Stark's great victory over House Lannister and the site of his crowning.
Castle Gwynn was featured in Taylor Swift's music video for "Love Story". [21] Castle La Crosse (La Crosse, Wisconsin) designed for Lumber Baron N.B. Holway in 1892. This imposing limestone building incorporates Richardson Romanesque with Queen Anne elements.The main residence contains 40+ rooms over 5 floors, 17,000 square feet.
The main building was designed to give the structure the appearance of a castle which reflected the theme of the Knights of Pythias.Its foundation and exterior is constructed of "Carthage Stone", an especially hard variety of limestone commonly quarried in the Ozarks. [1]
Redcastle (Scottish Gaelic: an Caisteal ruadh), historically known as Edirdovar and Ederdour, is a medieval castle in Killearnan on the Black Isle, northern Scotland. It is so named from the colour of the stone of which it is built. The castle is now in a state of ruinous disrepair, although it is protected as a category B listed building. [1]
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.The main residence, Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 [2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m 2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft ...
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The name the Norse Greenlanders gave the previous inhabitants of North America and Greenland. Skuggifjord Hudson Strait Straumfjörð "Current-fjord", "Stream-fjord" or "Tide-fjord". A fjord in Vinland. Straumsey ("Current-isle") lies at the mouth of Straumfjörð. Suðreyjar "Southern islands". Hebrides. Suðrvegr "South way", Germany. [3 ...
The Lapis Niger (Latin, "Black Stone") is an ancient shrine in the Roman Forum. Together with the associated Vulcanal (a sanctuary to Vulcan) it constitutes the only surviving remnants of the old Comitium, an early assembly area that preceded the Forum and is thought to derive from an archaic cult site of the 7th or 8th century BC.