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The dark lord Morgoth sends an army over the Encircling Mountains during Gondolin's festival of The Gates of Summer, and sacks the city with relative ease. Morgoth's army consists of orcs , Balrogs , dragons and in early versions of the story iron machines powered by "internal fires".
The Golden Gate of the Ecliptic is an asterism in the constellation Taurus that has been known for several thousand years. The asterism is formed of the two eye-catching open star clusters , the Pleiades and the Hyades that form the posts of a virtual gate on either side of the ecliptic line.
The harbour lay on the southern shore of the Golden Horn, east of today's Galata Bridge, in the fifth region of Constantinople, where the sea walls made a deep nick, in correspondence of the Byzantine Gate of Eugenius (the Ottoman Yalıköşkü kapısı), [2] and extended successively westwards, finally occupying the first inlet after the estuary entrance.
Gate of Divine Might and moat. The gate was built in 1420, during the 18th year of Yongle Emperor's reign. [1] The Gate was originally named "Black Tortoise Gate" (玄武門; Xuánwǔmén), but when Qing dynasty's Kangxi Emperor, whose birth name was Xuanye (玄 燁), ascended to the throne, the use of the Chinese character Xuan (玄) became a form of naming taboo.
Portcullis at Desmond Castle, Adare, County Limerick, Ireland The inner portcullis of the Torre dell'Elefante in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy A portcullis (from Old French porte coleice 'sliding gate') is a heavy, vertically closing gate typically found in medieval fortifications. [1]
Spartan is a turn-based strategy game developed by Slitherine Strategies in 2004. The game is set in ancient Greece and Asia Minor. Spartan is a turn-based game; however, when armies encounter each other in battle the game switches to real time combat available in both 2D and 3D visuals. Most reviewers were positive about the extent of ...
Two more of tips you can take from Gates’ overall strategy can be boiled down to: 2. Long-term investing gives you more protection from market fluctuations and the power of compound interest.
The Bab-el-Mandeb (Arabic: باب المندب, lit. ' Gate of Lamentation ', [1] Tigrinya: ባብ ኣል ማንዳብ), the Gate of Grief or the Gate of Tears, [2] is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa.