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In architecture a wagon ceiling is a semicircular, or wagon-headed, arch or ceiling. The term sometimes describes a ceiling whose section is polygonal instead of semicircular.
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In architecture wainscot is a wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels.
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The Wall of Antoninus or Graham's Dyke was a barrier erected by the Romans across the isthmus between the Forth and the Clyde, in the reign of Antoninus Pius. Its western extremity was at or near Dunglass Castle, its eastern at Carriden, and the whole length of it exceeded 27 miles. It was constructed in 140 by Lollius Urbicus, the imperial legate, and consisted of a ditch 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep, and a rampart of stone and earth on the south side 24 feet thick and 20 feet in height. It was strengthened at each end and along its course by a series of forts and watch-towers. It may still be traced at various points.
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In architecture a wall plate is a piece of timber placed horizontally upon a wall used for supporting posts, joists, and the like.
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In architecture the wash is the upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water. Hence, the term is applied to a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water, as a carriage wash in a stable.
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A washboard (baseboard, mopboard or scrubboard) is a board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering.
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The Washington Monument at Washington D C is an obelisk 555 feet high. It was begun in 1848 by the Washington National Monument Society, and finished in 1884 by the US Government.
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A watch box is a building used to house a guard to guard a cemetery. Watch boxes were built in Britain during the 18th century to guard cemeteries from body-snatchers.
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In architecture a water joint is a joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.
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In architecture a water table is a moulding, or other projection, in the wall of a building intended to throw off the water.
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In architecture a water wing is one of the two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.
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Wattle and daub is an ancient method of constructing walls. Flexible wooden rods, often hazel, of about one meter length and one centimetre diameter, are woven together and onto this framework a mixture of clay, chopped straw and animal dung (daub) is firmly pressed in.
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In architecture a weather moulding is a canopy or cornice over a door or a window, intended to throw off the rain.
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In architecture a weather strip is a strip of wood, rubber, or other material, applied to an outer door or window so as to cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or threshold, in order to exclude rain, snow, cold air, etc.
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In architecture a weatherboard is a board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath. The name is also given to a clapboard or feather-edged board used in
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In architecture weatherboarding is a covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.
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In architecture the term weathered describes something made sloping, so as to throw off water. For example a weathered cornice or window sill.
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The wee mac is a complex ornamental clay chimney pot comprising a tall cylindrical shaft, with downwards pointing outlets towards its lower end, a louvre just below the top and the top splayed and serrated like a tulip pot.
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In architecture a well is an opening through the floors of a building, used for a staircase or an elevator.
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In architecture a well staircase is a staircase having a wellhole as distinguished from one which occupies the whole of the space left for it in the floor.
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In architecture a wellhole is an open space in a floor, to accommodate a staircase. The name is also given to the open space left beyond the ends of the steps of a staircase.
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In architecture a wheel window is a circular window having radiating mullions arranged like the spokes of a wheel.
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The White House is the house or executive mansion at Washington, of the President of the United States. It is called the White House because it is painted white. The cornerstone was laid in 1792, and President Adams was the first President who occupied the mansion. It was completed in 1800. When the British held Washington for a single day in 1814, the White House was burned together with the Capitol and other buildings. Congress authorized its restoration in 1815, and it was again ready for occupation in 1818 and has been occupied by each successive President since that time. Its model was the house of the Duke of Leinster at Dublin.
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The White Tower is the keep of the Tower of London. It was built around 1070 by William The Conqueror.
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Whitewash is a term used in decorating to describe any cheap form of distemper based on whiting loosely bound with glue, glue size, casein or a similar binder.
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Whiting is a material prepared by grinding and pulverising natural chalk. Whiting loses its opacity when mixed with water, but regains it when the water evaporates. Whiting is unaffected by the alkaline properties of new plaster and is used in the preparation of distempers. Whiting mixed with raw linseed oil forms putty.
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A wigwam is the hut or dwelling place of the north-eastern Algonquian Indians of North America. There are four main types of wigwam: domed, peaked, tepee-shaped and the bark house. The domed wigwam was made of saplings driven into the ground and bent over to form a framework of arches over which spread birch or elm bark or reed mats.
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In architecture a winder is one in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other as distinguished from a flyer.
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In architecture the window back is the inside face of the low, and usually thin, piece of wall between the window sill and the floor below.
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In architecture a window sill is a flat piece of wood, stone, or the like, at the bottom of a window frame.
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In architecture, the window stool is the flat piece upon which a sash window shuts down, and which corresponds to the sill of a door.
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Windsor Castle is a royal palace in Windsor, Berkshire, England. It was built by William The Conqueror as a fortress and enlarged by Henry I who made it into a palace. Henry III strengthened its fortifications and Edward III was born in it and after his accession rebuilt and greatly enlarged the palace.
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In architecture a wing is a side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace.
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In architecture a withe is a partition between flues in a chimney.
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The World Trade Center was one of the world's tallest buildings, located in New York, USA and comprising two towers each of 110 floors, housing tens of thousands of employees including those who worked at the New York (Wall Street) stock exchange. At 0900 on the 11th of September 2001, just as the world financial markets were about to open, two hijacked passenger planes crashed into the towers, one into each, a few minutes apart, causing both towers to collapse about thirty minutes later.
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