Sentences with phrase «as public baths»

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One of the major «means of the transmission and diffusion of imperial ideology» was the construction, throughout the empire, of buildings associated with the pursuit of specifically Roman forms of leisure: public baths, circuses, amphitheatres, and Roman - style theatres — a phenomenon recognized as one of the defining features of Roman culture (both by the Romans themselves and by others).

At first they were subjected to all kinds of social restrictions, they were heated as outcastes and polluted persons, they were banned from showing themselves at the baths and market places and finally they were excluded from all public places, essentially places where they worshipped their gods, because they believed that the very presence of these outcastes violated the place of their gods.

None of them is to enter a public bath unless he is wearing a sign around his neck which distinguishes him from a Muslim, such as a ring of iron, lead, or the like.

Its wide main thoroughfare, which could accommodate several chariots in a row as well as pedestrians, its inviting shops and invigorating public baths, its stadium and large theater, which would seat twenty thousand people, made it the Rome of the East.

The waqfs were created for a great variety of services, such as the building and upkeep of water conduits, fountains, wells, roads, sidewalks, bridges, kitchens for the distribution of free meals, guest houses, homes for widows, schools, libraries, mosques, tekkes, cemeteries, open — air places for prayer, caravansaries to lodge full caravans of men and animals, clock - rooms for telling time, bakeries for distributing bread and cakes to the poor, dispensaries, hospitals, public baths, shaded land on the roadside.

The unusual feature of this concept was combining several energy - saving technologies which were all considered state of the art, but which had never been realised in a major project such as a large public bath.

The widespread nature of both intestinal parasites and ectoparasites such as lice also suggests that Roman public baths surprisingly gave no clear health benefit either.»

I found mentions of this type of facial steam in some of my old natural remedy and homesteading handbooks that I found at estate sales and thrift stores, and it turns out that this remedy may have been used as far back as Ancient Egypt in public bath houses and private residences.

This bodysuit is an obvious choice for me as it's basically a bathing suit, and what's more liberating than walking around in public in your bathing suit!

His ideas on building public baths are seen as too antiquated, and this causes him to lose his job.

As the decade progressed, public bathing experienced an explosion in popularity across the country.

It is generally not possible to maintain public facilities such as pay telephones, toilets and baths, playgrounds, drinking fountains, vending machines, recreational areas, etc. in Belize City because of vandalism.

The discovery of iron - rich springs close to the town in the Georgian period enabled Whitby to capitalise upon a growing public demand for bathing in «medicinal» waters, and the town reinvented itself as a spa resort.

Sutro Baths was created as a huge swimming and bathing facility, offering six saltwater swimming tanks of varying sizes, shapes and water temperatures that provided exercise and recreation to the San Francisco public.

Public baths have also become incorporated into the social system as meeting places.

As the title suggests, public bathing does not refer only to bathing.

Speaking about public bath place in Bali, you can not expect well sanitized public bath place as you will see in Japan.

For something unusual you can head to Tejakula, a local town famed for its horse bath which now acts (slightly disturbingly) as the towns public bath.

One of the most successful major public art projects in recent (ish) memory as Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project, when in 2003 the Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall was bathed in sunlight and a sublime fine mist that felt entirely otherworldly.

These sites are now almost all returned to civilian use, and are now within the landscape as local bathing spots, public parks, pathways, deer sanctuaries, industrial estates and petrochemical facilities amongst others.

For better and for worse, one was simply «on the street» in public space, bathing in the comforts, or terrors, of the human sea and his work is the marbled evidence of this beauty mixing with decay as only his eyes could capture it.

THE arch of a historic bridge is to be bathed in colour this summer as the first public artwork by the Turner Prize nominee Callum Innes.His installation, under Regent Bridge in Edinburgh's Old Town, will pave the way for light shows across the city's closes as previously neglected areas of the urban landscape are given new life.The Regent Bridge was built just after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and overseen by the legendary lighthouse engineer Robert Stevenson to provide a grand entrance to the city from London Road through Waterloo Place.

The Japanese «furoshiki,» or «cloth for the bath,» was first used in the 14th century as a way to wrap one's clothes while taking a public bath.

As well as imprisonment, statutory duties to submit to fingerprinting, to produce documents, to give oral testimony and not to loiter in or near school grounds, playgrounds, public parks and bathing areas are all deprivations of liberty attracting the rules of fundamental justicAs well as imprisonment, statutory duties to submit to fingerprinting, to produce documents, to give oral testimony and not to loiter in or near school grounds, playgrounds, public parks and bathing areas are all deprivations of liberty attracting the rules of fundamental justicas imprisonment, statutory duties to submit to fingerprinting, to produce documents, to give oral testimony and not to loiter in or near school grounds, playgrounds, public parks and bathing areas are all deprivations of liberty attracting the rules of fundamental justice.

If your home is described in public records as a cozy two - bed, one - bath home, but you or former owners have converted it into a sprawling, five - bed mini-manse with four bathrooms, you should expect the online value estimates to be wrong.