Sentences with phrase «largest city gates»

It is one of the largest city gates ever found in Israel, attesting to the importance of the city 3,000 years ago.

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As to the former, popes have had none for more than a century; and as to the latter, while the financial resources of the Catholic Church as a whole are very large, the pope has direct command of very little of them, and even the entire budget of Vatican City is scarcely more than a mote in Bill Gates» eye.
In the ruins of a shrine excavated next to the gate of Lachish, the largest city of the kingdom of Judah after Jerusalem, archaeologists found an altar with the horns cut off from each corner.
«We should be concerned that we never fall into the trap of becoming an exclusive place, that we don't become a gilded city, that we don't become a large, gated community.
The Ackerman Family Bar - Ilan University Expedition to Gath, headed by Prof. Aren Maeir, has discovered the fortifications and entrance gate of the biblical city of Gath of the Philistines, home of Goliath and the largest city in the land during the 10th - 9th century BCE, about the time of the «United Kingdom» of Israel and King Ahab of Israel.
Take a Day Trip to Golden Gate Park — Larger than New York City's Central Park, Golden Gate Park is three miles long and half a mile wide and is San Francisco's biggest and most popular outdoor spot.
Milius discounted matte shots, employing, like John Boorman's Excalibur, miniatures placed in the environment, added to life - size sets, as if larger cities or villages extended in the background, seamlessly segueing from Conan entering a city's gates, to his drunkenly punching out a camel impeding his progress through markets which throng with myriad extras.
Earlier this year, Peter Meyer described the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fix high schools in New York City by converting large high schools into smaller schools.
Interestingly, these new schools, supported by grants from philanthropist Bill Gates (see Colvin, «The New Philanthropists»), have attracted considerably more controversy than the charter schools, in large part because they played a role in overcrowding and friction at high schools that were not small elsewhere in the city.
Often, as in the case of the Gates Foundation's creation of small high schools to replace large, big - city high schools, they have brought about the opposite of what they intended.
In December, CPS became the latest large urban district to sign an agreement with the Gates Foundation, pledging greater cooperation and collaboration between the city's charter and neighborhood schools.
's most recent post, about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $ 45 million worth of bogus Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies that were recently honored with a 2013 Bunkum (i.e., meaningless, irrelevant, junk) Award by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), it seems that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are, once - again, «strong - arming states [and in this case a large city district] into adoption of policies tying teacher evaluation to measures of students» growth.»
View Larger Map City of Ottawa Spay / Neuter Clinic 26 Concourse Gate, Unit no 5 Nepean, K2E 7T7 (Located in the Colonnade Business Park, off of Colonnade Road South.)
A: No, the airport is small and the walk from the front door to your boarding gate is relatively short compared to large city airports.
Tens of thousands of slaves, many Christians kidnapped from European villages as far north as Iceland by Moroccan pirates, worked and died to construct more than 50 palaces, the 20 gates and the large city wall.
Stroll through the capital, Ponta Delgada to admire its baroque buildings, most notably the Portas da Cidade (City Gates), comprising three large arches built in the 1700s.
Comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are together the largest public arts institution in the City of San Francisco, and one of the largest art museums in the United States.
14) Theaster Gates: Known for his juggernaut urban reclamation project, Gates was awarded a $ 1.3 million contract by the Chicago Transit Authority to create the city's largest public artwork project in its history; and $ 50,000 of that will go toward activities for community engagement.
Whether it is the creation of intellectual property entities or joint ventures that allow shared ideation and ensure long - term commitments to a project, Gates will unpack the messy work associated with doing large city projects and administratively complicated works of «art.»
With an annual budget of about $ 55 million, the Fine Arts Museums — which consist of the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor Museum in Lincoln Park — are jointly the largest public arts institution in the city.
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco and one of the largest art museums in California, United States.
Many of these pieces bear mystical titles: Sky Cathedral (1958); Silent Music II (1964); Sky Gate — New York, one of her largest wall sculptures, World Trade Center, New York City (1978; destroyed September 11, 2001).
New Hampshire's 2nd largest city and nicknamed «The Gate City», Nashua is home to almost 90,000 people who enjoy the town's close proximity to the White Mountains, the Atlantic Ocean, and Boscity and nicknamed «The Gate City», Nashua is home to almost 90,000 people who enjoy the town's close proximity to the White Mountains, the Atlantic Ocean, and BosCity», Nashua is home to almost 90,000 people who enjoy the town's close proximity to the White Mountains, the Atlantic Ocean, and Boston.
San Francisco, home of the Golden Gate Bridge, is the fourth largest city in the state of California.
Vancouver has a love affair with lions, not just because of the Lions Gate Bridge and the B.C. Lions Grey Cup champions, but also because the lion dance has become a cultural mainstay of many Chinese festivals within the city's large Asian community.
These include the sale of Mulberry's store on London's New Bond Street, Hines» Cannon Place in the City of London, a large Scottish shopping centre and Waverley Gate in Edinburgh.
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