Some articles on columns, column:
... The castings for the ends of the columns and walls located above the cornices, the forging from the sheets of copper sculpture details including the figures of geniuses ... The cast iron for the columns were cast in another local factory ... Each column is composed of nine separate blocks together with the trunks and the upper units of the columns ...
... A number of onging columns appear in the journal including "The Peripatetic Communitarian" Observations of Geoph Kozeny, data collector for the Directory, and visitor to hundreds of communities ...
... These regions are columnar and are physically separated from adjacent resonance columns by areas of inhibited cortex between them ... It is not known what the exact function of these columns is, although their formation occurs only when the cortical white matter afferents are stimulated at the gamma frequency range, implying ... The regions of inactive cortex that form between cortical columns were determined to be actively inhibited administration of a GABAA blocker stops columnar development ...
... Los Prismas Basálticos (The Basalt Prisms) are tall columns of basalt rock that line a ravine through which water runs from the San Antonio Dam ... The walls of the canyon, called the Barranca de Alcholoya, are lined by polygonal columns between thirty and fifty meters high with five or six sides ... The basalt columns were created by the slow cooling of volcanic lava ...
... who designed the now demolished two-tier south portico that consisted of four Tuscan columns with four Ionic or Composite columns above ... the erection in 1770–1772 of the two twin quadrant colonnades of Ionic columns that flank the facade, these may be to Robert Adam's design ...
Famous quotes containing the word columns:
“The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf.... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then ... be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“Newspaperman: That was a magnificent work. There were these mass columns of Apaches in their war paint and feather bonnets. And here was Thursday leading his men in that heroic charge.
Capt. York: Correct in every detail.
Newspaperman: He’s become almost a legend already. He’s the hero of every schoolboy in America.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)