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  The Namibian | Sport News | Castle withdraw bid to sponsor soccer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Castle informed the NFA that the N$4,6 million was a minimum guaranteed value as several potential joint sponsors were still awaiting their budget approval and thus were not included.
Furthermore, pledges of some Castle Brewing Namibia's consortium members were added to the opposing bid to artificially inflate their figures," Van Rooijen claimed.
Castle with several co-sponsors have supported the national team since 1997 and helped the Brave Warriors qualify for the African Nations Cup finals in Burkina Faso.
www.namibian.com.na /2001/April/sport/01E6DCECEA.html   (440 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Atienza is a clear example of a rock castle built on a tall abutment of rock, the site of earlier Roman and Visigothic fortifications, it acquired great strategic importance when it became an important link in the chain of Moslem defenses along the Duero river to the eleventh century.
The castle was formed of two walled precincts The upper walls, fairly low, circled the edge of the rock and was reinforced at the south end by a square tower.
The only parts of the castle that remain today are the partially restored principal tower, two large cisterns cut into the rock, one of the gates called Arrebatacapas and a few fragments of the outer wall.
www.castles.org /castles/Europe/Western_Europe/Spain/Atienza-Guadalajara/index.htm   (249 words)

  
 Ravensworth Castle, North Yorkshire
The castle itself stands on a well-defined raised platform near the north side of this enclosed shallow basin, which despite modern attempts at drainage is swampy and in winter holds considerable areas of standing water.
The castle platform, which appears to be at least partly artificial, is in plan roughly rectangular, its longer axis north-east to south-west, the greatest length being c.
This is a term of convenience to refer to the north-eastern third of the castle platform, the area first reached on passing through the Gateway, and separated from the remainder of the castle area by the two sections of internal ditch.
members.fortunecity.com /hburdon/ryder.html   (6840 words)

  
 Rye Castle Museum
In the centre of the excavation a rectangular island was left, levelled and raised artificially and to be occupied by the future castle.
A feature of Bodiam Castle, which is supposed to be unique, is the bridge of timber built to approach the castle gateway sideways from the west bank.
In 1481 the lake was reduced to a moat and the castle was rebuilt in the form of a fortified manor house.
www.ryemuseum.co.uk /IdenMote.htm   (462 words)

  
 The Dahn's
Altdahn is the oldest of a group of three castles on an extensive mountain ridge to the south-east of Dahn.
The neighboring castle, Grafendahn, is from the second half of the 13th century, Tanstein from the beginning of the 14th century.
Artificially constructed passageways, stairways and chambers cut into the cliffs themselves were part of the castles, and even today convey an impression of primeval times.
www.caltim.com /rheinland/dahn_castles.htm   (141 words)

  
 Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record
The present building stands on the E of an artificially made platform, approximately circular in shape with no definite ditch except on the side next to the road where it is about 0.7m deep with a steep bank up to the platform, which at its N end is about 0.33m high.
It is surmised that at some time in the 18th century the owner of the timber framed house rearranged his garden and levelled the motte and bailey enclosure bank, filling in the moat on all sides but that facing the road and removed or buried the stone foundations and thus formed the present platform.
Although Dugdale notes castle ruins the site now consists of a roughly circular moated platform with a deep ditch on the W and and the line of the ditch visible on the S. The house, which is 16th century and later, stands towards the rear of the circular platform.
timetrail.warwickshire.gov.uk /detail.aspx?monuid=WA570   (1390 words)

  
 Castles For Sale In Eastern Germany
Such castles are not as abundant anymore as they once were, but there are still hundreds awaiting a buyer and renovation, including some which have been renovated in part where the owner has run out of funds and now has to sell at a reasonable cost to get rid of them.
It is always the outside of a castle or manor house which has to be renovated within a certain amount of time, a requirement that is usually stipulated in the purchase contract.
As an incentive to buyers to rebuilt and renovate these historic castles and manor houses in their original form the governments of the various states are offering grants which are available to investors, not as loans, but as incentives which never have to be paid back.
www.escapeartist.com /OREQ12/Castles_For_Sale.html   (1518 words)

  
 Water castle
Built on a slavish embankment(rampart) castle in swamp region of Ehle-Aue, the castle was, according to its first mention in the records (948), in German hands.
The artificially constructed hill on which the nuclear castle was built is still very recognizable.
The initial nuclear castle, today's upper castle with the keep as centre point, was presumable an expansion of a pre-castle from the 12./13 hundreds.
www.gommern.de /en/tourismus/water_castle.htm   (161 words)

  
 Cadzow Castle - Castle Duncan Forums
The current stone castle was probably built by the second Earl of Arran between 1542-48, and was much modified in the later 18th and 19th centuries during landscaping works undertaken by the Duke of Hamilton.
The castle is thought to date from the second quarter of the 16th century, the work of Sir James Hamilton of Finnart, on behalf of the 2nd Earl of Arran.
The castle is thought to have been slighted after the siege of 1579 by forces on behalf of the Earl of Mar, Regent of James VI and his allies, against the Hamilton family.
www.castleduncan.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1432   (3769 words)

  
 Beaudesert Castle, Warwickshire
The castle is in a superb, commanding position over the surrounding countryside, and was built on a natural ridge: perfect for the task that it was built for.
Lord Bergavenny held the castle from 1376 to 1410 followed by the Boteillers of Sudeley until it was sold to Edward IV in 1477.
The original road to the castle winds further along, beside what is now a housing estate, to the side of the inner bailey and the entrance to the motte, where once a drawbridge and portcullis would have stood.
www.courts.fsnet.co.uk /beaudesert.htm   (1422 words)

  
 Lancashire County Council Environment Directorate: Archaeology and Heritage
The castle is on top of an isolated crag, rising in the middle of the vale down which the River Ribble runs.
Castle ditches and moats are mentioned in a document of 1304.
The ancient entrance to the castle was on the eastern side and the approach on the west seems to be of more recent origin.
www.lancashire.gov.uk /environment/archaeologyandheritage/archsites/arch16.asp   (480 words)

  
 Castles of England and Wales: Chapter 2
Castle Hill, at Thetford, may be put down as Anglo-Saxon, while, as the Bayeux Tapestry proves beyond a doubt, Hastings is contemporary in time and identical in situation with the Norman invasion.
Of the adulterine castles characteristic of the anarchy of Stephen’s reign, hardly one can be identified with certainty to-day — it may be, indeed, that earthworks commonly thought to be British are relics of these very castles.
Originally the castle ditch, which passed between barbican and gatehouse, had a loop passing in front of the barbican, so that the gatehouse was protected by two drawbridges and a portcullis, in addition to its flanking rectangular buttresses corbelled out above into oblong turrets containing shelters.
kellscraft.com /CastlesEnglandandWales/CastlesEnglandandWalesCh02.html   (1568 words)

  
 frontline: once upon a time in arkansas: THE CASTLE GRANDE DEAL
Susan McDougal was convicted of fraudulently obtaining a $300,000 loan that was tied to Castle Grande.
The Castle Grande deal, like other transactions at the SandL, was essentially a sham deal -- a "pyramid scheme" intended to enrich institution insiders and bolster the institution's stated net worth.
According to Clark, Madison was one of the three worst cases of insider dealing that heíd seen in his 20 years as an examiner.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/castle   (1529 words)

  
 Phosphates - Castle Dome, Arizona
Several phosphate minerals occur in the Castle Dome copper deposit near Miami, Arizona, some of which are of special interest because of their uncommon occurrence in deposits of this type.
The Castle Dome copper deposit is in the Globe-Miami mining district, Gila County, Arizona, five miles west of Miami.
The Castle Dome open-pit mine, on the south slope of Porphyry Mountain, is owned and operated by the Castle Dome Copper Company, Inc. It was developed by the owners as a war project, and since June 1943 has produced about 4,000,000 pounds of copper per month.
www.minsocam.org /msa/collectors_corner/arc/castle_dome.htm   (3164 words)

  
 No. 98-1271: Romano v. SEC - Opposition
Castle agreed to participate in a scheme whereby it and others, including petitioner, would manipulate the price of USE stock.
D'Onofrio told petitioner in advance that Castle would be receiving an order from another broker-dealer, and he specified the price at which petitioner was to fill the order.
Castle received $175,000 for executing trades at the direction of D'Onofrio and other participants.
www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1998/0responses/98-1271.resp.html   (1919 words)

  
 Reality and The Man in the High Castle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Wyndam-Matson's company clandestinely creates artificially aged copies of these much sought after antiques, called "Americana." The boundary between what is authentic and that which is forgery, however, is in Wyndam-Matson's opinion, a massive hoax.
High Castle calls attention to the fact it is a fictional world; it announces, Waugh suggests, "I am make-believe." (MF 35) It lays bare perhaps the most fundamental device of all fiction: the frame that defines the story as a fictional world.
Overhead, the American artificial moon wheeled, distributing the signal, carrying it everywhere...to all the waiting, avid masses of the East.
members.tripod.com /~ashwood/high-castle.html   (3044 words)

  
 The L Magazine, New York City's Local Event Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Her stories are distinguished by their wealth of psychological nuance (“Chekovian” is the default critical adjective), often characterizing the lives of women navigating the up-heaving social and sexual mores of the postwar years, and by the correspondingly deep-rooted sense of place conveyed in her clear-voiced descriptions of rural Ontario.
And then, at the end of the voyage, she skims across the remainder of their (often unlikely) lives and comes to rest on their gravestones, in a churchyard “well within sound of Highway 401.” In a few pages, she reframes the characters’ interior lives as part of the landscape on which her country is built.
And in ‘Home’, the second part of Castle Rock, Munro’s project — lives understood as part of a wide social history, and through emotional links only visible in the fullness of time — is brought to bear on her own life.
thelmagazine.com /4/22/critique/.cfm?ctype=1   (977 words)

  
 The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The history of the castle can be traced back to a Saxon fortification which Ethelfleda, the daughter of Alfred the Great, had built to protect against the threat of Danish invaders.
The east front of the castle, comprising Caesar's Tower, the Gatehouse and Guy's Tower, was constructed in the 14th century by Thomas de Beauchamp, the 12th earl of Warwick.
Later, as the castle declined in military importance, the main living quarters were converted into luxurious residences reflecting the wealth and status of the owners.
www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20010916.C02   (774 words)

  
 Castles
Castles became important in western Europe in the late A.D. 900's and the 1000's.
In addition, a castle served as a barracks, prison, storehouse, armory, treasure house, and center of local government.
European castles developed from fortified camps built by the ancient Romans and from fenced villages of prehistoric Europeans.
www.angelfire.com /il2/wizardhome/castles.html   (395 words)

  
 Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza: Hîrinórë   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The river has been artificially redirected to surround the castle providing power to the castle's mill just outside the outer wall on the castle's eastern flank.
The castle is currently in an administrative capacity, providing growth and support to the expansion of safe land into Rhudaur.
The feudal government (Feodality) of the region controlled by the castle was until recently operated by Lord Rènëar Sagãrterél, an experienced Forferyth Ranger of the North.
www.lotrplaza.com /forum/houseview.asp?house=138   (856 words)

  
 Amazon.de: The Castle.: English Books: Franz Kafka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
While reading "The Castle" I couldn't get over the impression that I was reading the first draft of something the author probably would have refined and improved had he lived longer.
This book is most emblematic of the man's life, fueled by Kafka's desire to merge the material world,(get married, work, be part of a community) and the spiritual, to be conscious of living.(i.e.
The determination to reach something so uncertain, so out of reach, and I think the supposed ending gives us Kafka's sense of tragedy clearly cut; salvation always coming when it is no longer desired or possible, situations that man affronts that seem to have been in ill-regard, and out of his control.
www.amazon.de /Castle-Franz-Kafka/dp/074939952X   (1186 words)

  
 Defending A Castle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Castles were usually located on sites that could be easily defended, such as rocky crags, river bends, or islands.
Round towers,situated at the corners of a square castle, were the weak point of defence against enemies battering rams and also made it difficult for archers to see around.
The third way of gaining control of a castle would be to wait and let the people in the castle run out of resources or starve to death.
www.yesnet.yk.ca /schools/projects/middleages/defendingcastle/defendingcastle.html   (367 words)

  
 Tour Inchture In The Carse Of Gowrie
It must have been a very low island, for its eminence is hardly noticeable in the level flats; indeed the church and churchyard are alleged to be built up 6 to 8 feet artificially, presumably to afford suitable burial facilities in the early days.
Tuir, in Gaelic means a dirge, or lament for the dead, and it may be that the original inch got its name thus; although another claimed derivation is innis-t-ear, the island to the east.
A battle was allegedly fought near the ruined castle of Moncur, across the main road to the north of the village, in 728, when in a civil war Hungus, or Angus, defeated Nectan and gained the leadership of the Picts.
www.scotland247.co.uk /inchture2.htm   (455 words)

  
 Austin Real Estate Blog
This castle is located in West Austin in an area where a lot of the houses are sitting on lots that are 2 or more acres.
While the architecture lends the structure to being called a castle, it's different than a typical castle in that parts of the structure are one story.
While this castle is not that far from central Austin, the area is less incorporated and most of the houses in the area are on lots that are an acre or more.
www.escapesomewhere.com /austinblog   (4186 words)

  
 Harry Avery's Castle
A curiously enigmatic castle named after and possibly built by Henry Aimbreidh O'Neill, a Gaelic chief celebrated by the Four Masters for his justice, nobility and hospitality who died in 1392.
The castle commands wide views over the Mourne Valley and is unusual in being a stone-built stronghold located deep in the heart of pre-Plantation Ulster.
The castle was captured by the English in 1609.
www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/travel/attractions/castles/avery.shtm   (199 words)

  
 Knucklas Castle
Remfry set the building of Knucklas Castle in the context of the struggles between the English and Welsh for control of Maeliennydd, an area which comprises much of the former county of Radnor.
hese were a departure from the traditional of castle building in the area in that they were both on the tops of significant natural hills instead of low, artificially constructed, mottes.
The castle is last mentioned in contemporary records in 1316, and it is very unlikely it was anything more than a ruin by the time of Owain Glyndwr's revolt in 1402.
www.castlewales.com /knucklas.html   (629 words)

  
 August 4-英语点津
of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland, from Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland and from Cardiff City Hall.
Artificially bred Tunku The bodies of three civil rights workers missing for six weeks have been found buried in a partially constructed dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation found the three young men - two white and one fl man - about six miles from the town in a wooded area near where they were last seen on the night of 21 June.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /language_tips/2006-08/04/content_654190.htm   (719 words)

  
 World Vegetarian Congress 1963 - President's Message
While still in the womb of his mother, modern man is artificially deformed by alcohol, tobacco, and wonder-drugs.
Not satisfied to contaminate the yet unborn, Man further insures his own destruction by polluting the air, land, and water with noxious fumes, radio-active fall-out, and a wide selection of pesticides that destroy birds and earthworms, as well as friendly microbes, which under natural conditions, feed on the toxic metabolic waste of the human organism.
Today, in an age of artificially instigated anxieties, nearly every-one-each in his own fashion-is seeking some sort of security.
www.ivu.org /congress/wvc63/president.html   (975 words)

  
 Return to Castle Wolfenstein 1.3.3 - Mac OS X - VersionTracker
Notify me when Return to Castle Wolfenstein is updated on VersionTracker.
You must first escape from imprisonment in the castle to report the strange creatures and happenings in and around Wolfenstein to the OSA.
The music is really annoying, the graphics are so-so, the gameplay is not engaging, and the occult is used to artificially lend creepiness to the game, a cheap gimmick that's getting really old in the game world.
www.versiontracker.com /dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12479&vid=49526   (425 words)

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