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- How often were massive medieval cathedrals maintained?
Medieval cathedrals were some of the tallest structures around How often were they cleaned, painted and maintained, especially the taller sections of the exterior?
- Why is Europes Historical Heritage So Much More Impressive?
The Cathedrals of Europe are objectively a more remarkable achievement than any of the Forbidden City, Angkor Wat, The Borobudur Temple Compounds, Attuthaya or Prambana, which all suffer from the same comparative shortcomings - either they are huge compounds of individually unremarkable buildings, or they are huge individual structures that don
- why have churches entrance from the west | History Forum
Hello Why have churches entrance from the west and the altar on the east?
- Church Builders: How the medieval churches were constructed
Hi everyone I recently published my new 3D animated short documentary about medieval church architecture of Northern Europe, with some examples from Denmark It's essentially about "How to build a church" Many of our early churches were made of wood, later they were made of red bricks
- Stone vs Brick - Castles and Cathedrals - History Forum
I'm trying to compare castles in the medieval era against medieval seige weapons, Counter weight trebuchets and early bombard cannons, with stone shot To me Malbrok castle stands out as performing very well against bombardment, at a time that stone castles were being pulverised in France at
- Charleston, SC Innkeeper Couple Hanged for Highway Robbery in 1820
There were rest stops on the road into Charleston, SC every mile called the 4 mile house, 5 mile house, etc , so many miles from the center of town These were mostly not for long distance travelers, but for farmers who would bring there crops into Charleston to sell These might be yeoman
- Why didnt Quebec join the American Revolution? | History Forum
In Quebec Catholicism still has a lot of pull and has a collection of cathedrals and churches One of the issues surrounding Quebec secession is that the Canadian government wanted to promote public school in Quebec, but Quebec fought tooth and nail to retain the supremacy of Catholic schools within its province
- Battles That Changed the Balance of Power — Permanently
Replacing all the nobility in the country with foreign ones, building castles and cathedrals throughout the British Isles, causing thousands of Saxon nobility and warriors to emigrate to Byzantium That's a serious affect on everyone I doubt most people knew or noticed the Glorious Revolution Click to expand
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