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AE Interests: fiberglass facade imitates Middle Eastern male headpiece called a gahfiya, advanced solar-powered cooling units, hidden fans release cool air through grills in stands, upper deck of the stadium removed after the 2022 World Cup to create hotel space, intricate sunlit patterns created b...
Birmingham, second largest city of the United Kingdom and a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands metropolitan county. It lies near the geographic center of England, at the crossing points of the national railway and motorway systems. Learn more abou
andScotland—as well as the northern portion of the island ofIreland. The name Britain is sometimes used to refer to the United Kingdom as a whole. The capital isLondon, which is among the world’s leading commercial, financial, and cultural centres. Other major cities includeBirmingham,Liverp...
The site of Belfast was occupied during both the Stone and Bronze ages, and the remains of Iron Age forts are discernible on the slopes near the city centre. A castle, probably built there about 1177 by John de Courci, the Norman conqueror of Ulster, seems to have survived until the beg...
Hadrian's WallHadrian's Wall, near the Scottish border in northern England. 2 of 2 Hadrian's WallThe ruins of a milecastle along Hadrian's Wall. The actualdefensive workswere constructed in layers. First was the stone wall—10 feet (3 metres) thick in the east, 6–8 feet (1.8–2.4 ...
(Birmingham) conurbation and Greater Bristol uses the route. Cheltenham has a renowned girls’ public (private) school and an important college of education. Area administrative county, 1,024 square miles (2,653 square km); geographic county, 1,216 square miles (3,150 square km). Pop. (...
Guinea-Bissau has a generally tropical climate influenced by theintertropical convergence zone(ITCZ), a belt of converging trade winds that circles the Earth near the Equator. There are two pronounced seasons: the hot, rainy season, which usually lasts from June to November, and the hot, dry ...
During the 18th and 19th centuries the construction of canals and, later, railways spurred the development of Birmingham and Coventry as industrial centres with important metallurgical and machinery-manufacturing sectors. By the 20th century Birmingham was at the centre of one of the largest ...
Early settlement wassparsein the remote and heavily wooded countryside until Saxon colonists penetrated the river valleys. Birmingham originated as a small Saxon settlement near a crossing of the River Rea, though it long remained but a minor town. Dudley and its castle dominated the remote and ...