However, during World War II, Seegrotte was requisitioned by the German military due to the fact that the subterranean site offered the best protection against bombing raids in Nazi Germany‘s “second Ruhr.” It was permanently pumped dry and inside the far flung tunnels, Heinkel Werke built ...
Beylerbeyi Palace, an imperial Ottoman summer residence built between 1861 and 1865, is now situated immediately north of the first Bosphorus Bridge. It was the last place where Sultan Abdulhamid II was under house arrest before his death in 1918. TheBeylerbeyi Palace, at the Asian side, is ...
I lived in that flat for almost four years, catching the Northern Line tube at Hendon Central into the West End, getting off most of the time atTottenham Court RoadStation, and emerging from that warren of tunnels and escalators into the stampede of humanitythat was Oxford Street. Here I w...
Hamas, a ruthless terrorist organization, operates without any regard to the norms of international law or value of human life, with a longstanding practice of systematically embedding their operations in hospitals, using civilians as human shields and building military tunnels underneath hospitals. Fifte...
with jumps, poles to weave around, and even tunnels they have to speed through. two points you can suggest to your kids to make the whole thing even more fun: number the obstacles so they remember which order the animals have to complete the course... ... and think about how different...
Kid No. 3 is making me so proud these days that I don’t even mutter under my breath while collecting all those coffee mugs out of his room. I cannot wait to send him an air fryer. I cannot wait to visit him. I cannot wait until he Facetimes to ask how to get the dried egg...
The cement for concrete used to line the 30 to 40 ft. thick walls of Malinta Tunnel (an 836-ft. long, fishbone-shaped system of bombproof tunnels with three 227-m. by 8-m. main sections and 24 49-m. by 4.5-m. laterals) was, ironically, Asada cement bought from the Japanese. ...
It had been buried under a corner post, an old Scottish tradition, he says, to protect the house from evil spirits. In a country that once gave little heed to its past, the homestead is a rare survivor. For me, standing on the creaking porch hung with rusty tools, I could finally im...
These tunnels extend on under the great Pennsylvania terminal building—another of the same decade's accomplishments—to East Thirty-fourth Street. The dash is also used to indicate a sudden change or break in the thought; as, When the millennium comes—if it ever does—all o...
The dam cracked and then ___【1】___ under the weight of the water. The water went all over the fields and ___【2】___ quite a few villages along the river. Some buildings were in __【3】__ and some farmers were _【4】___ at the top of their houses. The water filled...