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the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress

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The heat flux q"(z, t), which is a DONJON output, is specified as an input for the above equations.

Study of Fast Transient Pressure Drop in VVER-1000 Nuclear Reactor Using Acoustic Phenomenon

/ La cite prist par trai'son, / tot craventa, tours et donjon" ("When Menelaus besieged Troy, / He moved no more until he had taken it, / Devastating the entire country and kingdom / To avenge the outrage of his wife's abduction.

Tokens of sin, badges of honor: Julian of Norwich and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Runnalls notes that the specification of "bourg" adds further evidence for the location of Semur-en-Auxois, which was divided into chateau, donjon, and bourg ("Evolution," 168n13).

Law, farce, and counter-kingship in the Semur fall of Lucifer

On the other hand, a Russian contribution to the Polish mediaeval word-stock is stolp 'donjon' (stotp 'pole').

The language of architecture: in English and in Polish

Trim's first cousin: the twelfth-century donjon of Maynooth Castle.

Selected list of writings on Irish economic and social history published in 2013

The keep or donjon was eventually rebuilt out of concrete.

Crow Castle-and guess what Japanese icon was in it

(35) Jean-Philippe Remy, "Voila, on a casse le donjon d'AQMI," Le Monde, March 8, 2013.

A review of the French-led military campaign in northern Mali

The multi-pass includes access to the 162-step Donjon Gilles Aycelin tower.

A STAR IS BONNE; Beautiful Narbonne has plenty to offer visitors with fantastic beaches, pretty canals, great historic architecture and museums, wineries and a nature reserve

A la base, d'abord c'etait un carre de carton bleu figurant un temple avec portiques, colonnades et statuettes de stuc tout autour dans des niches constellees d'etoiles en papier dore; puis se tenait au second etage un donjon en gateau de Savoie, entoure de menues fortifications en angelique, amandes, raisins secs, quartiers d'oranges; et enfin, sur la plate-forme superieure, qui etait une prairie verte ou il y avait des rochers avec des lacs de confiture et des bateaux en ecales de noisettes [...].

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