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Tavaron da Quirm - Arts Editor Posted Jul 19, 2012
It is of course also possible to make walls from wood. One possibility is a construction like log cabins, where round or rectangular logs are just put on top of each other and mainly connected at the corners of the building.
It is also possible to build a skeleton construction from wood and cover it with various materials like wooden boards, plasterboards or similar. During history and in other regions of the world materials like grass, leaves or similar things are also used as covering.
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Bluebottle Posted Jul 20, 2012
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jul 20, 2012
'Curtain wall' is also a technical term in fortifications, but I'm sure Bluebottle knows all about that already.
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Recumbentman Posted Jul 20, 2012
OK, paragraph on Céide Fields under construction ...
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Recumbentman Posted Jul 28, 2012
The oldest known walls in the world are those surrounding the Céide Fields in the west of Ireland, dating back almost six thousand years.
Links: http://www.ceidefields.com/
or http://www.museumsofmayo.com/ceide.htm
How's that for brevity?
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Recumbentman Posted Jul 29, 2012
You could add apronunciation guide for Céide: KAY-djuh
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Florida Sailor All is well with the world Posted Jul 31, 2012
Another type of wall that might be an interesting addition is;
"The Eye Wall of a Hurricane"
This is vertical line of clouds that separate the highest and most dangerous winds near the centre of the storm from the almost calm and dry centre itself. As the eye of the storm passes the other side of the eye wall arrives and the wind and rain almost instantly return at full strength, often even stronger than before (depending on the direction of travel and steering currents).
Just a thought.
FS
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Bluebottle Posted Jul 31, 2012
A good idea, now added. Of course, it is impossible to add something on every type of wall in existence but having variety like that keeps the article interesting and full of surprises.
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U168592 Posted Aug 3, 2012
(W)All in (w)all, this is looking good, hwoever this section jars with me, and I think needs rewriting;
>>Céide Fields
The oldest known walls in the world are those surrounding the Céide Fields7 in the west of Ireland, dating back almost six thousand years. This is the most extensive Stone Age site in the world, containing the oldest known field systems in the world.<<
How many instances of 'in the world', and 'oldest known' do we need in one paragraph?
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Recumbentman Posted Aug 3, 2012
The oldest extant walls we know of are those surrounding the Céide Fields7 in the west of Ireland. This field system constitutes the most extensive Stone Age site in the world, dating back almost six thousand years.
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Recumbentman Posted Aug 3, 2012
Having looked at a few links, I would rather recommend Céide Fields as a less glamourized and perhaps slightly more reliable site ... but it's your call.
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Bluebottle Posted Aug 6, 2012
Céide Fields Forever!
That section has been re-written as suggested, and the link has been swapped round, with the glamorous one now a reference.
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Recumbentman Posted Aug 6, 2012
Reading your last paragraph, I am unsure that Romeo and Juliet fits the description well enough. Romeo does o'erleap an orchard wall, but the lovers do not converse through a chink, which seems to be a central theme in P & T.
Perhaps something like "Some readers may recognise elements of the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, but Shakespeare also included the original story of Pyramus and Thisbe as a play-within-a-play in A Midsummer Night's Dream" etc.
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Tavaron da Quirm - Arts Editor Posted Aug 9, 2012
At uni I learned that etymology often tells a lot about the history of things, so I'll go that way now. It's your decision if you want to use anything of that for the Entry.
www.etymonline.com has the following to say about walls:
wall (n.)
O.E. weall "rampart" (natural as well as man-made), also "defensive fortification around a city, side of a building, interior partition," an Anglo-Frisian and Saxon borrowing (cf. O.S., O.Fris., M.L.G., M.Du. wal) from L. vallum "wall, rampart, row or line of stakes," apparently a collective form of vallus "stake." Swed. vall, Dan. val are from Low German. In this case, English uses one word where many languages have two, e.g. Ger. Mauer "outer wall of a town, fortress, etc.," used also in reference to the former Berlin Wall, and wand "partition wall within a building" (cf. the distinction, not always rigorously kept, in It. muro/parete, Ir. mur/fraig, Lith. muras/siena, etc.). Phrase up the wall "angry, crazy" is from 1951; off the wall "unorthodox, unconventional" is recorded from 1966, Amer.Eng. student slang. Wall-to-wall (adj.) recorded 1953, of carpeting; metaphoric use (usually disparaging) is from 1967.
The German word 'Wall' also means 'rampart', so it seems the English word 'wall' really means a defensive structure.
The German 'Mauer' and French 'mur' or Spanish 'muro' clearly come from Latin. Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to find more information about 'murus'.
The German 'Wand' is clearly related to 'winden' (winding), which must mean wattle-works have been used.
French 'cloison' is related to the Latin 'clausus' meaning closed or enclosed.
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Bluebottle Posted Aug 9, 2012
Another excellent suggestion – I'll have a think about the best way to incorporate that into the article.
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