The World's Most Mysterious CastlesDundurn, 16.10.2005 г. - 304 страници Castles are among the most mysterious buildings on earth. Their grimly silent stones are signposts to a past filled with high adventure, grim tragedies, and glorious victories. Ghosts, hauntings, and other paranormal phenomena are frequently reported from castles. Do strange paranormal powers lurk among their ancient ruins? The World's Most Mysterious Castles takes you on a journey through hidden chambers and subterranean tunnels of castles all over the world. Their walls served the sinister needs of spies, traitors, and assassins. Do the spirits of attackers and defenders who died in long-forgotten sieges still linger where they fell? Screams of unbearable pain and despair were muffled within their deepest, darkest torture dungeons. Do they echo there still? |
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... protected from sword, lance, or arrow. On the right of the cartoon, he drew a similar figure but equipped for modern warfare. He, too, was covered from head to toe but now with anti-contamination clothing, the visor replaced by a ...
... protect them with burglar alarms, security lights, double locks on all outside doors, and every window with its own protection. Like the castle owners of long ago we have had to use every ingenious device the wit of man can devise to ...
R. Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe. castle and its squire for protection, to maintain order, to care for the dispossessed, and in the presence of an enemy they sought shelter within its walls. But some castles had their darker side ...
... protection of a moat. With a slight change of name from the original Corsican location of Mortella — a change that was almost certainly accidental rather than deliberate — the British Martello towers were based on this very successful ...
... protect France's borders from the Mediterranean to the Alps in the south and from the Ardennes to Switzerland in the north. This amazing fortification, sometimes called the Great Wall of France, was named after gallant war hero André ...