High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cardiff`s town walls were a Medieval defensive wall enclosing much of the present day centre of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, which included Cardiff Castle. It measured 1280 paces or 1.280 miles (2.060 kilometres) in circumference and had an average thickness of between 6 feet (1.8 metres) and 8 ft (2.4 m) and a height of 10 ft (3.0 m).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cardiff Central Library (Welsh: Llyfrgell Ganolog Caerdydd), is the main library in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales. Four buildings have been named as such, with the newest building opening on 14 March 2009 and officially being opened a few months later on 18 June 2009 by the Manic Street Preachers. The first Cardiff library was opened in 1861 as the Cardiff Free Library, later expanded and known as the Cardiff Free Library, Museum and Schools for Science and Art.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Caribbean Sailing Yachts, also known as CSY, are heavy-displacement recreational sailboats built during the 1970s and 1980s in Tampa, Florida. CSY went out of business in the early 1980s; however, the well-founded boats have continued to sail the world`s oceans for the past two decades. CSY had a rather unique script logo which was carried through on their brass companionway medallion, their sales literature, dishes, and perhaps was part of the trailerboard design or vice versa.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Carlton House Terrace refers to a street in the St. James`s district of the City of Westminster in London, England, and in particular to two terraces of white stucco-faced houses on the south side of the street overlooking St. James`s Park. These terraces were built in 1827–32 to overall designs by John Nash with detailed input by other architects including Decimus Burton. They took the place of Carlton House, and the freehold still belongs to the Crown Estate.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Carluke railway station is a railway station on the West Coast Main Line (WCML) that serves the town of Carluke, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is predominantly served by Argyle Line commuter trains to Lanark, Milngavie and Dalmuir.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! CARMEN, the Carnegie Mellon Robot Navigation Toolkit, is an open-source collection of software for mobile robot control. It is designed as a modular software to provide basic navigation functionalities, which include: base and sensor control, logging, obstacle avoidance, localization, path planning, and mapping.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Carnot wall is a type of loop-holed wall built in the ditch of a fort or redoubt. It takes its name from the French mathematician, politician, and military engineer, Lazare Carnot. Such walls were introduced into the design of fortifications from the early nineteenth century. As conceived by Carnot they formed part of an innovative but controversial system of fortification intended to defend against artillery and infantry attack. Carnot walls were employed, together with other elements of Carnot`s system, in continental Europe in the years after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815, especially by the Prussians, other Germans and Austrians. Their adoption was initially resisted by the French...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Carol Stream is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Incorporated on January 5, 1959, and named after the developer`s daughter, Carol Stream had a population of 40,438 as of the 2000 U.S. census.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Carpentersville is a village in Kane County, Illinois, United States. The population was 37,691 at the 2010 census.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Carrington Power Station (now also sometimes known as Partington Power Station) refers to a now demolished coal-fired power station, built at the meeting of the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey in Trafford, Greater Manchester in North West England. A Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power station is about to be constructed on the site.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building or Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Store, is a commercial building at 1 South State Street at the corner of East Madison Street in Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by Louis Sullivan for the retail firm Schlesinger & Mayer in 1899, and expanded and sold to Carson Pirie Scott in 1904. Subsequent additions were completed by Daniel Burnham in 1906 and Holabird & Root in 1961.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Cascade Tunnel refers to two tunnels at Stevens Pass through the Cascade Mountains, approximately 65 miles (105 km) to the east of Everett, Washington. The first Cascade Tunnel was a 2.63-mile (4.2 km) long single track railroad, built by the Great Northern Railway in 1900 to avoid problems caused by heavy winter snowfalls on the original line that had eight Zig Zags (switchbacks). The second tunnel, a 7.79-mile (12.5 km) single-track replacement of the earlier tunnel, was put in service on January 12, 1929 and is still in operation, connecting Chelan County on its east (Berne, WA) with King County on its west (Scenic, WA). It is the longest railroad tunnel in the United States.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Case Corporation (formerly J.I. Case Company) was a manufacturer of construction and agricultural equipment. In 1999 it merged with New Holland to form CNH Global, a Fiat Group division. The name Case lives on in two brands of the company: the Case CE (for Construction Equipment) brand is the third largest manufacturer of construction equipment, and the Case IH (for International Harvester) brand is the second largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment in the world.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Castillo San Felipe del Morro also known as Fort San Felipe del Morro or Morro Castle, is a 16th-century citadel located in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In knitting, casting on is a family of techniques for adding new stitches that do not depend on earlier stitches, i.e., stitches having an independent lower edge. In principle, casting on is the opposite of binding off, but the techniques involved are generally unrelated.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Castle Hill refers to either a 165-acre (0.67 km2) drumlin surrounded by sea and salt marsh or to the mansion that sits on the hill. Both are part of the 2,100-acre (8.5 km2) Crane Estate located in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The former summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Crane, Jr., the estate includes a historic mansion, 21 outbuildings, and designed landscapes overlooking Ipswich Bay, on the seacoast off Route 1, north of Boston. Its name derives from a promontory in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, whence many early Massachusetts Bay Colony settlers immigrated, and predates the Crane mansion.