Word: circular
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Bowls of Croesus. The search for Croesus' refinery began when Andrew Ramage, one of the Harvardmen on the expedition, noticed some oddly similar circular depressions in a clay floor near the site of a shrine built to Cybele, the goddess who protected ores and metals. Not far off was the Pactolus Torrent, which once was noted for its gold-rich sands. Moreover, slag similar to that produced in metal smelting rimmed the edges of the depressions. Ramage and his colleagues soon realized that they had stumbled on an ore refinery...
Careful digging revealed that the circular depressions were cupels, or metal-refining bowls. Unearthed with them were four furnaces, remnants of bellows, tiny bits of gold and gold alloys, and pottery fragments from the time (570-547 B.C.) when Croesus ruled the Lydian Empire in what is now western Turkey...
...structure (cost: $3,500,000) is indeed a dramatic addition to Syracuse's downtown Community Plaza. Its four main galleries loom theatrically over the concrete-paved concourse. Inside, visitors pass through a spacious 35-ft.-high central court, then climb to the galleries on a swirling, circular stairway. They can promenade from one gallery to the next without descending, thanks to glass-curtained, connecting bridges that overlook both court and outdoor plaza. Pei believes that such bridges give a "change of pace" between exhibition rooms. "Besides," he adds, "in a museum your eyes need a rest...
Last year's renovations included the installation of a circular room lined with bookcases and carpeted in red, the engagement of a specialist in the repair of Delft tile, and the restoration of some of the Castle's leaded glass windows, Rivaldo said. "We also bought a lot of wine," he added...
...system was designed by Roger Bajulaz, an engineer who decided that "the future calls for underground car parks capable of taking 100 to 500 cars." Above ground, there is only a check-in counter and a bank of elevators. The elevators take cars below to be stored on circular levels, each of which is really a turntable that rotates until an empty space comes to the elevator. When it arrives, the car is parked automatically...