In the gusty winds, with sand blotting visibility at times to just a few yards, Jordanian workers wrestled all day with tarps to erect about 90 tents, enough, an official said, to shelter about 1,000 people.
He could write with great verve about why most cultures buried their dead lying down, but some had the bodies standing erect; about the macabre practice of inhaling a dying person's last breath; and about the even more disturbing one of drinking a loved one's ashes (a custom revived and adapted by Keith Richards, who claimed to have snorted some of his father's remains).
The castle, ruins of which remain on a rocky headland near the cathedral, was erected about 1200 as an episcopal residence that was commissioned by Bishop Roger.
At the southeast corner of the Agora, a handsome library was erected about ad 100, the gift of one T. Flavius Pantainus and his family.
Newcastle-under-Lyme takes its name from the new castle erected about 1145 by Ranulf de Gernons, 4th earl of Chester, in the proximity of the Lyme Forest.
The building was erected about 100 years ago to house the Chemists Club, and many of the turn-of-the-last-century touches have been preserved.
Omri's reconquest is known from the Moabite Stone, a stela that the Moabite king Mesha erected about 40 years later in the city of Dibon (modern Dhiban, Jordan).
Hizbullah and its allies erected about 1,200 tents in the middle of downtown Beirut, greatly suffocating the economic life in this economic and tourist hub and undermining investor confidence in Lebanon.
While some are so old that the characters are worn away, most were erected about a century ago after two deadly tsunamis here, including one in 1896 that killed 22,000 people.
Tempe, for instance, was one of the first midsize cities in the nation to go live in 2006 with its municipal wireless network, after erecting about 900 routers on utility poles and contracting with Gobility, a Texas-based provider, for residential service at about $20 per month.
Upon this will be erected about 60 reinforced-concrete buildings & pavilions housing restaurants, movies, a museum of religious art, an illuminated fountain, a cockfighting arena, a voodoo amphi theatre, etc. President Dumarsais Estime of Haiti has ear-marked five million dollars for the Exposition.
