Some cisterns could reach a colossal size ... as the crow flies, between the spring and Rome was about 31 miles. Only when they had no other choice—when they had to cross a valley or avoid ...

The significance of water, especially that of the spring with healing water ... There are basically two traditions of the Annunciation iconography: one situating it at a cistern or fountain, the other ...

October is a time of garden transition. Summer ends and fall begins. Toward the middle of the month, when the air cools and ...

Norris Geyser Basin includes some of the hottest water and springs in the park. One thing to know is this can mean the a ...

A Topeka Fire Department cistern built in 1878 was uncovered Tuesday by workers doing excavation for an underground water ...

In the spring, a smuggler's ship loaded with bananas ... Residents got their water from wooden cisterns, a breeding ground for the insects. Dr. Quitman Kohnke, the head of the New Orleans health ...

Outdoor advocate Charlie Gandy plans to build the Cross Texas Trail, or XTX, Texas’s answer to the Pacific Crest Trail.

The grotto was perfectly silent, save for the faintest occasional drip in the cistern, the same ancient spring that would have supplied the saint with fresh water. When I had suggested to Thomas ...

The Basilica Cistern is Istanbul's largest surviving Byzantine cistern and one of its most unique historic sites. Constructed in 532 for Justinian I, this sprawling underground water reservoir ...

385-405 Spring-Autumn 1982 According to Josephus the ... Certainly not the women, safely ensconced in their cistern. If the Sicarii committed suicide according to Josephus' description, then ...

The places where they are settling provide dengue-carrying mosquitoes, no strangers to the Amazon, a wider choice of places to breed: supine doorless refrigerators that serve as open-air cisterns ...

The primary water reservoir for Constantinople, the Basilica Cistern is cathedral-esque and ... thanks to its spring, it is believed to have magical powers. It's also set on a hilltop, making ...