A buttress is an arrangement of stone or bricks projecting from the face of a wall to provide it with sideways support. A flying buttress is one in which the buttress does not make contact all the way up the wall. In the construction of cathedrals,...

A type of BUTTRESS in which no part of the buttress itself is in contact with the ground. Usually a flying buttress is a curved (sometime straight) structure of stone or concrete composition in which both ends are attached to a wall or similar with the...

In architecture, a flying buttress, or arc-boutant, is usually on a religious building, used to transmit the thrust of a vault across an intervening space (which might be an aisle, chapel or cloister), to a buttress outside the building. The employment...

Ferrari is truly in the middle of a design renaissance, first with the F430 and now the 599. Large, front-engine sports cars are never easy to design and style- get it wrong and the car can easily look over-large and awkward. Even Ferrari can get...

The Duke estate signed a contract yesterday to sell the Duke Semans mansion at 82nd Street and Fifth Avenue, to Tamir Sapir, the real-estate collector who started out as a cabby 30 years ago. At $40 million, it's a townhouse record breaker, but it's still...

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If they watched the overnight vigil in Saint Peter's Square as the Pope lay dying, the good doctors of the Netherlands must have shaken their heads in bewilderment. "Watson, the needle," Sherlock Holmes implored to another medicine man of dubious ethics. The Dutch doctors, pioneers...