In all, there were four Navy forts and three Army forts placed in the Thames Estuary.
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We play with blocks, make pillow forts, and take baths.
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We were tasked with building schools, hospitals, and border forts.
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We are those who built our forts out of skulls.
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My brother and I would create worlds, forts and spaceships.
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He swapped teenage shenanigans for playing Legos and building forts.
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One night of couch jumping, pillow forts, and unlimited soda refills.
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What would massive forts of dragonglass be built to keep out?
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The Army forts consisted of seven towers connected by steel walkways.
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Some parts of the steel forts are completely overrun with rust.
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I'm sure they're just hanging out in the backyard, building forts.
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I'm sure they're just hanging out in the backyard, building forts.
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The three Army forts were called Nore, Red Sands, and Shivering Sands.
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Each of these forts housed weaponry and sleeping accommodations for the soldiers.
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For many, an assignment at the forts was cold, isolating, and long.
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While in operation, the forts shot down 22 planes and 30 bombs.
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I spent loads of time there, building forts out of felled branches.
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Inspired by the Bradt Haiti guide, I was looking for old forts.
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In California, 145 structures bear the designation, among them bridges, forts and churches.
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The forts turned out to be successful in protecting the country from threats.
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So we made forts, put on plays, musicals, and I wrote like crazy.
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The Maunsell Army and Navy forts were built and placed in the Thames Estuary in 1942 to help protect London from airstrikes and sea raids during World War II. After the war, the forts became the headquarters for pirate radio stations.
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They built defenses, a series of forts, to ward off the enemy, the Americans.
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Today, the forts are abandoned and dilapidated, but you can visit them by boat.
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"The winter fog and lack of visibility added to the mystery of the forts."
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Gone are the days of draping blankets over stools and chairs to make forts.
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I'd go into the woods and build forts and create these huge imaginary scenes.
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Build the fort to end all forts before doing the paperwork you are dreading.
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We would spend weeks building a trail, or forts with two or three stories.
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Forts were Mickey Mouse stuff; now he was going to build his own castle.
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There will be manned posts every mile or so and 443 forts along its course.
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"When I was a kid, my siblings and I loved to make forts," she shares.
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While some of the forts were destroyed by storms, others still stand in ruin today.
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They make terrariums, they "upcycle" materials for backyard seating, they create forts, they hot glue.
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For Sanders and his flock, Forts is the only person with true progressive bona fides.
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In the online multiplayer Rust and ARK, ragtag clans build huge communal forts and bases.
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Then soldiers began laying a pontoon across it towards mock Chinese forts on the other side.
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Old forts in Rajasthan and in Goa have far more visitors because of their role in films.
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But I was the kid who was always poking around in the woods and building tree forts.
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"I was really happy that I hadn't given up when I was building tent forts," he says.
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With bateau and whaleboats they would head up the lake to attack French forts to the north.
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Its rugged coastline boasts dramatic cliffs and tiny coves dotted with ancient forts and quaint fishing harbors.
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Although you can't go onto the forts anymore, it's clear these buildings are in varying states of decay.
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Even though they don't look like much these days, the Maunsell forts once helped keep the UK safe.
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As early as 600BC, they built hill-forts called castros, some of which remain dotted across the hills today.
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What exactly are we commemorating when we gather at the forts, shell-holes and monuments of the former battlefield?
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While you may feel too old to have sleepovers or make forts, exercise is one thing you'll never outgrow.
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Photographer Scott Amling took a boat out to the forts in 2018 and experienced the decaying buildings for himself.
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Forts and castles dot the landscape; cities are built around pedestrian cores rather than grids from the motor age.
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The 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment and other units would man the forts whenever new threats came from Confederate troops.
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According to the children's obituary, Conner was a third-grade student who enjoyed building forts and playing video games.
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The seekers responded by using ramps found on the field to ascend over the objects and crash the forts.
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Hiders found that they could push and pull objects on the field, and began constructing forts out of them.
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Dubbe grew up building forts and later found herself drawn to jobs not traditionally occupied by women: logging, construction.
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Players find themselves shrunk to the size of an ant, with the immediate task of surviving in an insect-filled, suburban backyard, building forts from available materials like grass blades, defending said forts from hectic spiders with weapons made from pebbles and sticks, and hunting for aphids and granola bars for sustenance.
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My kids, like most, have always put a premium on coziness, setting up their rooms or forts to maximize it.
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He's actually probably thinking about building forts for our cats out of the leftover Amazon Prime boxes in the garage.
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Monopoly "Stranger Things" Collector's Edition, $39.99, available for pre-order at AmazonExpect upside-down cards, forts, and moving between tunnels.
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By the 1950s, the forts were abandoned, but they were given a second life in the '60s as radio headquarters.
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Should they, for instance, build sea walls that would forever alter the character of old forts or other coastal sites?
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We had planned to begin our journey here with a visit to the slave castles and forts on the coast.
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The panorama ($75,2503 at the Old Print Shop) depicts domed government buildings, church steeples, townhouses, bridges, forts and distant hills.
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Rubel grew up in a home that buttressed the city dump, using its trash to create forts as a kid.
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Create a list of playful stuff your kids long to do ... blanket forts, Play-Doh pounding, cookie baking, dance party, etc.
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Öland island was an active place during the Middle Ages, featuring at least 15 ring forts and nearly 1,000 stone houses.
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They even erected a massive structure called the Five Forts around the same time as the Wall was built in Westeros.
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If you take an hour boat ride off the coast of the UK, you can visit the waters surrounding the forts.
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The area is the site of numerous ancient temples, stupas and forts that the government is seeking World Heritage status for.
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Run, hike or walk some of the 18-mile Bermuda Railway Trail National Park, which passes a series of British forts.
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The western Indian desert state of Rajasthan has fairy-tale palaces, majestic forts and some of the most colourful clothes seen anywhere.
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While you're scanning forts and outposts for enemy positioning you can also see what ship bonuses your opponents bring to the table.
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" Next to an image of a cat under elaborate blankets: "Our cat is obsessed with blanket forts, so we made him this.
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The road approaching the city was in a valley flanked by hills topped off with two ancient Spanish forts, Guadalupe and Loreto.
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The answer was to build forts out at sea so that foreign planes and boats could be destroyed before reaching the coastline.
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The unusual quatrefoil motifs of some individual quilt blocks are based on the four-pronged footprint of battlements known as star forts.
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"We would walk through the stream, build forts out of fallen branches, and run around the giant honeysuckle bush," Green tells Creators.
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But stockpiling massive caches of toilet paper and bottled water for insular forts will only lead to more shortages and more stress.
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The state of Rajasthan in west India has long been a tourist favourite, thanks to its beautiful palaces, forts and desert landscapes.
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It is a place where remoteness is cherished, and where, without ever leaving the grounds, guests can spend weeks in historic adobe forts.
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I like perfecting my home forts into impenetrable castles with looming jet black parapets, and building gunmetal pyramids around shield amplifiers situated nearby.
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For me the best Wyoming books are old journals and diaries by soldiers stationed at the various Wyoming forts, and photographs without text.
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Guy Maunsell, a civil engineer in England, designed forts that could be built on land and then installed out at sea in 1942.
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A. I grew up in a small town, Delmar, outside of Albany, N.Y. I was always building stuff, like forts and BMX trails.
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The occupants were returning to their hometown of Farrukhabad after visiting Jaipur, a city known for forts, museums and gardens in western Rajasthan state.
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Building roads to link up forts and settlements across this rugged landscape was a vital part of this decades-long conquest of the North.
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While the grown-ups sip drinks, pass around potato chips and lead singalongs by microphone, kids make forts in the back of the bus.
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Using decommissioned hot air balloons, Jorba creates luminous, temporary spaces that recall the pillow forts and blanket tents most of us made as kids.
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Its architectural legacy lives on in the southwestern state of Karnataka with over 1,000 well-preserved stone monuments, including Hindu temples, forts and palaces.
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The Union used this cutting-edge naval technology to attack Confederate forts at places like Tennessee's Fort Henry and Island No. 10, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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He saw it at eight or nine, finding it highly traumatic and building forts to sleep in to hide from the alien all summer long.
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"There was no finished house to play in, so we'd spend a lot of time outside, making forts and playing in trees," Ms. Hamlin said.
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Delhi and Lahore's sandstone forts and grand mosques were all constructed by the Mughal empire, and both countries were later part of British colonial India.
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One such candidate is State Senator Vincent Forts, who is running for Atlanta's mayoralty and potentially faces a half-dozen Democrats, including the former mayor.
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Historic England, another public body, has dispatched aerial reconnaissance teams from bases in York and Swindon to scour the country for Roman villas and prehistoric forts.
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She grew up in Windsor, Ontario, one of seven children — a fan of skateboarding, dirt-biking, four-wheeling, soccer, and tree forts, and not of guns.
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All the bases are in former Confederate states, including Fort Gordon in Georgia, Fort Hood in Texas and Forts Lee, A.P Hill and Pickett in Virginia.
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The French split their forces, two to attack the forts, one to attack the Mexican center, the very center General Diaz had been assigned to protect.
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More than 1,000 sites on the National Registry of Historic Places are endangered, including forts in Charleston, South Carolina; St. Augustine, Florida; and Savannah, Georgia. 15.
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Schecter traces the defining events that occurred in New York City during the war, visualizing for the reader where battles were fought or where forts stood.
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Warmer temperatures produce snow that still has plenty of liquid water molecules, creating a sticky and wet winter wonderland for building snowballs, snowmen and snow forts.
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It was the gateway to the Hudson Highlands, a way to get supplies to several defensive river forts including Stony Point, Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery.
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Folly Beach Island was occupied in 1863 by Union forces, who built roads, forts, an artillery battery and a supply depot, according to the city's website.
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One of India's poorest states, Rajasthan is known as much for its beautiful palaces and majestic forts as for its centuries-old traditions of honor and chivalry.
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She loves building forts and playing hide-and-seek with her dad, as well as eating chicken nuggets plus Gerber Lil&apos Crunchies, Arrowroot cookies and Puffs.
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We would scale a set of large boulders, our favorite place to play, and pretend we were mountain lions or build forts out of the branches nearby.
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In Rajasthan, a state famed for its palaces and forts, weddings peak during the Akshaya Tritiya festival in April and May, which is considered an auspicious period.
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"The ice cream's the history," she continued, meaning that the island's northern half, with its forts and barracks, is like a distinguished scoop of America's maritime past.
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I built snow forts and snowmen, I went sledding with my friends, and I went cross-country skiing every single weekend with my family and my friends.
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It's unclear whether Sanders will endorse his ally, but like Forts, Wisniewski also paid a price when he was booted from New Jersey's delegation to the DNC.
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After the library closed we invited families to come in with sheets and build sheet forts all over the library to read books and play board games in.
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Then Amma continues to talk wistfully about building forts, and how she didn't get to do that with her ex-best friends who are now also ex-alive.
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While an unknown number of people snore in their chairs, a handful have gone a step further, setting up blanket forts near outlets as they charge their phones.
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To cap it all, that evening there was to be a re-enactment of a battle with China—"Grand Spectacle: Storming of the Chinese Peiho Forts", advertisements proclaimed.
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" The new agency became the bastion of a Wild West mentality in which patrollers easily imagined themselves as guardians of "frontier forts in hostile territory, holding off barbarians.
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In it, she visited the Cape Coast Castle, one of the European-built forts in which slaves were kept in horrifyingly inhumane conditions until they were shipped overseas.
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But in 19923, Paa Joe was commissioned by the art dealer and gallerist Claude Simard to make casket-size hardwood models of 13 former Gold Coast slave forts.
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Des dizaines de jeunes dans la vingtaine y mangent des poutines extravagantes, comme la " reggae ", composées de bœuf haché, guacamole, de tomates en dés et de piments forts.
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A current of imagination electrifies the movement, from the often very funny drawings and slogans that adorn the back of participants' vests to the construction of elaborate forts.
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