Castles had multiple purposes. Protecting peasants and nobles was the most important reason why castles were widely built. Additionally, many lords and kings did frequently construct castles for the sake of power - since it was realized that such a huge construction could show a lord's might throughout the kingdom.

Castles started appearing in Europe in 1066. Their construction came to a halt when gunpowder was implemented many centuries later.

With the introduction of gunpowder, castles proved to be useless. Even the mightiest of castles was no match against a cannon.

Castles were normally built by kings and lords. In the Middle Ages, there was a law that prohibited nobles from building them.

Most of the castles we visit are far away from the cities. Getting there by public transportation is quite difficult. In some cases there is only one or two buses/trains that depart to that castle per day.

Earlier castles were normally built of timber and earth. They were very hastily built, but their ineffectiveness was evident when fire was employed against them.

In general, life during this period was characterized with a lack of food, safety and other basic needs. However, this depended greatly on the social status of the person. While the king enjoyed a luxurious life, poor peasants were often starving and many died from diseases and lack of medical care. Read here for more information about the period.

We hope to raise gifts and pledges of $4.5 million by the end of 2007 and complete construction in 2008.

Most historians have agreed that it stretches from the Fall of the Western Roman Empire to the Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire. This period spans approximately a thousand years beginning from the year 476 to the year 1453 respectively. However, this depends based on the source.

Dr. Riegel is not only a board-certified OB/GYN, he also has an additional year of training during which he specialized in pediatric and adolescent gynecology. For that reason, Dr. Riegel sees patients for gynecologic problems form birth through adolescence, reproductive years and menopause into old age. Dr. Riegel has training in Female Sexual Disorders and Menopause from the Berman Center and training in Age Management Medicine at the Cenegenics Medical Institute.

Many players forget to get the murder holes technology in the university. Without this, any type of unit could hack away as long as it wanted to at the base of the castle and not be touched.

Some castles can be seen today. Nevertheless, most have been lost due to wars, etc. Many lords demolished castles so they could build themselves a palace with the stone retrieved. This happened very frequently, but even more frequently did nobles bought a castle and remodeled it.

It's never been mentioned on the show, but Craig Bartlett says it's Geraldine. (The name refers to Geraldine Laybourne, who was a Nickelodeon executive at one time and was one of the founders (as was Oprah Winfrey) of the Oxygen network.

I inherited property owned by my Father and Mother, which they had in turn received from their Parents. 7 Greater houses, 17 lesser houses. I became custodian to property owned by the Crown, accumulated over the centuries but not actually owned by the person on the throne. 14 Medieval castles but they were too far away and cold so I rarely ever visited them, if at all. I bought and built private property which I own personally.

I draw them myself. For the first few years, I visited libraries wherever I travelled, looking for previously unseen books about castles. I photocopied pictures and plans for hundreds of real castles, and kept them in alphabetical stacks. Once I had gathered enough information about a castle, that castle's pictures was moved to the short stack of castles to be drawn in Lego "minifig-scale" - the size Lego knights and ladies could live in. Now I do most of my searching on the internet.

There are no zoning codes that restrict Natural Spaces domes, and our domes exceed all energy codes. You may be restricted on height as some codes have a maximum height of 30' to 35'. Most of our domes are less than 30' high but the code height is measured from the average grade line. It's only when you have a developer who is a builder, and they want you to build their house, they then put restrictions on their lots - "no log homes, no earth homes, no domes, no imagination".

The concept of a FRF was first proposed in 1963 by Rudolph Savage, Chief of Research Division of the Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC). The FRF was to have 4 goals. Provide a rigid platform from land, across the dunes, beach, and surf zone out to 6-m (20-ft) water depth from which waves, currents, water levels, and bottom elevations could be measured, especially during severe storms.