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  • Naos is the central-most sanctuary of Greek temples in general and the "heart" of the Temple of Solomon in particular.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • These are not meant to pile your messy stuff inside or above them, as the Naos vanities take bathroom design to a whole new perspective through fashion and elegance.

    Bathroom Vanities 2009

  • Naos” is dope and “Kuma” is nice plus it has the hardest drums on the album so far.

    What’s New In Dart’s iPod #9 AKA The Dirty Midwest Edition Dart Adams 2007

  • –On the Pacific side, where heavy silt-bearing currents threatened to clog the entrance to the canal, the engineers now planned a tremendous breakwater that would reach three miles across the tidal mud flats to Naos Island.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • By 1910 well over 1,000,000 cubic yards of spoil had been dumped into the breakwater and still it was a mile short of Naos Island.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Sixty-odd locations were used in the course of excavation, and though much of the spoil was simply gotten rid of–that is, put to no useful purpose–a very considerable part of it served to build earth dams, to build embankments on the new line of the railroad, and to create the huge new Naos Island breakwater at the Pacific end.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • The line from Colón to Panama was 74 kilometers, including a deep-water channel into the Bay of Panama ending near the island of Naos.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • By far the most troublesome of the dumps was the Naos breakwater, where, as at Gatun Dam, spoil from the Cut was dumped from a huge trestle, this one being extended slowly across the mud flats of the bay.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • They saw it in the deepening of Culebra Cut; in the rise of docks and warehouses; in the new railroad; in the fortifications being built at Toro Point and Margarita Island in Limon Bay and on the islands of Perico, Flamenco, and Naos in the Bay of Panama.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Further, four little islands in the Bay of Panama–Perico, Naos, Culebra, and Flamenco–were granted to the United States and the United States had the right to expropriate any additional land or water areas “necessary and convenient” for the construction, operation, sanitation, or defense of the canal.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

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