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  • Oh, and I also flew down the huge Peristyle jump at the Coliseum as a passenger in Walker Evans 'Dodge race truck.

    Steve Parker: Off-Road Racing Accident Kills Eight: So Who's Responsible? 2010

  • The Peristyle has changed hardly at all, except somehow the floor in front of it has been lowered; there are steps just beyond the woman striding through the foreground, and on the opposite side, under the entrance to the domed Vestibulum, someone has made an opening with stairs down to the lower levels of the Palace, the place where, historically, things were unloaded and loaded from ships at the sea-gate.

    Photography, Space, and the Brain: In Appreciation of Drawing Heather McDougal 2008

  • The Peristyle has changed hardly at all, except somehow the floor in front of it has been lowered; there are steps just beyond the woman striding through the foreground, and on the opposite side, under the entrance to the domed Vestibulum, someone has made an opening with stairs down to the lower levels of the Palace, the place where, historically, things were unloaded and loaded from ships at the sea-gate.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • Oh, and I also flew down the huge Peristyle jump at the Coliseum as a passenger in Walker Evans 'Dodge race truck.

    Steve Parker: Off-Road Racing Accident Kills Eight: So Who's Responsible? 2010

  • Oh, and I also flew down the huge Peristyle jump at the Coliseum as a passenger in Walker Evans 'Dodge race truck.

    Steve Parker: Off-Road Racing Accident Kills Eight: So Who's Responsible? 2010

  • Over the next ten days or so we met frequently both at his home and in the privacy of the Peristyle de Mariani.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • It was two in the morning before the other guests left the Peristyle de Mariani, and Rachel went inside, leaving her father and me alone on the terrace.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • Several years ago he just turned up at the gate of the Peristyle de Mariani, and it happened that Beauvoir had an errand to run.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • Still, all this remained unsaid that evening when he turned up forlornly at the Peristyle de Mariani.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • They have hidden the horses and carriage in the Peristyle.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

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