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a stone middle finger to anyone who showed up uninvited with bad intentions.
means A large fortified building or set of buildings, typically with thick walls and towers, built to defend against attack and to house a noble or royal household.
from From Latin 'castellum,' a diminutive of 'castrum' meaning a fortified place or military camp — so a castle is, etymologically, a 'little fort.' It entered Old English as 'castel' and was reinforced after the Norman Conquest brought French 'castel'/'château' into the mix. The same Latin root scatters across English place names ending in '-caster,' '-chester,' and '-cester,' each marking a spot where Roman walls once stood.
- toilet tech
- medieval garderobes dumped waste straight down outer walls
- spiral defense
- staircases curled clockwise to favor right-handed defenders
- murder holes
- ceiling gaps poured boiling water and rocks on attackers
- mostly mud
- earliest castles were timber and earth, not stone
- chess sprint
- castling is the only two-piece move allowed
windsor castle — royal residence in berkshire, england, built 1066, still used by the british royal family
neuschwanstein castle — 19th-century palace in bavaria, germany, inspired disney's sleeping beauty castle
himeji castle — unesco world heritage site in hyogo prefecture, japan, built 1609, largest castle in japan