- with cut
stone beams.
Amongst the
earliest known examples of any form of
vaulting is to be
found in the
Neolithic village of
Khirokitia on Cyprus.[citation...
- Pole
vaulting, also
known as pole jumping, is a
track and
field event in
which an
athlete uses a long and
flexible pole,
usually made from fibergl**** or...
-
Equestrian vaulting, or
simply vaulting, is most
often described as
gymnastics and
dance on horseback,
which can be
practiced both
competitively or non-competitively...
-
known as the
vaulting horse. The
horse was set up with its long
dimension perpendicular to the run for women, and
parallel for men. The
vaulting horse was...
-
riding (American English),
includes the
disciplines of riding, driving, and
vaulting. This
broad description includes the use of
horses for
practical working...
-
through the
ranks of
elite gymnastics in the mid-1980s was cut
short by a
vaulting accident in 1988 that left her a quadriplegic. She
eventually died from...
-
Cathedral (1150s–1230)
Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio (12th century) In ****partite
vaulting, each bay was
divided by thin
stone ribs into six compartments. The intermediate...
- Many
Americans were
first introduced to the sport,
referred to as "ditch-
vaulting", on the
twelfth season of The
Amazing Race. This same task
would be performed...
-
perpendicular to the wall.
Gloucester Cathedral, cloisters,
earliest fan
vaulting begun 1373 by
Abbot Horton King's
College Chapel, Cambridge, the world's...
-
common ****ociation of
vaulting in
cathedrals of the
Middle Ages
involves a nave of
barrel vault design with
transepts of
groined vaulting. Rib
vaults resemble...
