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n. (plural of castle English)

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Castles (video game)

Castles is a video game developed by Quicksilver and published by Interplay Entertainment in 1991 and 1992. The game involves the construction of a series of castles in Wales and the Welsh Marches during the 13th century. Castles was quickly followed by an expansion, Castles: The Northern Campaign, and a sequel, Castles II: Siege and Conquest.

Castles (soap opera)

Castles was a British soap opera following three generations of a large London family. It ran for 24 episodes on BBC One during the summer of 1995. It's writing team included Peter Whalley who was known for his work on Coronation Street and Sally Wainwright who would go on to create Scott and Bailey and Happy Valley.

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All the Castles built between 1921 and 1925 in Wichita, Omaha, and Kansas City were constructed from cement blocks on an identical ten-by-fifteen-foot floor plan, with the same crenellated facade and whitewashed exterior.

Regardless of the mess and inconvenience, most Castles adopted baked beans as a staple food during the war, usually contracting with local bakeries to prepare and deliver them.

As these giant chains proliferated to tens of thousands of units, White Castle remained comparatively small, adding a few Castles each year and moving into suburban markets only when its own capital became available.

Several spot shortages were common, depriving the Castles of one or more food items.

Whether because of labor shortages or food scarcity, dozens of Castles were boarded up during the last two years of the war.

It is not uncommon for suburbanites to nostalgically return to their old neighborhoods to dine at the White Castles they knew in their youth.

For the construction of newer Castles, however, most of the managers agreed that either the suburbs or the solidly working-class sections of the cities were preferable to the inner city.

First, it became increasingly difficult for company bakers and meat suppliers to deliver provisions to the Castles on a dependable basis.

Just as earlier entrepreneurs sought to replicate White Castle's booming success in the 1920s by creating similar White Towers, Royal Castles, or White Huts, in the 1960s and 1970s hundreds capitalized on the McDonald's and Burger King phenomenon by either purchasing costly franchises or starting their own chains.

In Chicago, an area supervisor carrying the day's receipts form numerous Castles was carjacked by a gun-wielding assailant whom police later deemed unbalanced.

I thank my parents, Ruth and Ray Hogan, for their encouragement and uncharacteristic experimentation with frozen White Castles in Florida.

The Chicago Water Tower, which was itself styled after the turrets of medieval castles, was the only structure still standing after the disastrous Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Ingram's insistence on proper personal hygiene, courtly manners, and impeccable dress for all his employees and his emphasis on cleanliness in the Castles were purposely designed to counter the stereotype of slovenly fry cooks preparing food in greasy and unsanitary conditions.

Originally appearing in mimeographed form and distributed as the Hot Hamburger, this publication had the express purpose of linking together White Castles across town and eventually across the country.

There they opened two White Castles and operated them somewhat profitably for two years before selling them, minus the company name and the trademark architecture, to local investors.