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n. (plural of palisade English)
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Housing Units (2000): 157
Land area (2000): 0.576479 sq. miles (1.493074 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003667 sq. miles (0.009498 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.580146 sq. miles (1.502572 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54726
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 35.060378 N, 101.799369 W
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The Palisades (or the Palisade Group) are a group of peaks in the central part of the Sierra Nevada in the U.S. state of California. They are located about southwest of the town of Big Pine, California. The peaks in the group are particularly steep, rugged peaks and "contain the finest alpine climbing in California." The group makes up about of the Sierra Crest, which divides the Central Valley watershed from the Owens Valley, and which runs generally northwest to southeast.
Josiah Whitney in his book Geology, Volume 1 writes:
"At the head of the north fork, along the main crest of the Sierra, is a range of peaks, from 13,500 to 14,000 feet high, which we called 'the Palisades.' These were unlike the rest of the crest in outline and color, and were doubtless volcanic; they were very grand and fantastic in shape."
On the northeast side of the group lie the Palisade Glacier and the Middle Palisade Glacier, the largest glaciers in the Sierra Nevada. These glaciers feed Big Pine Creek.
Notable peaks of the group include four independent fourteeners:
- North Palisade,
- Mount Sill,
- Split Mountain,
- Middle Palisade,
and the following mountains in addition:
- Mount Agassiz, , the northwesternmost peak of the group before Bishop Pass.
- Birch Mountain, , which juts out further towards the Owens Valley than the rest of the group.
- Norman Clyde Peak,
- Palisade Crest,
- Temple Crag, , known for its many rock climbing routes.
- Mount Winchell,
North Palisade has some additional subpeaks over ; see the North Palisade article for those summits.
Palisades is an American electronicore band from Iselin, New Jersey. They formed in 2011 and are currently signed to Rise Records. The band began work on its first full-length album, Outcasts, in 2012. The album was released the following year. In 2014, the band released a music video for a song titled "High and Low". The band announced plans for a second album in 2014.
On December 2, 2014 it was announced through Rise Records Facebook page that the band's second album would be called "Mind Games" and it was released on January 15, 2015.
Usage examples of "palisades".
Many remained outside to dig a ditch around the palisades as a first line of defense in case the Eika raided again.
Not only are they having the mound raised, the ditches deepened, and the palisades strengthened, they have laid at least one section of dressed stone about halfway between the front gate and the northern front corner.
They also seem to be doing some work on the flanking palisades and the rear, but I could not see them all that clearly.
Palisading villages did no good, for they were filled with evil medicine, and when their hunger for the flesh of the folk gnawed at their bellies, they could leap clear over the palisades or climb them or even tear them down.
Even when the monsters resembled porcupines, so filled were they with arrows and darts and lances, still could they easily kill and kill and escape back over the palisades with a poor unfortunate clamped between their fearsome jaws or grasped in a huge, manlike paw.
The Old Ones slew them in great numbers, but none of our warriors could seem to even hurt them badly when they came over our palisades in search of men and women and children to eat.
The entrance through the palisades was directly in front of that to the house, and both passages still remained open, one set of gates not being completed, and the other not yet being hung.
The sentinels were directed to take their posts so near the palisades as to command views of the open lawn without, a precaution that would effectually prevent the usual stealthy approach of an enemy without discovery.
In a word, the captain, when he went forth to review his men, who were now all assembled under arms within the palisades for that purpose, went to meet a wavering, rather than a positively disaffected or rebellious body.
All this time, everything without the palisades lay in the silence of nature.
The height confounded objects with the ground on which they were placed, though Blodget told the captain he did not think a man could cross the palisades without his being seen.
The dark object that lay at the foot of the palisades was pointed out to the serjeant the instant he was on the stage, and one of his offices was to observe it, in order to ascertain if it moved, or whether any attempts were made to carry off the body.
In a word, daylight brought the comfortable assurance to those within the palisades that another night was passed without bringing an assault.
If I might presume to advise, we shall do well to leave a single sentinel on this stage, since no one can approach the palisades without being seen, if the man keeps in motion.
When outside of the palisades, the captain and his companions proceeded at once towards the body.