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TALUS (Lat. for the " ankle-bone ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 386 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TALUS (
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Lat. for the "
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ankle-
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bone ") , in
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architecture, the slope of an
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embankment
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wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the
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top, to resist the pressure of the
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earth behind it .

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