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Number Ten Downing street is the official residence of the PM of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. With a stone front step and a famous plain black entrance door, with number 10 on it. No. Ten, as it is affectionately known, is perhaps the most famous address in London and one of the most widely recognized houses in the world. The door is only able to be opened from the inside. The small, six-paneled door, made of black oak, is surrounded by cream colored casing and adorned above with an attractive semicircular fanlight window. Painted in white in the center of the door, between the top and middle sets of panels, is the number 10 ; between the two middle panels is a black iron knocker in the shape of a lion's head and just below the knocker is a brass letter box with the inscription "First Lord of the Treasury". A black ironwork fence with spiked newel posts runs along the front of the house and up each side of the step to the door. The fence rises above the step into a double-swirled archway, supporting an iron gas lamp surmounted by a crown. The old No 10 Downing Street door that Winston Churchill walked through when he was Prime Minister is being installed in a central London museum. The door, is be the key feature in the Churchill Museum in the Cabinet War Rooms, opens to the public on 11 February 2005. The door was No 5 until 1779 when the houses along Downing Street were renumbered and the door was replaced. The museum will be dedicated to the life and times of Winston Churchill. The door dates from the 1770s when the Duke of Newcastle was Prime Minister. 11 Downing street is another famous residence for chancellor.

The door of the house of commons. Maybe the most famous indoor door. Each year, the parliamentary session begins with the State Opening of Parliament, a ceremony in the Lords Chamber during which the Sovereign, in the presence of Members of both Houses, delivers an address on the Government's legislative agenda. The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod is responsible for summoning the Commons to the Lords Chamber; when he arrives to deliver a summons, the doors of the Commons Chamber are slammed shut in his face, symbolising the right of the Lower House to debate without interference. The Gentleman Usher knocks on the door thrice with his Black Rod, and only then is he granted admittance. He then informs the MPs that the Monarch awaits them. Then they all go to the House of Lords for the Queen's Speech.

The gull-wing door of a DeLorean in back to the future. The car doors in the famous DeLorean car. The classic car used in the classic eighties movie Back to the future. The term gull-wing door is used to describe automobile doors which are hinged at the roof. They are so named because, when opened, the doors evoke the image of a seagull's wings. The term gull-wing door is used to describe automobile doors which are hinged at the roof. They are so named because, when opened, the doors evoke the image of a seagull's wings.

The door of the wardrobe to Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. A door leading form the human society to Narnia allows humans to enter the Narnia.

The door in the secret garden The secret garden is a novel by F. Burnett

The book tells the story of Mary Lennox, a spoiled, contrary orphan, who is sent to live in her uncle's manor in Yorkshire. Exploring the grounds, Mary discovers the key to the secret garden, which has been turned up by a dog digging for moles, then the door. When she is inside the garden, she discovers although roses seem lifeless some of the other flowers have survived she decides to work on the garden herself, but to keep it a secret, in case her uncle should find out and fit another lock for it. Through Martha, she recruits the assistance of Martha's brother Dickon, who is known for being good with plants and wild animals. Dickon begins by providing gardening implements, bought with money Mary gives him, and demonstrating that the roses, though neglected, are not dead. When Mary's uncle visits the house briefly Mary asks him if she may have a bit of earth to make a flower garden in, and he agrees.

The Westgate Hotel is a historic building in the centre of Newport, and is famous as the scene of the 1839 Chartist riot. Bullet holes from that insurrection can still be seen in pillars in the frame of the main door.

sliding doors in the movie of the same name. A movie where a London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train. We see it both ways, in parallel. In one version the sliding foor opens and in another it does not. A sliding glass door is a door made of glass that slides open and sometimes has a screen. Sliding glass doors are common in many houses, particularly as an entrance to the backyard. Such doors are also popular for use for the entrances to commercial structures. The sliding door system in star trek is very famous and often jokes are made about it in sci fi joke movies that have someone making the swoosh sound as the door opens, because they can't afford the sound affect.

Doors in an episode of the avengers. In one epsode the lead character Patrick Macnee is face with a challenge where he is trapped he has a choice to open 6 door options. Only one will leaxd to safety. So he opens two facing ones at once and hides from their affect, allowing the danger in each door to cancel out the danger from the other door.

Shut That Door a famous phrase by seventies British comedian Larry Grayson

The door in rising damp. The credit role is done infront of the door of the building in which the comedy is set.

The door of the the mirror ship ISS Enterprise in star trek. In The Original Series, the ship in almost every way, appeared as an exact duplicate of the Federation starship U.S.S. Enterprise, except for the ominous logo of the Terran Empire, which was a knife stabbing through the earth, which was seen on doors and bulkheads throughout the ship. Some interior scenes were darker and filled with devices of punishment and torture, such as agony booths and the mirror-Captain Kirk's deadly Tantalus device.

The Doors formed in 1965 in Los Angeles—were a popular and influential American band .John Densmore — drums
Robby Krieger — guitar, Ray Manzarek — organ, piano, keyboard bass, Jim Morrison — lead vocals .The story of Morrison's life was filmed in 1991 by Oliver Stone in his biopic The Doors, starring Val Kilmer as Morrison.

The pet door of Garfield the famous cat. Often he cannot get threw is door flap due to his weight.

A pet door is an opening in a door to allow pets to enter and exit without the main door being opened. It may be simply covered by a rubber flap or it may be an actual door hinged on the top that the pet can push through.

Durdle Door is one of Dorset's most recognisable features. On a clear day you can see along the Jurassic Coast westwards towards Portland and eastwards towards Man of War Bay and Lulworth.

In traditional Japanese architecture, a shoji is a room divider or door consisting of translucent washi paper over a wooden frame.

A Dutch door is a door divided horizontally in a fashion the bottom half may remain shut while the top half opens. The initial purpose of this door was to keep animals out of the farmhouse. Later modifications included doors where both halves can close or open. A famous door such as this is the Mr. Ed door.
The San Diego Door, (in former versions: Good Morning Teaspoon, Teaspoon Door, and Free Door), and the San Diego Street Journal (formerly San Diego Press), dominated the underground genre. Both contained anti-war and anti-establishment articles on business interests in San Diego during the 1960’s. The newspapers encompassed new left issues and the birth of the Chicano and woman's movement.

In star trek a facility, known as a Spacedock was seen for the first time in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. These were huge structures with large bays that were completely enclosed - starships could enter through bay doors.

A trapdoor is a door set into a floor or ceiling (depending on what side of the door one is on). An exposed trapdoor could also be called a hatch, although hatches may not be necessarily horizontal. Hidden trapdoors occasionally appear in fiction, either as entrances to secret passageways, or as literal traps into which a hapless pedestrian may fall if he or she happens to stand on one. The Trap Door is claymation animated television series, shown in the United Kingdom in 1984. Berk, Boni and Drut live in a castle in "the dark and nasty regions, where nobody goes", where Berk serves The Thing Upstairs. In almost every episode, something emerge from the trap door which is in the floor of the cellar and leads to dark and mysterious caverns. Though mostly hostile or mischievous occasionally a helpful or friendly creature did emerge. Rogg became friends with Berk and frequently returns to visit.

A blind door is a door with no passage, a 'fake' door that is actually part of the wall. It is used for decorative purposes.

A revolving door is a type of door that, as its name suggests, revolves in its frame. They are often used in comedy where people get confused and go in the revolving door one way and then leave the same way. Or when people get stuck in the door.

A garage door is a large door on a garage that can either be opened manually or by a garage door opener.

A fire door is a type of door, or closure used as a passive fire protection item within buildings to prevent the spread of fire. It is usually the only means of allowing people to pass through a fire-resistance rated wall assembly.

Platform screen doors, also known as platform-edge doors, are doors for screening the platform and trains at train or subway stations. These doors serve

Dor - "dwelling", the Dora of the Greeks and Romans, an ancient royal city of the Canaanites, (Joshua 12:23) whose ruler was an ally of Jabin king of Hazor against Joshua, (Joshua 11:1,2). In the 1100's the town appears to have been taken by the Tjekker, and was ruled by them at least as late as the early 1000's BCE.

Dour is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. On 1 January 2005 the municipality had 16,804 inhabitants (8,069 males and 8,735 females). The total area is 33.32 km², giving a population density of 504.32 inhabitants per km².

Dour is a state of mind that English people often use to describe Scottish people that like charisma, they say this man is dour.

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