Palisade Palisade A palisade—sometimes called a stakewall or a paling—is typically a fence or wall made from wooden stakes or tree trunks and used as a defensive structure or enclosure. Palisade derives from "pale", from the Latin word "", meaning stake, specifically a stake used to support a fence. A palisade gangs these side by side to create a fence entirely made of pales. Typical construction consisted of small or mid-sized tree trunks aligned vertically, with no free space in between. The trunks were sharpened or pointed at the top, and were driven into the ground and sometimes reinforced with additional
Taking a Line for a Second Walk Taking a Line for a Second Walk Taking a Line for a Second Walk is the name of piano duo reduction of a dance work for orchestra by Michael Nyman, "Basic Black", written in 1986 for the Houston Ballet. It is eponymous with a 1994 album on Work Music on which it constitutes approximately half the material. The album is also known as "Music for Two Pianos", which is given as the album's name on the back cover and insert back, while "Taking a Line for a Second Walk" appears on the front cover, spine, and physical disc. The performers