Agate () is a microcrystalline variety of silica, chiefly chalcedony, characterised by its fineness of grain and brightness of color.

Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

Agate is also still used today for decorative displays, cabochons, beads, carvings and Intarsia art as well as face-polished and tumble-polished specimens of varying size and origin.

Agate is a variety of chalcedony with multi-colored curved or angular banding.

James Agate, reviewing Forever and a Day, wrote: " Is there no-one at RKO to tell Charles Laughton when he is being plain bad?

It borders Lake Superior, which contributes the two natural harbors for which it is named, Burlington Bay and Agate Bay.

Furthermore, The Nature Conservancy's Agate Desert Preserve is on the west side of White City.

* The State of Franklin is briefly mentioned in Lee Smith's novel, On Agate Hill ( 2006 ) ( paperback edition, page 226-227 ).

Another well-known work by Guimerà is the play La filla del mar ( The daughter of the sea, 1900 ), that recounts the story of Agata ( Agate ).

Once a Pokémon's gauge is empty, the player may " Purify " the Pokémon by bringing him or her to Celebi's shrine in Agate Village, or by using a rare " Poké Flute " item.

The case is now referred to as United States of America v. Agate et al.

Noted for its production of Menou or Agate, a green quartz stone, this stone is one of the three gifts given to each newly crowned Emperor.

* Agate Beach County Park — This picnic area and beach is at the end of MacKaye Harbor Road at the south end of the island.

Another example of the use of petrified wood in construction is the Agate House Pueblo in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is a U. S. National Monument near Harrison, Nebraska.

Agate Fossil Beds is maintained by the National Park Service.

Agate is the designation of an unguided French test rocket.

Dordi Agate Nordby, ( born 8 April 1964 in Bærum, Norway ), is a Norwegian right-handed curler from Snarøya.

It is famous for its rare Sajhar or Dendritic Agate stone.

* The Achatschale ( Agate bowl ) is a bowl whose inscriptions are said to refer to Jesus Christ.

The region's Agate cutters had to travel further afield for their supplies as the local deposits became worked out in the early 19th Century and it is said that they enjoyed the churrascaria they found in Brazil.

On Agate Hill ( 2006 ), is set in the piedmont South during Reconstruction.

These were published in his first book, L. of C. ( Lines of Communication ), of which a reviewer wrote, " Captain James E. Agate ranks as one of the first hundred thousand soldiers who have written a book about the war, but … one is sure there will be no other book like this one.

Agate sought to position himself in that tradition, and his criticism consequently is verbose and self-indulgent but hugely entertaining and revealing.

Other forms of agate include Lake Superior agate, carnelian agate ( exhibiting reddish hues ), Botswana agate, blue lace agate, plume agates, moss agate, tube agate ( with visible flow channels or pinhole-sized ' tubes '), fortification agate ( which exhibit little or no banding structure ), fire agate ( which has internal flash or ' fire ', the result of a layer of clear agate over a layer of hydrothermally-deposited hematite ), Mexican crazy-lace agate, which often exhibits a brightly colored, complexly banded pattern ( also called Rodeo Agate and Rosetta Stone depending on who owned the mine at the time ).

Agate, primarily in the form of chalcedony, and crystalline quartz ( sometimes in the form of amethyst ), are prominent in the ancient lava flows of the Watchungs and are typically seen as embedded nodules along exposed fronts.

Olivier's 1937 performance at the Old Vic Theatre was popular with audiences but not with critics, with James Agate writing in a famous review in The Sunday Times, " Mr. Olivier does not speak poetry badly.

Osbert Sitwell, in a letter to James Agate, notes that Bennett was not, despite current views, " the typical businessman, with his mean and narrow outlook.

On that day, the first iron ore cars left Agate Bay early in the morning, along with a caboose for President Tower to ride in on the return trip.

* Agate: A mineral, streaked with many colors, and which can be given a high polish.

They reformed in 1980, however, with Phillips as the only original member, joined by Peter Agate ( guitar ), Len Surtees ( bass ) and Adrian Metcalfe ( drums ).

While the committee men join in or take over part of his speech, Agate incites the taxi drivers with fiery rhetoric about the rich killing them off.

Dean also rescued the expedition's artist, Alfred Agate, along with his paintings and drawings.

In spite of a massive intrusion of petroleum hydrocarbon pollutants from the Ixtoc I event into the study region of the South Texas Outer Continental Shelf during 1979-1980, no definitive damage can be associated with this or other known spillage events ( e. g., Burmah Agate ) on either the epibenthic commercial shrimp population ( based on chemical evidence ) or the benthic infaunal community.

It was built to keep such relics and treasures associated with the Asturian Monarchy as the Cross of the Angels, Victory Cross, and the Agate Box or Agate Casket.

Agate has also been known to fill veins or cracks in volcanic or altered rock underlain by granitic intrusive masses.

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* 1812 – Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist ( d. 1846 )

Tuvaluan man in traditional costume drawn by Alfred Agate in 1841 during the United States Exploring Expedition.

During the visit of the expedition to Tuvalu Alfred Thomas Agate, engraver and illustrator, recorded the dress and tattoo patterns of men of Nukufetau.

In the early years Two Harbors consisted of two separate communities called Agate Bay and Burlington.

The village of Agate Bay was platted in 1885 but was not incorporated until 1888 ; Two Harbors post office served the Agate Bay.

By 1883 the Minnesota Iron Company had purchased all but four acres of Thomas Sextons land around Agate Bay.

By 1885 the Minnesota Iron Company convinced Thomas Sexton to sell his remaining four acres along Agate Bay.

In Agate Bay ( Two Harbors ) most of the land was bought from Thomas Sexton, who by that time had owned the land for twenty years.

Although different locations were considered for the railroad terminus and shipping port, Agate Bay was chosen because it was closer to the iron ore site and provided a clay bottom bay, while most others were rocky.

At Agate Cove on the south end of the park, waves crashing against the basalt rocks provide spectacular spouts from blow holes.

Ferry service was discontinued in Fall of 1951 after the Agate Pass Bridge opened and the Washington State Ferries took over ferry service on Puget Sound.