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* The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests ( 祈年殿 ) is a magnificent triple-gabled circular building, 36 meters in diameter and 38 meters tall, built on three levels of marble stone base, where the Emperor prayed for good harvests.
Hull had already had a magnificent career with the St. Louis Blues, with three consecutive 70 goal seasons and a Hart Trophy, but a fallout with management led Hull to leave the Blues for Free Agency.
He was chiefly concern'd in designing and building a great number of magnificent Nobleman's Houses, and particularly ( with Sir John Vanbrugh ) those of Blenheim and Castle-Howard, at the latter of which he was at his Death, carrying on a Mausoleum in the most elegant and grand Stile ( sic ), not to mention many others: But one of the most surprising of his undertakings, was the repairing of Beverley Minster, where the stone wall on the north-side was near three Foot out of the perpendicular, which he mov'd at once to its upright by means of a machine of his own invention.
Drawings show that it was a magnificent building, with a dormitory, dining hall and three chapels.
Although " he executed few buildings as his rich fantastic gothic required equally rich patrons (..) his finished works are outstanding monuments to nineteenth century gothic ", the suites of rooms he created at Cardiff being amongst " the most magnificent that the gothic revival ever achieved ," " three dimensional passports to fairy kingdoms and realms of gold.
“ Located ten miles from Philadelphia, on the line of the Central Division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, three minutes walk from Morton Station – it is reached in from 20 to 30 minutes by 21 trains daily … To the west lies the magnificent Swarthmore College, and to the southeast, three miles away, lies the Delaware River … its school is one of the finest in the county ; its houses are neat and attractive, and their owners take great pride in their homes and the adornment of their grounds .”
He had spent enormous sums in building a magnificent château on his estate of Vaux-le-Vicomte, which in extent, magnificence and splendour of decoration was a forerunner of Versailles, and where he brought together three artists that the King would later take up for Versailles: the architect Louis Le Vau, the painter Charles Le Brun, and the garden designer André le Nôtre.
" In contrast to their beautifully clean-shaven Italian audience, these three intellectuals all sported magnificent beards.
" Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal abbey, the chief glory of south Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions — all now ruthlessly swept away — throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive melancholy, which the stimulating atmosphere and limitless landscape around him can scarcely dispel.
It was part of the abbey complex and originally was one of three large churches in the town ( the others being St. James, now St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, and St. Margaret's, now gone ). It is renowned for its magnificent hammer-beam Angel roof, and is the final resting place of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Duchess of Suffolk and favourite sister of Henry VIII ( Mary Rose ).
Knox settled in Thomaston, and built a magnificent three story mansion surrounded by outbuildings called Montpelier, the whole of " a beauty, symmetry and magnificence " said to be unequalled in the Commonwealth.
Beautiful, rich and magnificent was the women's dress, of at least three different types.
** The record dated by February 2, 1836 says: " Через три часа после этого общего бедствия ... осветился великолепный Энгельгардтов дом, и к нему потянулись кареты, все наполненные лучшим петербургским дворянством, тем, которые у нас представляют всю русскую европейскую интеллигенцию " (" After three hours after this common disaster ... the magnificent Engelhardt's house was lit up and coaches started coming, filled with the best Peterburg dvoryanstvo, the ones who represent here the best Russian European intelligentsia.
It was a magnificent apartment divided into three aisles with vaults springing from four columns ; a stone bench ran around the walls for the monks to sit on, and the abbot's throne was in the centre of the east wall.
He follows these ladies into a cliff and travels for three miles through the rock until he emerges into a fairy kingdom, a flat expanse of countryside presided over by a magnificent castle, built from gold and crystal and glass.
The popularity of all three men was such that when they died, many thousands attended their funeral processions, and magnificent funeral monuments were provided by popular subscription in all three cases.
Drawings show that it was a magnificent building, with a dormitory, dining hall and three chapels.
Some specimens may attain an age exceeding 250 years, with trunk diameters up to three or four meters, such as the magnificent specimens on the Filoli estate in San Mateo County.
From the ramparts to the magnificent three storied buildings that housed the Kings Palace, Laterite and clay were the main raw material used in its construction.
Steffani did not accompany the elector George to England ; but in 1724 the Academy of Antient Musick in London elected him its honorary president for life ; and in return for the compliment he sent the association a magnificent Stabat Mater, for six voices and orchestra, and three fine madrigals.
The princess attempts to stall the wedding by demanding three magnificent gowns: a gown as pale as the moon, a gown as sparkling as the stars, and a gown as golden as the sun.
During three campaigns in that country he proved himself a worthy antagonist to Prince Eugène of Savoy, whom he at last defeated in 1705 at Cassano in a magnificent show of courage and command over his troops, converting the impending defeat that his indolent brother, Philippe, the Grand Prior, had incurred, into a glorious success.

three and altars
Thus the Elohist describes Balaam constructing giving two blessings, making sacrifices on seven altars, at the high places of Baal, before each, then deciding not to seek enchantments after the third set of sacrifices, but to set his face upon the wilderness, which Balak views as a third blessing, and so Balaam then gives the three final predictions of fate.
They are depicted on votive objects and altars that bear images of goddesses, depicted almost entirely in groups of three, that feature inscriptions ( about half of which feature Celtic names, and half of which feature Germanic names ), that were venerated in regions of Germania, Eastern Gaul, and upper Italy ( with a small distribution elsewhere ) that were occupied by the Roman army from the first to the fifth century AD.
It contained altars dedicated by the commanders and men of all three units known to be stationed at Housesteads to the god Mars Thincsus, the Romanized aspect of a Teutonic god, a common occurrence among the Roman auxiliary units.
The church of St. Augustine, located in Antwerp, had three altars.
The last day, all the village men visit all the Binou altars and dance three times around the Lébé altar.
Other monuments at the site include several other step-pyramid temples, palaces, three ballcourts, sweat-baths, an unusual row of circular altars, and a cave with steps carved down into it.
He proclaimed there were either two or three ( depending on subsequent interpretations ) altars built by Adam at the site.
It features three altars, four rosette stained-glass windows ( designed by New York artist Alex S. Locke ) and features 150 oil paintings of saints.
The church originally had three large altars.
The three altars to the right of the main entrance are decorated with scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary, patroness of the church, by Luca Giordano: Presentation of Our Lady in the Temple ", Assumption of Our Lady, Nativity of Our Lady.
The church has five domes, three altars and two side chapels, while one of the most precious items inside is the gold-plated iconostasis, famous for its wood-carving, the creation of which took five years to four handicraftsmen.
When the Capuchin monastery in Rheinfelden was suppressed in 1811, their three altars were transferred to Magden.
Kimball states that " n the top of this mound there was the appearance of three altars, which had been built of stone, one above another, according to the ancient order ; and the ground was strewn over with human bones.
By the late 15th century, a north aisle, the same size as the original nave, had been added, and three chantry altars had been established.
There are three altars in each of these three sections of the church.
Few meters away from the Parish Church there is the church of the Holy Ghost ( L-Ispirtu s-Santu ), where ne of the three altars in this church is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows.
The chapel, with its three baroque altars and small, 18th-century organ, was renovated in 1865, at which time the romantic ornamentation of the walls and the portal took place.
However, the historicity of the town is now seen only in ruins, with three notable carved wooden altars seen as a witness, in a modern adobe church built later in the town.
The fine Palazzo Barberini, the Barberini library ( now a core section of the Vatican's Biblioteca Apostolica ), and the many buildings, altars, and other projects spread across Rome ( and marked with the heraldic three bees ) give evidence of the family's wealth, taste and magnificence in the seventeenth century.
In February 2006, Bhakti Charu Swami built a temple with three huge altars for the worship of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan and Sri Sri Krishna Balaram.
All three contain a dedication inscription, which is carved around all four sides of the altars in the South Arabian script of that period, and each bears the name of their donor: Bi ' athar.
Antenociticus appears at only one site in Britain, the fort of Condercum, on Hadrian's Wall, where three altars to the god were found within the ruins of a small temple.
In Lisbon, three major shocks within ten minutes, a host of rapidly-spreading fires touched off by the candles of a hundred church altars, and a vast tidal wave ( tsunami ) that engulfs the seafront, leave 40, 000 dead out of a total population of 270, 000.

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