Stand here for a few moments and look at this gem of a fountain with its four youths, each holding a tortoise and each with a foot resting on the head of a dolphin.

The thing that impressed one of the visitors the most was the Gallery's rotunda fountain `` because it's on the second floor ''.

And when they stood by the fountain in the piazza looking at Santa Maria he had to keep a straight face, not letting on he had been there with Alberto.

As a consequence there are four chimney-pieces by Algardi in the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, and in the gardens, the figures on the fountain of Neptune are also by him.

In front of it is the Neptunbrunnen, a fountain featuring a mythological group of Tritons, personifications of the four main Prussian rivers and Neptune on top of it.

" Ammannati continued working on this fountain for another ten years, adding, in a mannerist style, around the perimeter suave bronze reclining river gods, laughing satyrs and marble sea horses emerging from the water.

The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on his leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not do.

Since, when tried, this viscous ink would not flow into a regular fountain pen nib, Bíró, with the help of his brother György, a chemist, began to work on designing new types of pens.

An African-American child at a segregated drinking fountain on a courthouse lawn, North Carolina, 1938.

* The on-line textbook: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, by David MacKay, contains chapters on elementary error-correcting codes ; on the theoretical limits of error-correction ; and on the latest state-of-the-art error-correcting codes, including low-density parity-check codes, turbo codes, and fountain codes.

In Elizabethan gardens " the plants were almost incidental ", and instead the design focus was on sculptures, including four wooden obelisks painted to resemble porphyry and a marble fountain with a statue of two Greek mythological figures.

In a bold and innovative move, the architect chose to set the tower back from the property line to create a forecourt plaza and fountain on Park Avenue.

Many of these buildings seem to have been planned in relation to each other: the baths at the northern end of the hippodrome are on the same alignment as it is, and the stoa, the xenon, the lower fountain, and the rows of seats all appear to have been built in an intentionally similar alignment.

* The Minerva Roundabout in Guadalajara, Mexico, located at the crossing of the López Mateos, Vallarta, López Cotilla, Agustín Yáñez and Golfo de Cortez avenues, features the goddess standing on a pedestal, surrounded by a large fountain, with an inscription which says " Justice, wisdom and strength guard this loyal city ".

Friend of the Muses, Pegasus is the creator of Hippocrene, the fountain on Mt.

The courtyard, with galleries of arches on Doric order columns opening on it, is centered by a fountain.

The " echoppe " works on the same principle that makes a fountain pen's line more attractive than a ballpoint's: The slight swelling variation caused by the natural movement of the hand " warms up " the line, and although hardly noticeable in any individual line, has a very attractive overall effect on the finished plate.

Popular legends include an ox named " Bloem " owned by one of the pioneer farmers that was taken by a lion near a fountain on his property, while another story names Jan Blom ( 1775 – 1858 ), a Korana KhoiKhoi leader who inhabited the area.

* 520 BC – 510 BC — The Priam Painter makes Women at a fountain house, black-figure decoration on a hydria.

Gravity pumps include the syphon and Heron's fountain – and there also important qanat or foggara systems which simply use downhill flow to take water from far-underground aquifers in high areas to consumers at lower elevations.

The bottom pool of the fountain is in diameter, the lower basin is, the middle basin is and the upper basin is.

In some countries, fountain pens are usual in lower school grades, believed to teach children better control over writing as many common mistakes of people not used to handwriting ( like too much pressure or incorrect hold ) feel unnatural or are almost impossible when using traditional pen tips.

The al-Kas ablution fountain for Muslim worshipers on the southern portion of the lower platform.

The lower platform also houses a fountain ( known as al-Kas ), originally supplied with water via a long narrow aqueduct leading from pools at Bethlehem ( colloquially known as Solomon's Pools ), but now supplied from Jerusalem's water mains.

A " Main Street-style " retail complex will occupy the lower level and include shops, a fountain, and a clock tower.

Originally built as a drinking fountain, it very aptly had an upper fountain for humans and a lower fountain for dogs.

The space fountain has some advantages over a space elevator in that it does not require materials with extreme strength, can be located at any point on a planet's surface instead of just the lower latitudes, and can be raised to heights lower than the level of geostationary orbit.

Problems that were initially raised with this proposal were friction of the pellet stream with Earth's atmosphere at lower altitudes and the Coriolis forces due to the rotation of the Earth, but Roderick Hyde worked out all the engineering design details for a space fountain and showed that these issues could theoretically be overcome.

The fashion court stage and flight cage in the aviary court were replaced with fountains when the lower level was added, causing these areas to be mistakenly called " fountain courts " while the original fountains were removed from the Hecht's entrance.

In the lower Green are the Bennett Fountain ( built in 1907 and designed after the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens ) and the flagpole with granite World War I memorial ( designed by Douglas Orr in 1928 ) and fountain ( added in 2003 ).

Acid-based fountain solutions are still the most common variety and yield the best quality results by means of superior protection of the printing plate, lower dot gains, and longer plate life.

Engravings of the time and photographs from the nineteenth century show much lower buildings around the piazza, which would have made the fountain much more dramatic.

His plans, later modified by Horace Peaslee, included an Italian Renaissance-style terraced fountain in the lower half and gardens in a French Baroque style in the upper half.

The fountain was originally embellished with marble facing on the lower level, painted plaster on the upper level, and topped with a half-dome roof, forming a giant niche.

Organizationally, a typical Bosnian residence from the 17th century consisted of five main elements: a fence that faced and defined the street and clearly differentiated private from public, a courtyard usually built of pebble or flat stone pattern for easier maintenance, an outdoor fountain ( Šadrvan ) for hygenic purposes, a lower level " semi-public " private space called the Hajat where the family would gather, and the Divanhan, an upper-level semi-private / private space used for relaxation and enjoyment.

Retracing my steps to the Mosque of Sultan Ahmet, only one with six minarets, I entered the courtyard, with a gallery supported by pointed arches running around it and a fountain in the middle.

This uncertainty is currently one limiting factor in laboratory realisations of the metre, and it is several orders of magnitude poorer than that of the second, based upon the caesium fountain atomic clock ().

FOCS 1, a continuous cold caesium fountain atomic clock in Switzerland, started operating in 2004 at an uncertainty of one second in 30 million years.

They start at the Oktagon and during a one hour walk through the park visitors can follow the water's way until they reach the lake of the castle Wilhelmshöhe where a big fountain of about 50 metres marks the end of the spectacle.

Bloemfontein (, ; Dutch for " fountain of flowers " – lit., " blooms ") is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa ; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals – the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital.

At one angle, a square pillared projection contains the marble fountain or monks ' lavatorium, evidently the work of Muslim sculptors.

It had a fountain for drinking water and two basins, for washing clothes, one for washing and one for rinsing.

She also found a 1734 notation made by Robert Morris the elder in the ledger of the expenses of Robert Morris the younger, who was at the time in Philadelphia, for " one fountain pen ".

Although cartridge-filler fountain pens are still in common use in France, Germany, India and the United Kingdom, and are widely used by young students in most private schools in England and at least one private school in Scotland, a few modern manufacturers ( especially Montblanc and Visconti ) now depict the fountain pen as a collectible item or a status symbol, rather than an everyday writing tool.

Along the way one would find other ' monuments ' created in the years before catacomb renovations, such as a source-gathering fountain baptised " La Samaritaine " because of later-added engravings.

This fountain was one of a series of fountains he designed and commissioned in a belief that easy access to cool drinking water would keep people from consuming alcohol.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, she becomes one with Hermaphroditus, and Hermaphroditus curses the fountain to have the same effect on others.

" Forms echo one another throughout: oval-shaped columns, for example, reiterate the geometry of the fountain.

A fountain in one of many Patterson roundabouts

The downtown is alive and well, including an independently-owned pharmacy with a soda fountain, one coffee shop, a trolley museum, several restaurants, two pizza parlors, three bookstores, a newsstand, a grocery store, a natural foods store, many artists ' galleries, and the second oldest bowling alley in the country, the Shelburne Falls Bowling Alley candlepin.

At one point in time, where the gazebo is now, there used to be a fountain.

The civic center of the borough, counted as one of three contributing sites, is the borough park with its duck pond and fountain designed around the Big Spring.

Well dressing was celebrated in only one or two villages in Derbyshire by the 19th century, and in Buxton it wasn't introduced until 1840, " to commemorate the beneficence of the Duke of Devonshire who, at his own expense, made arrangements for supplying the Upper Town, which had been much inconvenienced by the distance to St Anne's well on the Wye, with a fountain of excellent water within easy reach of all ".

" Both the Dadaist Marcel Duchamp and the Pop Artist Andy Warhol would invert expectations by presenting commonplace objects or graphics as works of fine art ( for example a urinal as a fountain ), simply by presenting them in a way no one had thought to do before ; the result was intended to induce an epiphany of " what art is " or is not.

There are terraced gardens in the Italian style, an arboretum, and a fountain inspired by one at the Villa d ' Este, near Rome.

Today, the Zocalo is a tree-filled plaza and contains a large number of sculptures, but the most noted is the one of the Archangel Michael that is in a fountain placed in the center in 1777.