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.

* Agate is distinctly banded chalcedony with successive layers differing in color or value.

* 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.

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.

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

The last of the great actor-managers, Donald Wolfit, played Lear on a Stonehenge-like set in 1944 and was praised by James Agate as " the greatest piece of Shakespearean acting since I have been privileged to write for the Sunday Times ".

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

The Hanapepe Valley as drawn by Alfred Thomas Agate

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.

The drive system was replaced by Agate Technology's DN-Boy system in October 2002.

" Umpqua Indian ", drawn by Alfred Thomas Agate

Drawing of a native of the island, showing his distinctive conical headdress ; drawn by Alfred Thomas Agate

Portrait of a native of the Makin ( islands ) | Makin islands, drawn by Alfred Thomas Agate ( 1841 )

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

Originally the Agate Springs Ranch, a working cattle ranch, was owned by Capt.

* Achates ( Agate ) has been replaced by Yacinthos ( Jacinth ).

Taking the majority view of scholars in regard to the identity of the gems, and including the implication from the Book of Revelation that the Onyx at the end of the fourth row was a Sardonyx, there are four colours-red, green, yellow, and blue-each represented by a clear gem ( red-Carbuncle, green-Heliodor, yellow-Chrysolite, blue-Amethyst ), an opaque gem ( red-Carnelian / red Jasper, green-green Jasper, yellow-yellow Jasper / yellow Serpentine, blue-Lapis Lazuli ), and a striped gem ( red-Sardonyx, green-Malachite, yellow-pale golden Agate, blue-sky-blue Agate ).

Natives of Fakaofo ; engraving after a drawing by Alfred Thomas Agate

The attack on Malolo by Alfred Agate.

Tuvaluan man in traditional costume drawn by Alfred Thomas Agate in 1841.

A man from the Nukufetau atoll, Ellice Islands ( now Tuvalu ) drawn by Alfred Thomas Agate in 1841.

As second in command at the Guardian, Monkhouse helped to launch the career of James Agate by publishing his open letters from France during the first World War.

Islander of Wutoohee, drawn by Alfred Thomas Agate