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

The theatre critic James Agate noted that Horniman's high-minded theatrical ventures had " an air of gloomy strenuousness " about them.

In the most serious case they ruled that Bid TV had overestimated the guide price of £ 1700 for " Black Agate Globes "; " Bid-Up could only provide proof of one supplier that may have sold the globe for £ 1700.

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.

Some sources indicate that it was Kitsap who had Old Man House, Puget Sound's largest longhouse, built on Agate Pass, though other sources debate this.

In addition to his work as a theatre critic, Agate was film critic to The Tatler and literary critic to The Daily Express and also had leisure interests that occupied much time and money.

") The historian Jacques Barzun, a fan of Agate and editor of a reissue of the last two volumes of Agate's Ego series, highlighted Agate in 2001, which rekindled the interest of a new generation:

* Alan Brooks and Elizabeth Agate: Hedging, British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, ISBN 0-946752-17-6

Many of his diary entries mention his friends Herbert Van Thal, George Lyttelton, Dent and Pavia, and Edward Agate, his much-loved brother.

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 ).

* Alfred Agate, ( 1812 – 1846 ), born in Sparta, noted painter

* Frederick Styles Agate, ( 1803 – 1844 ), resident of Sparta, brother of Alfred Agate, noted portraitist and painter

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 ).

In those early days ( 1919 ), water for the Island came from the famous " Wooden Water Tower " built on Agate St. ( removed in 1929 ).

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

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.

* 5½ pt: Agate ( US ), Ruby ( Brit.

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 ).

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

In 1988, following lobbying by Arcigay, Alma Cappiello Agate ( lawyer and socialist parliamentarian ) introduced the first bill in parliament ( PdL N. 2340, Directive on the de facto family, 12 February 1988 ), calling for the acknowledgment of cohabitation between " persons ".

* Agate Moscow Scientific Research Institute (,, Agate ),

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

For example most of the blue runs are named after metals / jewels ( e. g. Serpentine, Turquoise, Dolomie, Cristal, Tourmaline, Emeraude ), nearly all the reds are diabollically named ( e. g. Faust, Mephisto, Belzebuth, Lucifer ) and most black runs after stars ( e. g. Diamant Noir, Agate, Styx ).

Agate, the eldest child of Charles James Agate ( 1832-1909 ), a wholesale linen draper, and Eulalie Julia née Young, was born in Pendleton, near Manchester, England.

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.

" Sitwell cited a letter from Bennett to a friend of Agate, who remains anonymous, in Ego 5:

In his early days at the Old Vic, Richardson was the target of the sometimes waspish reviews of leading critic, James Agate, who thought that Richardson could not play villains ; Agate said of Richardson's Iago, " he could not hurt a fly, which was very good Richardson, but indifferent Shakespeare ".

Ernest Bloch was a composer who lived in Agate Beach, and has a memorial located in Newport.

In order to gratify her passion for antique and Neoclassical art, Catherine employed the Scottish architect Charles Cameron who not only refurbished the interior of one wing in the Neo-Palladian style then in vogue, but also constructed the personal apartments of the Empress, a rather modest Greek Revival structure known as the Agate Rooms and situated to the left from the grand palace.

" Later, Agate was bested by Lilian Braithwaite, who responded to his assertion that she was " the second most beautiful woman in London " by replying, " I shall long cherish that, coming from our second-best theatre critic.

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

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.

* Elizabeth Agate: Fencing, British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, ISBN 0-946752-29-X

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 ".

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

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.

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.

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.

* Concerto Grosso No. 2 for string orchestra ( 1952 Agate Beach )

* Concerto Symphonique for piano and orchestra ( 1948 Agate Beach )

* Scherzo Fantasque for piano and orchestra ( 1948 Agate Beach )

* Concertino for flute, viola and string orchestra ( 1948, 1950 Agate Beach )

* Suite Hébraïque, for viola ( or violin ) and orchestra ( 1951 Agate Beach )

* Symphony for trombone and orchestra ( 1954 Agate Beach )

* Proclamation for trumpet and orchestra ( 1955 Agate Beach )

* Suite Modale for flute and string orchestra ( 1956 Agate Beach )

* Two Last Poems for flute solo and orchestra ( 1958 Agate Beach )

** Suite Hébraïque for violin and piano ( 1951 Agate Beach )

** Suite No. 1 for violin solo ( 1958 Agate Beach )

** Suite No. 2 for violin solo ( 1958 Agate Beach )

** Suite Hébraïque for viola and piano ( 1951 Agate Beach )

** Meditation and Processional for viola and piano ( 1951 Agate Beach )