" He was also alluded to by Neil Gaiman in his extremely popular series The Sandman in the guise of the envoy of the Endless, Eblis O ' Shaughnessy.

In 1981, further washouts brought closure of the line from Eblis to Olympia, until the line was purchased by Norman Clark, operator of the narrow gauge Roaring Camp & Big Trees tourist railroad and adjacent 1880s-themed park in Felton.

Finally, Vathek reaches Istakhar, where he finds more swords with writing on them, which says " Thou hast violated the conditions of my parchment, and deserve to be sent back, but in favor to thy companion, and as the meed for what thou hast done to obtain it, Eblis permitted that the portal of this place will receive thee ” ( 108 ).

* Eblis, variant of Iblis, the primary devil in Islam.

Iblīs ( Eblis in Vathek ) ( Arabic إبليس ) or Shayṭān ( or, Shaitan ) () ( plural: شياطين Shayatin ), is name given to the primary devil in Islam.

At the end of the novel, instead of attaining these powers, Vathek descends into a hell ruled by the demon Eblis where he is doomed to wander endlessly and speechlessly.

The shepherd asks Vathek if he is done sinning, warns Vathek about Eblis, ruler of Hell, and asks Vathek to return home, destroy his tower, disown Carathis, and preach Islam.

She gathers the Jinns and tries to overthrow one of the Solimans, but Eblis decrees " It is time.

He claims to be an Indian merchant, but in actuality he is a Jinn who works for the arch-demon Eblis.

When she arrives, he warns her of what happens to those who enter Eblis ' domain, but Carathis takes the talismans of earthly power from Soliman regardless.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

and was there apprenticed to a builder and architect, Moody Spofford.

Their house was a centuries-old Colonial which they had had restored ( guided by an eminent architect ) and updated, and added on to.

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

Until modern times there was no clear distinction between the architect and engineer.

It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1900 to 1914.

Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

Cánovas was the real architect of the new regime of the Restoration.

Anthemius of Tralles ( c. 474 – before 558 ; ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul in Turkey ) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician.

Canberra is a planned city that was originally designed by Walter Burley Griffin, a major 20th century American architect.

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto ( February 3 1898, Kuortane – May 11 1976, Helsinki ) was a Finnish architect and designer.

It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition ( 1949 ), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier.

The Violin Concerto was dedicated " to the memory of an Angel ", Manon Gropius, the deceased daughter of architect Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler.

A third brother, Bruno Giacometti, was a noted architect.

Albrecht Altdorfer ( c. 1480-February 12, 1538 ) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg.

The architect, Jean Chalgrin, died in 1811 and the work was taken over by Jean-Nicolas Huyot.

Agostino Carracci was born in Bologna, and trained at the workshop of the architect Domenico Tibaldi.

The present town of Ajaccio was founded in 1492 south of the Christian village by the Bank of Saint George at Genoa, which dispatched Cristoforo of Gandini, an architect, to build it.

Andreas Schlüter ( 20 May 1664 – May 1714 ) was a German baroque sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration.

The architect was Samuel Pepys Cockerell.

In 1450, the Italian art architect Leon Battista Alberti invented the first mechanical anemometer ; in 1664 it was re-invented by Robert Hooke ( who is often mistakenly considered the inventor of the first anemometer ).

The building was again remodeled by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and features a glass dome over the session area, which allows free public access to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city.

The bridge was swept away during a flood, and later repaired by Puspagupta, the chief architect of emperor Chandragupta I.

Ordered by Sultan Bayezid I, the mosque was designed and built by architect Ali Neccar in 1396 – 1400.

In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during the first years of its existence.

Edward's architect, James of St. George, may well have modelled the castle on the walls of Constantinople, possibly being aware of the alternative Welsh name Caer Gystennin ; in addition, Edward was a supporter of the Crusader cause.

This monumental church, modelled after the Pantheon in Rome, was designed by the Polish architect Adam Ballenstaedt.

Zamość was planned by the renowned Paduan architect Bernardo Morando and modelled on Renaissance theories of the ideal city.

Much of Chester's architecture dates from the Victorian era, many of the buildings being modelled on the Jacobean half-timbered style and designed by John Douglas, who was employed by the Duke as his principal architect.

Based on plans by British architect Sir George Gilbert Scott and completed in the 1870s, it was modelled on the Big Ben clock tower of London.

The Chateau was designed by Timaru based architect Herbert Hall ( 1880-1939 ), who modelled his design on the Canadian Resort of Lake Louise designed a neo-Georgian structure of four stories and basement.

Designed by architect Paul Tvrtkovic and scenic designer Sean Kenny ( Blitz !, Oliver !, Pickwick ( musical )), modelled after the Walter Gropius Total-Theater, and seating 960 on 2 levels, the theatre's auditorium first opened with a television recording of Marlene Dietrich's one-woman show.

The Lairds were largely responsible for the early growth of Birkenhead, commissioning the architect James Gillespie Graham to lay it out as a new town modelled on Edinburgh.

Two surviving plans ( Richmond Surrey Reference Library, one dated 1842 ), a longitudinal sectional drawing ( Harvard University Theatre Collection ), and two photographs taken in 1884 by a photographer named Hilditch, together show the Richmond Surrey Theatre Royal compared well with Bristol and that the two were probably modelled on the theatre where their architect, James Saunders, knew best: Garrick's Drury Lane.

It was designed by the architect Charles Percier and embellished with gilt-bronze plaques: the central one, according to its original description, depicts the " Birth of the Queen of the Earth, to whom Cupids and Goddesses hasten with their Offerings " by the Empire's most eminent bronzier, Pierre-Philippe Thomire, modelled by Antoine-Denis Chaudet.

It was modelled in the manner of the Italian palazzo, similar to the house of the Italian architect Federico Zuccari.