The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

Glass beads were being made in Murano by the end of the 14th century.

Doom principal rivals were Apogee's Rise of the Triad and Looking Glass Studios ' System Shock.

Among the acts he selected for the festival were Philip Glass, Television and The Dandy Warhols.

For the quantitative analysis, ten articles were selected at random – circumcision, Charles Drew, Galileo, Philip Glass, heart disease, IQ, panda bear, sexual harassment, Shroud of Turin and Uzbekistan – and letter grades of A – D or F were awarded in four categories: coverage, accuracy, clarity, and recency.

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

Concertos for the instrument were written by Francis Poulenc ( the Concert champêtre, 1927 – 28 ), Manuel de Falla, Bertold Hummel, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, and Roberto Carnevale.

The result of Goebbels ’ incitement was Kristallnacht, the " Night of Broken Glass ," during which the S. A. and Nazi Party went on a rampage of anti-Jewish violence and destruction, killing at least 90 and maybe as many as 200 people, destroying over a thousand synagogues and hundreds of Jewish businesses and homes, and dragging some 30, 000 Jews off to concentration camps, where at least another thousand died before the remainder were released after several months of brutal treatment.

Glass and iron were used in a similar monumental style in the construction of major railway terminals in London, such as Paddington Station ( 1854 ) and King's Cross Station ( 1852 ).

Glass mirrors from this period were extremely expensive luxuries.

They were followed by composers such as Philip Glass, Mark Adamo, John Corigliano, Robert Moran, John Coolidge Adams, and Jake Heggie.

After Kristallnacht (" The Night of Broken Glass "), the Jews were fined 1, 000, 000 marks for damages done by the Nazi troops and SS members.

* The assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by a German-born Polish Jew triggers the Kristallnacht ( The Night of Broken Glass ) held between the 9 to 10 November 1938 and carried out by the Hitler Youth, the Gestapo and the SS during which the Jewish population living in Nazi Germany and Austria were attacked – 91 Jews were murdered and 25, 000 to 30, 000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps.

His work reached world-wide audiences in the early 1950s when The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire were made into motion pictures.

Characters such as Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and Sebastian in Suddenly, Last Summer were understood to represent Williams himself.

The Pier also has an IMAX theater, and the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, many of which were salvaged from Chicago mansions.

They were Rachel, Rachel ( 1968 ), based on Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God, the screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ( 1972 ), the television screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Shadow Box ( 1980 ), and a screen version of Tennessee Williams ' The Glass Menagerie ( 1987 ).

Glass plates were later replaced by sheet film in a dark slide for sheet film ; adaptor sleeves were made to allow sheet film to be used in plate holders.

Glass production and dye-making from marine snails were the city's most lucrative industries.

In the 1970s, more sophisticated analytical techniques were introduced in educational research, starting with the work of Gene V. Glass, Frank L. Schmidt and John E. Hunter.

Another example was the Glass – Steagall Act passed in 1933 during the Great Depression in the United States, most of the Glass-Steagall provisions were repealed during the 1980s and 1990s.

In 2007, AGC Flat Glass Europe introduced the first antibacterial glass to fight hospital-acquired infection ; it is covered with a thin layer of silver.

Between 1930 and 1932 Senator Glass introduced several versions of a bill ( known in each version as the Glass bill ) to separate commercial and investment banking and to establish other reforms ( except deposit insurance ) similar to the final provisions of the 1933 Banking Act.

Glass introduced the first Glass bill on June 17, 1930.

In 1932 Hoover had delayed Congressional action on the Glass bill by requesting further hearings and ( according to Willis ) by working to delay Senate consideration of revised versions of the Glass bill introduced after those hearings.

After Glass introduced S. 245, he chaired a subcommittee that considered the bill and prepared a revised version while negotiating at length with the Roosevelt Administration to gain its support for the bill.

On May 10, 1933, Glass introduced his revised bill ( S. 1631 ) in the Senate.

The first bottle bank for glass recycling collection in the United Kingdom was introduced by both Stanley Race CBE, then president of the Glass Manufacturers ’ Federation and Ron England in Barnsley.

In 2007, AGC Flat Glass Europe introduced the first antibacterial glass to fight hospital-caught infection: it is covered with a thin layer of silver.

In 2011, the FJMC introduced a related Yellow Candle concept for use on Kristallnacht ( The Night of Shattered Glass ) and other important Shoah commemoration dates.

Fiesta was introduced at the annual Pottery and Glass Exhibit held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in January 1936.

A Glass Reinforced Plastic version was introduced in 1965 and was similar in layout to the wooden boat.

The arcade game introduced recurring video games characters such as Glass Joe, Piston Hurricane, Bald Bull, and Mr. Sandman.

Making a single appearance in Revelation of the Daleks a Glass Dalek is introduced as a transparent, embryonic version of a Necros Dalek in which a grotesquely mutating human head can be seen.

Glass Balls ( Bogardus ) and subsequently " clay " targets were introduced in the later 1800s ,, gaining wide acceptance, but shooting of live birds is still practiced in some parts of the United States.

After Corning Glass Works introduced Pyrex in 1915, the name became a synonym for borosilicate glass in the English-speaking world.

" The availability of colors began to increase when companies such as Glass Alchemy introduced the Crayon Colors, which brought a whole new vivacity to the glass industry.

The department's courses seek to provide a basic understanding of the qualities and characteristics of the materials in the Glass, Electronics, Machine, Jewelry and Wood Shops, as well as to foster an appreciation of the design principles introduced in the Drafting & Design course.

CorningWare ( also written " Corning Ware ") was originally a brand name for a unique pyroceramic glass cookware resistant to thermal shock, that was first introduced in 1958 by Corning Glass Works.

The CR-78 was first introduced in 1978, the same year that Parallel Lines was recorded, and the use of this device on Heart of Glass was, according to the program, among the earliest uses of this device in popular music.

For the 1960-1961 season, The Carleton Players have announced Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, The Knight Of The Burning Pestle by Beaumont and Fletcher and A Moon For The Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill, with a pre-season production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.

* Appomattox ( opera ), a new opera by Philip Glass

Chapter 17 of William Bates ' 1920 book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, in which the author argues that observation of the sun is beneficial to those with poor vision, includes a figure of somebody " Focussing the Rays of the Sun Upon the Eye of a Patient by Means of a Burning Glass.

The best known is the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition, held each year, where design students from all over the world can participate by designing their own “ inspired ” martini cocktail glass.

* Company, the subtitle of String Quartet No. 2 by composer Philip Glass

Supporting Never Let Me Down, and preceded by nine promotional press shows, the 86-concert Glass Spider Tour commenced on 30 May.

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

" San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Erin Glass wrote that she " wonders at the vision of not just the artist Chihuly, but the wildly successful entrepreneur Chihuly whose estimated sales by 2004 was reported by The Seattle Times as $ 29 million.

One is located at the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, List of stores from the Bellagio hotel / casino website the other at the MGM Grand Casino in Macau. Press release by MGM Macau mentioning Chihuly shop ( search for " Chihuly retail ") A number of other galleries also carry his pieces. In 1983 Chihuly returned to his native Pacific Northwest where he continued to develop his own work at the Pilchuck Glass School, which he had helped to found in 1971.

Arguments made by legal experts stated influence on art style is not copyright infringement. Glass warfare from the website of the St. Petersburg TimesThe Seattle Times: Local News: Glass artist Chihuly's lawsuit tests limits of copyrighting art, a 2005 article from The Seattle Times ; Chihuly settled the lawsuit independently with Rubino initially, and later Kaindl as well. Chihuly, rival glass artist settle dispute a 2006 article from The Seattle Times

In September 2005, the opera Waiting for the Barbarians by Philip Glass premiered in the opera house.

Glass batch calculation is the method by which the correct raw material mixture is determined to achieve the desired glass composition.

Glass homogeneity is achieved by homogenizing the raw materials mixture ( glass batch ), by stirring the melt, and by crushing and re-melting the first melt.

A glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly, “ The Sun ” at the “ Gardens of Glass ” exhibition in Kew Gardens, London.