Haines's donated marble includes free shipping that he arranged himself.

Haines's first short was Shivering Shakespeare, which featured the youngster giggling his way through his lines.

Gibson began the 1972 season by going 0 – 5, but broke Jesse Haines's club record for victories on June 21, and finished the year with 19 wins.

Haines's tenure began during the early talkies up through the " Miss Crabtree episodes ," when he would leave for feature films at Paramount only to return a few months later.

Haines's career began slowly, as he appeared in extra and bit parts, mostly uncredited.

Haines's string of hits continued with Little Annie Rooney ( 1925 ) with Mary Pickford and Vola Vale, and Show People ( 1928 ), costarring Marion Davies.

Haines's life story is told in the 1998 biography Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star by William J. Mann, and his designs are the subject of Peter Schifando and Haines associate Jean H. Mathison's 2005 book Class Act: William Haines Legendary Hollywood Decorator.

Greenhill in the meantime starts showing up unexpectedly in Haines's social life, stalking her and dropping hints that something is going on between them.

Haines's luck changed over subsequent seasons.

When Haines's ministry fell in March 1857, O ' Shanassy succeeded him as Premier, but his government fell in April and Haines returned to office.

Suddenly there was a commotion upstairs, a despairing boyish shriek, and the strains of the waltz faltered and died as the musicians and guests gaped at an apparition descending the marble staircase.

Next he turned to wax because there was a similarity of wax to marble in tactile quality and translucence.

To climax her Roman revels, she was thrown out of the swanky Hotel Excelsior after she had run naked through its marble halls screaming for help.

The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century ; for centuries it epitomized the ideals of Classical Antiquity for Europeans, from the Renaissance through the 19th century.

The Greek abacus was a table of wood or marble, pre-set with small counters in wood or metal for mathematical calculations.

Algardi's large dramatic marble high-relief panel of Pope Leo and Attila ( 1646 – 53 ) for St Peter's Basilica was widely admired in his day, and reinvigorated the use of such marble reliefs.

It was excavated by Spiegelthal in 1854, who found that it covered a large vault of finely cut marble blocks approached by a flat-roofed passage of the same stone from the south.

Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822 ) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh.

The model filled Italy with admiration ; the marble was procured, and the chisel of the sculptor ready to be applied to it, when the jealousy of churchmen as to the site, or some other cause, deprived the country of the projected work.

His heart was interred in a marble pyramid he designed as a mausoleum for the painter Titian in the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, now a monument to the sculptor.

Canova's marble statue George Washington was commissioned by the State of North Carolina after the war of 1812 to be displayed in its Capitol Building.

The project included collection and identification of all stone fragments, even small ones, from the Acropolis and its slopes and the attempt was made to restore as much as possible using reassembled original material-with new marble from Mount Penteli used sparingly.

The Pentelic marble portrait head of Arcadius ( illustration ) was discovered in Istanbul close to the Forum Tauri, in June 1949, in excavating foundations for new buildings of the University at Beyazit.

Aeacus himself showed his gratitude by erecting a temple to Zeus Panhellenius on mount Panhellenion, and the Aeginetans afterwards built a sanctuary in their island called Aeaceum, which was a square place enclosed by walls of white marble.

The corrosive effect of polluted, acidic city air on limestone and marble was noted in the 17th century by John Evelyn, who remarked upon the poor condition of the Arundel marbles.

Another of his most important works was the marble and bronze Fountain of Neptune ( Fontana del Nettuno ) for the Piazza della Signoria.

When the work on the ungainly sea god was finished, Michelangelo scoffed at Ammannati that he had ruined a beautiful piece of marble: " Ammannati, Ammanato, che bell ' marmo hai rovinato!

He was handsome, young, with a face carved in marble.

There are a number of interesting monuments, most notably that of Prior Vivian which was formerly in the Priory Church ( Thomas Vivian's effigy lying on a chest: black Catacleuse stone and grey marble ).

The larger ship was essentially an elaborate floating palace that counted marble floors and plumbing among its amenities.

A famous marble set, probably 2nd century, was brought to St Peter's, Rome by Constantine I, and placed round the saint's shrine, and was thus familiar throughout the Middle Ages, by which time they were thought to have been removed from the Temple of Jerusalem.

Borgia was originally buried in a marble tomb beneath the altar of the Church of Santa Maria in Viana with an inscription " Here lies in little earth one who was feared by all, who held peace and war in his hand.

The marble was cut into three-inch-thick panels and arranged over the concrete foundation, with darker blocks at the bottom and lighter blocks on top.

* On April 12, 1264, the master builder Giovanni di Simone and 23 workers went to the mountains close to Pisa to cut marble.

An extract states: Mr. William Townsend of Oxford, and Mr. William Smith of Warwick, were employed to be masons ; Mr. John Philipps to be the carpenter and joiner ; Mr. George Devall to be plumber ; Mr. Townsend junior to be stone carver ; Mr. Linel of Long-acre, London, to be carver in wood ; Mr. Artari, an Italian, to be their plaisterer in the fret work way ; Mr. Michael Rysbrack to be sculptor, to cut the Doctor's figure in marble ; and Mr. Blockley to be locksmith.

It had fruit evaporators, flour and woolen mills, a milk-condensing plant, marble works, saw mills, foundry and machine shops, and manufactories of cut glass, chemicals, rugs, bolts, cigars, carriages, and furniture.

Many quarry stones such as marble, granite, limestone and sandstone are cut into larger slabs and removed from the quarry.

Nacre tesserae may be cut into shapes and laminated to a ceramic tile or marble base.

Round sections of marble were painstakingly cut as a veneer of an approximate thickness of 5 – 6 mm and then glued onto a column core that is hollow and was made out of, probably, plaster.

Their main export are huge blocks of marble, which they cut with manual hyperlasers.

These walls are covered with marble, whereas the façades on the remaining sides are made of cut stone.

It has a marble roof and the entrance is cut into the side of the grass-covered mound.

However to cut cost and to support local marble industry, later decided that the marbles would be taken from Tulungagung marble quarries in East Java instead.

The symbolically cut out mihrab facing west or Mecca, over the marble lattice screen.

It is 50 meters ( 148 ft ) tall and completely clad in cut marble.

The result is placed on a smooth, wet board or an oiled marble plate, left to cool, and then cut into small rhombic-shaped pieces.

The floor of the Statehouse Rotunda is composed of almost 5, 000 individual pieces of marble, all cut and fitted by hand.

The arch was constructed without cement or mortar from solid marble, using clamps to connect the cut stones.

The statues are named " Grief ", " Memory ", and " Love " and were cut from white marble from Carrara in Italy.

The walls are white marble from Rajasthan encrusted with semi-precious stone decorations-cornelian, jasper, lapis lazuli, onyx, and topaz formed into images of cypress trees and wine bottles, or more elaborate decorations like cut fruit or vases containing bouquets.