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Marble Arch is a white Carrara marble ( with some marble pieces extracted near Seravezza ) monument that now stands on a large traffic island at the junction of Oxford Street, Park Lane, and Edgware Road, almost directly opposite Speakers ' Corner in Hyde Park in London, England.
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Shearer, Reiner, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest received a deal to write a first draft of a screenplay for a company called Marble Arch.
At that time the line was shut between Marble Arch and North Acton while the cause of the failure was investigated.
The nearest London Underground stations are Bond Street, Green Park, Hyde Park Corner, Marble Arch and Oxford Circus.
Roman roads formed the parish's north-eastern and southern boundaries from Marble Arch: Watling Street ( later Edgware Road ) and the Uxbridge road, known by the 1860s as Bayswater Road.
and for the Royal Mews ( 1822 – 24 ) and Marble Arch ( 1828 ) The arch was originally designed as a triumphal arch to stand at the entrance to Buckingham Palace.
The Aylesbury-London 773 commuter express service, calling at Berkhamsted, runs directly to Baker Street, Marble Arch, Embankment and Finsbury Square, although this service is due to be withdrawn in February 2011.
He was entrusted with the carving of the bas-reliefs on the south side of the Marble Arch in Hyde Park, and executed numerous busts and statues of public figures, including the prominent, well-known statue of Nelson, at the top of Nelson's Column, in Trafalgar Square.
The following day, Goody and Edwards met with Field at his office at James and Wheater ( in New Quebec Street near Marble Arch ).
However by the 18th century the " Tyburn Tree " ( near the present-day Marble Arch ), had become the main place for public executions in London.
Park Lane is about three quarters of a mile ( 1. 2 km ) in length, and runs north from Hyde Park Corner to Marble Arch, along the length of the eastern flank of Hyde Park.
The nearest tube stations to Park Lane are Hyde Park Corner on the Piccadilly Line, which is near the street's southern end, and Marble Arch on the Central Line, which is located near the northern end of the street.
Sites of interest in the park include Speakers ' Corner ( located in the northeast corner near Marble Arch ), close to the former site of the Tyburn gallows, and Rotten Row, which is the northern boundary of the site of the Crystal Palace.
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Broadway crosses the Harlem River on the Broadway Bridge to Marble Hill and then enters The Bronx, where it is the eastern border of Riverdale and the western border of Van Cortlandt Park.
Marble is a non-foliated metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.
Marble is a rock resulting from metamorphism of sedimentary carbonate rocks, most commonly limestone or dolomite rock.
The Minturn Formation, a limestone formation exemplified at Marble Mountain on the crest of the Sangre de Cristos, is evidence of a sea in the Central Colorado Trough during the era of the Ancestral Rockies.
Marble is generally not foliated, which allows its use as a material for sculpture and architecture.
Another National Historic Landmark District, Bellevue Avenue, is the home of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, where important tennis players are commemorated, as well as a number of mansions dating back to the Gilded Age, including The Breakers, Belcourt Castle, Chateau-sur-Mer, The Elms, Marble House, Rosecliff, Rough Point, and the William Watts Sherman House.
However, the Parian Marble is known to be unreliable and possibly it was not even the grandfather but a grandson that won the aforementioned victory in Athens.
Marble is mined 3 km north of Eretria which include Marmor Chalcidicum and asbestos in the northeastern part of Carystus in the Okhi mountain.
It has perished, but late copies exist, of which the most faithful is in the Vatican Museums. Marble lion on display in the British Museum, London In a temple enclosure Newton discovered a fine seated statue of Demeter, which he sent back to the British Museum, and about three miles south-east of the city he came upon the ruins of a splendid tomb, and a colossal figure of a lion carved out of one block of Pentelic marble, ten feet in length and six in height, which has been supposed to commemorate the great naval victory, the Battle of Cnidus in which Conon defeated the Lacedaemonians in 394 BC.
Burnet County is part of the Marble Falls, Texas, Micropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the Austin-Round Rock-Marble Falls, TX Combined Statistical Area.
The land on which the city is built was once part of a 24, 000 acre ( 97 km² ) land grant called Colen Donck that ran from the current Manhattan / Bronx border at Marble Hill northwards for 12 miles ( 19 km ), and from the Hudson River eastwards to the Bronx River.
The land adjacent to the river, from Strawberry Hill in the south to Marble Hill Park in the north, is occupied by a mixture of luxury dwellings, formal gardens, public houses and a newly built park and leisure facility.
* Hahn-Previously known as North Zalma, it is located on Route H just south of the Route FF intersection about halfway between Marble Hill and Zalma.
* Scopus-Located at the intersection of Route B and Route M northeast of Marble Hill, today Scopus is a small little community that consists of a tiny convenience store.
* Steep Bank Lake: almost entirely within Hendricks Township, but the northern edge is in Marble Township and the eastern edge is in Royal Township
The Thomas C. Ferguson Power Plant is a single-unit gas-fired plant in Marble Falls that provides 420 megawatts.
Sylacauga, " The Marble City ", is constructed on a solid deposit of the hardest, whitest marble in the world.
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