After his death in battle during the fall of Constantinople, he became a legendary figure in Greek folklore as the " Marble Emperor " who would awaken and recover the Empire and Constantinople from the Turks.

Pictures such as Apollo 8's Earthrise, which showed a crescent Earth peeking over the lunar surface, and Apollo 17s The Blue Marble, which for the first-time-ever showed a full circular earth, became iconic to the environmental movement.

Marble Arch became the entrance to Hyde Park and The Great Exhibition.

Lutesville, which had been founded in 1869 and later became the main business and shipping center for the area, merged with Marble Hill and maintained the name of Marble Hill because it was the current county seat.

The Candoro Marble Works, established in the community of Vestal in 1914, became the nation's foremost producer of pink marble and one of the nation's largest marble importers.

The project, however, was canceled and the two began work an idea of Cerny's that eventually became Marble Madness.

Part of the acquisition became the Marble Hill Playground, which is located on Marble Hill Avenue between 228th and 230th Streets.

He became a popular folk hero in both written poems and stories as well as the hero of a series of theatrical plays by actor Danforth Marble entitled Sam Patch the Yankee Jumper, followed by Sam Patch at Home, a London Tour of Sam Patch in France, and Sam Patch the Jumper ( 1844 ).

He wrote many academic books and papers during his career, including British Political Parties: The Distribution of Power within the Conservative and Labour Parties and Angels in Marble: Working Class Conservatives in Urban England, but it was through television and radio that his name became known.

Spuyten Duyvil Creek originally flowed north of Manhattan's Marble Hill, and the completion of the canal to the south turned Marble Hill into an island, until 1914, when the original creekbed was filled in and Marble Hill became physically attached to the Bronx.

The later-named Kingsbridge carried Boston Post Road, connecting southern Westchester County ( which became The Bronx ) with Marble Hill, once part of Manhattan island, but still today part of Manhattan borough.

The construction of the Harlem River Ship Canal to the south of the neighborhood in 1895 turned Marble Hill into an island, and in 1914, when the original creekbed was filled in, Marble Hill became physically attached to the Bronx, though it remains part of the borough of Manhattan.

The King's Bridge was part of Boston Post Road, connecting southern Westchester County ( which became The Bronx ) with Marble Hill, once part of the Manhattan island, but still today part of the Manhattan borough.

With an orbital trajectory that permitted a fully illuminated view of the entire planet, the crew snapped a famous image of the globe, colloquially called " The Blue Marble ": File: The Earth seen from Apollo 17. jpg After three hours, rockets were fired and the three astronauts of Apollo 17 became the last persons to go beyond the orbit of the Earth.

After the original creek bed was filled in, Marble Hill became part of the mainland, although it is still considered part of Manhattan for administrative and political purposes.

Marble City became known as a health resort in the 1880s, through the advertisements of businessmen such as Dr. Silas Scruggs Stacey, proprietor of the Stacey family store and provider of Dr. S. S. Staceys Sulpher Mountain Bitters ( which sold briskly for $ 1 per bottle ).

Albert Raney, Sr., who became postmaster in 1934, had the official name changed to Marble Falls.

" The two trapezoidal blocks sandwiched between Pennsylvania and Missouri Avenues ( now the site of the National Gallery of Art ) became home to such expensive brothels that it gained the nickname " Marble Alley.

During the Balkan Wars and the Greco-Turkish War, under the influence of the Megali Idea, the name of the then-Greek king, Constantine, was used in Greece as a popular confirmation of the prophetic myth about the Marble King who would liberate Constantinople and recreate the lost Empire.

Fishing and boating are popular recreational activities, including the annual Lake Marble Falls Lakefest drag boat races.

In the non-traditional arena, many Welsh musicians have been present in popular rock and pop, either as individuals, ( e. g. Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Dave Edmunds, Shakin ' Stevens ), individuals in groups ( e. g. John Cale of The Velvet Underground, Green Gartside of Scritti Politti, Julian Cope of Teardrop Explodes and Andy Scott of Sweet, Roger Glover of Deep Purple and Rainbow ), or as bands formed in Wales ( e. g. Amen Corner, The Alarm, Man, Budgie, Badfinger, Tigertailz, Young Marble Giants ), but not until the 1990s did Welsh bands begin to be seen as a particular grouping.

The Fay Hut is accessible from Marble Canyon, and the Neil Colgan Hut located above the Valley of the Ten Peaks is a popular mountaineering destination.

Dunfanaghy is close to Portnablagh and Marble Hill, both of which also have popular beaches.

UK-based magazine Retro Gamer covered Snake Rattle ' n ' Roll as part of its retrospective on isometric video games, saying that the game " merged brilliantly the offbeat nature of games such as Head Over Heels with popular movement-based isometric action / puzzle titles like Marble Madness and Spindizzy ".

Constructed entirely from Marble and Limestone, the temple is popular amongst tourists seeking a unique place to visit in London.

From 1974 to 1976, he also wrote jingle music for a variety of fashion brands, including Lady Arrow shirts as well as Revlon and Woolworth's, as well as arrangements for the popular television series Big Blue Marble.

In 2007 the Cuilcagh Mountain Park was joined with popular tourist attraction the Marble Arch Caves and the Cladagh Glen Nature Reserve to make the Marble Arch Caves and Cuilcagh Mountain European Geopark.

For a time following the abandonment of the local plant, electric current for Manchester was brought in from the south with an emergency tie-in with the Vermont Marble Company system to the north.

Marble, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 4th century BCE, from the collection of Cardinal Albani

image: The Earth seen from Apollo 17. jpg | Apollo 17 photo of the Earth as the spacecraft headed for the Moon ( now known as " The Blue Marble photo ").

In 1993, her recording of " Marble Halls " from Shepherd Moons was featured in the Martin Scorsese film, The Age of Innocence.

Aside from Hoffmann and de la Motte Fouqué, three other important authors from the era were Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ( The Marble Statue, 1819 ), Ludwig Achim von Arnim ( Die Majoratsherren, 1819 ) and Adelbert von Chamisso ( Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte, 1814 ).

Marble is a rock resulting from metamorphism of sedimentary carbonate rocks, most commonly limestone or dolomite rock.

Judging from the Parian Marble, she was exiled from Lesbos to Sicily sometime between 604 and 594 BC.

The roofs of the buildings and houses of the new city were not to exceed the level of the Marble Courtyard, at the entrance of the castle ( built above a hill dominating the city ), so that the perspective from the windows of the castle would not be obstructed.

" The Blue Marble " photograph of Earth, taken from Apollo 17

Marble tablet with a passage from the Constitution of Vermont in the Hall of Inscriptions at the Vermont State House.

Fathers Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante were two Spanish priests who, with a group of Spanish soldiers, explored southern Utah and traveled along the North Rim of the Canyon in Glen and Marble Canyons in search of a route from Santa Fe to California in 1776.

A California Condor in flight, photographed from Navajo Bridge at Marble Canyon, 2008.

As he was walking in the Marble Courtyard between two lines of guards lighting the way with torches, headed toward his carriage which was waiting at the edge of the Marble Courtyard, Damiens emerged from the dark, passed through the guards, and stabbed the king in the side with a penknife.

The building's exterior uses Pennsylvania Blue Marble, which, due to the manner in which it was cut, has begun to deteriorate from the exposure to the elements of weak parts of the stone.

Marble votive relief of a chariot race, from Oropos, beginning of the 4th century BCE ( Pergamonmuseum, Berlin.

Marble sequences, corresponding to the Falacron Marbles intercalated by schists and gneisses, are up to 500m thick and are separated from the underlying gneisses by a transition zone about 300 m thick termed the T-zone consisting of alternances of dolomitic and calcitic marbles intercalated by schists and gneisses.

In 1991, the American band Vambo Marble Eye recorded a version of " Next " for their album Two Trick Pony, 18 years after an English-language version of the song by SAHB in 1973, from their Next album.

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.

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.

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.