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.

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.

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.

Marble Roman copy after a 5th-century BC Greek original attributed to Polykleitos.

* The Parian Marble, the earliest extant example of a Greek chronological table

Aldington's poems, Choricos, To a Greek Marble, and Au Vieux Jardin, were in the November issue of Poetry, and H. D.

Marble and bronze portraits of Greek and Roman emperors, collection of antique Greek vases from the 9th to 4th century, B. C.

The Mantineia Marble, dated to the 4th century BC and now exhibited at National Archaeological Museum of Athens depicts the mythical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, with a Greek Pandouris being played by a muse seated on a rock.

Marble tombstones inserted in the floor are covered with Greek inscriptions.

Marble plate at the entrance of Volissos showing an excerpt from Herodotus script in ancient Greek on Homer's life.

Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from ca.

The Parian Marble ( Marmor Parium ) or Parian Chronicle is a Greek chronological table, covering the years from 1581 BC to 264 BC,

Isa Blagden and Theodosia Garrett Trollope, part East Indian, part Jewish, were models for Miriam in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, while George Mignaty's wife was model for the head of Hiram Powers ' Greek Slave.

There are now no functioning quarries of Purbeck Marble.

Built in brick, created in Selly Oak, and faced with Penmon Anglesey Marble presented to the town by Sir R. Bulkeley, proprietor of the Penmon quarries, the hall is modelled on the Temple of Castor and Pollux in Rome.

Marble from the Kapunda quarries was used to face Parliament House in Adelaide.

White Yule Marble from the quarries near Marble, Colorado was also used throughout the capitol for the floors.

Marble from his quarries received a gold medal at the London Great Exhibition.

In 1846 the count Francesco del Medico proposed to the Duke Francis V the construction of the Marble Railway of Carrara, to link the marble quarries to the sea and thereby facilitating the transport of blocks to the areas of sorting and loading.

Tate includes the main quarries of the Georgia Marble Company, a new division of the second largest stone company in North America, Polycor.

Examples of big, old quarries operating for more than a century include the Barre ( VT ) granite quarry, the Georgia Marble quarry at Tate, several of the Carrara ( Italy ) marble quarries, and the Penrhyn ( Wales ) slate quarry.

Marble quarries, semiprecious stones, and oil shales were all exploited.

The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.

Charlie Marble was back and forth on several occasions, first to confer with Andy on the advisability of cancelling the Las Vegas engagement -- they decided it was wise -- and later to announce that a prominent comedian, also an agency client, had agreed to fill the casino's open date.

A study of granite countertops was done ( initiated and paid for by the Marble Institute of America ) in November 2008 by National Health and Engineering Inc of USA, and found that all of the 39 full size granite slabs that were measured for the study showed radiation levels well below the European Union safety standards ( section 4. 1. 1. 1 of the National Health and Engineering study ) and radon emission levels well below the average outdoor radon concentrations in the US.

When family friend John T. Ford opened 1, 500-seat Ford's Theatre on November 9 in Washington, D. C., Booth was one of the first leading men to appear there, playing in Charles Selby's The Marble Heart.

Monroe was originally buried in New York at the Gouverneur family's vault in the New York City Marble Cemetery.

According to the Parian Marble, Sappho was exiled to Sicily sometime between 604 and 594 and Cicero records that a statue of her stood in the town-hall of Syracuse.

A scene in Andrzej Wajda's film Man of Marble ( Czlowiek z Marmuru ) was filmed in Zakopane, introducing the town to a worldwide audience.

Kevin Ayers painted a withering and beautiful portrait of Nico in " Decadence " ( the centerpiece of his Bananamour album in 1973 ) Late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith cited her as a major inspiration and was said to have listened to The Marble Index for months.

He appeared in many West End plays in the following few years and his earliest successes on the stage were as Hercule Poirot in Alibi ( 1928 ); he was the first actor to portray the Belgian detective in this stage adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and as William Marble in Payment Deferred, making his Lyceum Theatre ( New York ) debut in 1931.

Marble relief of a double-headed eagle in the Church of St Demetrios in Mystras, marking the spot where Constantine XI was crowned.

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.

At that time the line was shut between Marble Arch and North Acton while the cause of the failure was investigated.

The grandfather's name, as recorded by the Parian Marble, was also Simonides, and it has been argued by some scholars that the earliest references to Simonides in ancient sources might in fact be references to this grandfather.

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.