Marble plate with 6th century AD law regulating payment of customs in the Dardanelles

Marble plate of Đurađ Branković about reconstruction of the Constantinople | Walls of Constantinople in 1448, during the reign of Constantine XI Palaiologos | Constantine XI Dragaš Palaiologos, today in Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

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.

In 1968, a theme park called Dogpatch USA opened at Marble Falls, Arkansas, based on Capp's work and with his support.

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

Among the most notable: the Black Marble H & R Block fountain in front of Union Station with its synchronized water jets shooting high into the air, the Nichols Bronze Horses at the corner of Main and JC Nichols Parkway at the entrance to the Plaza Shopping District and the unique " family friendly " walk through fountain at Hallmark Cards World Headquarters in Crown Center.

* 1923 – The first of 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Australia.

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.

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

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.

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

Marble Rocks at Bhedaghat near Jabalpur

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.

For example, according to an entry in the Parian Marble, Simonides died in 468 / 7 BC at the age of ninety yet, in another entry, it lists a victory by his grandfather in a poetry competition in Athens in 489 / 8 BC — this grandfather must have been over a hundred years old at that time if the birth dates for Simonides are correct.

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.

* Marble Arch — road junction / plaza at the north west corner

* 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.

The first county seat was at Harnageville, originally called Marble Works.

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.

Category: Burials at New York City Marble Cemetery

Etna is located at the foot of the Marble Mountain Wilderness in the Siskiyou Mountain ( Cascades ) Range and is an attraction for hikers, rafters, climbers and people who do all sorts of other outdoor activities.

The Georgia Marble rail lines at Tate and Marble Hill, and the Blue Ridge Scenic Railroad at Blue Ridge, Georgia are also operated by GNRR.

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

1: Marble Hall ; 2: Great Staircase ; 3: Bedchamber, now Blue Room ; 4: Sweatmeat closet ; 5: Back stairs & east entrance ; 6: Chapel Drawing Room ; 7: Chapel ( double height ); 8: Tyrconnel Room ; 9: Saloon ; 10: Red Drawing Room ; 11: Little Parlour ( now Tapestry Room ); 12: School Room ; 13: Closet ; 14: Back stairs & west entrance ; 15: Service Room ( now Breakfast Room ); 16: Upper storey of kitchen, ( now Hondecoeter Room ); Please note: This is an unscaled plan for illustrative purposes only.

One of the principal rooms, the Marble Hall ( 1 ), the first of the large reception rooms, serves as an entrance hall from the south entrance, and takes its name from a chequer board patterned floor of black and white marble tiles.

At the same time, Buckingham House was expanded to create the current palace and Marble Arch was built at its entrance, whilst The Mall was turned into a grand processional route, opened to public traffic 60 years later in 1887, the Marble Arch having been moved to its current location at the junction of Oxford Street and Park Lane in 1851 and replaced with the Victoria Memorial between 1906 and 1924.

Before 1872, the Park had its own constables who lived in some of the entrance lodges and worked out of the rooms inside Marble Arch.

Marble bust of Julian Zachariewicz at the entrance of the main building

The redesign of the building was carried out by the Berlin architect Wilfried Kühn, who moved the entrance back to its place in the cour d ’ honneur, thereby once more freeing up the original line of vision from the main gate of the Lower Belvedere via the Marble Hall to the garden facade of the Upper Belvedere.

Existing still to this day are wood carved vases in Christiansborg ’ s horse stalls, and relief medallions on the side of the Marble Bridge ( Marmorbro ) that leads to the castle ’ s main entrance.

The opera house is built in alignment with Amalienborg and The Marble Church, so that if one stands in the main entrance of the Opera, one can see the Marble Church over the water along the road through Amalienborg.

Marble mosaic showing a small stellated dodecahedron and a ring of hexagonal prism s, on the floor of St Mark's Basilica, Venice.

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File: Garden of remembrance arch headstone. jpg | Marble headstone of a couple buried together in Singapore, showing an arched emblem, signifying the reunification with one's partner in heaven.

Since the invention of Durell Bishop's Marble Answering Machine ( 1992 ) two decades ago, the interest in Tangible User Interfaces ( TUIs ) has grown constantly and with every year more tangible systems are showing up.

A view of the east side of Finlandia Hall showing the slight curvature of the Carrara Marble slabs

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

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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 Blue Marble " photograph of Earth, taken from Apollo 17

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.

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.

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.