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

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.

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.

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.

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

Marble columns with antique capitals in the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan also known as the Mosque of Uqba, city of Kairouan, Tunisia

Gathering on Sanssouci in the Marble Hall, with Voltaire, Casanova, d ' Argens, La Mettrie, James Francis Edward Keith | James Keith, George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal | George Keith, Friedrich Rudolf von Rothenburg, Christoph Ludwig von Stille, Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz and Algarotti.

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.

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

Hicks made a brief detour into musical recording with the Marble Head Johnson album in 1992.

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.

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.

Marble sarcophagus with a relief about the hunt of the Calydonian boar on its main face ( 2nd century AC ), in the Archaeological Museum of Eleusis.

Marble Slab with the Recall of Philoctetes-Archeological Museum of Brauron

One such significant merger was in 1929when the Madras Marble Company ( formerly Sylacauga Marble Corporation ) merged with Moretti-Harrah.

Alabama Marble Company remained under the same management until 1963 when it merged with The Georgia Marble Company.

Sylacauga offers many other opportunities for outdoor activities, including Noble Park, with a playground and picnic and grill areas as well as a quarter-mile walking track ; the Marble City BMX Track and skate park ; city pool that in converted to an indoor pool in the winter months ; Lake Howard which has area for boating, fishing, and pavilions ; several neighborhood parks ; the Sylaward Trail, a 15-mile hiking and mountain-biking trail that runs through the Talladega National Forest ; and two golf courses, Sylacauga Country Club and Farm Links.

Finally, in 1868, the name of the town was changed again, this time to Marble Hill, to prevent confusion with the already existing Dallas County, Missouri.

Disputes with leaders of Marble Hill persuaded the railroad to relocate their route through Lutesville instead.

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.

Named for the first Archbishop of Canterbury, St. Augustine of Canterbury, it is made of Purbeck Marble or Bethesda marble and dates to sometime between the 6th and 12th centuries.

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

( Marble, Roman copy of the 1st – 2nd century CE )

Marble, 5th century BCE

Marble statue of a helmed hoplite ( 5th century BC ), Archæological Museum of Sparta, Greece

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

Some found work on farms and ranches, but by the turn of the century many had moved into the Marble Falls area to work in town.

Either side of the Marble Hall, lie the Great Staircase ( 2 ) and the Tapestry Room ( 11 ), which contains a collection of early eighteenth century Mortlake tapestries.

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

However by the 18th century the " Tyburn Tree " ( near the present-day Marble Arch ), had become the main place for public executions in London.

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.

In the early 19th century, the stone had been quarried in Inwood and Marble Hill to produce both a building material as well as lime mortar.

In the 12th century demand for Purbeck Marble grew once again.

Marble became popular from the early 19th century, though its extra cost limited its appeal.

In addition, some products-like marble quarried into the early 20th century at Marble Mountain, were shipped by Lake barges through both lakes to Sydney, NS for transshipment.

In 2007 the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio presented the first major exhibition devoted to the most celebrated nineteenth century American sculptor, " Hiram Powers: Genius in Marble ".

Marble was still being burned for agricultural lime in the Roman Camapgna into the nineteenth century.

It was originally formed at the turn of the 20th century by Italian immigrants who came to work at the nearby Marble Cliff Quarry Co.

Little survives from the church of that time save for part of the west wall of the nave, which is late 12th century, and the font which is carved from Purbeck Marble.

The walls of the Marble Hall next to the Ceremonial Hall date back to the 16th century, while the artificial marbeling for the interior wad added around 1840 to match the appearance of the Ceremonial Hall.

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.

Around the turn of the century, Webster L. Marble introduced the modern concept of the " hunting knife.