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Marble votive relief of a chariot race, from Oropos, beginning of the 4th century BCE ( Pergamonmuseum, Berlin.
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Marble and relief
Marble relief of a double-headed eagle in the Church of St Demetrios in Mystras, marking the spot where Constantine XI was crowned.
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 relief of the goddess Nike ( mythology ) | Nike, recovered from the Royal Gates ( Balat Kapı ).
( Marble bas relief, Roman copy of the late 1st Century AD.
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.
Marble and race
* Marble Madness, an Atari game where players race each other to the finish line.
Marble and from
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 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 and beginning
The principal room is the large Marble Hall ( 1 ) at the centre of the south front ; this hall is the beginning of a grand procession of rooms, and corresponds to the former Great Parlour or Saloon ( 9 ) on the north front.
Marble Canyon is the section of the Colorado River canyon in northern Arizona from Lee's Ferry to the confluence with the Little Colorado River, which marks the beginning of the Grand Canyon.
Hood gained a reputation as a translator, beginning with Ernst Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs " in 1946.
Marble and 4th
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 and century
Marble plate with 6th century AD law regulating payment of customs in the Dardanelles
( 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
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.
However by the 18th century the " Tyburn Tree " ( near the present-day Marble Arch ), had become the main place for public executions in London.
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.
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