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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It took its name from the Marble Cliff Quarry Co. ( still in use today ), and at this time stretched all the way from the Scioto River to the Olentangy River.

Rogers and Sons Marble Works, established in 1879, is still in operation and the old railroad depot is maintained.

Some, like Albino Marble will still have a little black remaining on a percentage of the fish.

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.

Raja Rajendra Mullick was the adopted son of Nilmoni Mullick, who built a Jagannath temple which predates Marble Palace, and still stands within the premises, but is only accessible to members of the family.

He can block the Marble Screw with just his abilities, as well as many other attacks, but his fortitude isn't as high as Gekidrago, as a direct hit will still hurt him.

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.

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.

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.

* Adam R. " Stovepipe " Johnson, Confederate general and the 1887 founder of Marble Falls, despite being blinded during the war.

Although the village of New Preston and the New Preston CDP are entirely within the town of Washington, U. S. Postal Service addressing practices result in the name being applied to the Marble Dale section of Washington, and to portions of the adjacent Town of Warren.

Marble is formed when the limestone is transformed by heat and pressure after being overlain by other materials.

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.

Marks & Spencer have built ( September 2012 ) what is being claimed to be their largest store apart from Marble Arch on a site opposite to the Coliseum shopping park.

Lake Marble Falls boasts being in the " top 50 " as far as Record Stripers Striped Bass in the Texas freshwater fish records.

Image: Mithras petra genetrix Terme. jpg | The god Mithras being born from the rock, naked but for the Phrygian cap on his head ( Marble, 180-192 AD.

For Series 2, the show began originally as in Series 1, except for it was " plagued " by numerous apparent " technical faults " ( a ruse on the producer's part, the " Please do not adjust your set " warning that appeared is a hint to this ), with the first challenge being an as yet un-shown Marble Madness challenge ( the contestant's name and town are partly obscured over a technical fault, meaning this was also part of the joke ).

Although ZCMI is sometimes credited with being the nation's first department store, a decade earlier New York City's " Marble Palace " and Macy's vied for that title.

) with the other 4 being first party games ( Fallen Empire: Legions, Rokkitball, Marble Blast Online, and ThinkTanks ).

A smaller number of Odeon cinemas opened in the post-war years ( Odeon Marble Arch and Odeon Elephant & Castle being notable instances ), but many single-screen cinemas either closed, sub-divided into smaller screens or were converted into other uses, such as bingo.

Marble ( KDE ) is designed for use in lightweight environments without 3D hardware acceleration and is capable of not only being used as a standalone application, but also as a component in other applications, such as in a " World Clock " Plasma ( KDE ) and for geolocation in the photo management software digiKam.

In May 2000, the Canadian Species at Risk Act listed the Island Marble as being extirpated in Canada.