Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

Agate has also been known to fill veins or cracks in volcanic or altered rock underlain by granitic intrusive masses.

Other forms of agate include Lake Superior agate, carnelian agate ( exhibiting reddish hues ), Botswana agate, blue lace agate, plume agates, moss agate, tube agate ( with visible flow channels or pinhole-sized ' tubes '), fortification agate ( which exhibit little or no banding structure ), fire agate ( which has internal flash or ' fire ', the result of a layer of clear agate over a layer of hydrothermally-deposited hematite ), Mexican crazy-lace agate, which often exhibits a brightly colored, complexly banded pattern ( also called Rodeo Agate and Rosetta Stone depending on who owned the mine at the time ).

Ernest Bloch was a composer who lived in Agate Beach, and has a memorial located in Newport.

The Bloch Memorial has been moved from near his house in Agate Beach to a more prominent location at the Newport Performing Arts Center in Newport, Oregon.

* Achates ( Agate ) has been replaced by Yacinthos ( Jacinth ).

For example, metal type sets that were called Agate are known to have ranged from 5 points up to 5. 8 points.

* Agate Springs Quarries, Sioux County, Nebraska, estimated age: ~ 20. 9 — 20. 8 Mya.

Dordi Agate Nordby, ( born 8 April 1964 in Bærum, Norway ), is a Norwegian right-handed curler from Snarøya.

Agate () is a microcrystalline variety of silica, chiefly chalcedony, characterised by its fineness of grain and brightness of color.

Agate is also still used today for decorative displays, cabochons, beads, carvings and Intarsia art as well as face-polished and tumble-polished specimens of varying size and origin.

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* 1812 – Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist ( d. 1846 )

Olivier's 1937 performance at the Old Vic Theatre was popular with audiences but not with critics, with James Agate writing in a famous review in The Sunday Times, " Mr. Olivier does not speak poetry badly.

Agate is a variety of chalcedony with multi-colored curved or angular banding.

Tuvaluan man in traditional costume drawn by Alfred Agate in 1841 during the United States Exploring Expedition.

During the visit of the expedition to Tuvalu Alfred Thomas Agate, engraver and illustrator, recorded the dress and tattoo patterns of men of Nukufetau.

Osbert Sitwell, in a letter to James Agate, notes that Bennett was not, despite current views, " the typical businessman, with his mean and narrow outlook.

In the early years Two Harbors consisted of two separate communities called Agate Bay and Burlington.

The village of Agate Bay was platted in 1885 but was not incorporated until 1888 ; Two Harbors post office served the Agate Bay.

It borders Lake Superior, which contributes the two natural harbors for which it is named, Burlington Bay and Agate Bay.

By 1883 the Minnesota Iron Company had purchased all but four acres of Thomas Sextons land around Agate Bay.

By 1885 the Minnesota Iron Company convinced Thomas Sexton to sell his remaining four acres along Agate Bay.

In Agate Bay ( Two Harbors ) most of the land was bought from Thomas Sexton, who by that time had owned the land for twenty years.

Although different locations were considered for the railroad terminus and shipping port, Agate Bay was chosen because it was closer to the iron ore site and provided a clay bottom bay, while most others were rocky.

On that day, the first iron ore cars left Agate Bay early in the morning, along with a caboose for President Tower to ride in on the return trip.

Furthermore, The Nature Conservancy's Agate Desert Preserve is on the west side of White City.

At Agate Cove on the south end of the park, waves crashing against the basalt rocks provide spectacular spouts from blow holes.

Ferry service was discontinued in Fall of 1951 after the Agate Pass Bridge opened and the Washington State Ferries took over ferry service on Puget Sound.

* Agate is distinctly banded chalcedony with successive layers differing in color or value.

** String Quartet No. 3 ( 1952 Agate Beach )

** Suite No. 3 for cello solo ( 1957 Agate Beach )

* Concerto Grosso No. 2 for string orchestra ( 1952 Agate Beach )

** String Quartet No. 2 ( 1945 Agate Beach )

** Suite No. 2 for violin solo ( 1958 Agate Beach )

** Suite No. 2 for cello solo ( 1956 Agate Beach )

Tower also acquired the rights to the Duluth Iron & Railway Co., which entitled him to 10 square miles ( 26 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) of land for every mile ( 1. 6 km ) of rail built between Duluth and Agate Bay ( Two Harbors ), 25 miles ( 40 km ) northeast along the shore.

the athlete of by-gone years who wears a size 46 suit and puffs when he has finished a sentence of any length then, it is time to break it up and move on.

Mars has been observed twice at about 3-cm wave length, and the intensity of the observed radiation is in reasonable agreement with the thermal radiation which might be predicted on the basis of the known temperature of Mars.

Felix Kopstein states that `` when the snake reaches its maturity it has already reached about its maximal length '', but goes on to cite the reticulate python as an exception, with maximum length approximately three times that at maturity.

Oliver has recently used the second-level approach with the largest snakes, and has come to these conclusions: the anaconda reaches a length of at least 37 feet, the reticulate python 33, the African rock python 25, the amethystine python at least 22, the Indian python 20, and the boa constrictor 18-1/2.

The waves are separated by intervals of 15 minutes to an hour or more ( because of their great length ), and this has often lulled people into thinking after the first great wave has crashed that it is all over.

The sense of perspective has been created by designing the length of the columns so that those at the far end of the colonnade are much shorter than those in front.

Copyright law has been amended time and time again since the inception of the law to extend the length of this fixed period where the work is exclusively controlled by the copyright holder.

In Modern Greek, vowel length has been lost, and all instances of alpha represent the short.

* Every rectangle R is in M. If the rectangle has length h and breadth k then a ( R ) =

Every unit of length has a corresponding unit of area, namely the area of a square with the given side length.

An alphorn made at Rigi-Kulm, Schwyz, and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, measures 8 ft. in length and has a straight tube.

Therefore, given any positive integer n, it produces a string with Kolmogorov complexity at least as great as n. The program itself has a fixed length U. The input to the program GenerateComplexString is an integer n. Here, the size of n is measured by the number of bits required to represent n, which is log < sub > 2 </ sub >( n ).

If the square mile is divided into quarters, each quarter has a side length of mile ( 880 yards ) and is square mile in area, or 160 acres.

The length of coast-line is and the absence of deep indentations of the shore is shown by the fact that Europe, which covers only, has a coastline of.

Botswana has land boundaries of combined length, of which the constituent boundaries are shared with Namibia, for ; South Africa ; Zimbabwe, and Zambia, less than.

Since 1996 estimates, there has been a significant reduction in the total length of unpaved highway in Botswana-between 1996 and 1999 total length of unpaved highway fell from 14, 139 km to 4, 597 km.

Burundi possesses eight airports, of which one has paved runways, whose length exceeds 3, 047m.

Blowfish has a 64-bit block size and a variable key length from 32 bits up to 448 bits.

The length of the term can depend on several factors, including the type of work ( e. g. musical composition, novel ), whether the work has been published, and whether the work was created by an individual or a corporation.

If the sets are short to medium length the caller will often try to run the dance until each couple has danced with every other couple both as a 1 and a 2 and returned to where they started.