At the start of the Grand Gallery on the right-hand side there is a hole cut in the wall ( and now blocked by chicken wire ).

Also at the start of the Grand Gallery there is a Horizontal Passage leading to the " Queen's Chamber ".

The Grand Gallery continues the slope of the Ascending Passage, but is high and long.

There are seven of these steps, so at the top the Grand Gallery is only wide.

The floor of the Grand Gallery consists of a shelf or step on either side, wide, leaving a lower ramp wide between them.

The purpose of these slots is not known, but the central gutter in the floor of the Gallery, which is the same width as the Ascending Passage, has led to speculation that the blocking stones were stored in the Grand Gallery and the slots held wooden beams to restrain them from sliding down the passage.

At the top of the Grand Gallery there is a step giving onto a horizontal passage approximately long, in which can be detected four slots, three of which were probably intended to hold granite portcullises.

These show the complete sculpture ( with conjectural reconstructions of the missing pieces ) and can be seen in Rhodes, at the Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, Rome, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and in front of the Archaeological Museum, Odessa, Ukraine, amongst others.

The Grand Lobby Gallery and the Fourth Floor Gallery offer changing exhibits related to films, film-making and film personalities.

In 2008, there were three large shopping malls operating and another four projects in various stages of development, turning Varna into an attractive international shopping destination ( Pfohe Mall, Central Plaza, Mall Varna, Grand Mall, Gallery Mall, Cherno More Park, and Varna Towers ), plus a retail park under development outside town.

* Venice: A Regatta on the Grand Canal ( 1735 ), National Gallery, London, England

* A Regatta on the Grand Canal ( 1740 ), National Gallery, London, England

* Entrance to the Grand Canal from the Molo, Venice ( 1742-1744 ), National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C., United States

Lastly, the Elsie B. Rosefsky Gallery, just off the Grand Corridor, displays special exhibits and portfolios.

Sixteen years after her death, the Uffizi Gallery, built by Cosimo the Great, the founder of the Grand Duchy, was made open to public viewing.

The galleries open to the public are the Cabinet d ’ Histoire du Jardin des Plantes in the Hôtel de Magny, the Gallery of Mineralogy and Geology, the Gallery of Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, and the famous Grand Gallery of Evolution ( Grande Galerie de l ' évolution ).

Chandeliers took the shape of inverted pyramids, and the escalator atrium leading to the center's third floor is loosely modeled after the Grand Gallery of the Pyramid of Khufu.

In 2004, the Brooklyn Museum featured Manifest Destiny, an 8-by-24-foot oil-on-wood mural by Alexis Rockman that was commissioned by the museum as a centerpiece for the second-floor Mezzanine Gallery and marking the opening of the renovated Grand Lobby and plaza at the museum.

* Ian Coristine's Thousand Islands Castles & Grand Cottages Gallery

In 1955 Nevelson joined Colette Roberts ' Grand Central Modern Gallery, where she had numerous one-woman shows.

Great solicitude was devoted to the education of Nicolas as tsarevich, whereas Alexander received only the training of an ordinary Grand Duke of that period.

This resulted in two of his most original operas being consigned to his desk drawer, namely Cublai, gran kan de ' Tartari ( Kublai Grand Kahn of Tartary ) a satire on the autocracy and court intrigues at the court of the Russian Czarina, Catherine the Great, and Catilina ( Cataline ) a semi-comic-semi-tragic account of the Catiline conspiracy that attempted to overthrow the Roman republic during the consulship of Cicero.

The Pravda Yaroslava, originally combined by Yaroslav the Wise the Grand Prince of Kiev, was granted to Great Novgorod around 1017, and in 1054 was incorporated into the Russkaya Pravda, that became the law for all of Kievan Rus.

Eagle and Snake, 6th century mosaic flooring ­ Constantinople, Great Palace of Constantinople | Grand Imperial Palace.

A Discourse of Sallets: " Sellery, apium Italicum, ( and of the Petroseline Family ) was formerly a stranger with us ( nor very long since in Italy ) is an hot and more generous sort of Macedonian Persley or Smallage ... and for its high and grateful Taste is ever plac'd in the middle of the Grand Sallet, at our Great Men's tables, and Praetors feasts, as the Grace of the whole Board ".

In 2007, the urban area, or agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise ( Great Geneva or Grand Genève in French ) had 1, 240, 000 inhabitants in 189 municipalities in both Switzerland and France.

Some claim it was a Tatar invention and was introduced into Russia in the 15th century, perhaps by Grand Duke Ivan III the Great ( 1462 – 1505 ).

After two civil wars Vytautas the Great became the Grand Duke of Lithuania in 1392.

This period of renewed assertiveness came to a calamitous end when Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha in May 1683 led a huge army to attempt a second Ottoman siege of Vienna in the Great Turkish War of 1683 – 1687.

* 1398 – The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.

* 1480 – Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which results in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and the eventual disintegration of the Horde.

Ivan III ( the Great ) finally threw off the control of the Golden Horde, consolidated the whole of Central and Northern Rus ' under Moscow's dominion, and was the first to take the title " Grand Duke of all the Russias ".

The creation of Great Britain happened during the War of the Spanish Succession, in which just before his death in 1702 William III had reactivated the Grand Alliance against France.

The war was fought primarily by forces supporting the unification – the Spanish loyal to Philip V, France, and the Electorate of Bavaria, together known as the Two Crowns – against those opposing unification – the so-called Grand Alliance among the Spanish loyal to Archduke Charles, the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Portugal and the Duchy of Savoy.

* December 27 – Great Poland Uprising: The Poles in Greater Poland ( or Grand Duchy of Poznań ) rise up against the Germans.

* March 4 – Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, eldest daughter of Peter the Great ( b. 1708 )

* 1810: The Battle of Vieux Grand Port ( Great Old Port ) in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the Island of Mauritius, was the only naval victory won by Napoleon.

At first Mozart thought he needed to finish his opera in only two months, because tentative plans were made to perform it at the September visit of the Russian Grand Duke Paul ( son of Catherine the Great and heir to the Russian throne ).

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor forms the Grand Alliance with Great Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Savoy and Prussia.

** Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania ( d. 1430 )

On 7 May, he noted a large number of " Penguins " swimming around the ship on the Grand Banks, and a specimen he collected in Chateau Bay, Labrador, was later identified as the Great Auk.

* Grand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great ( Lithuania, 1997 )

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