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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.
Marble tablet with a passage from the Constitution of Vermont in the Hall of Inscriptions at the Vermont State House.
The Marble Hall holds the " Rainbow Portrait " of Elizabeth.
Another National Historic Landmark District, Bellevue Avenue, is the home of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, where important tennis players are commemorated, as well as a number of mansions dating back to the Gilded Age, including The Breakers, Belcourt Castle, Chateau-sur-Mer, The Elms, Marble House, Rosecliff, Rough Point, and the William Watts Sherman House.
Marble Museum: Located in the Nelson City Hall, the museum includes a year-round exhibit that includes “ examples of fine marble and shows the history of marble mining in Pickens County.
Both Morgan View Apartments and Marble Hall Gardens are the co-ed upper-class apartment style residence hall complexes located off-campus.
File: Holkham Hall 20080717-03. jpg | Holkham hall Marble Hall
Tourist attractions include Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and Lock 3 Park where the American Marble & Toy Manufacturing Company once stood.
1: Marble Hall ; 2: Great Staircase ; 3: Bedchamber, now Blue Room ; 4: Sweatmeat closet ; 5: Back stairs & east entrance ; 6: Chapel Drawing Room ; 7: Chapel ( double height ); 8: Tyrconnel Room ; 9: Saloon ; 10: Red Drawing Room ; 11: Little Parlour ( now Tapestry Room ); 12: School Room ; 13: Closet ; 14: Back stairs & west entrance ; 15: Service Room ( now Breakfast Room ); 16: Upper storey of kitchen, ( now Hondecoeter Room ); Please note: This is an unscaled plan for illustrative purposes only.
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.
The main staircase, set to one side of the Marble Hall, is one of the few things at Belton which is asymmetrically placed.
One of the principal rooms, the Marble Hall ( 1 ), the first of the large reception rooms, serves as an entrance hall from the south entrance, and takes its name from a chequer board patterned floor of black and white marble tiles.
The second of the principal reception rooms, the Saloon ( 9 ), opens from the Marble Hall.
Either side of the Saloon are two smaller drawing rooms ( 8, 10 ), which would originally have served as private withdrawing rooms from the more public activities which would have taken place in the Marble Hall and Saloon.
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.
The Great Staircase to the east of the Marble Hall is unusually placed at Belton, as in a house of this period one would expect to find the staircase in the hall.
The stairs rise in three flights around the west, north, and east walls to the former Great Dining Room above the Marble Hall.
Further revenue is raised from the use of the property as a filming location, and from licensing the Marble Hall for civil weddings.
The impressive and beautiful ceiling of ' the Marble Hall with its motif of Lord Townshend's coat of arms ( see picture on right ) is famous.
First performance on 1 October 1995 in the Marble Hall of Budapest by the Concentus Hungaricus Chamber Orchestra, Laszlo Kovacs ( cond ), Bela Kollar ( oboe ), Gergely Hamar ( englisch horn ), Zoltan Varga ( horn )
Ceiling painting of the Marble Hall in the Upper Belvedere by Carlo Carlone
The redesign of the building was carried out by the Berlin architect Wilfried Kühn, who moved the entrance back to its place in the cour d ’ honneur, thereby once more freeing up the original line of vision from the main gate of the Lower Belvedere via the Marble Hall to the garden facade of the Upper Belvedere.
The various sections of the original orangeries annexed to the Marble Hall were returned to their original condition and now provide space for the new exhibition rooms.

Marble and is
Broadway crosses the Harlem River on the Broadway Bridge to Marble Hill and then enters The Bronx, where it is the eastern border of Riverdale and the western border of Van Cortlandt Park.
Marble is a non-foliated metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.
Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.
Marble is a rock resulting from metamorphism of sedimentary carbonate rocks, most commonly limestone or dolomite rock.
Marble bust found in the shrine room, the original of which is in the British Museum.
The Minturn Formation, a limestone formation exemplified at Marble Mountain on the crest of the Sangre de Cristos, is evidence of a sea in the Central Colorado Trough during the era of the Ancestral Rockies.
Marble is generally not foliated, which allows its use as a material for sculpture and architecture.
The area is geologically founded on Forest Marble, Blue Lias and Oolitic limestone.
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.
Marble is mined 3 km north of Eretria which include Marmor Chalcidicum and asbestos in the northeastern part of Carystus in the Okhi mountain.
It has perished, but late copies exist, of which the most faithful is in the Vatican Museums. Marble lion on display in the British Museum, London In a temple enclosure Newton discovered a fine seated statue of Demeter, which he sent back to the British Museum, and about three miles south-east of the city he came upon the ruins of a splendid tomb, and a colossal figure of a lion carved out of one block of Pentelic marble, ten feet in length and six in height, which has been supposed to commemorate the great naval victory, the Battle of Cnidus in which Conon defeated the Lacedaemonians in 394 BC.
* The Marble Faun ( 1860 ) is a romance set in Italy by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Burnet County is part of the Marble Falls, Texas, Micropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the Austin-Round Rock-Marble Falls, TX Combined Statistical Area.
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.
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.
Today ’ s Carthage Marble courthouse was built in 1939-1941 and is the county ’ s third.
The county seat is Marble Hill.
* Hahn-Previously known as North Zalma, it is located on Route H just south of the Route FF intersection about halfway between Marble Hill and Zalma.
* Scopus-Located at the intersection of Route B and Route M northeast of Marble Hill, today Scopus is a small little community that consists of a tiny convenience store.
* Huxie-Previously known as Need More, it is located somewhere between Hahn and Marble Hill.
* Steep Bank Lake: almost entirely within Hendricks Township, but the northern edge is in Marble Township and the eastern edge is in Royal Township
The Thomas C. Ferguson Power Plant is a single-unit gas-fired plant in Marble Falls that provides 420 megawatts.
Sylacauga, " The Marble City ", is constructed on a solid deposit of the hardest, whitest marble in the world.

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