The original dry-compounded powder used in fifteenth century Europe was known as " Serpentine ", either a reference to Satan or to a common artillery piece that used it.

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In 1957, Tony Bennett was filmed walking along The Serpentine in Hyde Park, London as his recording of " Stranger in Paradise " played ; this film was distributed to and played by UK and US television stations.

In this capacity, he was associated with the construction, amongst numerous other public works, of a large open air swimming pool on the Serpentine in Hyde Park, popularly known as ' Lansbury's Lido '.

The areas to the north that jutted out like appendages from the main wall were the West Park, the smaller East Park, and the Daming Palace, while the southeasternmost extremity of the main wall was built around the Serpentine River Park that jutted out as well.

The West Park walled off and connected to the West Palace ( guarded behind the main exterior wall ) by three gates in the north, the walled-off enclosure of the Daming Palace connected by three gates in the northeast, the walled-off East Park led in by one gate in the northeast, and the Serpentine River Park in the southeast was simply walled off by the main exterior wall, and open without gated enclosures facing the southeasternmost city blocks.

The Daming Palace and the Xingqing Palace ( located along the eastern wall of the city ) both had a small lake to boast, yet the Serpentine River Park had a large lake within its bounds that was bigger than the latter two lakes combined, connected at the southern end by a river that ran under the main walls and out of the city.

In 1995 his work was included at a show at the Serpentine Gallery in London, curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist.

In 1988 Rego was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and the Serpentine Gallery in London.

Bridgeman's piece of water called The Serpentine, formed by damming the little Westbourne that flowed through the park was not truly in the Serpentine " line of beauty " that William Hogarth described, but merely irregular on a modest curve.

The Serpentine provided a focal point for The Great Exhibition of 1851, and more recently was a venue for the men's and women's triathlon and marathon swimming events in the London 2012 Olympics.

In 1860 The Serpentine was to be modified into a skating pond with formal edges.

The Westbourne ceased to provide the water for the Serpentine in 1834, as the river had become polluted ,, and so water was then pumped from the Thames.

The Serpentine Canal within the Anglican section was restored in recent years, repairing and replacing ornamentation, landscaping and vegetation over 31 hectares of the cemetery.

The construction of the station was complicated by the crossing of the site by the River Westbourne which ran through Hyde Park as the Serpentine Lake, and was originally crossed by the Knight's Bridge at Knightsbridge.

The great manmade lake was completed in 1828 and is supplied with water by the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park.

This was widely assumed to be due to competition from the Tesco Extra which had opened at nearby Serpentine Green in Hampton and the ongoing degeneration of the centre.

The first ( and only ) event took place on the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park, London and was sponsored by Mercedes-Benz.

The river was originally called the Kilburn ( Cye Bourne — royal stream, ' Bourne ' being an Anglo-Saxon word for ' river ') but has been known, at different times and in different places, as Kelebourne, Kilburn, Bayswater, Bayswater River, Bayswater Rivulet, Serpentine River, The Bourne, Westburn Brook, the Ranelagh River, and the Ranelagh Sewer.

The river enters Hyde Park at what is now the Serpentine, which was formed in 1730 by building a dam across the Westbourne at the instigation of Queen Caroline, wife of George II, in order to beautify the royal park.

The Westbourne left Hyde Park ( both before and after it had been dammed to form the Serpentine ) at Knightsbridge which was originally a bridge over the Westbourne itself.

One sweep used to wash down his boys in the Serpentine.

In the winter, the Falls Hut is commonly used as a ski touring base for easy access into the Serpentine Range and beyond.

Serpentine can also be added as aggregate to special concrete used in nuclear reactor shielding to increase the concrete density ( 2. 6 g cm < sup >- 3 </ sup >) and its neutron capture cross section.

It used Surrey's municipal boundaries with Delta and Langley as its western and eastern borders and the Serpentine River as its southern border.

Serpentine Hot Springs is the preserve's most visited location, with the surrounding area used for subsistence and holistic activities by Native Alaskans since time immemorial.

The Tang court annually served up a special batch of deep fried pastries as desert for the occasion, most likely served in the Serpentine River Park.

Tillmans ' work has since been shown in large solo exhibitions at renowned European museums, for example the Kunsthalle Zürich ( 1995 ), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid ( 1998 ), Museum Ludwig in Cologne ( 2001 ), Castello di Rivoli in Italy ( 2002 ), Palais de Tokyo in Paris ( 2002 ), the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin ( 2008 ), and Serpentine Gallery in London ( 2010 ).

Victor Willing: Inevitable Prohibitions ; Ruth Rosengarten, La Règle du Jeu and John McEwen In Conversation with Paula Rego, Bernardo Pinto de Almeida Paula no Pais das Maravilhas, Paula Rego, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon and Serpentine Gallery, LondonLewis Biggs: A context for the exhibitions, Cries and Whispers, British Council

Charles Bridgeman created the Serpentine in the 1730s by damming the eastern outflow of the River Westbourne from Hyde Park for Queen Caroline.

Since 1864 the Serpentine Swimming Club has organised a 100-yard race every Christmas morning for the Peter Pan Cup, inaugurated by J. M. Barrie, the creator of the fictional character Peter Pan.

* 19 Apr: The RHD claimed responsibility for an attempted pipe bomb attack on the home of a Catholic family on Serpentine Park, Belfast.

The Westbourne ceased to provide the water for the Serpentine in 1834, as the river had become polluted, and the Serpentine is now supplied from water pumped from the Thames.

In 1995, with producer and friend Joanna Scanlan, Swinton developed a performance / installation live art piece in the Serpentine Gallery, London, where she was on display to the public for a week, asleep or apparently so, in a glass case, as a piece of performance art.

In 2007, Probst founded The Serpentine Project, a non-profit that empowers youth transitioning out of foster care to reach for their dreams by opening the door to possibilities.

The Serpentine Gallery annually commissions international architects of worldwide acclaim to design a pavilion on the gallery ’ s lawn that provides a unique showcase for contemporary architectural practice.

* Cecil Balmond ( 1943 -), structural engineer, founder of Arup's Advanced Geometry Unit, lead designer for the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the CCTV tower in Beijing, the Ito-Balmond Serpentine Pavilion, and the ArcelorMittal Orbit.

A local developer, Major Charles Howard, built many of the hill's earliest homes, and his name survives in Howard Avenue, the hill's main street ; a portion of this street was known for a time as Serpentine Road due to the hill's bedrock consisting of serpentinite.

He formerly served as a trustee for the Whitechapel Art Gallery and is a trustee of the Natural History Museum and the chairman of the Serpentine Gallery's board of trustees.

Slated for release in 2008, Roland has said that likely tracks will include remakes of the eponymous song Cynic Guru, 3 Martinis, Psycho, Better, Serpentine, Radiation, and a new track called The Downfall of the Enemy.

Museums at which InterCultura Exhibitions were shown include: Albright-Knox Art Gallery ( Buffalo ), Art Institute of Chicago, California Afro-American Museum ( Los Angeles ), Central Exhibition Hall ( St. Petersburg, Russia ), Cincinnati Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art ( Washington, D. C .), Dallas Museum of Art, Davenport Museum of Art, DuSable Museum of African American History ( Chicago ), Field Museum of Natural History, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Hayward Gallery ( London ), Henry Art Gallery ( University of Washington ), Kimbell Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum of African-American Life & Culture ( Dallas ), Palacio de Bellas Artes ( Mexico City ), Rufino Tamayo Museum ( Mexico City ), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sarah Blaffer Gallery ( Houston ), Serpentine Gallery ( London ), State Picture Gallery of Georgia ( Tbilisi ), The Art Museum, Princeton University, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black African Culture ( New York ), The Walters Art Museum, Tretyakov Gallery ( Moscow ), Victoria and Albert Museum ( London ), Yokohama Art Museum ( Japan ), and others.

He stays with the X-Men for a short while longer, attending the funeral of Serpentine who died during the fight with Synge but then returns to the desert.