Union soldiers at times used it for sleeping quarters to escape from the rain or other inclement weather, and some of them left momentoes of their stay by carving their names and small tokens on its walls and beams.

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.

The coming of the railroad to North Cambridge and Northwest Cambridge then led to three major changes in the city: the development of massive brickyards and brickworks between Massachusetts Ave., Concord Ave. and Alewife Brook ; the ice-cutting industry launched by Frederic Tudor on Fresh Pond ; and the carving up of the last estates into residential subdivisions to provide housing to the thousands of immigrants that arrived to work in the new industries.

Teochew chefs take pride in their skills of vegetable carving, and carved vegetables are used as garnishes on cold dishes and on the banquet table.

The CJLS has also held that the Talmudic concept of Kavod HaBriyot permits lifting rabbinic decrees ( as distinct from carving narrow exceptions ) on grounds of human dignity, and used this principle in a December 2006 opinion lifting all rabbinic prohibitions on homosexual conduct ( the opinion held that only male-male anal sex was forbidden by the Bible and that this remained prohibited ).

Doreen Valiente, a former High Priestess of the Gardnerian tradition, claimed that Gerald Gardner's Bricket Wood coven referred to the god as Cernunnos, or Kernunno, which is a Latin word, discovered on a stone carving found in France, meaning " the Horned One ".

File: Pferdeköpfe Dachschmuck. png | Sketch of horses ' heads carving on a farmhouse gable in Northern Germany

It has 47 strings, highly decorative floral carving on the top of the column, base, and feet, and has a fleur de lis pattern at the bottom of the column.

According to Junius, sometime in the 1420s, Coster was in the Haarlemmerhout carving letters from bark for the amusement of his grandchildren, and observed that the letters left impressions on the sand.

There are also of stone panels carved in bas-relief, that include pictorial records documenting every construction step including carving the statues and transporting them on a barge.

The carving shows three men directing the operation while standing on the Colossus.

This sharp edge is necessary to be able to produce enough friction to ride on ice, and the radius of the edge directly affects the radius of carving turns, and in turn the responsiveness of the board.

* The popular fruit cordial Vimto was formulated in a shed located in the space that UMIST eventually came to cover-around 1991-92 students and others were asked to give their opinions and perhaps vote on a memorial to this invention-the winner was a huge wooden carving of a Vimto bottle surrounded by representations of fruit, the juices of which are used in the product.

Modern works of art depicting Yggdrasil include Die Nornen ( painting, 1888 ) by K. Ehrenberg ; Yggdrasil ( fresco, 1933 ) by Axel Revold, located in the University of Oslo library auditorium in Oslo, Norway ; Hjortene beiter i løvet på Yggdrasil asken ( wood relief carving, 1938 ) on the Oslo City Hall by Dagfin Werenskjold ; and the bronze relief on the doors of the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities ( around 1950 ) by B. Marklund in Stockholm, Sweden.

** Last day of carving on Mount Rushmore.

In Japan, a new sect of Buddhism was formed, while in Korea the carving of Buddhist scriptures on 81, 000 wooden blocks was completed.

Arabesque pattern behind hunters on ivory carving | ivory plaque, 11th – 12th century, Egypt

* The carving of the Tripitaka Koreana, a collection of Buddhist scriptures recorded on some 81, 000 wooden blocks, is completed.

Pure carving is a useful technique on slopes of moderate steepness and smooth snow-" groomer carving " is widespread and there are skis dedicated to this style.

The Ardolino brothers from Torre di Nocelli, Italy, did much of the stone carving work on the statues designed by the English sculptor John Angel.

Image: Lapis. elephant. 800pix. 060203. jpg | An elephant carving on high-quality lapis lazuli, that includes gold-colored pyrite, is a rare example of Mughal inspired art.

He was entrusted with the carving of the bas-reliefs on the south side of the Marble Arch in Hyde Park, and executed numerous busts and statues of public figures, including the prominent, well-known statue of Nelson, at the top of Nelson's Column, in Trafalgar Square.

A carving on the south wall of the tower may be part of the original 14th-century rood, thought to be broken during the Reformation.

The carving around the south door dates from the 1880s, but may be a copy of the original tympanum.

A far less well-known site is Tangwa, about 40 km south where the river has eroded a gap through rocky hills carving huge caves, arches, and potholes, and leaving giant boulders, including two balancing rocks called ' God's Corn Bin '.

The south porch is ornamented with carving and has a lierne vault.

La vache qui pleure is a prehistoric bas-relief ( stone carving ) near Djanet in the south of Algeria.

It must have been a very fine and prestigious building, perhaps-to judge from the quality of the carving and the stone of the surviving fragments-one to mention in the same breath as Moissac to the south of the same département.

The Purcell Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet flowed south from Canada, carving the basin of present-day Lake Pend Oreille and damming the Clark Fork river.

The hall is surrounded by tall polished granite columns with foliate capitals and there is an outer south aisle arcade with good naturalistic foliage carving.

The carving was attributed to a team of Jordanian engineers and Palestinian laborers in charge of strengthening that section of the wall.

Stone carving from Dean House, now part of retaining wall in Dean Cemetery.

Here it is subducted under the plate margin and ultimately destroyed, but it may leave evidence of its passage by carving an indentation into the opposing wall of the subduction trench.

King Oswald of Northumbria is believed to have been killed in the Winwick area and the parish church, dedicated to him, was reputedly located with guidance from the " Winwick Pig ", a carving of which can still be seen on the church wall.

A carving in " Ludgvan granite " thought to be of St Anthony was removed in about 1830 and was used in the wall of a pig sty which was further vandalised in 1850 when " a stranger ... taking fancy to the stony countenance and rough hands, they were broken off and carried away as relics ...".

Image: Lamanai. JPG | Detail of carving on right-hand ( facing temple ) wall of Mask Temple.

The name was first published in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 1840-44, as a local name for a carving once present on a church gable wall in Rochestown, County Tipperary, Ireland ; the name was also recorded in 1840 by John O ' Donovan, an official of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, referring to a figure on at Kiltinan Castle, County Tipperary.

Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque characteristically, it has rich wall paintings and figurative stone carving but the general architectural style of the buildings is restrained.

Crunkly Ghyll was formed during the last great ice age as a huge wall of ice moved across the landscape carving out what is now the Esk Valley as far as Lealholm.

Its name derives from a stone carving of the poem Tam O ' Shanter by Robert Burns, which adorns a wall on the site.

Vince Lee, an author, architect, and explorer who has studied various ancient sites where people moved large megaliths, theorizes that the blocks at Sacsayhuaman were put into place by carving them precisely, towing them up a ramp and above the wall, where they would be placed on top of a stack of logs.

There are a few fragments of old glass, fragments of Norman carving set in a wall, and above the chancel arch a mediaeval painting of Doom, fading away.

Shasu spies being beaten by Egyptians from the Battle of Kadesh wall carving.

The ride ( synchronized to an original soundtrack by Rob Pottorf with sound effects from The Bakery and voice-overs from Angelina Jolie and other members of the film's cast ) then lifted up to the eyes of a sixty-foot-tall carving of Durga on the forward wall.

The poupou, or wall carving underneath the verandah.

There are two fragments of carved knotwork masonry on the walls as well as a Sheela na Gig carving of a male figure high on the East wall.