Stand here for a few moments and look at this gem of a fountain with its four youths, each holding a tortoise and each with a foot resting on the head of a dolphin.

The thing that impressed one of the visitors the most was the Gallery's rotunda fountain `` because it's on the second floor ''.

And when they stood by the fountain in the piazza looking at Santa Maria he had to keep a straight face, not letting on he had been there with Alberto.

As a consequence there are four chimney-pieces by Algardi in the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, and in the gardens, the figures on the fountain of Neptune are also by him.

In front of it is the Neptunbrunnen, a fountain featuring a mythological group of Tritons, personifications of the four main Prussian rivers and Neptune on top of it.

" Ammannati continued working on this fountain for another ten years, adding, in a mannerist style, around the perimeter suave bronze reclining river gods, laughing satyrs and marble sea horses emerging from the water.

The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on his leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not do.

Since, when tried, this viscous ink would not flow into a regular fountain pen nib, Bíró, with the help of his brother György, a chemist, began to work on designing new types of pens.

An African-American child at a segregated drinking fountain on a courthouse lawn, North Carolina, 1938.

* The on-line textbook: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, by David MacKay, contains chapters on elementary error-correcting codes ; on the theoretical limits of error-correction ; and on the latest state-of-the-art error-correcting codes, including low-density parity-check codes, turbo codes, and fountain codes.

In Elizabethan gardens " the plants were almost incidental ", and instead the design focus was on sculptures, including four wooden obelisks painted to resemble porphyry and a marble fountain with a statue of two Greek mythological figures.

In a bold and innovative move, the architect chose to set the tower back from the property line to create a forecourt plaza and fountain on Park Avenue.

Many of these buildings seem to have been planned in relation to each other: the baths at the northern end of the hippodrome are on the same alignment as it is, and the stoa, the xenon, the lower fountain, and the rows of seats all appear to have been built in an intentionally similar alignment.

* The Minerva Roundabout in Guadalajara, Mexico, located at the crossing of the López Mateos, Vallarta, López Cotilla, Agustín Yáñez and Golfo de Cortez avenues, features the goddess standing on a pedestal, surrounded by a large fountain, with an inscription which says " Justice, wisdom and strength guard this loyal city ".

Friend of the Muses, Pegasus is the creator of Hippocrene, the fountain on Mt.

The courtyard, with galleries of arches on Doric order columns opening on it, is centered by a fountain.

The " echoppe " works on the same principle that makes a fountain pen's line more attractive than a ballpoint's: The slight swelling variation caused by the natural movement of the hand " warms up " the line, and although hardly noticeable in any individual line, has a very attractive overall effect on the finished plate.

Popular legends include an ox named " Bloem " owned by one of the pioneer farmers that was taken by a lion near a fountain on his property, while another story names Jan Blom ( 1775 – 1858 ), a Korana KhoiKhoi leader who inhabited the area.

* 520 BC – 510 BC — The Priam Painter makes Women at a fountain house, black-figure decoration on a hydria.

A late Art Nouveau-Gothic memorial fountain by Alfred Gilbert ( 1926 – 32 ) in the Marlborough Road wall of the house commemorates Queen Alexandra, and the grounds of the house include her pet cemetery and a thatch-roofed rotating summer house built for Queen Mary.

The pools remain, but the buildings which once hosted the island's affluent and colonial soldiers are gone, except for the remains of one central wall structure which has been preserved and incorporated into a fountain courtyard on the grounds of a popular tourist hotel and rest stop which has replaced the ancient Spanish ruins.

The decorative wall tiles, placed above the smaller wall fountain and basin, were purchased from Syria.

In the south wall of the medrese adjoining the mosque is the fountain of Firuz Bey ( 1781 ).

During the 1997 refurbishment, a 30th anniversary plaque and decorative fountain were installed against the back wall of the courtyard.

Beyond the drawbridge and the castle wall is a garden with a fountain.

This sculpture was probably intended for a wall fountain, possibly situated in a niche where the water would have flown from the open neck of the satyr's wineskin.

Previously fountains had mainly been either a basin with a small figure, such as Donatello's winged infant and Rustici's Mercury of 1515, or a wall fountain, or a candelabrum type.

Among the gifts are a vase from Russia, doors from Belgium, marble from Italy, a fountain from Denmark, wall carpets from Japan, the clock for the clock tower from Switzerland, Persian rugs from Iran and wood from Indonesia and the United States of America.

The fountain on a side wall, framed within a Doric, contains a sculpture of a sleeping nymph in a grotto guarded by d ' Este heraldic eagles, with a bas-relief framed in apple boughs that links the villa to the Garden of the Hesperides.

Hidden behind the Medici Fountain is the Fontaine de Léda, ( 1807 ), a wall fountain built during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte at the corner of the Rue du Regard and Rue de Vaugirard, with a bas-relief sculpture depicting the legend of Leda and the Swan by Achille Valois.

The park was designed by Daniel Urban Kiley, and contains a low granite wall surrounding a commemorative fountain and minimally landscaped lawns leading down to F and 9th Streets SW.

The charges centred on two items in the early issues of Oz -- one was Sharp's ribald poem " The Word Flashed Around The Arms ", which satirised the contemporary habit of youths gatecrashing parties ; the other offending item was the famous photo ( used on the cover of Oz # 6 ) which depicted Neville and two friends pretending to urinate into a Tom Bass sculptural wall fountain, set into the wall of the new P & O office in Sydney, which had recently been opened by Prime Minister Robert Menzies.

One was Martin Sharp's ribald satirical poem about youths gatecrashing a party, entitled " The Word Flashed Around The Arms "; the other was the now famous Oz # 6 cover photograph ( pictured at right ), which depicted Neville and others pretending to urinate into a wall fountain created by sculptor Tom Bass, which was mounted in the street facade of the Sydney offices of the P & O shipping line and which had recently been unveiled by Prime Minister Menzies.

The ensemble of the Ferhadija mosque consisted of the mosque itself, the courtyard, a graveyard, the fountain, 3 mausoleums (" turbes ") and the surrounding wall with the gate.

The original canopied wall was pulled down after 1884 and a more massive wall partly of masonry and wrought iron was built with a new gate and a drinking fountain.

They began singing together casually after their nighttime performances, sitting on the wall of the fountain opposite the Plaza Hotel, and drew a following.

In the Prado, Madrid, is the Fountain of Living Water emanating from the Lamb of God, in which the open fountain is set into the outer wall of Heaven.

The boundary wall incorporates a wellhouse with a drinking fountain which dates from 1876.

On the " wet side " of the flood wall ( in the Greenway ) sits an area called Rotary Park which includes a fountain.

What remains of the original 1857 hotel is the restaurant and some walls, among which there is a central wall structure which has been preserved and incorporated into a fountain courtyard on the grounds, adding to the historic ambiance of the modern Parador.

Grantham House had a large fountain in its grounds between road and residence, while across the road on the heath was a large, shallow rectangular pond used for ice skating.

Originally his residence, one of its most significant features is a fountain made of marble, which has each of his 13 children sculpted around the side

Organizationally, a typical Bosnian residence from the 17th century consisted of five main elements: a fence that faced and defined the street and clearly differentiated private from public, a courtyard usually built of pebble or flat stone pattern for easier maintenance, an outdoor fountain ( Šadrvan ) for hygenic purposes, a lower level " semi-public " private space called the Hajat where the family would gather, and the Divanhan, an upper-level semi-private / private space used for relaxation and enjoyment.