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The thing that impressed one of the visitors the most was the Gallery's rotunda fountain `` because it's on the second floor ''.
The " Justice fountain " ( Gerechtskeitbrunnen ) was built in 1634, and is made of French limestone ; it includes a statue of Lady Justice made of sandstone, hence the name.
Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).
Place Manuel was named after the Restoration politician Jacques-Antoine Manuel ; the fountain in the centre of the square contains his image sculpted by David d ' Angers.
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.
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.
László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor, was frustrated by the amount of time that he wasted in filling up fountain pens and cleaning up smudged pages, and the sharp tip of his fountain pen often tore the paper.
This new design was licensed by the British, who produced ball point pens for RAF aircrew as the Biro ; they found they worked much better than fountain pens at high altitude, the latter being prone to ink-leakage in the decreased atmospheric pressure.
The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity is housed in an 11-story structure originally built for The Christian Science Publishing Society constructed between 1932 and 1934, and the present plaza was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to include a 28 story administration building, a colonnade, and a reflecting pool with fountain, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei and Partners ( now Pei Cobb Freed ).
Dijkstra was known for his habit of carefully composing manuscripts with his fountain pen.
The reservoir pen, which may have been the first fountain pen, dates back to 953, when Ma ' ād al-Mu ' izz, the caliph of Egypt, demanded a pen that would not stain his hands or clothes, and was provided with a pen that held ink in a reservoir.
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.
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To date, a complete map of the area has been made, including not only the Ash Altar and temenos, but also two fountains, including the Hagno fountain mentioned by Pausanias, the hippodrome, the stadium, a building that was probably a bathhouse, the xenon ( hotel ), a stoa, several rows of seats, and a group of statue bases.
" By 1884 he was selling Moxie both in bottles and in bulk as a soda fountain syrup.
At the end of the high street there is a roundabout known as the Fountain Roundabout because it has a fountain which was originally used for drinking water by horses.
The fountain is a campus landmark and was featured prominently in the 1984 film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
He was captured by the Greek hero Bellerophon near the fountain Peirene with the help of Athena and Poseidon.
Bradham sought to create a fountain drink that was delicious and would aid in digestion and boost energy.
The limestone fountain was dedicated October 21, 1929, the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the lightbulb.
She was later tortured, murdered and her body dumped in a fountain.
In August 2012 the northern part of the shopping centre underwent a £ 700, 000 renovation, the raised area holding the former fountain was removed and new block paving installed.
Water gathered from major rivers across the globe was emptied into the park's fountain of nations ceremonial containers to mark the opening.

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In Tompkins Square ( New York City ) the James Fountain ( 1881 ), is a Temperance fountain with the figure of Charity who empties her jug of water, aided by a child ; it was donated by Daniel Willis James and sculpted by Adolf Donndorf.
He donated a large fountain to Kennington Park-the Slade Memorial Fountain.
The fountain was designed by François-Léon Sicard and donated by J. F.
The fountain was donated to the City of Jeddah by the late King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, after whom it was named.
The fountain was donated to the city of Copenhagen by the Carlsberg Foundation on the occasion of the brewery ’ s 50-year anniversary.
* The Hanse fountain ( German: Hansabrunnen ) in front of the town hall, a creation of the German artist Wilhelm Groß (* 1883, † 1974 ), donated to the town of Rügenwalde as a present by the local shipping company Hemptenmacher.
Lawrence E. Deutsch and Lloyd Rigler donated $ 250, 000 to commission a work for the fountain.
Cursetjee Fardoonjee Parekh donated Rs. 20, 000 towards the construction of this fountain.
The statue of José de San Martín, in Parque de Mayo, the sculpture group of Lola Mora in the fountain at the front of Universidad del Sur, the memorial to Giuseppe Garibaldi, the statue of Isabel I of Castile in front of the bus station, donated by the Government of Spain ( no such pieces are donated to non capital cities as it has been this case, enhancing the importance of the local Spanish descendants ), the pieces which decorate the frontispieces of Banco de la Nación, Edificio Banco Provincia, to the side of the City Hall, Saint George and the Dragon of the former electrical power plant of Ingeniero White in the Port, the ones of the former building of La Nueva Provincia and those of the Cathedral are unique, as well as the modern art ones which form the group of Paseo de las Esculturas, indeed remarkable.
Other statues in the park include the Marquis de Lafayette, modeled by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated at the Centennial, July 4, 1876, Abraham Lincoln, modeled by Henry Kirke Brown ( 1870 ), and the James Fountain ( 1881 ), a Temperance fountain with the figure of Charity who empties her jug of water, aided by a child ; it was donated by Daniel Willis James and sculpted by Adolf Donndorf.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux ' maquette for the fountain he donated to Valenciennes
Money thrown into the fountain is donated to local charities, the company reports it raises in excess of £ 10, 000 a year for local charities.
The musical fountain system fitted in the newly developed elegant garden was donated by the Chinese.
* The baroque fountain in the main piazza, donated by Cosimo de Medici III in 1683
The most prominent feature of the park is the fountain standing atop the hill that was donated by Lord Strathcona in 1909, sculpted by Mathurin Moreau.
In 1889 Rodney Wallace, James Phillips, and Henry Willis donated money for an ornamental fountain to grace the Upper Common of Fitchburg, MA and the City accepted the idea.
He also donated money for the George Delacorte Musical Clock in the park, a sculpture of Alice in Wonderland, sculptures of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet, and a fountain in City Hall Plaza.
He also donated the water fountain to the High court.
A congressman from another county donated fifty Japanese carp for the fountain which shows the significance of the park even outside of Raleigh.

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