a following volley of shots shattered glass, ripped the ceiling, and sent him lurching heavily from the table.

The ceiling of its Preston Bradley Hall includes a Tiffany glass dome.

The United Nations had concluded that women often experience a " glass ceiling " and that there are no societies in which women enjoy the same opportunities as men.

The term " glass ceiling " is used to describe a perceived barrier to advancement in employment based on discrimination, especially sex discrimination.

Pillars of marble and granite give way to staircases of Carrara marble, freestone, and alabaster, and a ceiling decorated in gold leaf is topped by a stained glass dome.

Until recently a 100-mg / d dose was regarded as a ' glass ceiling ,' rarely to be penetrated.

was built for Morris to designs by Webb ; it was Webb's first building as an independent architect Red House featured ceiling paintings by Morris, wall-hangings designed by Morris and worked by himself and Jane ; furniture painted by Morris and Rossetti, and wall-paintings and stained-and painted glass designed by Burne-Jones.

Glass partition walls are a series of individual toughened glass panels, which are suspended from or slide along a robust aluminium ceiling track.

The new hospital also houses a library, a velvet-curtained auditorium, multiple computer laboratories, a small museum in the lobby, and a group of large decorative glass butterflies suspended from the ceiling.

Lower salary, working in temporary or non-regular jobs, in lower status in working position, faced with thick harsh glass-walls and glass ceiling are all evidence that their society is not so keen towards women on top.

He decorated several " brasseries artistiques " with wall-paintings, stained glass, & c., notably Le Chat noir and La Palette d ' or, and he painted the highly imaginative ceiling for La Cigale music hall.

William of Malmesbury wrote: " Nothing like it could be seen in England either for the light of its glass windows, the gleaming of its marble pavements, or the many-coloured paintings which led the eyes to the panelled ceiling above.

Tiffany worked on the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding the opalescent floor to ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall.

Low winter sun ( see Sun path ) reflects off the snow and increases solar gain through equator-facing glass by one-to-two thirds which brightly lights the ceiling of these rooms.

Beginning with pioneer performer " Female Houdini "™ Dorothy Dietrich, who broke the glass ceiling in the escape field, and was the first woman to gain prominence as an escape artist since the days of Houdini, many women have followed in her footsteps and entered the field.

The Green Dining Room 1866 – 68 was the work of Philip Webb and William Morris, displays Elizabethan influences, the lower part of the walls are panelled in wood with a band of paintings depicting fruit and the occasional figure, with moulded plaster foliage on the main part of the wall and a plaster frieze around the decorated ceiling and stained glass windows by Edward Burne-Jones.

The Centre Refreshment Room 1865 – 77 was designed in a Renaissance style by James Gamble, the walls and even the Ionic columns are covered in decorative and moulded ceramic tile, the ceiling consists of elaborate designs on enamelled metal sheets and matching stained glass windows, the marble fireplace was designed and sculpted by Alfred Stevens and was removed from Dorchester House prior to that building's demolition in 1929.

Porters worked under deplorable conditions that included poor wages, segregation from white passengers, a glass ceiling, and unequal rights as employees.

For this reason, some believe Asian Americans encounter a " bamboo ceiling ," the Asian American equivalent of the glass ceiling in the workplace.

The Chapel features the world's largest fan vault ceiling ; twenty-six large stained glass windows, twenty-four of which date from the sixteenth century ; and Peter Paul Rubens ' painting the Adoration of the Magi as an altarpiece.

Research into the causes and consequences of occupational segregation, the gender pay gap, and the " glass ceiling " have been a significant part of feminist economics.

In 1949 the canvas awning was removed and replaced with fluted aluminium panels below the glass roof, in a new attempt to solve the echo ; however, the acoustics were not properly tackled until 1969 when a series of large fibreglass acoustic diffusing discs ( commonly referred to as " mushrooms " or " flying saucers ") were installed below the ceiling to reduce the notorious echo.

Gothic and Renaissance stained glass windows and mural paintings, as well as a wooden and painted ceiling.

The metaphor of His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light even if no fire touches it.

Vergniaud is noted as his last gesture of defiance as standing up among the subdued deputies and offering them a glass of blood to slake their thirst, a metaphor for their betrayal of the Girondins.

Extending the metaphor of the glass ceiling, Ryan and Haslam evoke the notion of the ‘ glass cliff ’ to refer to a danger which involves exposure to risk of falling but which is not readily apparent.

Libyan Desert silica-glass, another natural glass, is composed of nearly pure silica and has the same trace germanium content as sands in the area.

This crater contains impact glass with no metallic inclusions and no meteoritic material has been recovered.

Amber has often been imitated by other resins like copal and kauri, as well as by celluloid and even glass.

A large glass of red wine has about three units of alcohol.

A regular glass, such as the one shown, has about two units.

For example, flint glass has V < 50 and crown glass has V > 50.

In part of the older literature, the term has been used synonymously with glass.

The technology of the burning glass has been known since antiquity.

Conservation has six specialist areas: ceramics & glass ; metals ; organic material ( including textiles ); stone, wall paintings and mosaics ; Eastern pictorial art and Western pictorial art.

Microscopically, a single crystal has atoms in a near-perfect Periodic function | periodic arrangement ; a polycrystal is composed of many microscopic crystals ( called " crystallite s " or " grains "); and an amorphous solid ( such as glass ) has no periodic arrangement even microscopically.

The radiometer is made from a glass bulb from which much of the air has been removed to form a partial vacuum.

This has been subjected to a double rhyme, starting with the original rough synonym " arse ", which was rhymed with " bottle and glass ", leading to " bottle ".

He has alsolutely demonstrated that cells are capable of reacting to each other's presence at a distance, and even when separated by a film of glass.

Many other two-terminal nonlinear devices exist, for example a neon lamp has two terminals in a glass envelope and has interesting and useful nonlinear properties.

The Perkin triangle, has means via a series of glass or Teflon taps to allows fractions to be isolated from the rest of the still, without the main body of the distillation being removed from either the vacuum or heat source, and thus can remain in a state of reflux.

A sliding glass door, sometimes called an Arcadia door or a Patio door, is a door made of glass that slides open and sometimes has a screen ( a removable metal mesh that covers the door ).

* 1991: Niijima Floats, six-foot spheres of intricate color inspired by Japanese glass fishing floats from the island of NiijimaNiijima Chihuly. com from Chihuly's website * 1992: Chandeliers, starting modestly but by the middle of the decade involving a ton of glass orbs and shapes that in some works look like flowers, others like breasts, and still others like snakes Chihuly has also produced a sizable volume of " Irish cylinders ", photo from lakeview-museum. orgwhich are more modest in conception than his blown glass works.