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It has been displayed since in a silver reliquary at the main Jesuit church in Rome, Il Gesù.
Herbert Hoover, acting as a main investor, financier, mining speculator and organizer of men, played a major role in the important metallurgical developments that occurred in Broken Hill in the first decade of the twentieth century, developments that had a great impact on the world mining and production of silver, lead and zinc.
In the fall of 1882 work was done on the main corridor, including tinting the walls pale olive and adding squares of gold leaf, and decorating the ceiling in gold and silver, and colorful traceries woven to spell " USA ".
The metals suitable for wire, possessing almost equal ductility, are platinum, silver, iron, copper, aluminium and gold ; and it is only from these and certain of their alloys with other metals, principally brass and bronze, that wire is prepared ( For a detailed discussion on copper wire, see main article: Copper wire and cable.
Although it is unknown just how much silver flowed from the Spanish base of Manila in the Philippines to the Ming Dynasty of China, it is known that the main port for the Mexican silver trade — Acapulco — shipped out 150, 000 to 345, 000 kg ( 4 to 9 million taels ) of silver annually from this year to 1602.
Gulf menhaden and Atlantic menhaden are small oily-fleshed fish, bright silver and characterized by a series of smaller spots behind the main, Humeral spot.
A painter and goldsmith, of his three paintings known to survive, one was for centuries erroneously attributed to Tintoretto ; and from his own, personal workshop came the main part of the famous silver coffin of St. Adalbert of Prague at the Cathedral in Gniezno.
It might also be noted that the main cause of inflation is not high employment, but rather the ability of banks to make money with little to no backing with things of value ( commodities such as gold and silver are some examples ), thus flooding the market with money and decreasing the value of each dollar already issued in the process, assuming the economy has not kept up to this increase in issued loans.
The main gallery displays the coronation and Silver Jubilee Chariots, gold and silver ceremonial armory and traditional jewellery encrusted coronation crowns.
The Royal Canadian Mint's $ 20 silver coin, launched on July 18, 2007 has evoked one of the darkest moments in the history of polar exploration and rankled Canada's main Inuit organization.
The main export goods leaving the country through Callao are oil, steel, silver, zinc, cotton, sugar and coffee.
To date several galleries have been redesigned, notably, in 2002: the main Silver Gallery, Contemporary ; in 2003: Photography, the main entrance, The Painting Galleries ; in 2004: the tunnel to the subway leading to South Kensington tube station, New signage throughout the museum, architecture, V & A and RIBA reading rooms and stores, metalware, Members ' Room, contemporary glass, the Gilbert Bayes sculpture gallery ; in 2005: portrait miniatures, prints and drawings, displays in Room 117, the garden, sacred silver and stained glass ; in 2006: Central Hall Shop, Islamic Middle East, the new café, sculpture galleries.
The main gallery was redesigned in 1994, the glass balustrade on the staircase and mezzanine are the work of Danny Lane, the gallery covering contemporary glass opened in 2004 and the sacred silver and stained glass gallery in 2005.
When silver mining began in Little Cottonwood Canyon, entrepreneurs recognized Sandy's value as a supply station ; soon its main street was lined with hotels, saloons, and brothels serving miners ready to spend their newly earned wages.
One of the main arguments in A Discourse of Trade was that money did not have enough intrinsic value to justify a government's hoarding of it ; policies intended to help accumulate supposedly " valuable " commodities such as silver and gold were not appropriate, because the laws of supply and demand were the main determiner of their value.
The main inscription used to be ornamented by letters made of perhaps silver, gold or some other metal.

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On pages 190 and 191 of Owen Gingerich's monograph on Copernicus The Book Nobody Read, reference is made to an astronomical fresco in the main gallery of the Escorial Library, near Madrid, Spain, built 1567-84, which shows Dionysius the Areopagite observing an eclipse at the time of Christ's crucifixion.
* University Centre – includes many administrative offices ( Accounting, Payroll, Advising, Record Services ) as well as the main public cafeteria, Maltwood art gallery and the Farquhar auditorium.
The explosives were approximately underneath the Confederate works and the T gap was packed shut with of earth in the side galleries and a further of packed earth in the main gallery to prevent the explosion blasting out the mouth of the mine.
When the Smithsonian's gallery was renovated in 1997, the necklace was moved onto a rotating pedestal inside a cylinder made of thick bulletproof glass in its own display room, adjacent to the main exhibit of the National Gem Collection in the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals.
Amelia Bloomer arrived late and took a seat in the upstairs gallery, there being none left in the main seating area.
:: Islamic Art Gallery: The gallery displays a magnificent collection of Islamic art belonging to the sultan, Hassanal Bolkiah and is the main highlight.
:: The History and Technology of Brunei Darussalam's Petroleum Gallery: The state's main industry is presented in this gallery, covering descriptive narratives on the origin and formation of oil, process of drilling, refining, the history of the petroleum industry in Brunei and a map depicting current oil fields.
A fire of pistols, or muskets, opening from the stern gallery of the San Josef, I directed the soldiers to fire into her stern ; and calling to Captain Miller, ordered him to send more men into the San Nicolas ; and directed my people to board the first-rate, which was done in an instant, Commander Berry assisting me into the main chains.
Another museum is the Frans Hals Museum of fine arts, with its main location housing Dutch master paintings, and its exhibition halls on the Grote Markt housing a gallery for modern art called De Hallen.
The town features a well preserved historic main street with a strong gallery scene, boutiques, ethnic and health food, and a historic arthouse movie theater.
The main gallery for fine arts is the Municipal Gallery " Baumhaus " located in the old harbour area of Wismar.
It is built in three main stages externally and two stories internally, the upper one containing a gallery.
This involved flooring over Aston Webb's main hall to form the book stacks, with a new medieval gallery on the ground floor ( now the shop, opened in 2006 ).
A few galleries were redesigned in the 1990s including: Indian, Japanese, Chinese, iron work, the main glass and the main silverware gallery, although this gallery was further enhanced in 2002 when some of the Victorian decoration was recreated.
The main architecture gallery has a series of pillars from various buildings and different periods, for example a column from the Alhambra.
Examples covering Asia are in those galleries concerned with those countries, as well as models and photographs in the main architecture gallery.

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`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.
The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.
But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.
Steele's main business here is to arouse public opinion to the immediate danger of a Stuart Restoration.
The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.
In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.
He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.
The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.
Krim's main attack is upon the aesthetic and the publishing apparatus of American literary culture in our day.
The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main ''.
Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
It is vitally important that the new U.S. aid program should encourage all of them, since the main thrust for development must come from the less developed countries themselves.
Stated in its simplest terms, the main job of the Planning Division is to plan for the future of the State of Rhode Island.
The substantial progress being made in ballistic missile technology is rapidly shifting the main threat from manned bombers to missiles.
Their main asset is an abundance of unsaturated fatty acids, so necessary for maintaining the good health of the circulatory system.
The main requirement is to be sure the boat is numbered according to the regulations of the state in which the boat will be principally used.
The main set of bars are the `` tappets '' and one tappet is connected to each lever.
It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

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