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The landscape's most dominant feature is the central lawn, which was listed as a " medallion site " by the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1999, one of only three central campuses designated as such.
The award is $ 5, 000, a medallion and a citation.
The necklace is called a shitoki if it has a medallion.
It is a very simple granite grave, with a bronze medallion representing the scientist ’ s profile.
The prize is awarded " irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology "; the recipients receive US $ 100, 000, a citation certificate, and since 1987, a bronze medallion.
The Latin inscription on the reverse of the medallion — firmitas, utilitas, venustas ( English: durability, utility, and beauty )— is inspired by Roman architect Vitruvius.
The Tony Award medallion was designed by Art Director Herman Rosse and is a mix of mostly brass and a little bronze, with a nickel plating on the outside ; a black acrylic glass base, and the nickel-plated pewter swivel.
" The award is $ 250 ( since raised to $ 500 ) and a medallion, modelled after the one given to Milton Acorn.
In the centre of the coin, the allegorical figure of Providentia with a medallion of the Roman god, Janus, who had two faces, is displayed.
There is a medallion search, with daily clues and where the winner gets a $ 500 " Pierz Bucks " from local businesses to spend within the town.
There is also a flea market in the park and a treasure hunt in which a medallion is hidden and the finder gets a prize.
Established in 1962, and later renamed, the medallion is named for Camp Fire's watchword " WoHeLo ".
Another celebrated work from Rome is the gold medallion of " Leda and the Swan " executed for the Gonfaloniere Gabbriello Cesarino, and which is now in the Vienna museum.
* A carved stone medallion, a metre or more in diameter, showing Garrick is on display at Birmingham Central Library.
Note that the medallion worn by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles is engraved with the number " 290 ", the original dockyard numbder for the Alabama.
A medallion accredited to Cornelius Agrippa is used in Mike Mignola's comic book short story Hellboy: The Corpse ; it was mentioned as being effective against a vampire cat from Kyoto and proved valuable against a war-god / pig-man.
In the hôtel de ville is still shown a medallion of Louis XIV, and in the church of St Remy a bronze crucifix of some importance — both works by his hand.
Commemoration Medallion of Marriage of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and Princess Fawzia of Egypt-March 1939-The medallion is now in Sahebgharanie palace in Niavaran Palace complex
In Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, it is a medallion containing the imprisoned spirit of a dark goddess, who can only be freed by a song called the Galdr of Release.
Almost opposite is the former Odeon Cinema, now Habitat, with its iconic façade which carries high upon it a large sculptured medallion of the now almost-forgotten William Friese-Greene, who claimed to have invented celluloid film and cameras before any subsequent patents.
The insignia of the order is in the form of an oval medallion with an oak tree, a shield with the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom hanging from one branch, and on the left a mounted knight in armour.

medallion and so
In the proper use of the term, medallions are larger, starting at perhaps four inches across, and so usually too large to be worn very comfortably, though in colloquial use, " medallion " is sometimes improperly used to refer to a medal used as the pendant of a necklace ( as in the medallion man fashion style of the 1960s and 1970s, or for other types of medals.
Another identifying characteristic of an Air Force 1 shoe is a small medallion ( called a deubré ) that is secured to the bottom of the laces but has holes on either side so it can be removed by sliding it off of the shoe lace.
Once you find the thief, he tells you that he only stole the medallion so he could sell it and buy bread to eat.
Bootstrap was tied to a cannon and thrown overboard after it was learned he sent a gold medallion to Will so the crew would remain under an ancient Aztec curse as punishment for betraying Sparrow.
At his castle hideout, Snakehead forces Jai to activate the medallion so he can gain its power, but with only one half of it, Snakehead only gains superhuman strength and remains mortal.
With practiced skill he could cast the rumal so as to cause the medallion to land at the adam's-apple of his victims, adding pressure to the throat when he strangled them.
Meanwhile, Cartman, claiming his status as Kenny's " best friend forever " to the Colorado Supreme Court with the first half of the BFF medallion, gets an order to take out the feeding tube, and he removes the tube after tracking down and finding Kenny's other BFF medallion half so he can get the PSP upon Kenny's death ( it's implied that Cartman himself put the other medallion around Kenny's neck ).
The mutant realizes that the Sisters will most likely kill him after he has removed the medallions, so he removes the medallion from the patient next to Roland and slashes his neck open.
Because the cost of leasing a medallion is so high, the system may cut into the income of drivers and raise costs to passengers.
Mayor Bloomberg's sustained initiative to amend the law, so that licensed livery cabs may pick up street hails just as yellow medallion cabs do, requires the Governor's approval ; but Governor Andrew Cuomo opposes the City's choice of a non-wheelchair-accessible yellow cab.

medallion and named
In 1819, while he was studying at the École des Beaux-Arts, Barye sculpted a medallion named Milo of Crotana Devoured by a Lion, in which the lion bites into Milo's left thigh.
In the trivia book series Imponderables, David Feldman reports the standard story about the bar being named for Grover Cleveland's daughter, with additional information that ties it to the President: " The trademark was patterned exactly after the engraved lettering of the name used on a medallion struck for the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and picturing the President, his wife, and daughter Baby Ruth.
Medallion taxicabs are named for the official medallion issued by the TLC and attached to a taxi ’ s hood.

medallion and because
She is kidnapped because she possesses Will's gold medallion that she took after his rescue, fearing it marked him as a pirate.
Johnny was saved because the bullet struck a lucky medallion he was wearing that Frankie had given him.
Some, like NYC, have enlarged the mandatory market to include more and more taxis, and then all livery cars ( or Town Cars ), while at the same time, begrudgingly, shrunk the market for partition purchases for use in the " medallion " taxis, because newer vehicle models have side-impact airbags which cannot deploy properly with a partition installed.

medallion and was
The Wedgwood medallion was the most famous image of a black person in all of 18th-century art.
The design on the medallion became popular and was used elsewhere: large-scale copies were painted to hang on walls and it was used on clay tobacco pipes.
Commemorating the landing of the First Fleet in Botany Bay, the Sydney Cove medallion was made by Josiah Wedgwood after he was given a sample of clay from Sydney Cove by Sir Joseph Banks, who had received the sample from Governor Arthur Phillip.
A portrait of him painted by Jens Juel was made into a medallion by his friend Johan Tobias Sergel.
The stone was set in a fairly simple medallion surrounded by many smaller white diamonds, which he sometimes lent to Louisa de la Poer Beresford, the widow of his brother, Thomas Hope, for society balls.
" It was not until the third awards ceremony in 1949 that the first Tony medallion was given to award winners.
Several other filling mechanisms were introduced to compete, such as the coin-filler ( where a ' coin ' or ' medallion ' was supplied along with the pen ) match-filler using a matchstick and a ' blow-filler ' which unsurprisingly required the pen owner to blow into the barrel to depress the internal sac.
The medallion was forged from steel salvaged from the World Trade Center site.
The original Sweeny family home, marked by a Texas Historical Society medallion, was still occupied by a descendant of the Sweeny family as of 1991.
It received an official historical medallion in 1964 and was designated in 1990 as a Texas Historic Landmark.
In 1882 a medallion portrait of him was unveiled in Westminster Abbey.
It was a round medallion with a purported facial likeness of Benjamin Rush and 13 stars over his head to represent the 13 founders of the organization.
The first insigne was in fact a larger, cut-and-engraved silver medallion, essentially a square of metal with a loop cut integrally with the body of the square from the same sheet of silver, in order to allow for suspension from one or two ribbons worn around the member's neck in the manner in which the older fraternities ( and the Freemasonic bodies on which the collegiate societies were in part patterned ) wore their own insignia.
Later, the size of the medallion was reduced and men took to wearing the insignia on their watch chains as fobs.
During the mass, which was celebrated in the Chapel of Sigmaringen Castle, Manuel, while wearing his Order of the Garter medallion and the sash of the Three Portuguese Orders, he stood on a crate containing soil imported from Portugal.
The event was commemorated by a gold medallion known as the Trier medallion, which shows Constantius Chlorus on one side and on the other side a woman kneeling at the city wall welcoming a mounted Roman soldier.
He designed many groups, of nymphs and amorini and medallion subjects to form the centre of Pergolesi's bands of ornament, and they were continually reproduced upon the elegant satin-wood furniture which was growing popular in his later days and by the end of the 18th century became a rage.

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