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This is in front of the bronze doors leading to the refreshment rooms, a central path flanked by lawns leads to the sculpture gallery ; the north, east and west sides have herbaceous borders along the museum walls with paths in front which continues along the south façade ; in the two corners by the north façade there is planted an American Sweetgum tree ; the southern, eastern and western edges of the lawns have glass planters which contain orange and lemon trees in summer, these are replaced by bay trees in winter.
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In front of him is a gold phone.
One can only speak of what is in front of him, and that now is simply the mess ''.
An architect's sketch of the new plant is shown on the front cover.
When the front knee is straight and locked, allow it to bend again until you feel the bar come lightly into contact with the sides of the Power Stands.
After you have taken a breather, reverse the position of your legs so that the front thigh of the previous exercise is now to the rear, and the rear thigh now to the front, and perform the same movement in the same manner.
Do build a wall of glowing coals six to eight inches in front of meat that is barbecued on an electric spit.
Placement is important because the rear seat, bunks and front jump seats rest on or are fastened to many of the side battens.
You should see to it that the trap, the dirt-catcher in front of the filter, is always clean.
The transducer itself moves the beam in a sector scan, just like a radar antenna, while the entire transducer structure is moved over a 90-degree arc in front of the eye to `` look into '' all corners.
On the economic front, the first priority of these countries is to mobilize a vastly increased volume of resources.
Religion at its best is out in front, ever beckoning and leading on, and, as Lippman put it, `` mobilizing all man's scattered energies in one triumphant sense of his own infinite importance ''.
The actual surface becomes both ground and background, and it turns out -- suddenly and paradoxically -- that the only place left for a three-dimensional illusion is in front of, upon, the surface.
later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.
If the rake angle **yc of the knife is high enough and the friction angle **yt between the front of the knife and the back of the chip is low enough to give a positive value for Af, the resultant vector R will lie above the plane of the substrate.
One main type of malocclusion is characterized by a receding chin and protruding upper front teeth.
After all, the average American as he lies and waits for the enemy in Korea or as she scans the newspaper in some vain hope of personal contact with the front is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal, economic and governmental actions far beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control.
Fearful of inviting a military showdown with the West which they could not win, the Communists seek to undermine Western power where the nuclear might of the West is irrelevant -- in backwoods guerrilla skirmishes, in mob uprisings in the streets, in parliaments, in clandestine meetings of undercover conspirators, at the United Nations, on the propaganda front, at diplomatic conferences -- preferably at the highest level.
The only cardinal sin which may be committed in warming a wine is to force it by putting it next to the stove or in front of an open fire.
And when they had drawn back a step he added: `` Jones is sitting on his horse right in front of her.
The front line of advance is where witnessing and worshiping congregations of different traditions exist side by side.
is and bronze
There is a bronze wreath on the wall.
Besides flathead bronze screws, silicon bronze Stronghold nails ( made by Independent Nail & Packing Co., Bridgewater, Mass. ) are used extensively in assembly and Weldwood resorcinol glue is used in all the joints.
Ranking from the very few bronzes survived to us is the masterpiece bronze Piraeus Apollo.
The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.
The marble is a Hellenistic or Roman copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BCE.
Eventually, humans learned to smelt metals such as copper and tin from ore, and, around 2500 BC, began alloying the two metals to form bronze, which is much harder than its ingredients.
While the use of iron started to become more widespread around 1200 BC, mainly because of interruptions in the trade routes for tin, the metal is much softer than bronze.
A large hieratic bronze of Innocent X by Algardi is now to be found in the Capitoline Museums.
By comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin.
* Red brass is both an American term for the copper-zinc-tin alloy known as gunmetal, and an alloy which is considered both a brass and a bronze.
Many have similar tin contents to contemporary bronze artefacts and it is possible that some copper-zinc alloys were accidental and perhaps not even distinguished from copper.
However, since " bronze " is a somewhat imprecise term, and historical pieces have variable compositions, in particular with an unclear boundary with brass, modern museum and scholarly descriptions of older objects increasingly use the more cautious and inclusive term " copper alloy " instead.
The word bronze is borrowed from, itself borrowed from ( compare Medieval ), whose origin is unclear.
Though bronze is generally harder than wrought iron, with Vickers hardness of 60 – 258 vs. 30 – 80, the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age ; this happened because iron was easier to find and easier to process.
The population migrations around 1200 – 1100 BC reduced the shipping of tin around the Mediterranean ( and from Great Britain ), limiting supplies and raising prices. Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, Spring and Autumn Period ( 476BC-221BC ) As ironworking improved, iron became cheaper ; and as cultures advanced from wrought iron to forged iron, they learned how to make steel, which is stronger than bronze and holds a sharper edge longer.
There are many different bronze alloys but modern bronze is typically 88 % copper and 12 % tin.
Historical " bronzes " are highly variable in composition, as most metalworkers probably used whatever scrap was on hand ; the metal of the 12th century English Gloucester Candlestick is bronze containing a mixture of copper, zinc, tin, lead, nickel, iron, antimony, arsenic with an unusually large amount of silver – between 22. 5 % in the base and 5. 76 % in the pan below the candle.
The Benin Bronzes are really brass, and the Romanesque Baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège is described as both bronze and brass.
Bismuth bronze is a bronze alloy with a composition of 52 % copper, 30 % nickel, 12 % zinc, 5 % lead, 1 % bismuth.
Typically bronze only oxidizes superficially ; once a copper oxide ( eventually becoming copper carbonate ) layer is formed, the underlying metal is protected from further corrosion.
is and doors
My other nugget of art and architectural knowledge -- besides remembering that it was Ghiberti who designed the doors of the baptistery in Florence -- is the three styles of Greek columns.
The suburban branch is thereby credited with a sale which would have been made even if its glass doors had never opened.
It is particularly suitable for those who need to work or exercise out of doors for their health.
It is the business of cosmologists, the scientists who study the nature and structure of the universe, to try to solve the great cosmic mysteries by using keys that have clicked open other doors.
This is a building with circular tower and doors facing the cardinal directions.
Thus if the instrument depends on the pressure or suction effect alone, and this pressure or suction is measured against the air pressure in an ordinary room, in which the doors and windows are carefully closed and a newspaper is then burnt up the chimney, an effect may be produced equal to a wind of 10 mi / h ( 16 km / h ); and the opening of a window in rough weather, or the opening of a door, may entirely alter the registration.
Spring bronze weatherstripping comes in rolls of thin sheets and is nailed or stapled to wood windows and doors.
Another common aspect of the festival in early 20th century Ireland was the hanging of May Boughs on the doors and windows of houses and the making of May Bushes in farmyards, which usually consisted either of a branch of rowan / caorthann ( mountain ash ) or more commonly whitethorn / sceach geal ( hawthorn ) which is in bloom at the time and is commonly called the ' May Bush ' or just ' May ' in both Ireland and Britain.
As a result of being outed, the school no longer hides the fact that it is a school for mutants and it opens its doors for more mutant ( and even human ) students to come in.
The Gaiety specialises in musical and operatic productions, and is popular for opening its doors after the evening theatre production to host a variety of live music, dancing, and films.
The player is kept on guard by the grunts and growls of monsters, and receives occasional clues to finding secret areas in the form of sounds of hidden doors opening remotely.
It is often used specifically for double French doors in place of a sliding glass door ( also known as Patio doors ).
Wood is the most common material, and doors may also be metal or glass.
A swing doors has special hinges that allow it to open either outwards or inwards, and is usually sprung to keep it closed.
It is basically a double-leaved door with large glass panels in each door leaf, and in which the doors can swing both out as well as in.
It is often useful to have doors which slide along tracks, often for space or aesthetic considerations.
This type of door is also often seen as a mark of prestige and glamour for a building and it not unusual for neighbouring buildings to install their own revolving doors when a rival building gets one.
Such doors are popular in public transit stations, as it has a large capacity, and when the door is opened, traffic passing in both directions keeps the door open.
* Mullions-Smaller optional vertical boards that run between two rails, and split the door into two or more columns of panels, the term is used sometimes for verticals in doors, but more often ( UK and Australia ) it refers to verticals in windows.
It is especially important to get the hand and swing right on exterior doors, as the transom is usually sloped and sealed to resist water entry, and to properly drain.
In the Hauran in Syria, where timber is scarce the doors were made in stone, and one measuring by is in the British Museum ; the band on the meeting stile shows that it was one of the leaves of a double door.
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