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Powers Ferry Road. The Powers Ferry (originally spelled Power's Ferry) was another route northwest from Atlanta, upstream from Pace's Ferry. It is named for James Power (1790–1870), a plantation owner, who established this Chattahoochee River ferry in 1835, before Atlanta was founded. [15] The ferry remained in service for nearly 70 years ...
Belomorite is a spectacular, inexpensive and popular ornamental stone; it is used in jewelry as one of the varieties of “moonstone”. It is typically cut into cabochons , often double-sided, convex in both directions, thus enhancing its brilliance, unlike, say, similar labradorite , which is often cut into flat plates cut parallel to the ...
Dr. Karla Sofen (also known as Moonstone, Meteorite, and Ms. Marvel) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.She first appeared in Captain America #192 (December 1975), created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Frank Robbins.
Team boats served New York City for "about ten years, from 1814-1824. They were of eight horse-power and crossed the rivers in from twelve to twenty minutes." [10]In 1812, two steam boats designed by Robert Fulton were placed in use in New York, for the Paulus Hook Ferry from the foot of Cortlandt Street, and on the Hoboken Ferry from the foot of Barclay Street.
The world’s first hydrogen-powered commercial passenger ferry will start operating on San Francisco Bay as part of plans to phase out diesel-powered vessels and reduce planet-warming carbon ...
The Infinity Stones are fictional items in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise, based on the Infinity Gems of the Marvel Comics.As expounded across several interwoven MCU multimedia titles, the six Infinity Stones are reputed to embody and control essential aspects of existence—Space, Mind, Reality, Power, Time, and Soul—thereby making them critical artifacts in the MCU and ...
The Jewelpet of Positiveness (Dream Fulfillment in the first series), Peridot is a yellow and green Papillon who wears a green hairclip shaped like a butterfly, and a yellow and green flower garland around her neck. Debuting in episode 12 of the first series, Peridot is the Gajin of all the residents of Jewel Land.
Moonstone cabochon. The most common moonstone is of the orthoclase feldspar mineral adularia, named for an early mining site near Mt. Adular in Switzerland, now the town of St. Gotthard. [1] [better source needed] A solid solution of the plagioclase feldspar oligoclase +/− the potassium feldspar orthoclase also produces moonstone specimens.