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The Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England. The structure was designed by John Nash in 1827 as the state entrance to the cour d'honneur of Buckingham Palace ; it stood near the site of what is today the three-bayed, central projection of the palace containing the well-known balcony. [ 1 ]
The Mound was situated next to Marble Arch The hill was located in the north-east corner of Hyde Park, close to Marble Arch, at the western end of London's Oxford Street . The 25-metre (82 ft) high hill [ 2 ] was built from scaffolding covered with sedum turf and a number of trees, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] with 130 steps up [ 5 ] (or a lift) [ 6 ] to a ...
The volcano was registered with the United States Geographic Names Information System in 1979. [1] West Crater and the rest of the Marble Mountain-Trout Creek Hill field can be accessed by roads in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. Washington Route 503 and Forest Service Route 90 lie 31 miles ...
Model of John Nash's original design for Marble Arch, featuring the statue of George IV on top of the arch. Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey originally designed the statue to stand on top of Marble Arch in its original position as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, [2] following architecture work by John Nash.
Volcanic rocks (often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts) are rocks formed from lava erupted from a volcano. Like all rock types, the concept of volcanic rock is artificial, and in nature volcanic rocks grade into hypabyssal and metamorphic rocks and constitute an important element of some sediments and sedimentary rocks. For these ...
The Arch of Septimius Severus (Italian: Arco di Settimio Severo) at the northwestern end of the Roman Forum is a white marble triumphal arch dedicated in 203 AD to commemorate the Parthian victories of Emperor Septimius Severus and his two sons, Caracalla and Geta, in the two campaigns against the Parthians of 194-195 and 197–199.
A marble sculpture bought for $6 and used as a doorstep could be about to make a fortune. The bust, made by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon, could make over $3 million at auction after a local ...
Marble Arch tube station, an underground train station in London, UK; Marble Arch (Libya), a now-demolished landmark on the Coastal Highway in Libya; Marble Arch, a natural limestone arch located in the Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark, in Northern Ireland; Marble Arch Caves, a cave system in Northern Ireland