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Ombra della sera (Italian for "Shadow of the evening") is an Etruscan statue from the town of Velathri, later Volterra. It was first depicted in a 1737 collection of Etruscan antiquities. [ 1 ] Similarities to the work of modern artist Alberto Giacometti have been frequently observed.
Plimmer Towers is a high-rise office, hotel and car park complex in central Wellington, New Zealand, named after John Plimmer, active in business and politics during Wellington's early years. [1] The office building is 84m high and has 31 storeys. [2] It was the tallest building in New Zealand until Auckland's Quay Tower opened in 1981. [3]
Beef Wellington, whole. Beef Wellington is a baked steak dish of English origin, made out of fillet steak and duxelles wrapped in shortcrust pastry.Some recipes include wrapping the contents in prosciutto, or dry-cured ham, which helps retain moisture while preventing the pastry from becoming soggy; use of puff pastry [1]; and/or coating the beef in mustard.
The film's plot concerns several vampires who live together in a flat in Wellington. [4] What We Do in the Shadows premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014. [5] [6] It was released theatrically on 18 August 2014 by Madman Entertainment and received critical acclaim. The film earned $6.9 million on a $1.6 million budget.
Spitfire Mark IIa believed to be the 14th aircraft built at Castle Bromwich. British shadow factories were the outcome of the Shadow Scheme, a plan devised in 1935 and developed by the British government in the buildup to World War II to try to meet the urgent need for more aircraft using technology transfer from the motor industry to implement additional manufacturing capacity.
In the 1990s, the catering service was opened to all parliamentary staff as well as MPs. Since 2018, a restaurant called Bellamy's by Logan Brown is located on the third floor of the Beehive, with table reservations now available to all members of the public. [11] [12] Other facilities include a members' only dining room and Pickwick's Bar. [13]
Philip V of Bourbon, king of Spain and king of the Indies, ordered in 1718 the attack on Sicily to reconquer it. On July 1, 1718, the Spaniards landed in Sicily, near Solunto (in the gulf of the same name, which later became the Gulf of Termini Imerese), landing 30,000 men-at-arms, [11] [12] whose orders were to take Sicily by force from the Savoyards and bring the Sicilians back under the ...
The Wellington Cable Car (Māori: Te Waka Taura o Pōneke) is a funicular railway in Wellington, New Zealand, between Lambton Quay, the main shopping street, and Kelburn, a suburb in the hills commanding views overlooking the central city and Wellington Harbour, rising 120 m (394 ft) over a length of 609 m (1,998 ft).