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] The name "marble", used for the little toy balls, comes from this region and era, and refers to such balls being made of marble. [5] At this point, marbles were made in mills and quarries by polishing small fragments of real stone like marble, agate, alabaster, limestone, and even brass. It is unknown where marbles were first manufactured. [6]
One important innovation of the style is the use of drapery as an expression of motion, or to suggest the body beneath; in archaic and early classical sculpture, clothing fell over the body as if it were a curtain obscuring the form below, in these sculptures there is the billowing chlamydes of the horsemen and the multi-pleated peploi of the ...
The Princess of Soubise playing solitaire, 1697. Peg Solitaire, Solo Noble, Solo Goli, Marble Solitaire or simply Solitaire is a board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes.
Wahoo is a cross and circle board game similar to Parchisi that involves moving a set number of marbles around the board, trying to get them into the safety zone. The game is alleged to have originated in the Appalachian hills, but it is nearly identical to Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht, a German board game originating in 1907.
The Nike of Samothrace is made of Parian marble (c. 220 –190 BC) Statue of Antinous (Delphi), polychrome Parian marble, made during the reign of Hadrian (r. 117–138 AD)
A marble gun is a type of an improvised caseless firearm or zip gun that shoots marbles, through gas pressure from the ignition of denatured alcohol. They are mainly used to shoot birds or for home defense use.
The term "Rube Goldberg" was being used in print to describe elaborate contraptions by 1928, [2] and appeared in the Random House Dictionary of the English Language in 1966 meaning "having a fantastically complicated improvised appearance", or "deviously complex and impractical". [3]
For months after a mass shooter killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, this past October, a group of sheriff’s deputies, whose headquarters were located nearly 30 miles away from the massacre ...