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The Hail Maryland, [1] [2] [3] also referred to as Madhouse in Maryland, [4] Miracle in Maryland, [5] or Hail Noah, [6] refers to an American football play that took place at the end of a National Football League (NFL) regular season game between the Chicago Bears and Washington Commanders on October 27, 2024.
Marble (toy) A marble is a small spherical object often made from glass, clay, steel, plastic, or agate. They vary in size, and most commonly are about 13 mm (1⁄2 in) in diameter. These toys can be used for a variety of games called marbles, as well being placed in marble runs or races, or created as a form of art.
The Elgin Marbles (/ ˈɛlɡɪn / EL-ghin) [1] are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, removed from Ottoman Greece and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and now held in the British Museum in London. The majority of the sculptures were ...
The metopes of the Parthenon are the surviving set of what were originally 92 square carved plaques of Pentelic marble originally located above the columns of the Parthenon peristyle on the Acropolis of Athens. If they were made by several artists, the master builder was certainly Phidias. They were carved between 447 or 446 BC. or at the ...
Dobbert. A dobbert or dobert was a large ball bearing about the size of a golf ball used in games of marbles in South Lancashire after the Second World War. For example, in a game called ringy, a circle was drawn on the ground and a fixed number of marbles from each boy were then placed into the ring. From a line drawn on the ground a short ...
Quarried block of pink Tennessee marble. Tennessee marble is a type of crystalline limestone found only in East Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.Long esteemed by architects and builders for its pinkish-gray color and the ease with which it is polished, the stone has been used in the construction of numerous notable buildings and monuments throughout the United States and Canada ...
Euchloe ausonides, the large marble [1] or creamy marblewing, [2] is a species of butterfly that occurs in western North America. [1] It lays eggs on the terminal flower buds of a variety of plants in the mustard family, including introduced Eurasian species, and the larvae feed on the buds, flowers and fruit of these plants. [3]
1932 – The Black Horse from Hookwood, were the first winners of the modern event. [20] [10] 1935 – 6-foot concrete ring used for the first time [10] 1938 - British Marbles Championship renamed as the "British and World Marbles Championship". [13] 1942–1945 – No tournaments took place due to World War II.