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unusual facts about 1964 artist-authorized replica of ''Fountain



Augusta Mall

The space frame ceiling is a replica of The Mall in Columbia, Tampa Bay Center and Hulen Mall while the center fountain and elevator was taken from Beachwood Place, which opened the same month as Augusta.

Bad Wiessee

Bad Wiessee is known for its healing sulfur-fountain, discovered by the Dutch oil explorer Adriaan Stoop.

Baroli Temples

Set around a natural fountain, they are positioned in two zones in the midst of a forest containing peepal, kadamba, mango, and jamun trees.

Beausire

Jean Beausire (1651–1743), French architect, engineer and fountain-maker

Black Hawk County Soldiers Memorial Hall

The park includes a fountain, a pool, and a miniature Statue of Liberty.

Blotter

Blotting paper, used to absorb ink or oil from writing materials, particularly when quill or fountain pens were popular

Brian: Portrait of a Dog

Another reference comes after Brian is freed, he drinks from a drinking fountain in a defiant manner, a reference to the 1974 television movie, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

Cárcamo de Dolores

The Cárcamo de Dolores (Sump of Dolores) is a hydraulic structure located on the Second Section of Chapultepec Park, in Mexico City, comprising the building designed by architect Ricardo Rivas, inside the originally underwater mural Agua, el origen de la vida (Water, source of life) of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, the art installation Cámara Lambdoma by Ariel Guzik, and in outside, the Tlaloc Fountain, also of Rivera.

Central Operatic Society

Former members who have gone on to develop successful careers in the performing arts world include Peter Wedd (opera), Jonathon Penton (musical theatre), Kevin Fountain (vocal coaching and performance) and Kelli Young who was a founder member of the pop group Liberty X.

Châlus

T. E. Lawrence, who would later be known as Lawrence of Arabia, celebrated his 20th birthday at the former Grand Hôtel du Midi, Place de la Fountain, on August 16, 1908, whilst tracing the route of Richard I of England, on a cycling tour of France in preparation for his thesis: The Influence of the crusades on the European military architecture at the end of the XIIth century.

Château de Courances

His also is the fountain of Aréthuse, formerly surmounted by a marble nymph that had been sculpted in 1711 by Claude Poirier for Marly.

Chris While

In December 2001 Chris and Julie joined forces with Chris Leslie and David Hughes to form the Christmas project St Agnes Fountain, which combined original music, unique arrangements of classic seasonal songs, with a good deal of humour.

Dixie Walesbilt Hotel

The interior of the building is even more ornate than the exterior, featuring shopping arcades, Italian-made ceilings and column capitals, drinking fountain by Ernest A. Batchelder, marble floors by Georgia Marble Company of Georgia Pink and Vermont Verde Antique marble a wrought iron ballistrude and a central mezzanine, etc.

Egrikapili Mehmed Rasim Efendi

One of his most famous works consist of copying over 60 manuscripts of the Kuran and the inscriptions on the fountain of Saliha Sultan at Azap Kapi in Constantinople.

Ellen Cheney Johnson

Ellen Johnson left money to the city of Boston to build the Johnson Memorial Fountain (later renamed Westland Gate) in memory of her husband, Jesse Johnson.

ETA Foods Factory

Integral to the design was an internal landscaped garden courtyard with a rock pool and fountain designed by John Stevens, and a sculpture commissioned by the company from Teisutis (Joe) Zikaras consists of two cast concrete sections of similar curving forms, placed one above the other in a delicate sense of balance on a basalt boulder at the base, and set in a circular concrete basin filled with water and edged with basalt boulders.

Fisherman's Village

Live Music: Free concerts are held in fountain square, near the lighthouse, both weekend afternoons throughout the year, weather permitting.

Fontaine de l'Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés

In the middle of the 19th century, the construction of Boulevard Saint-Germain by Baron Haussmann required the destruction of the site where the fountain was located.

Fontaine Saint-Michel

The fountain was different from most other Paris fountains because it used different colors of stone; columns of red marble from Languedoc; green marble; blue stone from Soignies; yellow stone from Saint-Yllie; and bronze statues.

Fountain Inn, South Carolina

Fountain Inn is the home town of Travelle Wharton who is an American football player who currently plays offensive lineman.

Fountain of Qasim Pasha

The fountain was built by Qasim Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Jerusalem in 1527 during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, making the first public structure to be built on the Haram al-Sharif/ Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Ottomans.

Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park

Author Charlie Carlson claims to have spoken with a supposed St. Augustine-based secret society claiming to be the protectors of the Fountain of Youth, which has granted them extraordinary longevity.

Francisco Narváez

Francisco José Narváez (4 October 1905, Porlamar, - 13 July 1982, Caracas) was a Venezuelan sculptor who is perhaps best-known for "Las Toninas", a sculptural group that decorates the fountain of the Plaza O'Leary in Caracas.

Fresca

American President Lyndon B. Johnson had a soda fountain containing Fresca installed in the Oval Office.

Great Fountain, Enville

The Great Fountain, Enville, was a fountain created in the mid-19th century by the Earl of Stamford in the middle of a lake on his estate, Enville Hall, in Enville, Staffordshire, England.

Guissona

The archeological site includes the water supply of the actual Medieval enclosure, the wells of the public fountain, a number of headstones (e.g., the gravestone of Servilla Praepusa (2nd-3rd century AD), a sculpture of a Roman horseman, and the Necropolis located in the area of Cal Mines.

Harold Leighton Weller

Formal Conducting studies and mentors include Orien Dalley, and A. Clyde Roller (Interlochen); Robert Fountain, and David Robertson (Oberlin); Haig Yaghjian (Cincinnati Conservatory) and Richard Lert (1964, 1965, 1967; American Symphony Orchestra League; Conductor Institute).

Houghton Hall

Danish artist Jeppe Hein created a "Water Flame" sculpture/fountain for this garden.

Hydrochronometer

In 1873, the Water clock was in Rome and was placed in Villa Borghese gardens into a fountain realized by the architect Gioacchino Ersoch.

James Grashow

He is the subject of a 2012 documentary entitled Cardboard Bernini, describing the creation, exhibition, anticipated decay, and ultimate destruction of an enormous cardboard fountain, inspired by the Trevi Fountain in Rome and the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Josephine Shaw Lowell

The Fountain Terrace in Bryant Park, which is behind the New York Public Library, is dedicated to her.

Margie's Candies

Some of its trademark features are its multiple original Tiffany lamps, a marble soda fountain, and old-fashioned booths with miniature jukeboxes.

McKeldin Mall

A sundial, honoring Dutch astronomer Uco van Wijk (who founded the university's astronomy program) sits in the center of the mall, at the edge of the ODK fountain.

North Shore, Staten Island

Frederick Douglass spoke at the Fountain Hotel; Anna Leonowens of "The King and I" fame, owned a school at the corner of Richmond Terrace and Tompkins Court; Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, railway tycoon and patriarch of the Vanderbilt family, was born in the area in 1797.

Nunda, New York

According to town folklore, Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant once ate lunch at the now-closed soda fountain on State Street.

Orto botanico di Padova

A statue of Theophrastus was built beside the south door, as well as a statue of Solomon, (signed by Antonio Bonazza), local point for the east door and the four seasons fountain, which was enriched with 18th-century portraits made of Carrara marble.

Parliament House, Singapore

The main entrance from North Bridge Road is preceded by a grand ceremonial driveway flanked by palm trees, an iconic tree peculiar to the tropical region and complemented by fountain pools.

Peace Fountain

The Peace Fountain is a 1985 sculpture and fountain located next to the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in the Morningside Heights section of New York City by Greg Wyatt, sculptor-in-residence at the Cathedral.

Péruwelz

In the past named "Magrite fountain", "des Quatre-Cailloux fountain", and "des cailloux gris posés de chant fountain" until it was named "Du Maréchal fountain" in 1887 after its restoration.

Pierre Pinoncelli

Pierre Pinoncelli (born 15 April 1929, Saint-Étienne, Loire, France) is a performance artist most famous for damaging two of the eight copies of Fountain by Marcel Duchamp with a hammer, as a statement that the work had lost its provocative value.

Plaza de Cibeles

The fountain of Cibeles has been adopted by the football club Real Madrid, whose fans use the area to celebrate its triumphs in competitions such as La Liga, the Champions League or the Copa del Rey.

Readymades of Marcel Duchamp

The board of the 1917 the Society of Independent Artists exhibit, of which Duchamp was a director, after much debate about whether Fountain was or was not art, hid the piece from view during the show.

The Fountain of Age

The Fountain of Age is a book written by Betty Friedan, who also wrote The Feminine Mystique.

The Wolf and the Crane

A political lesson can also be drawn from some mediaeval sculptures of the fable, most notably on the Great Fountain in Perugia executed in 1278 by Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni.

Timeline of heat engine technology

1665 - Edward Somerset, the Second Marquess of Worcester builds a working steam fountain.

Tuddenham St Martin

The village contains "The Fountain" restaurant as well as the church of St Martin in which lies the final resting place of artist Carl Giles and his wife Joan.

Westmorland Street Bridge

Another pier (second from the south side shore) became the location of a fountain, called the "Silver Spire of Inspiration", constructed in 2001 to honour New Brunswick athletes who participated in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, including Fredericton swimmer Marianne Limpert.

William H. Block Co.

Restaurants located within the Illinois Street store included the Fountain Luncheonette, the Terrace Tea Room, the Men’s Grille, and the James Whitcomb Riley Room.

Wisconsin Highway 39

Entering Mineral Point on Fountain Street, it passes the entrance to the Iowa County Fairgrounds to Dodge Street, where it heads north with Business Route US 151 around the downtown area.

Witley Court

The largest, the Perseus and Andromeda Fountain, has been restored to working order by English Heritage.


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