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2 unusual facts about Brick


Eco-Brick

Eco-brick, a plastic bottle stuffed with plastic refuse used as in-wall construction fill as advocated by environmental activist Susana Heisse

Kuthalur

The entire building was made of Brick, Chunnammu Chanthu ( Lime Mortar), Kadukkai ( Palmira Seed Mortar) and with the mixture of Egg White.


Abraham L. Brick

Brick was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-Sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1899, until his death in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 7, 1908.

Acme Brick

In 1993, Troy Aikman, Hall of Fame quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys football team, became an Acme Brick spokesperson - initially in radio and print advertising, and later on television.

Adamston

Adamston, New Jersey, an unincorporated community within Brick Township

Bandholm

Built of red brick in the Romanesque Revival style, it consists of a chancel, a nave and a tower with a conical spire.

Battle of Selinus

By pelting the attacking enemy with tiles, brick and other objects, these impromptu peltasts could take a heavy toll during urban fighting (the most famous casualty of such amateur troops was the great Pyrrhus, brought down by a woman bashing his head with a tile).

Bloody Point Range Lights

Two small brick buildings with the sign for the Silver Dew Winery were described by Pat Conroy in his autobiographical book the Water is Wide.

Brick Kiln

Brick Kiln is a settlement in the east of the island of Nevis in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Brick Presbyterian Church

Cove Presbyterian Church, Wytheville, Virginia, also known as Cove Brick Church

Brill railway station

In 1885 the Duke of Buckingham opened a modern brickworks near Brill station, with a dedicated siding, and in 1895 his heir William Temple-Gore-Langton, 4th Earl Temple of Stowe, expanded the brickworks, which became the Brill Brick & Tile Works, using the Brill Tramway to deliver bricks to the mainline at Quainton Road.

Brunswick brickworks

In 1887 the company had ordered Bradley & Craven automatic brick presses, which were fabricated by Langlands foundry and a year later purchased another at the centennial exhibition.

Cogenhoe

Brand new equipment was used including a standard gauge steam locomotive made by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. which was kept in a brick engine shed on the side of the Hill, just west of Whiston village.

Cruwys Morchard

This, however, was struck by lightning in 1689, and the consequent major fire, which melted the bells, necessitated the rebuilding of the top stage of the tower in brick.

Edward H. Hobson

Hobson's Federal style brick home in Greensburg (built by his father in 1823) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Eladio Dieste

A particular innovation was his Gaussian vault, a thin-shell structure for roofs in single-thickness brick, that derives its stiffness and strength from a double curvature catenary arch form that resists buckling failure.

Embassy of Belgium, New Delhi

The ubiquitous red brick construction of the building has been compared to early architectural forms prevalent in Mohenjo-daro and the buddhist architecture in Sanchi and Nalanda.

Emporium, Pennsylvania

Early in the twentieth century, there were large powder plants and manufacturers of radio tubes and incandescent lamps (Sylvania Electric Products), paving brick, flour, iron, lumber, sole leather, etc.

Engineer's Office of the Former Pumping Station

It is proposed that the Red Brick Building will revitalize in conjunction with the Yau Ma Tei Theatre as a Xiqu (戲曲) Activity Centre, providing a performing and practicing venue for small-scale Cantonese Opera performance.

Full Frequency

Boasting a blend of dancehall, hip hop and pop styles, the album features guest appearances from Damian Marley, Iggy Azalea, Nyla Of Brick & Lace, Konshens, Nicki Minaj, 2 Chainz, Juicy J and writing from MNDR.

Galia Solomonoff

Her notable projects include Dia:Beacon; the Defective Brick Project; multiple residential projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn; and competition proposals for institutional projects around the world.

Gospel Oak EP

The cover photograph of the album shows the two brick skew arch bridges adjacent to Gospel Oak railway station in north London, UK.

Halsbrücker Esse

With a height of 140m it was the highest smokestack in the world at its completion and it remains the tallest brick building in Europe (the Anaconda Smelter Stack in Montana is higher) and is a technical and industrial historical monument.

Hornsey Town Hall

The brick-based Town Hall for Hilversum in Holland by Willem Dudok (1928–30) was considered significant enough to earn him a RIBA Gold Medal in 1935.

Hunsdon House

It was originally constructed of brick in 1447 by Sir William Oldhall in the shape of a tower, but as Oldhall supported the House of York during the Wars of the Roses, he was stripped of the property by the Lancastrian Henry VI.

Islamic Society of North America Elementary School

The facelift added a cream-yellow insulation to the brick building and archways to the design, embodying Islamic architecture - resembling the design of its high school branch.

Jet DVD

There are eight videos (presented in chronological order of single release,) around which there are short scenes of Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura goofing off while traveling through space in a space shuttle with two telephones, a TV set, a sofa, a record player, and a brick wall lining the cabin.

Katima Mulilo

The regional office, the only brick-and-mortar building at Katima Mulilo at this time when the area consisted exclusively of pristine forests, was built under a giant Baobab situated near today's SWAPO Party regional offices.

Longstock Park

The nursery is set in and around a brick and flint walled garden, and is home to the NCCPG National Collections of Buddleja and Clematis viticella, and the Gilchrist Collection of Penstemons.

Mayfield Cottage

It was built about 1750, and is a 1 1/2-story brick Colonial era mansion.

Mulji Jagmal Sawaria

In 1935, Rai Sahib Moolji Jagmal laid a private 8 miles long narrow gauge rail line and bridge connecting their Bilaspur railway site with their brick-kiln across Arpa River at Lingiyadih.

In 1935, Rai Sahib Moolji Jagmal Savaria and Ranchhod Jagmal laid a private 1.9 miles long narrow gauge rail line connecting their Bilaspur railway site with their brick-kiln across Arpa River to Lingiyadih.

Notre Dame Leprechaun

The first, named Brick Top Shuan-Rhu, was donated by Charles Otis of Cleveland and presented to football head coach Knute Rockne the weekend of the Notre Dame-Pennsylvania game November 8, 1930.

Panavally

This was being used in many industries, in particular in brick (white) making and in glass industries Southern end is the town Poochakkal, which is a part of this village as well as Thycattuserry village.

Raised-relief map

The Great Polish Map of Scotland is claimed to be the largest terrain relief model, constructed out of brick and concrete in the grounds of a hotel near Peebles, Scotland.

Red brick university

While the University of Liverpool is generally considered to be the original "red brick" university, the University of Birmingham was the first of the civic universities to gain independent university status in 1900 and the University has stated that the popularity of the term "red brick" owes to its own Chancellor's Court, constructed from Accrington red brick.

Richardson Olmsted Complex

The large Medina red sandstone and brick hospital buildings were designed in 1870 in the Kirkbride Plan by architect Henry Hobson Richardson with grounds by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Robert Lipsyte

As a boy, Lipsyte did play Chinese handball against the sides of brick buildings and participated in street games such as stickball, but he felt acute pressure to excel at sports which discouraged his interest.

Rockwood Lodge

Most notably, the brick-hard limestone below the practice fields left the players so battered that Lambeau frequently had to move practices back to City Stadium.

Shanghai Street

It is proposed that the Red Brick Building will revitalise in conjunction with the Yau Ma Tei Theatre as a Xiqu (戲曲) Activity Centre, providing a performing and practising venue for small-scale Cantonese Opera performance.

Sherwood, Oregon

The main industry in the 1890s was a pressed brick yard which closed in 1896, a victim of the deep recession of 1893.

South Raynham

Raynham Hall is a rectangular mansion built of brick and stone dressings.

St Matthew's Church, Guildford

It was a small octagonal mud-brick church, hastily built on land donated by Governor James Stirling on his Woodbridge estate, next to where Guildford Grammar School now stands.

Stoney Royd Cemetery

Stoney Royd House was an early brick-built house built for Christopher Rawson, the third son of John Rawson of Bolton 'a little before 1764.'

Stuart Richardson House

An oasis in the middle of a suburban landscape of Glen Ridge, the house was constructed of red brick, cypress wood, red concrete mat and glass.

Thomas Myres

In 1887, Frederick McDermott praised Myres's work in his "Life of Joseph Firbank" (Firbank was the contractor who built the Lewes to East Grinstead line, among others):Leaving the cold classical style adopted by the first railway engineers and since generally followed, Mr Myres chose the warm colouring and varied form of what has, of late years, been termed the Queen Anne School, and the effects of the bright red brick, wooden beams and casemented windows is very pleasing.

Torksey Castle

Brick at the time, although having been used previously, had rarely been in use in British secular architecture before this period.

Tottenham High Cross

The high cross was constructed of plain brick, in an octagonal, four level design, which was later stuccoed and ornamented in the Gothic style in 1809.

Tungsten carbide

A criticality accident occurred at Los Alamos National Laboratory on 21 August 1945 when Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium sphere, causing the subcritical mass to go supercritical with the reflected neutrons.

Vincenzo de Domini

A Venetian patriot, close to the circles of Kossuth, he will be entrusted together with Gaspare Matcovich and Spiridione Gopcevich (1815 - 1861) with the project to turn the brick Implacable into a Hungarian man of war.

Walden United Methodist Church

The stone belt courses amid the red brick facade and understated polychromy are also more distinctly High Victorian Gothic, showing the influence of John Ruskin's aesthetic theories and the Venetian Gothic.

West Bromwich Town Hall

The Town Hall, situated in the centre of High Street, was built between 1874 and 1875 in brick and stone to an Italian Gothic design of the architects Alexander & Henman of Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough and the building contractors were Trow & Sons of Wednesbury.


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