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3 unusual facts about Grand Staircase


Acristavus

The Wahweap Formation is part of the Grand Staircase region, an immense sequence of sedimentary rock layers that stretch south from Bryce Canyon National Park through Zion National Park and into the Grand Canyon.

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

The Monument stretches from the towns of Big Water, Glendale and Kanab, Utah on the southwest, to the towns of Escalante and Boulder on the northeast.

Lythronax

The holotype specimen UMNH VP 20200 was recovered in the UMNH VP 1501 locality of the Wahweap Formation at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM), in Kane County, southern Utah.



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County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union

Since 1981, the Holy Name Society of Pittsburgh had placed a crèche on the grand staircase of the Allegheny County Courthouse.

Daniel Maclise

By the grand staircase of Halifax Town Hall, which was completed in 1863, there is a wall painting by Maclise.

Francesco Sleter

At Stowe House he worked with the architect William Kent for Viscount Cobham and was active in both the house and several of the temples in the gardens during the 1730s & 1740s, including the ceiling and the now destroyed murals of the Grand Staircase the ceiling of the State Dining Room, the Temple of Venus, The Temple of Friendship, the Imperial Closet and The Queen's Temple none of the work in the garden survives apart from The Chinese House.

Grand Staircase of the RMS Titanic

The main staircase of the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick, England has banisters from the Olympic's Grand Staircase, which is presumed to have been identical to the Titanic's.

Isidore Pils

Among his other work, Pils painted part of the ceiling of the grand staircase of the Palais Garnier, in four panels titled "The Gods of Olympus", "Apollo in His Chariot", "Triumph of Harmony", and "Apotheosis of the Opera", completed the year of his death.

La Rochefoucauld, Charente

Galleries and a grand staircase, the latter attributed to designs by Leonardo da Vinci, were added in 1520.

Niederkirchnerstraße

The mini-series "Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil" further depicts SS headquarters as a grand hotel in a courtyard plaza, with the interior shown as a large lobby with a grand staircase leading up to Heinrich Himmler's office.

Olympic-class ocean liner

The First Class Lounge and part of the Aft Grand Staircase, can be found in the White Swan Hotel, in Alnwick, Northumberland, England.

Pierre-Victor Galland

Galland was responsible for the ceiling of the grand staircase at Dartmouth House in Mayfair, London, England.

Pszczyna Castle

When ascending the Grand Staircase, designed by Alexandre Destailleur, the apartments of Princess Mary Theresa Olivia Cornwallis-West von Pless are reached.

The Blood Compact

The Blood Compact is currently displayed in Malacañan Palace, the official residence of the President, located at the top of the Grand Staircase leading towards the Ceremonial Hall.