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unusual facts about Quadrangle



Andrew Dokett

The foundation-stone was laid for the Queen by Sir John Wenlock, her chamberlain, on 15 April 1448, and the quadrangle was approaching completion when the outbreak of the Wars of the Roses put a temporary stop to the undertaking.

Aureum

Aureum Chaos, a rough, collapsed region in the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle of Mars

Blue Boar Quadrangle

The quadrangle has been described as "One of the best buildings of its kind during the expansion of higher education" by Lord McIntosh of Haringey, Minister for Culture, Media and Sport.

Chicago Pile-1

A Henry Moore sculpture, Nuclear Energy, stands in a small quadrangle just outside the Library, to commemorate the nuclear experiment.

Copertino Castle

Copertino therefore incorporates an Angevin keep, being later enlarged to a quadrangle plan with a tapered rampart at each of the four corners.

Digital line graph

DLGs are distributed at three different scales: large-scale, which normally correspond to the USGS 7.5- by 7.5-minute, 1:24,000 and 1:25,000-scale topographic quadrangle map series, 1:63,360-scale for Alaska and 1:30,000-scale for Puerto Rico; intermediate scale, which are derived from the USGS 30- by 60-minute, 1:100,000-scale map series; and small-scale, which are derived from the USGS 1:2,000,000-scale sectional maps of the National Atlas of the United States.

John Chessell Buckler

In 1823 he published Observations on the Original Architecture of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, which was hostile towards changes in the quadrangle of Magdalen College.

KMNR

Some MSM students, including Roger Beckman, fabricated a makeshift radio station in the dormitories which was unofficially called KMFA, these letters standing for the original four buildings in the Quadrangle residential complex: Kelly, McAnerney, Farrar, and Altman Hall (although it was also known by something else – Kool MF Association).

Laura Place, Bath

Laura Place Bathwick, Bath, Somerset, England, consists of four blocks of houses around an irregular quadrangle at the end of Pulteney Bridge.

Marine Conservation Society South East Group

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 20:15 for 20:30, in the basement of the East Building at the Imperial College Union,Biet Quadrangle, Prince Consort Rd, London, SW7 Imperial College London, which is near South Kensington tube station and several bus routes.

Marischal College

The building was substantially extended between 1893 and 1905 by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, and with its new "granite cage" front, enclosing the quadrangle, it became the second-largest granite building in the world (exceeded only by the Escorial Palace near Madrid).

Pi Herculis

As one of the four stars in the Keystone asterism (see yellow quadrangle) is one of the more easily recognized in the constellation.

Royal Veterinary College

The original building was a quadrangle in a neoclassical style, and there was a paddock on the opposite side of Royal College Street, but this was later sold for housing development.

St Paul's College, University of Sydney

Usually held in the quadrangle, recent themes have included School of Rock (2007- including a guest performance by Austrian glam-metal band Gerspunken), Neon Mirage (2005 – Las Vegas) and Circus Royale (2004).

Store Kannikestræde

After the Reformation, University of Copenhagen took over the Roskilde bishops' premises north of the church side of the church (now known as the University Quadrangle).

UIUC Engineering Hall

It is located in the south end of the Bardeen Quadrangle on Green Street in Urbana, Illinois, facing the Illini Union.

Wesley Posvar

In 2000 Pitt's Forbes Quadrangle building, on the site of the former Forbes Field, was renamed Wesley W. Posvar Hall in his honor.

William D. Hoard

In honor of Hoard's service to the dairy industry, a statue of Hoard by Gutzon Borglum was erected in 1922 at the head of Henry Mall of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, which was the original quadrangle of the university's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.


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