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2 unusual facts about Wrought


Wrought

Wrought iron, iron with a very low carbon content that has been wrought (hammered) by hand.

Metalworking, the process of working with metals to create individual parts, assemblies, or large-scale structures.


Abgar V

The story was later elaborated further by the church historian Evagrius, Bishop of Edessa (c. 536-600), who declared for the first time (as far as is known) that the image of Jesus was "divinely wrought," and "not made by human hands."

Between Hitler and Stalin

In a chronological manner, Nowytski's film unfolds during the years of Soviet-Nazi collaboration recounting the losses and suffering of the Ukrainian people; the documentary shifts to the destruction wrought by Joseph Stalin's scorched earth policy as the Soviet Union military retreated, and shows the ruins left behind by the German and then the Soviet offensives.

Briedern

In 1595, Briedern was attacked by Anton Langhaar (“Anthony Longhair”), who wrought his evil deeds from his home base in Kastellaun in the Hunsrück.

Candoro Marble Works

The building's facade features a hand-carved cartouche and floral motif and a wrought-iron door crafted by Philadelphia master blacksmith Samuel Yellin (1885–1940).

Collins, Mississippi

Duryea, Pennsylvania, which had experienced similar flooding as the result of Hurricane Agnes in 1972, sought a town similar in size and demographics to "adopt" and help rebuild after the devastation wrought by the largest natural disaster in the history of the town.

Contrition

At times this repentance includes exterior acts of satisfaction (Psalms 6:7 sqq.); it always implies a recognition of wrong done to God, a detestation of the evil wrought, and a desire to turn from evil and do good.

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.

Foreign relations of Singapore

In December 2004, during the disaster wrought by the massive tsunami that hit Indonesia, the Singapore Armed Forces dispatched three Endurance class landing platform dock ships - RSS Endurance, RSS Persistence and RSS Endeavour off the coast of Meulaboh, one of the worst hit areas where all road access was cut off.

Grace Dieu Priory

Paul Devereux refers to the Grace Dieu phenomenon in his 1982 book, "Earth Lights: Towards and Explanation of the UFO Enigma", and sets out his theory that such manifestations are a rare but naturally occurring phenomenon, wrought by unusual electromagnetic fields associated with fault areas which interfere with the normal cycles of the atmosphere.

Green Party of Ontario candidates, 1990 Ontario provincial election

A Globe and Mail article described the device as a "rainbow-coloured jungle gym of discarded wrought iron welded into an outlandish Dr. Seuss-like contraption topped by a colossal wire umbrella and powered by a unicycle", adding that "one rider pedals while a grab bag of musicians (the Subtonic Monks) ride, playing improvisational rhythms".

Hikueru

The 1903 cyclone wrought considerable damage, however, and caused the death of 377 people, including 261 from the island of Hao.

History of responsa in Judaism

Responsa have been inspired or necessitated by economic growth, social movements, and advances in technology, which wrought sweeping changes in the lives and living conditions of the Jews in different countries, as well as within Judaic streams; e.g., those of Reform Judaism and Zionism.

James Rattee

In the choir of Ely Cathedral he carried out the designs of George Gilbert Scott, and the oak screen, stalls, organ-case, and restored tomb of Bishop William de Luda or Louth (d. 1298) were exquisitely wrought.

Kalyanee Mam

However, Kalyanee Mam is best known for directing and producing award-winning documentary A River Changes Course, which explores the damage rapid development has wrought in her native Cambodia on both a human and environmental level.

Korgau

Through Korgau ran the old postal road from Düben to Pretzsch, which unfortunately also brought marauding troops during the Thirty Years' War who wrought much destruction.

Kuchuk Hanem

Louise Colet, a one-time mistress of Flaubert, is said to have sought out the aging dancer on a trip to Egypt at the time of the opening of the Suez Canal, in order to report back to Flaubert the ravages that time had wrought on the woman he so admired.

Muzzle-loading rifle

The widely adopted solution, invented in 1863 by William Palliser, consisted of enlarging the bore to accept a wrought iron tube (called the A tube) into which the rifling had been cut.

Palace of St. Michael and St. George

A wrought-iron aerial staircase is also to be found, closed to garden visitors, descending to the sea from the gardens, and formerly used by the Greek Royal Family as a shortcut to the baths.

Palacio de los Capitanes Generales

Much of the material used in the construction was imported to ensure it was of the finest quality: the bricks from Málaga, wrought-iron grilles from Bilbao and marble from Genoa, but the building work was carried out by slaves and progressed so slowly that the new governor (the sixth since de Fondesviela), Luis de las Casas y Aragorri, was not able to occupy the building until 1791, and work was not completed until 1792.

Phi Kappa National Fraternity

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was concentrated on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (where all but one of the remaining Phi Kappa chapters were located).

Schedel Arboretum and Gardens

the Schedels had acquired many lovely possessions which they wished to display, such as Persian carpets, a world-class Jade collection, hand-wrought teak furniture, prayer rugs, Japanese silk embroidery, and a thousand-year-old Bronze sculpture.

Supernatural

We say also that wicked men are still in the state of nature, but the regenerate in a state of grace; that cures wrought by medicines are natural operations; but the miraculous ones wrought by Christ and his apostles were supernatural.

The Apthorp

Over-lifesize limestone sculptures representing the Four Seasons stand above the central barrel-vaulted entrance, where the elaborate wrought-iron gates in the manner of Samuel Yellin feature a pair of gazelle heads.

The Latham Diaries

In it Latham frequently refers to his belief that in the 10 years between the ALP losing office in 1996 and publication of the Diaries, Labor failed to respond to major changes in Australian society, wrought by globalisation and the policies of the Keating and Howard governments.

University of Arizona Poetry Center

The Fieries and Snuffies wrought-iron legend displayed over the door refers to the creative process.

Waseda El Dorado

The curving wrought-iron balconies take the form of lily pads, and the wrought-iron banister gracefully zigzags past elegant Art Deco stained-glass windows.

Whitehall Apartments

It features wrought iron balconies, blue decorative tile featuring scenes of Christopher Columbus, and red tile roof caps.

Wrought Iron Bridge Company

The Wrought Iron Bridge Company was a bridge fabrication and construction company based in Canton, Ohio, United States.


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