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unusual facts about marbles



Arundel marbles

The Arundel marbles were catalogued as early as 1628, when, at the suggestion of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, John Selden compiled a catalogue: Marmora Arundeliana with the assistance of two others, Patrick Young and Richard James.

Asma Jahangir

On November 5, 2007, The Economist reported that "Over 500 lawyers, opposition politicians and human rights activists have been arrested. They include Asma Jahangir, boss of the country’s human-rights commission and a former UN special rapporteur. In an e-mail from her house arrest, where she has been placed for 90 days, Ms Jahangir regretted that General Musharraf had "lost his marbles".

Butterfinger

Similar to Whoppers and Maltesers, they were roughly the size of marbles and sold in bags as well as advertised by the Simpsons.

Don Allum

British rock band Marillion released an eighteen-minute song called "Ocean Cloud" on its 2004 album Marbles based on Allum's 1987 crossing.

Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester

He exchanged marbles for paintings with Rubens, served as an intermediary for collectors like Lord Somerset, Lord Pembroke, Lord Buckingham and sent Lord Arundel paintings by Daniel Mytens and Gerard van Honthorst.

Dylan Everett

He then played roles in the movies The Devil's Mercy, Booky & the Secret Santa, Everything Is Connected, Breakfast with Scot, For All the Marbles, and made a guest appearance in The Dresden Files as Scott Sharpe.

Edward R. Pressman

Pressman was born in New York City, the son of Lynn and Jack Pressman, known as the "King of Marbles", who founded the Pressman Toy Corporation.

Elgin Marbles

A study by Professor David Rudenstine of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law concluded that the premise that Elgin obtained legal title to the marbles, which he then transferred to the British government, "is certainly not established and may well be false".

History of probability

The Pottery of ancient Greece was evidence to show :that there was a circle drawn on the floor and the astragali were tossed into this circle, much like playing marbles.

Inam Kulathur

The factories of Indian Oil Corporation Bottling Point and Janani Marbles and granites are located in Inam Kulathur.

John Graham Lough

He took lodgings in a first floor in Burleigh Street, above a greengrocer's shop, and there commenced to mould his colossal statue of Milo of Croton based on his studies of the Elgin marbles and the work of Michelangelo.

Newton Marshall

It was there he first met the future sled dogs including Marbles and Jimmy (named after sponsor Jimmy Buffett) and his soon-to-be instructors Rick and Anette Johnson owners of Ah-Regah Kennel & Equipment in Mahtowa, Minnesota.

Noir Belge

It was often used in combination with white marble imported from Carrara but also with local red and grey marbles.

Stealing Athena

The story is told in dual narratives from the points of view of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin, who assisted her husband, British ambassador Lord Elgin, in removing the marbles, and Aspasia, mistress to Pericles, who witnessed the construction of the Parthenon.

The 12th Man Again

The Sri Lankan's are getting smashed in the match, Bill Lawry, an avid Victorian, loses his marbles when Merv Hughes, a fellow Victorian, claims a hat-trick and has to leave the commentary box.

William St Clair

Lord Elgin and the Marbles (London: Oxford University Press, 1967; 3rd Revised Edition, 1998).


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