Gips kommt sowohl massiv, in feinkörniger Form als farbloser, weißer, gelber, roter oder grauer Alabaster vor als auch feinfaserig als Fasergips.Für letzteren ist auch die Bezeichnung Seidenspat bzw., genauer, Alabaster-Seidenspat und gelegentlich die Bezeichnung Atlasspat im Gebrauch. Die Bezeichnung Atlasspat ist allerdings uneinheitlich und wird auch für …

Lage. Die 120 km lange Alabasterküste erstreckt sich von Le Havre an der Mündung der Seine nach Nordosten bis hinter Le Tréport an der Grenze zur Region Picardie.Sie bildet einen Teil der französischen Küste am Ärmelkanal.Markante geografische Punkte sind Kap Fagnet und Kap d’Antifer.. Hauptorte entlang der Alabasterküste sind Le Havre, Fécamp, Dieppe und Le Tréport.

School District Location Schools Students Faculty (FTE) Ratio Per Pupil Spending Alabaster City: Alabaster: 5 6,187 354.38 17:1 $10,334 Albertville City

Canopic jars are containers that were used by the ancient Egyptians during the mummification process, to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife.They were commonly either carved from limestone, or were made of pottery. These jars were used by the ancient Egyptians from the time of the Old Kingdom, until the time of the Late Period or the Ptolemaic …

Barton-under-Needwood is a large village in the East Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England.Situated a mile from the A38, and located between Burton upon Trent and Lichfield.It had a population of 4,225 at the 2011 census. It is also near to …

"America the Beautiful" is a patriotic American song. Its lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey. The two never met. Bates wrote the words as a poem originally entitled "Pikes Peak".It was first published in the Fourth of July 1895 edition of the …

Roman pearl is an alabaster core coated with a pearlescent material. Shell pearl. Cut, buffed, and sometimes dyed nacreous portions of mollusc shells: Variations and alternate names include cat's-eye pearl, coque de perle (from nautilus shells), mother-of-pearl pearl (from mother-of-pearl), and hinge pearl (from the hinge of bivalve shells).

Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, or amaze. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror, which is in the realm of speculative fiction.Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps ...

Nut is a daughter of Shu and Tefnut.Her brother and husband is Geb.She had four children – Osiris, Set, Isis, and Nephthys – to which is added Horus in a Graeco-Egyptian version of the myth of Nut and Geb. She is considered one of the oldest deities among the Egyptian pantheon, with her origin being found on the creation story of Heliopolis.She was originally the goddess of …

Margaret Holland (1385 – 30 December 1439) was a medieval English noblewoman. She was a daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, who was the son of Joan "the Fair Maid of Kent" (granddaughter of Edward I of England, wife of Edward the Black Prince and mother of Richard II of England).Margaret's mother was Alice FitzAlan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of …

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine (née Barbara Villiers, 27 November [O.S. 17 November] 1640 – 9 October 1709), was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of them acknowledged and subsequently ennobled.

Der Begriff Idol (über lateinisch idolum von altgriechisch εἴδωλον eídōlon, eigentlich „Bild, Abbild“, speziell „Trugbild“) wird in Theologie, Religionswissenschaft, Philosophie und Archäologie in vielfältiger Bedeutung gebraucht.. Im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch wird eine Person als „Idol“ im Sinne von Vorbild bezeichnet, der große Bewunderung entgegengebracht wird.

St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Garter.St George's Chapel was founded in the 14th century by King Edward III and extensively enlarged in the late 15th century.