C. firefighter who spent 10 years researching the crash, says Terra Cotta nonetheless changed railroading.
Lovely colors abound: terra cotta, ochre, pink, white and yellow accented by gray, beige, black, green and brown shutters.
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The balustrades of the stairs are of burnished, darker-green terra cotta with Shakespearean heads trapped in newel posts of luxuriant, sinuous art nouveau foliage.
The warm neutral color palette (deep cocoa, creams and terra cotta) and custom-made furniture make the rooms a rich retreat after a day on the slopes.
The trip included visits to the forbidden city and great wall of China in Beijing, the terra cotta warrior museum in Xi An and the Bund and French Concession in Shanghai.
The first room of the exhibit discusses the parallels between the mythic and historical city of Uruk and displays some stunning terra cotta busts and reliefs depicting popular episodes from the epic.
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But the State Department has similar five-year bilateral agreements with eight other countries, restricting importation of objects like pre-Columbian masks from Bolivia, Khmer statues from Cambodia and historic terra cotta sculptures from Mali.
Then I pour the mixture into nicely washed terra-cotta cups that I get directly from the potter.
The postcards showed the facades of churches, stone fountains, crowded piazzas, terra-cotta rooftops mellowed by late afternoon sun.
They have no windows, only small spikes protruding from the smooth, terra-cotta exterior.
"Here is the first person to discover the terra-cotta soldiers, " barks a tour guide to a group of Hong Kong visitors.
Call for Help's set decorations are confined to four dime-store terra-cotta pots and a hat rack holding a paper Burger King crown.
The reemergence of the terra-cotta army became a must-see for international travelers.
The other buildings in the portfolio were rebuilt to their terra-cotta roofs.
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We can measure Benedetto da Maiano's preparatory terra-cotta bust of the tough-minded Florentine banker Filippo Strozzi against the finished marble version (both 1475).
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Excavations showed the clay torsos were part of a legion of life-size terra-cotta soldiers and horses, deployed 22 centuries ago by the eccentric Emperor Qin Shihuang.
The main house is the more elevated structure and consists of an open floor plan with French terra-cotta tile floors, custom wrought iron and cathedral ceilings.
Heavenly froth, tasting a bit of the bamboo, a bit of the terra-cotta, a bit sweet and a bit nutty surely this was the food of angels.
Both buildings have French terra-cotta floor pavers inside and out.
It might not be a 15th-century Renaissance terra-cotta relief, like the della Robbia that did a back-flip off a wall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art a few years ago.
The floors and even the wooden elevator are covered with terra-cotta and ceramic tiles recovered from old Lebanese houses, while the ceilings are all impossibly high, true to Lebanese architectural tradition.
To get to the restaurant, you walk through the garden store, where large terra-cotta pots, lush plants and Astier de Villatte ceramics sit alongside zinc-topped tables and a more recent addition the Bogliones' own olive oil.
Many of the show's terra-cotta heads and smaller statues are of Demeter, the goddess of good harvests, or of her daughter Proserpine, forced to become the queen of the underworld when she was abducted by Hades, its king.
Baseballs are woven throughout the plans, embedded in ironwork along the side of the facade, through terra-cotta balls adorning the top of the stadium, in stitches visible in the tile inlay on the rotunda floor and in its dangling baseball-and-bat chandelier.
Much of the time, though, Clinton and his family were touring, gazing at the fabulous terra-cotta army of Xian, the Great Wall, the neon-lit Shanghai Bund at night, the ethereal karst mountains of Guilin and the towering tangle of Hong Kong's skyscrapers.
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