Across the continent in Somaliland, which has proclaimed its independence from Somalia, a downed Somalian MiG fighter jet atop a plinth marks the carpet bombing that flattened Hargeisa, Somaliland's capital, in the civil war between the two.
Pittsburgh's locker room is festooned with children's toys: Ping-Pong and billiards tables, and sometimes a basketball court marked off on the carpet in athletic tape.
The V.I.P. areas are marked by modern chandeliers, carpets shaded in gray, leather couches, Italian-made stainless steel beer towers and a vaulted Champagne bar.
Carpet (if you don't already have one of these, it will make your life much, much easier by preventing your drums from moving, and giving you the ability to mark on the carpet where everything goes), bass drum and kick pedal, throne, snare, mounted toms, floor toms, cymbals.
He marked the spot on the carpet, one inch by one inch, then took two deliberate steps back, then two to the side.
A long stretch of carpet and emptiness marked only by two distant couches that sit like stones in a Japanese rock garden.
The tragedy culminated in the death of Ayesha from a head injury, though she had suffered more than 40 injuries, including a bite mark and carpet burns.
This weekend marked the couple's first red carpet appearance together since beginning their whirlwind romance earlier this year.
The various militias, in a frenzy to mark their territory, carpeted the city with mines.
The 76th Academy Awards were marked by the return of the red carpet, foreshortened last year when the Oscar ceremony coincided with the start of the Iraq war.
