Sentence examples for surviving slabs from inspiring English sources
The elegant, energetic Parthenon frieze is now split among the British Museum in London, which has more than half of the surviving slabs; the Acropolis Museum in Athens, which has most of the rest; the Louvre in Paris, which has one slab; and five other European museums, which have fragments.
Some kerbs are of granite, limestone and flint, while some high-quality Yorkstone paving slabs survive, along with some red-brick pavements.
Meesh Hytner, a 21-year-old pro snowboarder from Breckenridge, Colo., survived a deep slab avalanche during an unsanctioned backcountry contest Jan . 25near Montezuma, Colo.
Mayan inscriptions are found on stelae (standing stone slabs), stone lintels, sculpture, and pottery, as well as on the few surviving Mayan books, or codices.
The representation of a mosaic mask on a stela (an upright, freestanding stone slab functioning as a commemorative monument) at Seibal, Guatemala (590 ce), established the early use of the technique in Maya territory, but it became best known from the few specimens surviving from the time of the Aztec empire (c. 1376 1519) and from descriptions of others left by the Spanish conquerors.
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How could such elusive qualities survive their translation into static concrete slabs?
Some pavements were laid with blue-brick paving slabs, and a few survive.
The problem of structural progressive collapse has been investigated using a real-scale reinforced concrete flat-slab frame building, which has survived collapse after two of its central columns had been physically destroyed.
The building has survived two major seismic events San Fernando Valley in 1971, and Loma Prieta 1989 only by slab column framing action.
