marble boulder
Thirty three miles north of Mandalay the second largest city of Myanmar, lies the great white marble mountain range called the "Sagyin Range". Sagyin Rock (pusifausmuf) is the Myanmar word for white marble. The marble that can be quarried from this mountain is almost as white as snow and light can pass through it to a certain depth. Since centuries ago marble from this mountain had been extracted and used especially to carve Buddha Images or other marble artifacts. Even to this day hundreds of stone carvers and sculptors in Mandalay and Amarapura are depend on this mountain for their livelihood. Most of the people living in the village called, "Sagyin" village at the base of the mountain also quarry for marble and earn their living as carvers. There are also fourteen villages around the mountain range the names of which all start with the word "Mwe" (arG^a>r) a Myanmar word for "snake".
The first recorded fact about one single unbroken piece of a large marble boulder quarried from this mountain was in AD 1734 during tha reign of "King Ta-nin-ga-nway" (we*FaEGrif;) the King of Ava. It was carved into a sitting Buddha image with the height of 20 feet and 13 feet 6 inches in breadth. It is the first and the third largest white marble Buddha image in Myanmar. Six years after the first extraction of this big piece of white marble boulder another big boulder was discovered again and King Taninganway ordered the best sculptors to carve it into another Buddha image. But while it was under process the King passed away and it was completed only during the reign of his son King Kyar-thar-ba-day (Mumomyaw;rif;). This marble Buddha Image with the height of 29 feet and 19 feet in breadth was recorded as the world largest white marble Buddha image of a single piece.
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:4tN90sOoi50J:www.myanmar.com/ACOCI/CULTURE/2000/sagyin.html+world%27s++largest+single+boulder+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Faelola
Faelola, very good answer, but
my marble is more exotic.
Bumbles
Didn't realize there were two, when I was replying to your post fealola, it was simultaneous with BBB.
fealola, you're the one - next question please!
Okay, I hope this has enough info. for you to start with.
On Tuesday, a group in London revealed the largest one of these things in Great Britain and the widest one in the world beating even the one in the Ginza District in Tokyo.
Although this is a new one, of these things has been at this London location since 1954.
Where is it? And what is it? Who didi it?
the Bluewater shopping center
DARTFORD, England - Nestled inside the cliffs of an abandoned chalk quarry in the Kent countryside southeast of London, the Bluewater shopping center gives only a hint of its vast expanse at first sight.
Shopping Center
Dartfield, England
Lend Lease Corp
http://www.iht.com/IHT/TB/99/tb032399.html
BumbleBeeboogie
I was a little cheeky because the clues were all laid out for me. But hey! That's the way the game goes. Glad fealola got the next q anyway.
No prob. Swimpy. I saw The Pump and passed because I didn't think it was the right answer.
Jespah
Jes, how in the world did you find the billboard? Good show!
BumbleBeeBoogie
Ah, I found it using key words in Google and then just kept refining the search. :-D
Okay, here's one for ya:
Quote:"Wizard imps and sweatsock pimps
Interstellar mongrel nymphs"
Where would you find this couplet?
Who wrote it?
Does this bus stop at 82nd street
http://www.missingtracks.com/greetwild/does_this_bus_stop_at_82nd_street.htm
Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street
Either Springsteen or Boot, depending on which version of the song.
BumbleBeeBoogie
Yep, that's it. That's the version on the CD. The alternative version doesn't have "and" between imps and sweatsock. Wacky.
Your turn!
Blodwyn and Gallumpus Interruptus lemmings
Blodwyn and Gallumpus Interruptus lemmings.
Who are they? Where are they found?
---BumbleBeeBoogie
