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Creekside won the 2007 National Showcase Award from the Council of Development Finance Agencies recognizing the national best Tax increment financing program. Finalists included the City of Gahanna, City of Kansas City, City of San Antonio and Washington, D.C. [6] Creekside is currently host to the Glenna Goodacre sculpture “Basket Dance.”
The boar, named Rillette, was found in 2023 as a piglet by Elodie Cappé on her horse-breeding farm in Chaource, central France. Local authorities had refused Ms Cappé the permission required to ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds a 16th-century combination weapon in its armaments collection. The weapon is an 89 3/4 inch boar spear with two wheellock pistol barrels fused to both flat sides of the spear's head; the intent of this design was to provide the wielder with the extra stopping power of two .41 caliber musket balls that could be fired at targets out of the reach of the spear.
Pietro Tacca's bronze Porcellino (Museo Bardini). Il Porcellino (Italian "piglet") is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar.The fountain figure was sculpted and cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca (1577–1640) shortly before 1634, [1] following a marble Italian copy of a Hellenistic marble original, at the time in the Grand Ducal collections and today on display in ...
In a viral TikTok, best friends Ashley Zessin Shelley and Darcy Gashweiller left a framed photo of themselves as farmers at Cracker Barrel as a hilarious prank.
Thompson/Center's success came with the emergence of long range handgun hunting, target shooting, and, especially, metallic silhouette shooting. [7] Their break-action, single-shot design brought rifle-like accuracy and power in a handgun, which was a new concept at the time.
Watney's Red Barrel was a bitter which sold highly in the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s. [9] It was introduced in 1931 as an export keg beer that could travel for long distances by being made stable through filtering and pasteurising, as such it was the first keg beer. [9] It was reformulated and relaunched as "Watney's Red" in 1971 ...
The Boar's Head Theatre was an inn-yard theatre in the Whitechapel area of London from 1598 to around 1616.. It was based in the yard of the Boar's Head Inn.During its lifetime as a playhouse, it was home to the Earl of Derby's Men (summer 1599 – summer 1601, summer 1602 – March 1603), the Earl of Worcester's Men (summer 1601 – summer 1602, April 1604–1605 or 1606), and Prince Charles ...