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The logo of the tour shows a smiling gherkin on a bicycle. At the annual Spreewald-Marathon , which is held in the disciplines of running, bicycling, hiking, canoeing, and skating, the competition is started with, " Auf die Gurke, fertig, los" (On the gherkin, steady, go!) instead of " Auf die Plätze, fertig, los" (ready, steady, go!).
A pickled cucumber – commonly known as a pickle in the United States and Canada and a gherkin (/ ˈ ɡ ɜːr k ɪ n / GUR-kin) in Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand – is a usually small or miniature cucumber that has been pickled in a brine, vinegar, or other solution and left to ferment.
Cucumis anguria, commonly known as maroon cucumber, [3] West Indian gherkin, [4] maxixe, [5] burr gherkin, [6] cackrey, [7] and West Indian gourd, [3] is a vine that is indigenous to Africa, but has become naturalized in the New World, and is cultivated in many places. [2]
30 St Mary Axe, London - known to locals as the Swiss Re Tower or The Gherkin. I took this photo last weekend of the Swiss Re Tower in the City of London. It is a high quality panoramic (four segment vertical) image illustrating both the tower and the contrast of the the very modern architecture of the tower to the more traditional buildings in London.
The style was typified by square or round-headed windows and doors, flat ceilings, colonnades, pilasters, pediments and domes. Classical architecture in England tended to be relatively plain and simple in comparison with the contemporaneous Baroque architecture of the continent, being influenced above all by the Palladian style of Italy.
East Front of the U.S. Capitol showing Rogers's Columbus Doors (center, at top of stairs), after 1871 installation. Rogers, an expatriate American artist trained and living in Italy, was a Neoclassical sculptor noted for his carved works in marble. He visited the United States in 1855, and was awarded the commission for the doors.
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