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    1. Three proterror demonstrations held last Saturday at the White House in


    2. While Roger Knowles was on his way to Dorchester, Richard Rochell was on his way to All Hallows with John Duffield and John Sprotert


    3. Richard was there as parish accountant, John Duffield as vicar and John Sprotert as a witness


    4. Queens of the African war-like termite (Macrotermes bellicosus) can measure 14 cm (5


    5. It was the street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter


    6. Acroteria have also been omitted


    7. The groups from Delos, attributed on their first discovery to the pediments of the Apollon-temple, have been proved by Furtwängler to have been acroteria (Arch, Zeitung, 1882, p


    8. Another important argument is furnished by the certain use of terracotta plates as acroteria


    9. Pausanias 49 mentions such acroteria on the Stoa Basileios on the agora of Athens


    10. Fortunately a notable example has been preserved in the acroterium of the gable of the Heraion at Olympia, 51 a great disk of clay over seven feet in diameter

    11. That is, the original material of the acroteria was the same used in the whole covering of the roof, namely terracotta


    12. In the great acroterium of the Heraion, for example, the surface was first covered with a dark varnish-like coating on which the drawing was incised down to the original clay


    13. That is originally aeroteria were only vases set up at the apex and on the end of the gable


    14. It covered the cornice of the sides, completely bounded the pedimental space, above and below, and finally crowned the whole structure in the acroteria


    15. Of course his silence does not prove that there were none; but with all the finds of acroteria, terracottas and the like, no trace of any such sculptures was discovered


    16. If then there are reasons for finding the origin of pedimental decoration in a plane or low-relief composition of terracotta, made more effective both by a framing of like material and technic, and by the acroteria at either extremity and above, then the process of development which leads at length to the pediments at Aegina and the Parthenon becomes at once easy and natural


    17. An ever present feature, also, is the palmette acroterium, treated in conventional ceramic style


    18. The acroteria, painted in black and red on the natural surface of poros stone, take the shape of palmettes and lotuses


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