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Bell Tower
A bell tower is a tower that contains or is designed to contain one or more bells. Bell tower may also refer to: Architecture and towers Styles *Bell tower (wat), in Thai architecture *Bell tower (Chinese Buddhism), in Han Chinese Buddhist temple design Individual structures * Bell Tower (Edmonton), an office tower in Edmonton, Canada * Bell tower (Königsberg), Germany * Bell Tower (Pennsylvania Railroad), Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, US * Bell Tower (University of Portland), Oregon, US * Bell Tower of Xi'an, a Zhonglou (Bell Tower) in Xi'an, China * Gulou and Zhonglou (Beijing), a Zhonglou (Bell Tower) in Beijing, China *Ivan the Great Bell Tower in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia *Swan Bells, a campanile in Perth, Western Australia * Bell Tower, also known as Kissing Couple, in Colorado, US Fiction *''The Bell-Tower'', one of Herman Melville's ''Piazza Tales'' Film and TV *''Jonggak'' (The Bell Tower, subtitled Missing another Dawn), Korean film with Heo Jang-kang *''The Bell Tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell Tower
A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell towers, often part of a municipal building, an educational establishment, or a tower built specifically to house a carillon. Church bell towers often incorporate clocks, and secular towers usually do, as a public service. The term campanile (, also , ), deriving from the Italian ''campanile'', which in turn derives from ''campana'', meaning "bell", is synonymous with ''bell tower''; though in English usage campanile tends to be used to refer to a free standing bell tower. A bell tower may also in some traditions be called a belfry, though this term may also refer specifically to the substructure that houses the bells and the ringers rather than the complete tower. The tallest free-standing bell tower in the world, high, is the Mortegliano B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kissing Couple
Kissing Couple is a 5,815-foot-elevation (1,772-meter) sandstone pillar located in Colorado National Monument, in Mesa County of western Colorado, United States. This iconic 400-foot-high tower is situated on the west side of Monument Canyon, 1.5 mile southeast of the monument's visitor center, and west of the community of Grand Junction. It is also a half-mile south-southeast of another popular climbing destination, Independence Monument, and both can be seen from viewpoints along Rim Rock Drive. It is so named because it resembles an embracing couple. This geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1982 by the United States Board on Geographic Names. Older USGS maps have the feature's name misplaced by about one-half mile to the southeast. The first ascent of the summit was made May 4, 1960, by Layton Kor, Harvey Carter, and John Auld via the five pitch, route named ''Long Dong Wall''. The first free ascent was made in 1977 by Andy Petefish, Tom Stubbs, and J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell Tower (band)
Bell Tower was a four-piece alternative rock/garage rock band from Calgary, Alberta, active from 2009 to 2017. Biography The band started in early 2009, with drummer Ross Watson and vocalist/guitarist Thomas Englund jamming in Englund's basement. They met bassist Jordan Ackerman and guitarist Mike Hudec, started playing together and, four months later, won the Battle Royale at MRU's Liberty Lounge. They were offered their first show at the legendary Marquee Room by Battle Royale judge and musician Lorrie Matheson. Also thanks to the connection with Matheson, Bell Tower made their first Sled Island appearance in 2009, and exposure through the Battle Royale competition earned them an opening slot with Hot Hot Heat Hot Hot Heat is a Canadian indie rock band from Victoria, British Columbia, formed in 1999. The band was signed by Seattle label Sub Pop in 2001 and released its first EP, ''Knock Knock Knock'', and first full-length album, '' Make Up the Break ... in early 2010. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bell Tower
''The Bell Tower'' is a chamber opera in one act by Ernst Krenek, his Op. 153. The English libretto by the composer was inspired by the short story by Herman Melville (collected in '' The Piazza Tales''), the events only mysteriously hinted at in the story becoming a point of departure for the explicit dramatic action of Krenek's piece.author's forward in ''Prosa Dramen Verse'' (1965) It was commissioned by the Fromm Foundation and written in 1955–56, receiving its premiere on 17 March 1957 at the University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ... (recorded on CRS 5). Roles Orchestra: 1.1.1.0-0.1.1.0-perc-pft-str (offstage: 2tpt, trmb, sn-dr.) References Notes Sources * Stewart, John L., ''Ernst Krenek: The Man and His Music''. University of Californi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi (2007 TV Series)
''Heidi'' is a computer animated children's television series, based indirectly on the 1881 novel ''Heidi'' by Johanna Spyri. The original 2007 television series was a Swiss-French-Italian-Australian co-production in 27 episodes of 26 minutes. A "remake" (rather than a re-telling) of Heidi, Girl of the Alps, much of the story is the same; the titular character is a then-five-year-old girl, who's taken to her grandfather on the Swiss Alps by her aunt, Dete to live with him and while the girl ends up improving his life, she also befriends Peter, the goatherd of the village Dorfli below and the one who causes her to find a big passion of hers, goats and other animals in general. But in this version, there is also a trio, Karl, Theresa, and William, who usually try to do something that would downgrade Peter, whom they often refer to as a mountain goat, in some way or another. But in the first winter up there, a letter is eventually gotten and what results from there will end up cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Intrigue
''Foreign Intrigue'' (also known as ''Foreign Assignment'') is a syndicated espionage drama television series produced in Europe by Sheldon Reynolds. The 30-minute series ran for four seasons from 1951 to 1955, producing 156 episodes. It was the first filmed television series from the United States to be broadcast on Canadian television. The program originally starred Jerome Thor for the first two seasons; in later reruns these episodes were titled ''Dateline Europe''. Thor was succeeded by James Daly for the duration of the third season; in reruns, the Daly episodes were retitled ''Overseas Adventure''. The fourth and final season starred Gerald Mohr as Christopher Storm; when these episodes were rerun they were renamed ''Cross Current''. Premise ''Foreign Intrigue'' focused on activities of foreign correspondents for news services. Initially, the correspondents were Robert Cannon (Jerome Thor) and Helen Davis (Sydna Scott) for Consolidated News and Steve Godfrey (Bernard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heo Jang-kang
Heo Jang-gang (May 9, 1925 – September 21, 1975) was a South Korean actor, one of the representative actors in the 1960s and 1970s. He mainly took supporting roles such as villains or comical characters. He died of a heart attack after playing football in 1975. His sons Heo Gi-ho and Heo Joon-ho also became actors. Filmography *Note; the whole list is referenced. Awards and nominations *1966 the 4th Blue Dragon Film Awards : Best Supporting Actor for A Hero without Serial Number (Gunbeon-eobsneun Yongsa) *1972 the 8th Baeksang Arts Awards : Best Actor for Bun-Rye's story (Bunlyegi) *1974 the 13th Grand Bell Awards : Best Supporting Actor for A flowery bier(Kkochsang-yeo) *1975 the 14th Grand Bell Awards : Special Achievement Award See also * List of South Korean male actors * Cinema of Korea The term "Cinema of Korea" (or "Korean cinema") encompasses the motion picture industries of North and South Korea. As with all aspects of Korean life during the past century, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piazza Tales
''The Piazza Tales'' is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in '' Putnam's Monthly'' between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what have long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, " Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", and " The Encantadas", his sketches of the Galápagos Islands. ('' Billy Budd'', arguably his greatest piece of short fiction, would remain unpublished in his lifetime.) Melville had originally intended to entitle the volume ''Benito Cereno and Other Sketches'', but settled on the definitive title after he had written the introductory story. The book received largely favorable reviews, with reviewers especially praising "The Encantadas" but did not sell well enough to get Melville out of his fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bell-Tower
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swan Bells
The Swan Bells are a set of 18 bells hanging in a specially built copper and glass campanile in Perth, Western Australia. The tower is commonly known as The Bell Tower or the Swan Bell Tower. Taking their name from the Swan River, which their tower overlooks, and forming a sixteen-bell peal with two extra chromatic notes, they are the second largest set of change ringing bells in the world, the largest being Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, which has nineteen bells. Twelve of the set are historic bells from St Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square in London; six others, cast in recent times by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, round off the set. The St Martin-in-the-Fields bells were donated to the State of Western Australia as part of the 1988 Australian bicentenary celebrations; the additional bells were cast with a subsequent donation of metals mined in Western Australia. The six newer bells include five that were presented to the University of Western Australia, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell Tower (wat)
Bell tower ( th, หอระฆัง; ) is one category of the Thai architectural structure in a wat for signaling the monks to do their praying ceremony. Type of structure * Wood * Masonry * Reinforced Concrete * Composite Shape * Square * Hexagonal * Octagonal * Circle Roof styles * Gable with Thai classical ornament * Mondop * Tetrahedron * Pavilion Crown * Thai Crown * Chedi (bell-shaped) * Prang Prang may refer to: Places * Prang, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a town of Charsadda District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan * Prang Besar, an old name for Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia * Prang Ghar Tehsil or Pran Ghar Subdivision, a subdivis ... * Thai castle superstructure ornament * Western, Chinese or other architectural style * Combination Buddhism’s meaning, symbol and philosophy * Wake up, attained the Truth and feeling of Peacefulness. External links Thai ArchitectureBuddhist Art: Architecture Pt.1Wat Phra Kaew’s Bell Tower References * Karl Döhring, ''Bud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan The Great Bell Tower
The Ivan the Great Bell Tower (russian: Колокольня Иван Великий, ''Kolokol'nya Ivan Velikiy'') is a church tower inside the Moscow Kremlin complex. With a total height of , it is the tallest tower and structure of the Kremlin. It was built in 1508 on Cathedral Square for the three Russian Orthodox cathedrals, namely the Assumption (closest to the tower), the Archangel and the Annunciation, which do not have their own belfries. It serves as a part of Moscow Kremlin Museums. History From 1329, Moscow's first stone bell tower stood on this site, affiliated with the Church of St. Ivan of the Ladder-under-the Bell, hence the name "Ivan" in the title. This church was erected by Grand Duke Ivan Kalita, and was one of the first to be built in Moscow out of stone, rather than wood. During Grand Duke Ivan III’s major renovation of the Kremlin, he hired an Italian architect to replace this church. Construction was begun in 1505, the year of Ivan’s death, and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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