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Alabaster is a dark fantasy and science fiction collection by American writer Caitlin R. Kiernan. It consists of five stories concerning the misadventures of Dancy Flammarion, the albino girl and monster hunter who first appeared in Kiernan's 2001 novel, Threshold. The tales follow Dancy from her childhood in the backwoods and swamps of the ...
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Alabaster (surname), an English surname. Alabaster Box (disambiguation) Alabaster Stone, a character of oral tradition, also found in The Cragmont Chronicles. Inquisitor alabaster, a sea snail species. Lake Alabaster.
Nottingham alabaster. Resurrection of Christ, panel from an altarpiece set, 1450–90, with remains of the paint. Fifteenth-century altarpiece set, with contemporary frame and well-preserved paint. Nottingham alabaster is a term used to refer to the English sculpture industry, mostly of relatively small religious carvings, which flourished from ...
His son, also called Chaloner Grenville Alabaster became Attorney General in Hong Kong from 1930 to 1945. His son went by the first name Grenville. Chaloner Alabaster's elder brother, Henry Alabaster, also entered the consular service, serving as acting consul in Siam before leaving his position to act as an advisor to King Chulalongkorn.
The Alabaster Historic District is a 400-acre mining complex in Iosco County, Michigan, centered on an open pit gypsum mine. It is bounded by on the east by Lake Huron, on the north by Gypsum Road, on the south by Keystone Road, and on the west by Rempert Road, south of Tawas City, the county seat. This historic district, where mining started ...
Poreklo besede alabaster izhaja iz latinskega alabaster in iz grškega ἀλάβαστρος ( alabastros) ali ἀλάβαστος ( alabastos ). Grške besede so bile uporabljene za identifikacijo vaz iz alabastra [5] . To ime je mogoče izpeljati iz stare egipčanske besede a-labaste, ki se nanaša na posode egiptovske boginje Bastet.
