Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: The Mall


Related Topics

  
  National Mall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Mall refers specifically to the land stretching from the grounds of the Washington Monument to the United States Capitol directly to the east.
However, the term commonly includes the areas that are officially part of West Potomac Park and Constitution Gardens to the west, and often is taken to refer to the entire area between the Lincoln Memorial and the Capitol, with the Washington Monument providing a division slightly west of the center.
The National Mall is accessible via Washington Metro, with the Smithsonian station located on the south side of the mall, near the Washington Monument.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Mall_(Washington,_DC)   (841 words)

  
 The Mall (London) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mall (pronounced 'mal', not 'maul') in London is the road running from Buckingham Palace at its western end to Admiralty Arch and on to Trafalgar Square at its eastern end.
Running off The Mall at the eastern end is Horse Guards Parade, where the ceremony of the Trooping of the Colour occurs.
The Mall was created as a ceremonial route in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, matching the creation of similar ceremonial routes in other cities, such as Washington DC, St.Petersburg, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Mall_(London)   (300 words)

  
 Mall - Encyclopedia Dramatica
In the never-ending quest to come up with the new and novel for the MTV watchers, mall stores often raid subcultures on the margins of pop culture for fashion for the normals.
Grunge listeners spent hours scouring thrift stores for flannel shirts and dirty jeans, for example, but when "Teen Spirit" hit the airwaves every kid in middle America had the perfect grunge uniform at their local Hot Topic for half the inconvenience and ten times the cost.
Older clubbing goths even use the term "mall goth" as a perjorative, as though those tired old batcavers had some claim to really being vampires.
encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Mall   (176 words)

  
 The National Mall
The Mall is located in the area encompassed by Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues, NW on the north, First Street on the east, Independence and Maryland Avenues on the south, and 14th Street on the west.
The Mall was to be the foremost avenue of the city, the so-called "Grand Avenue." It was to run west from the Capitol to a point directly south of the President's House where its terminus would be crowned by an equestrian statue of George Washington.
The core of the Mall was to be a broad grass carpet, typical of those in Europe, 300' in breath and running the entire length of the Mall grounds, bordered on each side by four rows of American elm trees.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/wash/dc70.htm   (1216 words)

  
 gladwell dot com - the terrazzo jungle
At the far end of the mall is Neiman Marcus, and Taubman wandered in, exclaimed over a tray of men's ties, and delicately examined the stitching in the women's evening gowns in the designer department.
This is the insight that drove the enthusiasm for the mall fifty years ago—that by putting everything under one roof, the retailer and the developer gained, for the first time, complete control over their environment.
Gruen thought of the mall as the centerpiece of a carefully planned new downtown because he felt that that was the only way malls would ever get built: you planned because you had to plan.
gladwell.com /2004/2004_03_15_a_malls.html   (4962 words)

  
 TeacherSource . Math . Math at the Mall | PBS
Malls and shopping areas are places where students can engage in a wide variety of mathematics.
Malls have lots of different types of shops, so you can approach this question in a number of ways.
Another way to look at what makes up the mall is to consider the area that each of the different categories account for in the mall.
www.pbs.org /teachersource/mathline/concepts/neighborhoodmath/activity1.shtm   (489 words)

  
 Save the Mall
Idealism and moral purpose already are represented on the Mall's cross-axis, in the lofty temples that enshrine Lincoln and Jefferson and the open green expanses that symbolize freedom.
In Washington one such example near the Rainbow Pool on the Mall is the Memorial to the District of Columbia's war dead from WWI, which serves both as memorial and as a bandstand.
In conclusion, the Mall and what it represents in American public life and national identity is at stake and yet a lack of attention, oversight, and serious involvement of the public, historians, and people knowledgeable about World War II has characterized the process to date.
www.savethemall.org /chron/memories.html   (3971 words)

  
 THE MALL - Historical Sign
The elaborate flower display at the southern end of the Mall, known as the Olmsted Bed, was created in 1972 to memorialize the 150th anniversary of Olmsted’s birth.
The lower end of the Mall is known informally as Literary Walk or Poets’ Walk, as four of the five statues memorialize poets and writers: William Shakespeare (1870), Robert Burns (ca.
Since the Mall was one of the first areas of the Park to be constructed, the landscape architects were eager to plant large trees in order to provide visitors with a broad canopy of shade as soon as possible.
www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=254   (600 words)

  
 The Mall, Washington, D.C.
The Mall, Washington, D.C. The story of the Mall is the development of a particular space at the symbolic and economic center of the nation's capital.
However, the first large-scale federal development of the Mall, modelled after Andrew Jackson Downing's plan in 1851, bore little resemblance to L'Enfant's plan and can be read as a response to the twin crises of slavery and secession, and to growing anxiety over urbanization.
The naturalistic, picturesque gardens planted on the Mall in the latter half of the nineteenth century were meant to affirm the refinement of slaveholding society and to offer a pastoral retreat from the "wilderness of bricks."
xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/MALL/home1.html   (356 words)

  
 The Mall and Literary Walk
The Mall and Bethesda Terrace are the main formal elements in Olmsted and Vaux's design for Central Park.
They felt that the Mall must be secondary to the natural view — in this case the Lake and the Ramble.
The southern end of the Mall is often referred to as "Literary Walk." Fearing that increasing requests to install sculpture throughout the Park would change its naturalistic character, Commissioners proposed in 1873 that the Mall be the designated location for sculpture.
www.centralparknyc.org /virtualpark/southend/themall   (598 words)

  
 Welcome to Pyramid Mall Ithaca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The NYS Police and the Tompkins County Sheriff's Department have an adjunct office at the mall.
Both agencies can be seen frequently in the mall promoting their public safety educational information.
Non-profit organizations are invited to host their events and fundraising efforts at the mall.
www.pyramidithaca.com   (217 words)

  
 Pall Mall - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Pall Mall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Pall Mall was the first London street lit by gas, in 1807.
Former inhabitants of Pall Mall include the actor (and mistress of Charles II) Nell Gwyn, the 1st Duke of Marlborough, the historian Edward Gibbon, and the painter Thomas Gainsborough.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Pall+Mall   (287 words)

  
 Mall Galleries - the home of the Federation of British Artists
The Mall Galleries is one of the few London venues to show the work of well-established British artists alongside that of up-and-coming students and young unknown painters.
Opened in 1971 by Her Majesty The Queen, the Galleries are run by the Federation of British Artists, which works to educate, inspire and involve the public in the appreciation and practice of the fine arts.
However, non-members are encouraged to submit work to the annual exhibitions held at the Mall Galleries.
www.mallgalleries.org.uk   (238 words)

  
 National Mall - Hall of Shame | Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
And the Mall itself is sorely lacking in basic amenities, such as benches or other places to sit, that would encourage tourists, government workers, and residents to spend time in a place that ought to be enjoyed as a national treasure.
So while millions of people see the Mall each year, it is experienced mostly as a space to move through in between destinations, without a strong civic identity of its own.
The Mall has evolved from its early beaux-arts beginnings to its current simplistic, yet refined form according to the needs, and desires of the City which surrounds it and the Country which it symbolizes, let's not be so quick to judge it's value by it's spartan appearance.
www.pps.org /gps/one?public_place_id=757   (736 words)

  
 National Air and Space Museum National Mall Building
The National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. has hundreds of original, historic artifacts on display, including the Wright 1903 Flyer; the Spirit of St. Louis; the Apollo 11 command module Columbia; and a Lunar rock sample that visitors can touch.
The story of America's effort to land a human on the Moon is told in Apollo to the Moon, where the original space suites worn by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon are on display.
Begin planning your visit to the Museum on the National Mall, or learn about the National Air and Space Museum’s two other sites by selecting from the menu on the left.
www.nasm.si.edu /museum/flagship.cfm   (696 words)

  
 The Mess on the Mall
To be an American family in such a situation--on your first trip to the national mall, where (your textbooks taught you) those monuments of creamy marble rest among vast squares of green, set nobly along America's grandest promenade--is to be primed for indignities, one after another.
The mall's present scheme, in outline, is the work of a commission impaneled in 1900 and chaired by Senator James McMillan of Michigan.
The streets in the mall, for example, are under authority of the District of Columbia.
www.hnn.us /articles/14261.html   (5216 words)

  
 "call of the mall"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
As he wends through a day at the mall, Underhill assesses everything from the frenetic parking lot and the dismal public bathrooms to the calculated juxtaposition of stores and the effective (and ineffective) use of space.
Malls may be most popular with teenage girls, but they are not the most-valued consumers.
Underhill knows the strengths of the mall, but he also knows its weaknesses, and he offers a trenchant analysis of our changing consumer patterns and the way in which the mall is missing big opportunities and not always keeping up.
www.envirosell.com /publications/call.html   (945 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Rumors of War (Mall-o-Ween)
On 9/10, she received a letter from her boyfriend explaining that he wished he could tell her why he had left and that he was sorry it had to be like that.
Given my daughter is usually at their house on a Wednesday afternoon, right near the mall, am thinking of where else to go.
The case against this rumor about terrorist attacks on malls is a fairly solid one — the theme is both well known in the realm of folklore, and terrorists do not tip plans to outsiders.
www.snopes.com /rumors/mallrisk.htm   (1459 words)

  
 The Zombie Farm
Mason explained to Romero how the gigantic mall was honey combed with passages and, jokingly said he felt it possible to hide out, even to live in, if ever there were an emergency.
It was in these vacant faces and the immured mall that he saw a connection with his zombies and farmhouse in Night of the Living Dead.
Like all malls, time means change and over the years many of the stores seen in the film have long since closed or been remodeled.
www2.gol.com /users/noman/mall01.htm   (1223 words)

  
 Grumble - The Mall of America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
After all, this is the event that mall walkers around the world train for: three floors of grueling half-mile circuits, embraced by neon on both sides.
Visiting the Mall of America is the quintessential mall experience, created by a two-fold effort: The Mall's creators have clearly striven to build the ideal shopping space, and in turn, each individual store has endeavored to become an archetype, an ambassador to the United Nations of Retail.
The Mall beckons its visitors with an evocative portrayal of the human condition: who we are, what we look like, and all the things that we shovel into our mouths.
www.grumblemagazine.com /articles/mahk/mall.html   (525 words)

  
 National Mall & Memorial Parks (National Park Service)
The sprawling lands of the National Mall & Memorial Parks include the Mall, the public promenade extending from 3rd Street near the Capitol to 14th Street.
The National Mall is the continuation of that space where congressionally authorized park icons, such as the Washington Monument, WWII and Lincoln Memorials stand.
In addition to the memorial core, the park includes some 156 reservations, circles, fountains and other open spaces, all of which serve as the nation’s front yard.
www.nps.gov /nama   (151 words)

  
 National Coalition to Save Our Mall
Learn about the National Mall Third Century Initiative, a project of the Coalition, and some exciting ideas for enhancing and expanding the Mall for its Third Century.
Tell Congress that the National Mall is America’s symbol of democracy and freedom.
The National Coalition to Save Our Mall is a national, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt education and research organization working to preserve the National Mall as the Monument to Democracy it is intended to be.
www.savethemall.org   (882 words)

  
 Simon Malls | More Choices — Mall of Georgia Information, Mall of Georgia Gift Cards
Mall of Georgia is located on Buford Drive, GA S.R. 20, between I-85 (at Exit 115, S.R. 20 West) and I-985 (at Exit 4) in the Mill Creek district of Gwinnett County, Georgia, 30 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta.
If you have a group interested in touring Mall of Georgia or would like Mall of Georgia directories, please send an e-mail to noncale@simon.com.
Once we receive your information, a representative with Mall of Georgia will be calling you to confirm your tour group's arrival.
www.simon.com /mall/default.aspx?ID=208   (207 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
@ALBUM: THE MALL adapted from The Wall, by Roger Waters of Pink Floyd® all lyrics by Brian Schwartz of Think Void, unless noted otherwise, ©1995, Brian Schwartz original idea for 'Another Chick in the Mall'-Brian Schwartz original idea for album, 'The Mall'-Joel Finkelstein Dominic Mambue contributed to the plot development.
Just government acts but I would still like to go The mall's the place to be se-en That we must smoke is not suprisin' Inside there are not any ashtrays If I smoke, outside is where I'm stayin'.
The mall's the place to be se-en That we must smoke is not suprisin'.
ucsub.colorado.edu /~schwartb/writing/humor/song_parodies/The_Mall.txt   (2276 words)

  
 Welcome to The Mall @ The Mall at Cribbs Causeway
Since The Mall opened eight years ago, smokers have been permitted to smoke in one of the cafes and in part of the Food Court.
The exhibition at The Mall on Saturday 1st to Tuesday 4th April 2006 presents the work of four European photographers, Mark Power, Laurent Monlaü, Isabel Muñoz and Peter Bialobrzeski, commissioned by Airbus to capture the progress of the A380 programme from early developments in 2003 through to the first flight in April 2005.
The Mall is the first shopping centre in the country to be awarded this safety certificate.
www.mallcribbs.com   (940 words)

  
 The Mall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Part of Pierre L'Enfant's plan for this grand city was a "vast esplanade" at its center, linking the Capitol and the Potomac River.
But by the 1860's the Mall was crisscrossed by railroad tracks, a cattle depot was erected near the base of the uncompleted Washington Monument, and the stench of the Washington Canal's sewage hung over it all.
In the early 1900s the McMillan Commission made recommendations to Congress that would help make the Mall the noble green-sward L'Enfant had envisioned.
sc94.ameslab.gov /TOUR/mallall.html   (137 words)

  
 Shopping at Brazos Mall in Lake Jackson, Texas, TX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Brazos Mall is indeed your lifestyle headquarters, with a variety of stores to fulfill your every shopping need.
Brazoria County, on the southern fringe of the Houston metropolitan area, is home to Brazos Mall.
Brazos Mall is located in Lake Jackson, Texas, at the intersection of Highway 332 and FM 2004.
www.brazosmall.com   (62 words)

  
 The Mall at Robinson
You can redeem Gift Cards at more than 100 Mall at Robinson stores, and many of the shops and restaurants at Station Square.
The Mall is currently looking for guys and girls for the 2006-2007 term.
Interested candidates should submit their resume for consideration to: The Mall At Robinson, Trendsetter Board, 100 Robinson Centre Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15205.
www.shoprobinsonmall.com   (230 words)

  
 The Mall
They proceeded forward slowly, trying to fit the enormous size of the mall into their own sense of perspective.
But the clerk was pleasant and efficient enough, and within moments they had exchanged their heavy bags for a set of claim tags.
It seemed to be slightly older than the one they had left, for the floor tiles were starting to crack and the grouting between them was a dirty gray.
www.wpcusrgrp.org /~blowe/themall.html   (10473 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.