• the Summer Garden in St Petersburg contains a hundred Venetian marble statues that are 300 years old?
• the Illinois Centennial Monument (pictured) is a marble Doric column built to scale with the columns of the Parthenon?
• the Waterloo Vase is a massive marble urn, 15 feet (4.6 metres) high and weighing 15 tons (13.6 metric tons), which was commissioned by French leader Napoleon but ultimately became an ornament in the British monarch's Buckingham Palace Gardens?
• the small herds of marble cows that can be found in several locations around Texas are the work of Dallas sculptor Harold F. Clayton?
• to turn an old London fruit market into the New Gallery (pictured) in only three months, Edward Robert Robson's builders encased existing cast-iron columns in marble and topped them with gilded Greek capitals?
• the Georgia Marble Company supplied the marble used to build the statue of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial?
• the Frieda and Henry J. Neils House (pictured) is Frank Lloyd Wright's only work with marble walls?
• Singapore's Burmese Buddhist Temple has the largest white marble statue of the Buddha (pictured) outside of Myanmar?
• the 64-pillared 17th century marble monument Chausath Khamba is a tomb for Mirz Aziz Koka?
• the art deco Burbank City Hall (pictured), with murals by Hugo Ballin, uses more than twenty types of marble in its main lobby?
• the statue The Naked Truth, in Compton Hill Reservoir Park, was made of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity?
• Count Orlov's Marble Palace, decorated with 32 shades of Russian marbles, currently houses the largest exhibition of Pop Art in Saint Petersburg?

Facts on topics related to Marble

Sedimentary rock

• Raven Ridge (pictured) displays sedimentary rock from the K–T boundary, a time period when numerous plant and animal species, including dinosaurs, disappeared completely from the fossil record?

Limestone

• 461 Fifth Avenue is a post-modern skyscraper noted for its use of a pre-cast concrete finish to mimic the appearance of limestone?
• Eldon Hill (quarry pictured) in the Peak District, England lost much of its area through limestone quarrying between 1950 and 1999?
• St. Mary's, the first village planned in the Township of Bexley, was never built because the site lay above a bed of limestone?
• St John the Baptist's Church, Papworth St Agnes, Cambridgeshire, is constructed in alternating blocks of limestone and fieldstones, forming a chequerboard pattern?
• University Hall, Northwestern University's oldest building, is composed of Joliet limestone - the same kind used to build the Chicago Water Tower?
• Yana in Karnataka, India, offers treks to two rock outcrops of black crystalline limestone (pictured) that house a cave temple where a "self-manifest" Shiva Linga is venerated?
• authentic Picón Bejes-Tresviso cheese must be matured in traditional limestone caves until covered in Brevibacterium linens, the bacterium responsible for human foot odour?
• every year the Portway trunk road in Bristol is closed to traffic to allow inspection of the limestone cliffs of the Avon Gorge and to allow remedial work on loose rocks to be carried out?
• the limestone quarries near Ein Yabrud in the Judean Mountains have produced the only fossils for the extinct snakes Pachyrhachis and Haasiophis?
• the Spanish-introduced limestone house of the Ivatans was designed to withstand typhoons?

Greece

• German painter Ludwig Thiersch influenced the debate over Byzantine and Western influences in modern Greek art, and painted church frescoes in Greece, Austria, Germany, England, and Russia?
• Greek composer Phivos has written songs for artists including Keti Garbi, Angela Dimitriou, Manto, Thanos Kalliris, and, most successfully, Despina Vandi?
• Greek–Polish singer Eleni Tzoka has been awarded the Saint Rita of Cascia prize for the act of mercy towards the killer of her young daughter?
• Nigeria, which contains what was once the Kingdom of Benin, has repeatedly called for the U.K.'s return of the Benin Bronzes, in a situation similar to Greece's petition for the return of the Elgin Marbles?
• Norwegian chemist Alexis Pappas was born in London to Greek parents who fled from Belgium to England during World War I?
• Russian Hussar Alexander Bulatovich (pictured) was a military aide to Ethiopian ruler Menelek II, a hieromonk in Greece, and leader of a banned religious movement?
• Stylianos Pattakos, a principal of the 21 April 1967 coup in Greece, after his conviction at the Greek junta trials, enjoyed amenities such as a pond with 21 goldfish while imprisoned?
• American statesman John Milledge named Athens, Georgia, the city surrounding the University of Georgia, after Athens, Greece, the city of Plato's Academy?
• Emmanouil Argyropoulos (pictured), the first Greek aviator to fly over his country, was also the first casualty suffered by Greek military aviation one year later during the Balkan Wars?
• Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù‎, founded in 1720, was the first modern opera theatre in Greece?

Athens

• Brigadier Ronnie Tod was awarded the freedom of Athens by Archbishop Damaskinos in 1944?
• American statesman John Milledge named Athens, Georgia, the city surrounding the University of Georgia, after Athens, Greece, the city of Plato's Academy?
• Epimachus of Athens, an ancient Athenian engineer, constructed the Helepolis, which remains the largest siege machine ever built, at over 60 feet in width and 125 feet in height?
• after previously competing at the 2004 games in Athens, Brooklyn-bred Erinn Smart and her brother Keeth are again part of the U. S. Olympic fencing team at Beijing?
• during World War II, the SS-run Haidari concentration camp near Athens was so infamous that it became known as the "Bastille of Greece"?
• the 1st century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus reported the embassy of holy men from India to the Levant, Athens and Rome during the time of Jesus?
• the International Olympic Committee has shortlisted five cities — Athens, Bangkok, Moscow, Singapore and Turin — out of nine bids to host the first Youth Olympic Games in 2010?
• the Athenian coup of 411 BC temporarily replaced the democratic government of Athens with a narrow oligarchy?
• the Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths, a Greek Resistance organization, set a bomb that destroyed the headquarters of the pro-Nazi ESPO organization in the very centre of occupied Athens?
• the Plague of Athens devastated ancient Athens in 430 BC, perhaps leading ultimately to the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War?