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Golden Rock (plantation) , a 6-acre island located in the San Francisco Bay.
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Golden Rock may refer to: * Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, Burma * Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli, India * Golden Rock Railway Workshop * Golden Rock railway station * Golden Rock Shandy * Golden Rock (anthem), Sint Eustatius * Golden Rock African Burial Ground, Sint Eustatius * Golden Rock (archaeological site), Sint Eustatius *A nickname for the island of Sint Eustatius and a former plantation on that island *A former name of Red Rock Island Red Rock Island (variously known as ''Moleta'', Molate Rock, and Golden Rock ) is an uninhabited, island in the San Francisco Bay located just south of the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge. The property is the only privately owned island in San Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyaiktiyo Pagoda
Kyaiktiyo Pagoda ( my, ကျိုက်ထီးရိုးဘုရား or ; mnw, ကျာ်သိယဵု ; also known as Golden Rock) is a well-known Buddhist pilgrimage site in Mon State, Myanmar. It is a small pagoda () built on the top of a granite boulder covered with gold leaves pasted on by its male worshippers. According to legend, the Golden Rock itself is precariously perched on a strand of Lord Buddha's hair. The balancing rock seems to defy gravity, as it perpetually appears to be on the verge of rolling down the hill. The rock and the pagoda are at the top of Mt. Kyaiktiyo. Another legend states that a Buddhist monk impressed the celestial king with his asceticism and the celestial king used his supernatural powers to carry the rock to its current place, specifically choosing the rock for its resemblance to the monk's head. It is the third most important Buddhist pilgrimage site in Burma after the Shwedagon Pagoda and the Mahamuni Pagoda. Etymology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli
Golden Rock ( ta, பொன்மலை, ''Ponmalai'') is one of the four zones of Tiruchirappalli. The railway colony and railway workshop are nearby Demographics The majority of the area is occupied by Golden Rock Railway Workshop and its residential colonies for its employees. Neighbourhoods Its neighborhoods are Kalkandar Kottai, Keezhakkurichy, Nathamaadipatti, Ponmalaipatti, Kottapattu, Subramaniyapuram, Sangiliandapuram, Senthaneerpuram, Ambikapuram, Thangeswari Nagar, Ex-servicemen colony. Most of the civilians of golden rock are S.Rly employees. It is well known for its Golden Rock Shandy, shandy (market) held every Sunday, which was established during British Raj, British rule in 1926. Transport Nearest Railway Stations are (GOC), Manjatidal (MCJ) and (TPJ). Healthcare It has one of the city's oldest hospital belonging to Indian Railways, Divisional Railway Hospital. See also * Battle of Golden Rock * Golden Rock Railway Workshop, Central Workshops * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Rock Railway Workshop
The Golden Rock Railway Workshop (officially the Central Workshop, Golden Rock, abbreviated GOC), in Ponmalai (Golden Rock), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, is one of three railway workshops serving Indian Railways' Southern Railway zone. The workshop is part of the railways' Mechanical Department. The other two Southern Railway workshops (Carriage Works and Loco Works) are in Perambur, Chennai. History This central workshop was set up in 1897 by South Indian Railways at Nagapattinam to maintain steam locomotives. South Indian Railways decided to move the workshop to Trichinopoly (present-day Tiruchirappalli) because of its better location. The foundation stone of the Tiruchchirappalli workshop was laid by Mrs. R.P. Munro on 20 December 1926, and work was completed in 1928. The workshop had state-of-the-art facilities, including a powerhouse which generated electricity for the workshop and the colony. Golden Rock's railway colony was one of Tiruchirappalli's first locati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Rock Railway Station
Golden Rock railway station (a.k.a. Ponmalai railway station) is a train station in Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli. In addition to Golden Rock, it serves to people of Subramaniyapuram, Senthaneerpuram and Sangiliyandapuram. Overview Though small, this station handles very high traffic of passenger and freight trains. It also plays a role like of a junction, where trains move west for (TPJ) and Tiruchirappalli Goods Yard (TPGY). Towards west, trains proceeding to Thanjavur and towards north west connecting the chord line. Developments Recently this station got a new facility housing operating and signal equipment at the cost of . This facility has station master's panel room, relay room, and electrical and telecom equipment room. In popular culture The Tamil film ''Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga ''Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga'' is a 2013 Tamil-language political comedy drama film written, directed and co-produced by Pandiraj. It features Vimal and Sivakarthikeyan in lead roles, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Rock Shandy
Golden Rock Shandy is a market square at Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India. Background This weekly shandy was established in 1926 during the British regime to supply household essentials to residents of the colony who were mostly employees of railways and their families, living far away from the heart of Tiruchi city. Though being a farmers' market, it initially supplied vegetables only, as the population of colony grew it also started supplying all kinds of dry goods and wet goods including consumables, metalwares, pots, clothing, furnitures, meat, fish, poultry, livestock and electronic gadgets and miscellaneous items. Schedule Initially, the market would be bustling every fortnight and on Sundays from dawn to dusk because the railway employees were paid salaries in cash twice in a month. When the fortnight payment system was scrapped and salaries were given in cash the 3rd day of each month, the market was conducted only on those days, abandoning the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Rock (anthem)
"Golden Rock" is the regional anthem of Sint Eustatius, which was established by the Island Council on July 29, 2004, and was officially ratified on October 8, 2010. The anthem was composed by Pieter A. van den Heuvel. The lyrics were written to the melody of the Zeeland national anthem (), the music of which was written by Jan Morks in 1919. Lyrics See also *List of national anthems Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under the state's constitution, by a law enacted by its ... References {{National anthems of North America Sint Eustatius culture North American anthems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Rock African Burial Ground
The Golden Rock African Burial Ground is an unmarked historical burial ground of enslaved African men, women and children located on the premises of the airport on Sint Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean in the ‘Cultuurvlakte’. The burial ground was part of the former Golden Rock plantation on the island. History Sint Eustatius was an important transit port in the trans-Atlantic slave trade due to its strategic location, deep harbor and system of free trade. The small island played a significant role in the transshipment of captured Africans to the British, French, and Spanish islands of the eastern Caribbean. There was no large plantation economy, but in the eighteenth century there were as many as 75 plantations on the island. The Golden Rock Plantation was one of the largest plantations of Sint Eustatius centrally located in between two elevated areas, Signal Hill and Little Mountain to the northwest and a dormant volcano, the Quill to the southeast. The name Golden Rock is deriv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Rock (archaeological Site)
Golden Rock is the name of an archaeological site in the centre of the island of Sint Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean, named after a nearby former plantation. Golden Rock was the nickname of Sint Eustatius from its prominence as a major colonial trading port in the late 17th and early 18th century. The site contains the remains of a late Saladoid village, an African burial ground, and a village of enslaved Africans. Saladoid culture In 1923, the first proof that once Indigenous peoples of the Americas lived on Sint Eustatius was found by J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong, an ethnologist from the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, the Netherlands. The remains of a Saladoid village were found in the middle of the culture plain at five locations around the present airport. De Josselin de Jong called the cluster the Golden Rock site. In 1984, a large-scale archaeological research started that continued up to 1987. 2800 square meter was investigated, the largest pre-Colombian excavation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sint Eustatius
Sint Eustatius (, ), also known locally as Statia (), is an island in the Caribbean. It is a special municipality (officially " public body") of the Netherlands. The island lies in the northern Leeward Islands portion of the West Indies, southeast of the Virgin Islands. Sint Eustatius is immediately to the northwest of Saint Kitts, and to the southeast of Saba. The regional capital is Oranjestad. The island has an area of . Travellers to the island by air arrive through F. D. Roosevelt Airport. Formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, Sint Eustatius became a special municipality of the Netherlands on 10 October 2010. Together with Bonaire and Saba it forms the BES islands. The name of the island, "Sint Eustatius", is the Dutch name for Saint Eustace (also spelled Eustachius or Eustathius), a legendary Christian martyr, known in Spanish as ''San Eustaquio'' and in Portuguese as ''Santo Eustáquio'' or ''Santo Eustácio''. History The earliest inhabitants were C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
