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• The scene played out on the steps of the famous Reichstag building upon which the words in the title of this post are inscribed just below the pediment: —  By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog
• On each side of the circular pediment is a little "Mansard" window in the roof, and on the pediment itself are two statues. —  The Story of Rouen
• The space directly above this pediment is occupied by a window-like opening five by four feet, the traditional Elizabethan music-room, in all probability, which, Mr. W.J. Lawrence has shown us, occupied this position both in Shakespeare's day and for some time after the Restoration; an arrangement which was revived by Mr. Steele Mackaye in the Madison Square Theatre, and originally in the first little Lyceum, New York, both now pulled down. —  Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration
• 363.--The reliefs of the pediment are also well shown in a sketch by Pierre Jacques, dated 1576, and published by Audollent in the Mélanges_, 1889, planche ii 51] See Clemente Cardinati: Diplomi imperiali di privilegi_. —  Pagan and Christian Rome
• The eastern pediment was adorned with two groups of statues, one of which represented the birth of Minerva, the other the contest of Minerva with Neptune for the government of Athens. —  The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852

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