All around the castle grew a hedge of thorns, concealing everything from sight.
The centerpiece of the gala evening, and of the exhibit, was a huge crown of thorns that hung from the ceiling.
At Phillips, an untitled Basquiat charcoal and crayon work on paper shows a black man, Christ-like beneath a crown of thorns.
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They had spent months on it, secretly collecting firewood, carving it -- the cross and the body -- using radio wire for a crown of thorns.
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The big question: Where in the heck would this enormous crown of thorns be going once the Bible Experience no longer had a use for it?
There are also props from the show, like a crown of thorns used on location in Morocco in the spring of 2012and a chalice from the same set.
The on-set sequences are savagely satirical, as a diva feeds her dog caviar while Stracci looks on, actors in the Crucifixion scene pick their noses or laugh at inappropriate moments, and crew members call out for the crown of thorns as if it were hardware.
The largest venue is Jeld-Wen Field, the home of the Portland Thorns and Timbers of the MLS, which holds 20, 488.
Although it is a natural inhabitant of the Great Barrier Reef, the crown-of-thorns has, in recent years, undergone several population explosions.
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The remaining two-fifths, they say, was predation by the crown-of-thorns starfish.
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The World Wildlife Fund offers a commercial tour in Palau, Micronesia on which snorkelers can help their guide remove the invasive crown-of-thorns starfish, which every day eat their weight in coral polyps from fragile reefs.
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John Gunn, head of AIMS, said it was difficult to stop the storms and bleaching but researchers could focus their short-term efforts on the crown-of-thorns starfish, which feasts on coral polyps and can devastate reef cover.
Glen De'ath from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and colleagues determined that tropical cyclones - 34 in total since 1985 - were responsible for 48% of the damage, while outbreaks of the coral-feeding crown-of-thorns starfish accounted for 42%.
Other cultures throughout history have used animal bone, horns, shells, steel and even the thorns of hawthorn bushes.
Surrounded by a crude stockade, much of it topped with thorns, the hamlet is well defended against outside predators.
Mr Bush enjoys the fruits of partisanship without the thorns.
Green was one of 58 motorists caught speeding in Thorns Road, Quarry Bank, near Dudley during the week of the speed trap.
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Known as the tomb-bird, the shrike makes a larder of insects, impaling them on thorns.
Thin branches, long vines and thicker branches comprised 100 thorns built around an initial metal structure, said Colin McKenzie of WCMG, an event marketing agency that started developing the piece five weeks ago.
There is a sort of rough path which you can follow, but be prepared to be cut by thorns and stung by nettles in high summer.
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