For the first time since 1988, the Norwegians, traditionally the most powerful country in the discipline, have failed to win a single cross-country gold at the Olympics.
The modern piece will be fitted with a hand-sewn alligator strap and fastened with 18-carat gold shaped like the Maltese cross.
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Not least because in the dead man's pudgy hands he finds a gold cross, ornately worked and made to hang upside down in the way St Peter was said to have been crucified.
Local historian and marine archaeologist, Teddy Tucker (who runs the Bermuda Underwater Marine Institute) discovered the site in 1955 and unearthed many gold buttons, precious stones, chains and the famous Tucker Cross, an emerald studded crucifix made by Incan natives.
Norway took nine of its gold medals in cross-country skiing, the biathalon and alpine skiing.
In the dirt along a levee, about 10 miles deep into the wetlands, Rubinstein found a gold pendant, with sapphires forming a cross inside a circle of diamonds.
Scotty is sitting cross-legged, picking at a gold guitar in the shape of a flame.
Francis stood, rather than sitting on a throne, to receive the oath of allegiance from his fellow cardinals after his election, and for his appearance on the balcony wore just a white cassock and a simple cross, eschewing gold or jewels, Lombardi said.
The cross is made of carbon and resin and will be finished in gold, silver and copper to reflect Cornwall's history of mining.
The gold ring has an amethyst stone bearing a burning bush and St Andrew's cross with the motto "Nec Tamen Consumebatur".
It will make its way slowly down The Mound, past the giant symbol of the Paralympic Games and cross Princes Street on to Hanover Street where a post-box painted gold in Sir Chris's honour stands, officials said.
Dr. Deisher is Catholic and wears a small gold cross, while Dr. Sherley is Baptist, but both say their views on the matter are driven by ethics, not religion.
To design the suit gold medalist Billy Demong wore in Vancouver during Nordic Combined, which involves both ski jumping and cross-country, Flanagan and his team created a digital avatar of Demong's body and used computer imaging to determine the most aerodynamic pattern for stitching the suit.
The gold was Slovakia's first at a Winter Games, as Kuzmina went one better than 2006 snowboard cross silver winner Radoslav Zidek.
The 20m (66 ft) cross is made of carbon and resin and will be finished in copper, gold and silver.
Norway topped the gold medal table in 2002 with 13, and it wasn't simply because kids there grow up on cross-country skis.
In the joint ruling, the court decided that Nadia Eweida, a British Airways employee who had been told to stop wearing her white gold cross visibly at work, did suffer discrimination over her beliefs.
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