The Octagon may refer to Places The Octagon, Dunedin , the city centre of Dunedin, New Zealand The Octagon Washington, D.C. , historic octagon house in Washington, D.C., US The Octagon Roosevelt Island, New York , historic octagonal building in Roosevelt Island, New York, US The Octagon Heidelberg University , historic octagonal house in Tiffin, Ohio, US In popular culture The Octagon film The Octagon film , a 1980 Chuck Norris movie The Octagon, the caged enclosure used for Ultimate Fighting Championship and similar mixed martial arts bouts See also Octagon disambiguation disambig ... more details
e7dcc3 colspan 2 Regular octagon align center colspan 2 File Regular octagon.svg 250px BR A regular octagon bgcolor e7dcc3 Edge geometry Edge s and Vertex geometry vertices 8 bgcolor e7dcc3 Schl fli ... isogonal , isotoxal figure isotoxal In geometry , an octagon from the Greek language Greek okto , eight ref ShorterOxfordEnglishDictionary ref is a polygon that has 8 number eight sides. A regular octagon ... thumb A regular octagon is constructible polygon constructible with compass and straightedge . To do ... steps 7 through 10. A regular polygon regular octagon is a closed figure with sides of the same length ... symmetry of order 8. The internal angle at each vertex of a regular octagon is 135 degree angle and the sum of all the internal angles is 1080 as for any octagon . The area of a regular octagon of side ... , the area of the unit circle . File Octagon in square.svg frame The area of a Regular polygon regular octagon can be computed as a Truncation geometry truncated Square geometry square . The area can also be derived as follows math , A S 2 a 2, math where S is the span of the octagon, or the second ... takes an octagon, draws a square around the outside making sure that four of the eight sides touch the four ... The coordinates for the vertices of a regular octagon centered at the origin and with side length ..., stop sign s are in the shape of a regular octagon. File zont 8 ugolnik.jpg Umbrellas often have an octagonal ... is based on non regular octagons File IMG 1813.jpg The famous Vichy Pastilles , octagon shaped candies ... , with Schl fli symbol 8 3 is contained with a regular octagon. File Great dirhombicosidodecahedron ... antiprism contains two octagons. gallery Petrie polygons The octagon is the Petrie polygon for eight ... File 5 demicube t1 D5.svg 150px BR Rectified demipenteract Construction A regular octagon is Constructible ... See also Octagram Octagonal number Octagon house Bumper pool Rub el Hizb also known as Al Quds Star and as Octa Star References reflist External links http rechneronline.de pi octagon.php Octagon Calculator ... more details
Infobox Album Name Octagon, Octagon, Octagon Type EP Artist The Mint Chicks Cover MintChicks Octagon.jpg Released 2003 Recorded 2002, Nielson home Genre Indie rock Length 14 07 Label Flying Nun Records Producer Ruban and Kody Nielson Reviews Allmusic rating 3 5 Allmusic class album id r669739 pure url yes link Last album This album Octagon, Octagon, Octagon br 2003 Next album Anti Tiger br 2004 Octagon, Octagon, Octagon is the first recorded release by The Mint Chicks on Flying Nun Records , and is their first officially released CD EP. Recorded in Chris Nielson s bedroom, the EP led to critical acclaim and the release of a follow up, Anti Tiger in 2004. Two of the tracks, Licking Letters and Fat Gut Strut were re recorded for the Mint Chicks first full length, Fuck the Golden Youth in 2005. Track listing Post No Bills 2 00 Octagon, Octagon, Octagon. 2 29 The Son 2 35 Licking Letters 2 36 Fat Gut Strut 2 19 Double Helix 2 10 All tracks by R. and K. Nielson except Track 5 K. Nielson and Track 6 The Mint Chicks Personnel Paul Roper Drums Michael Logie Bass Guitar Kody Nielson Vocals Ruban Nielson Guitar Evan Short Mastering The Mint Chicks Category The Mint Chicks albums Category 2003 EPs Category Flying Nun Records EPs Category Debut EPs ... more details
wiktionarypar octagon An octagon is an eight sided polygon. It may also refer to In buildings and locations Octagon Barn disambiguation Octagon Building disambiguation Octagon Centre , at the University of Sheffield, England Octagon house , a unique house style Octagon House disambiguation Octagonal Schoolhouse disambiguation The Octagon, Dunedin Octagon , also known as The Octagon in Dunedin, New Zealand. In popular culture Octagon album Octagon album , an album by Bathory Octagon wine , flagship wine of Virginia wine producer Barboursville Vineyards The Octagon film The Octagon film , a 1980 Chuck Norris movie The Octagon, the caged enclosure used for Ultimate Fighting Championship and similar mixed martial arts bouts Octagon, Octagon, Octagon , a 2003 EP by The Mint Chicks People Octag n , a Mexican wrestler Dr. Octagon , an alter ego of rapper Kool Keith See also The Octagon disambiguation Oktogon , an intersection in Budapest, Hungary Disambig ja ... more details
An octagon house is a house with an octagon al plan shape. Although there are other octagonal houses worldwide, the term refers more specifically to a type of house built in North America around 1850 to 1900, and almost invariably described as octagon house not octagonal house . Octagon house about octagon houses in general List of octagon houses a comprehensive list of octagon houses covered in Wikipedia Other octagonal buildings and structures Octagon Barn disambiguation Octagon Building disambiguation Octagonal Schoolhouse disambiguation The Octagon disambiguation List of octagonal buildings and structures List of octagonal buildings and structures in the United States See also Octagon House novel , a 1937 mystery novel by Phoebe Atwood Taylor Disambig ... more details
Octagon Building or Octagon Building can refer to United Kingdom UCL Main Building OctagonOctagon Building, UCL , the Main building at University College London, all or more especially the central part of which is referred to as the Octagon Building United States Octagon Building Santa Cruz, California Andrew Gildersleeve Octagonal Building , Mattituck, New York The Octagon Roosevelt Island, New York Octagonal Building, part of the Mexico exhibit at the 1884 World Cotton Centennial fair in New Orleans, Louisiana See also List of octagonal buildings and structures List of octagonal buildings and structures in the United States Octagon house disambig ... more details
An octagon barn is a barn built in an octagonal shape. See round barn . As a proper name, Octagon Barn or Octagonal Barn , may refer to in the United States by state San Luis Obispo Octagon Barn , San Luis Obispo, CA Kinney Octagon Barn , Burr Oak, Iowa, listed on the U.S. NRHP Secrest Octagon Barn , Downey, Iowa, NRHP Octagon Barn Jamaica, Iowa , NRHP Fobes Octagon Barn , Lanesboro, Iowa, NRHP Octagon Barn, Otter Township , Milo, Iowa, NRHP Roberts Octagon Barn , Sharon Center, Iowa, NRHP Grimes Octagon Barn , West Union, Iowa, NRHP Bird Octagonal Mule Barn , Cropper, Kentucky, NRHP A. E. Chambers Octagonal Barn , Petersburg, Kentucky, NRHP J.F. Roberts Octagonal Barn , Rea, Missouri, NRHP Octagonal Poultry House , Cold Spring, New Jersey, NRHP Lattin Crandall Octagon Barn , Catherine, New York, NRHP Lunn Musser Octagon Barn , Garrattsville, New York, NRHP Mexico Octagon Barn , Mexico, New York, NRHP Baker Octagon Barn , Richfield Springs, New York, NRHP Rodman Octagonal Barn , Edgeley, North Dakota, NRHP Gerhardt Octagonal Pig House , Gladstone, North Dakota, NRHP Sylvanus Marriage Octagonal Barn , New Rockford, North Dakota, NRHP James Wimer Octagonal Barn , Lookingglass, Oregon, NRHP Harnsberger Octagonal Barn , Grottoes, Virginia, NRHP Rankin Octagonal Barn , Silverton, West Virginia, NRHP Gilley tofsland Octagonal Barn , Edgerton, Wisconsin, NRHP See also Octagon Building disambiguation Octagon House disambiguation Polygonal Barn disambiguation disambig de Octagon Barn ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Octagon Type studio Artist Bathory band Bathory Cover Octagon album.jpg Released 1995 Recorded Genre Thrash metal Length 39 40 Label Black Mark Productions Producer Borje Forsberg and Quorthon Reviews Allmusic Rating 2 5 Allmusic class album id r264011 pure url yes link Last album Requiem Bathory album Requiem br 1994 This album Octagon br 1995 Next album Blood on Ice br 1996 Octagon is the eighth album by Bathory band Bathory . It continues the retro thrash metal style of the previous album, Requiem Bathory album Requiem . Track listing Immaculate Pinetreeroad 930 2 46 Born to Die 3 58 Psychopath 3 19 Sociopath 3 09 Grey 1 14 Century 4 08 33 Something 3 16 War Supply 4 41 Schizianity 4 17 Judgement of Posterity 5 11 Deuce song Deuce Kiss band Kiss cover 3 41 Credits Quorthon Guitars, Vocals Kothaar Bass Vvornth Percussion, Drums References Reflist Bathory band DEFAULTSORT Octagon Album Category Bathory albums Category 1995 albums es Octagon it Octagon pl Octagon ru Octagon sv Octagon ... more details
Infobox Film name The Octagon image The Octagon Poster.jpg caption Theatrical release poster writer Paul Aaron br Leigh Chapman starring Chuck Norris br Karen Carlson br Tadashi Yamashita director Eric Karson music Dick Halligan cinematography Michel Hugo editing Dann Cahn distributor American Cinema Releasing released August 14, 1980 runtime 103 mins. awards The octagon wins everything. country United States language English producer Joel Freeman The Octagon is a 1980 in film 1980 action film with Chuck Norris in the leading role. It was directed by Eric Karson and written by Paul Aaron and Leigh Chapman. It was filmed in Los Angeles, California and released on August 14, 1980. It is notable for its inventive use of voice over effects to portray the inner life of Chuck Norris s character, Scott James. Plot Scott s life is plagued by two kinds of flashbacks. First are the childhood memories of the rigorous training he and a friend endured under a martial arts master. The second is of a mission Scott went on that ended with him watching his friend get murdered. Scott later becomes drawn closer to a vicious crime ring known as The Octagon. As he gets closer to the truth, Scott learns that these may be the men that murdered his friend so long ago. Cast Cleanup section date February 2011 class wikitable Actor Role Chuck Norris Scott James Karen Carlson Justine Wentworth Lee Van Cleef McCarn Tadashi Yamashita Seikura Carol Bagdasarian Aura Brian Libby Deadwyler Richard Norton actor Richard Norton Kyo, Seikura s Enforcer Long Legs Art Hindle A.J. Reception Empty section date February 2011 External links Portal Film IMDb title id 0081259 title The Octagon Amg movie 35935 The Octagon DEFAULTSORT Octagon, The Category 1980 films Category 1980s action films Category Action thriller films Category Ninja films no The Octagon ru fi The Octagon hiljaiset tappajat ... more details
File Smoothed Octagon Simple.svg thumb 150px A smoothed octagon. File Smoothed Octagon Packed.svg thumb 150px The best known packing of smoothed octagons. The smoothed octagon is a geometrical construction conjectured to have the lowest maximum packing density of the Plane geometry plane of all centrally symmetric convex shapes. It is constructed by replacing the corners of a regular octagon with a section of a hyperbola that is tangent to the two sides adjacent to the corner and asymptotic to the sides adjacent to these. The smoothed octagon has a maximum packing density, sub so sub given by math eta so frac 8 4 sqrt 2 ln 2 2 sqrt 2 1 approx 0.902414 , . math ref MathWorld urlname SmoothedOctagon title Smoothed Octagon ref This is lower than the circle packing maximum packing density of circles , which is math frac pi sqrt 12 approx 0.9069. math Construction File Smoothed Octagon.svg thumb 400px Construction of the smoothed octagon black , the tangent hyperbola red and the asymptotes of this hyperbola green , and the tangent sides to the hyperbola blue . The hyperbola is constructed tangent to two sides of the octagon, and asymptotic to the two adjacent to these. If we define two constants, and m math ell sqrt 2 1 math math m sqrt 6 sqrt 2 8 frac sqrt 2 1 2 math The hyperbola is then given by the equation math ell 2x 2 y 2 m 2 math or the equivalent parametrisation for the right hand branch only math x frac m ell cosh t quad y m sinh t quad pi t pi math The lines of the octagon tangent to the hyperbola are math y pm left sqrt 2 1 right left x 2 right math The lines asymptotic to the hyperbola are simply math y pm ell x. math See also Circle packing References Reflist External links http www.home.unix ag.org scholl octagon.html The thinnest densest two dimensional packing? . Peter Scholl, 2001. Category Tiling ... more details
Image OctagonDunedin.jpg thumb right 300px The Octagon, looking towards St. Paul s Cathedral left and the Municipal .... Image Dunedin central map.svg 180px thumb right Central Dunedin. The Octagon is the small octagonal area marked in red numbered 2 The Octagon is the city centre of Dunedin , in the South Island of New Zealand . Features The Octagon is an eight sided plaza bisected by the city s George Street ... intersect the Octagon Stuart Street, Dunedin Upper and Lower Stuart Street s. Lower Stuart Street ... Otago . Surrounding the Octagon is a larger octagonal street, Moray Place, Dunedin Moray Place . The area ... west, The Octagon is the clear circular area just below the centre of the photo. The Octagon was first ... was officially designated as the Square of Moray Place , though it was colloquially known as the Octagon even then. Despite the reserve status, the Anglican Church sought to build in the centre of the Octagon ... being forced to withdraw their plans for The Octagon. The Anglican St. Paul s Cathedral, Dunedin St ... of Bell Hill, New Zealand Bell Hill , which rose immediately to the south of The Octagon. It was only ..., Dunedin Princes Street Princes Street that The Octagon began to gain any prominence. Even so, it remained unsightly until the 1890s. The first major structure of any kind in The Octagon s reserve area ... of one of the city s founding fathers, was unveiled. It still stands at the western edge of The Octagon ... 1890s several improvements were proposed to The Octagon, including fencing, and the planting of plane ... 5,000 by the Evening Star Dunedin Evening Star newspaper to build a fountain in the Octagon ... number of visible pipes needed for its performances. When The Octagon was refurbished in the 1990s, the Star Fountain was removed and was not included in The Octagon s new design, leading to some ... Burns has pride of place in the upper Octagon. Image OctagonplaqueDnNZ.jpg thumb right 250px A plaque in Writers Walk in The Octagon featuring the words of James K. Baxter . During the late 1980s, the Dunedin ... more details
About the character the rapper Kool Keith Infobox character colour DEDEE2 name Dr. Octagon image File Dr. Octagon.gif 250px caption The image used by CMH Records in its promotion of The Return of Dr. Octagon . first Dr. Octagonecologyst last The Return of Dr. Octagon creator Kool Keith Keith Thornton ... and surgeon . relatives Mr. Gerbik nationality Jupiter Dr. Octagon was a Character arts fictional .... Octagon is an Extraterrestrial life extraterrestrial time travel ing Gynaecology gynecologist and surgeon ... of The Return of Dr. Octagon , an album largely produced without Thornton s involvement. Biography In Dr. Octagonecologyst , Dr. Octagon is described as having yellow eyes, green skin, and a pink ... by Octagon, who claims to treat chimpanzee Acne vulgaris acne and moose Goose bumps bumps , and relocate Salivary gland saliva gland s. ref name Huey Octagon is described as being incompetent, as many .... Octagonecologyst accessdate 2009 01 27 date May 28, 1997 publisher Rolling Stone ref Octagon also .... Octagonecologyst accessdate 2009 01 27 last Huey first Steve publisher Allmusic ref Octagon s uncle ... 207 ref On First Come, First Served , Dr. Dooom posed as a patient and murdered Dr. Octagon. ref ... of Dr. Octagon Mix Tape reveal a storyline in which Dr. Dooom s influence over Los Angeles has grown, and Dooom and a Hybrid set out to resurrect the long deceased Octagon as part of a final bid for total ... J title Briefing Document Operation Octagon accessdate 2009 02 11 publisher Fanatik J ref Octagon ... with actual hillbillies, the Oceanic Penal Colony Overlord exerted his desire to destroy Octagon ... Document Operation Octagon page 5 accessdate 2009 02 11 publisher Fanatik J ref The Hybrid gave the label ... chapters to promote The Return of Dr. Octagon , a package containing new songs by Octagon arrived ... cite web url http www.usounds.com mt archives 000805.html title The Return of Dr. Octagon Remix Campaign ... mt archives 000813.html title Dr Octagon Decipher Series Chapter 2 Al Greazy accessdate ... more details
about specific places named Octagon House Octagon House disambiguation an extensive list of octagon houses List of octagon houses other octagon structures in the United States List of octagonal buildings and structures in the United States Image McElroy Octagon House San Francisco 2.JPG thumb right 320px The McElroy Octagon House on Gough St. San Francisco , California structural concrete construction built 1861 Octagon houses were a unique house style briefly popular in the 1850s in the United States and Canada. They are characterised by an octagon al eight sided Floor plan plan , and often feature ... houses worldwide, the term octagon house usually refers specifically to octagonal houses built in North .... William Thornton s Tayloe House, more commonly called The Octagon House ref http www.cr.nps.gov nr travel wash dc22.htm Washington, DC Octagon House Washington DC Octagon House ref in Washington ... States President James Madison stayed in the Octagon House, and it was here that the Treaty of Ghent ..., but are somewhat different from the Victorian octagon houses which are essentially domestic structures ... and square structures in his widely publicized book, The Octagon House A Home For All, or A New, Cheap, Convenient, and Superior Mode of Building , printed in the year 1848. ref The Octagon House, Orson ... sinners martin12.html Orson Squire Fowler Phrenology and Octagon Houses 1809 1887 by John H. Martin Bot generated title ref Advantages of the octagon plan Image Octagon v square 2.png thumb right 300px Compared with a square, an octagon encloses approximately 20 additional space with the same perimeter According to Fowler, an octagon house was cheaper to build, allowed for additional living space ... all derive from the geometry of an octagon the shape encloses space efficiently, minimizing external ... shape, but difficult to build and awkward to furnish, so an octagon is a sensible approximation ... easily adapt to an octagonal plan. Design principles Fowler s The Octagon House is sometimes ... more details
coord 40 52 19.56 N 73 31 59.87 W region US display title Image Oyster Bay Octagon Hotel.jpg right thumb 300px Photo of Octagon Hotel, ca.1910 The Octagon Hotel , originally built as the Nassau House by Luther Jackson in 1851, was a pre eminent political and social meeting space in Oyster Bay hamlet , New York Oyster Bay , New York. This eight sided building is also believed to be among only a few like it on Long Island and perhaps the only octagon shaped hotel in the United States . History This eight sided building was most famously known as the Octagon Hotel. It was built in 1851 for Luther Jackson and originally called Nassau House and then the Acker Nassau House, and was a popular restaurant and political meeting place. A less festive meeting took place here in 1884, when the hotel was the site of the coroner s inquest into the murder of three area women, Lydia and Annie Maybee of Wolver Hollow and Oyster Bay s own Charlotte Aurelia Townsend. In 1887 Phillip and Mary Lavelle bought the business and renamed it the Octagon Hotel. When Phillip died Mary took over the operations and made many modern improvements which brought patrons from miles around. In 1889 she installed a central heating system which supplied year round comfort to the guests of the hotel and in 1890 she built ... in the Octagon Hotel during 1899. Roosevelt was elected governor in late 1898 and began serving his ..., his staff initially had their offices here in the Octagon Hotel. The busy nature of the hotel however ... to be presented outside of the White House. When visiting Oyster Bay he took rooms in the Octagon ... Service were also reputed to have stayed at the Octagon Hotel, including in 1902 when the hotel ... Bay, The New York Times, September 14, 1902. ref Mary Lavelle took the Octagon Hotel into the 20th ... Octagon Hotel FINAL.pdf title Preserving the Octagon Hotel, Summary Report of Findings ... historywalk13.htm Oyster Bay Main Street Association Octagon Hotel Category ... more details
Image Octagon 1.jpg thumb right View from the Front The Octagon Centre , built in 1983, is a multi purpose conference centre and music venue at the University of Sheffield . Situated in the Western Bank campus, it is joined by a skyway to University House, University of Sheffield University House and comprises an eight sided auditorium seating up to 1,250, standing fire capacity 1,600 , offices, meeting rooms, and a lounge with bar and patio. As a University building, The Octagon is used for a variety of purposes, including examinations, lectures and Graduation graduation ceremonies . The venue also hosts regular music concerts by well known acts such as Supergrass and DJ Shadow and is transformed into a nightclub by the Technical Services Committee every Friday during term time for the Space club night previously Frouk 2003 2007 and Loveshack before that it has hosted the Valve Sound System on several occasions under the promotion of The Tuesday Club. The Supernaturals gave their song Sheffield Song its name because it was first played at a concert here. University Ball dance Balls , an annual fashion show , a biennial 24 Hour Musical , and various other University of Sheffield Union of Students Student Union and Student Societies events also take place. The venue is also used for corporate exhibitions and conferences on a regular basis when free from its academic duties. External links http www.sheffield.ac.uk cics octagon The Octagon Centre coord 53.3807 N 1.4887 W scale 1000 region GB display title Category Buildings and structures in Sheffield Category University of Sheffield Category Octagonal buildings SheffieldStructures UK university stub SouthYorkshire geo stub ... more details
Octagon is an unincorporated community located in Brunswick County, Virginia Brunswick County , in the U.S. state of Virginia . Reference gnis 1494015 Brunswick County, Virginia coord 36 54 11 N 77 53 55 W type city region US VA source GNIS enwiki display title Category Unincorporated communities in Virginia Category Populated places in Brunswick County, Virginia BrunswickVA geo stub ... more details
forced to flee back to Octagon City upon learning that the tribe was about to return from its ... County Museum. External references Octagon City , Joseph G. Gambone, American History Illustrated ... more details
Infobox Settlement official name Octagon, Alabama settlement type image skyline imagesize image caption image seal image map pushpin map Alabama name of a location map as per Template Location map pushpin label position position of the pushpin label left, right, top, bottom, none pushpin map caption Location within the state of Alabama pushpin mapsize 200 coor pinpoint can be used to specify exactly where what the coordinates refer to coordinates type coordinates display delete unwanted option, if any latd 32 latm 12 lats 14.4 latNS N longd 87 longm 45 longs 18 longEW W subdivision type List of countries Country subdivision type1 Political divisions of the United States State subdivision type2 List of counties in Alabama County subdivision name United States subdivision name1 Alabama subdivision name2 Marengo County, Alabama Marengo government type leader title leader name established date area magnitude area total km2 area total sq mi area land km2 area land sq mi area water km2 area water sq mi elevation ft 282 elevation m population as of population footnotes population total population metro population density km2 population density sq mi timezone North American Central Time Zone Central CST utc offset 6 timezone DST CDT utc offset DST 5 postal code type ZIP code postal code area code Area code 334 334 blank name blank info blank1 name blank1 info footnotes website Octagon is an unincorporated area unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama Marengo County , Alabama . ref name ALHTL cite web title Octagon, Alabama work AL HomeTownLocator url http alabama.hometownlocator.com al marengo octagon.cfm accessdate 2008 12 05 ref Octagon had a United States Postal Service post office at one time, but it no longer exists. ref Gnis 168657 ref History The community of Octagon obtained its name from the Bethlehem Baptist Church. The first building for this church was an octagon ... Octagon is located at coord 32.204 N 87.755 W display inline,title and has an elevation of convert ... more details
Description Octagon Press published many of Shah s later works. ref name OISTI cite news last Cecil ... Staff title About the Octagon Press publisher Octagon Press url http www.clearlight.com octagon about.htm accessdate 2008 10 16 ref Shah used Octagon Press to increase the availability of information ... affinities between the English and Afghan peoples . ref name OISTI For many years Octagon Press .... The Octagon Press Limited was registered in the United Kingdom as a limited liability company at Companies House on 10 January 1972. ref name ukdata https www.ukdata.com company credit reports OCTAGON PRESS LIMITED THE .html Company details of Octagon Press Limited The at ukdata.com ref Authors Saira ... Asia. Jack L. Bracelin, a biographer. One of the first Octagon titles was the biographical work ... of the Secret published for a time by Octagon, written under the pseudonym Ernest Scott . ref ... ref His autobiography, My Life from Brigand to King , is published by Octagon. Doris Lessing , who ... by her as an attempt at autobiography , is published by Octagon. Professor Robert E. Ornstein Robert ... Book are published or distributed by Octagon. Denise Winn, a British journalist specializing ... was published by Octagon. ref name AmazonWinn cite web last Staff title The Manipulated Mind Brainwashing ... work published by Octagon Press, praised Shah s many books and saw him as a good friend and teacher ... to assist in the operation, some of which are published by Octagon. The relief effort is also now carried ... Shah published by Octagon. ref name AmnestyUSA cite web last Staff title The Kite Runner companion ... links http www.octagonpress.com Octagon Press website http www.afghanrelief.org Afghanistan Relief ... more details
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Infobox nrhp name McElroy Octagon House nrhp type image McElroy Octagon House San Francisco 2.JPG caption The McElroy Octagon House in Gough St. San Francisco , California structural concrete construction built 1861 location San Francisco, California lat degrees 37 lat minutes 47 lat seconds 52 lat direction N long degrees 122 long minutes 25 long seconds 35 long direction W locmapin California area built 1861 architect Unknown architecture Octagon Mode added February 23, 1972 governing body Private refnum 72000250 ref name nris NRISref 2008a ref The McElroy Octagon House , also known as the Colonial Dames Octagon House , is an historic octagon al house now located at 2645 Gough Street at Union Street in the Cow Hollow section of San Francisco, California San Francisco , California . William C. McElroy built it in 1861 across the street from its present location. It was vacant and neglected in 1951 when the Colonial Dames of America in California bought, moved it across the street and began its restoration. In 1971 it became San Francisco Landmark 17. It and the Feusier Octagon House are the only two remaining octagon house s in the city. ref http www.noehill.com sf landmarks sf017.asp San Francisco Landmarks 17 ref ref http www.noehill.com sf landmarks nat1972000250.asp Sand Francisco Landmarks National Register data from McElroy Octagon House ref ref http www.unionstreetshop.com pages Other 20Pages octagonHouse.html Union Street page on Octagon House ref On February 23, 1972, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places . See also List of San Francisco Designated Landmarks References reflist Registered Historic Places Category National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco, California Category Houses in San Francisco, California Category Octagon houses in California Category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in California California NRHP stub ... more details
Image OctagonChapel.JPG thumb righ 250px The Octagon Chapel, Norwich The Octagon Chapel is a Unitarian ref See http www.unitarian.org.uk for more information on Unitarianism ref Chapel located in Colegate in Norwich , Norfolk , England . It is home to a growing liberal religious community, welcoming people of all religious faiths and none. The congregation is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches . The chapel is a grade II listed building ref IoE 228990 ref built in 1756 and is perfectly octagonal. William Taylor scholar and novelist and Lord Mayor R. H. Mottram worshipped here. Community Unitarians have no dogma or creed, and take inspiration from all religious teachings, as well as from science and the arts. A sense of community is what the Octagon is all about and there are a variety of groups and activities. Bring and share lunches Women s Group Men s Group Craft Group Social Responsibility Group Life Events The Octagon hosts special ceremonies to mark life s big transitions. Unitarians believe that everyone has the right to seek truth and meaning for themselves, so these ceremonies should be relevant and unique to the people at the centre of them. Services are not bound by tradition but are free to express the personal truths of the people concerned. Octagon Concert Series The Octagon is proud of its musical heritage. As well as a vibrant musical aspect to worship, the chapel hosts the very successful Octagon Concert Series, which is somewhat unique inasmuch that no performers receives a fee or expenses so that all money raised can be donated to charity or good cause both local and national. ref http www.octagonmusic.org.uk ref Notable ... year. References reflist External links http www.ukunitarians.org.uk norwich Octagon Chapel website http www.norfolkchurches.co.uk norwichoctagon norwichoctagon.htm The Octagon Chapel on the Norfolk ... Octagon Music Series & Octagon Singers coord 52.6335 1.2952 type landmark region GB display ... more details
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