The Quarry (film)
The Quarry( French: La faille) is a 1998 Belgian film directed by Marion Hänsel.
It jointly won Grand Prix des Amériques, the main prize at the Montreal World Film Festival ex aequo with Vollmond.
Seneca Quarry
Seneca Quarry is a historic site located at Seneca, Montgomery County, Maryland.
It is located along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal on the north bank of the Potomac River, just west of Seneca Creek.
The quarry was the source of stone for two Potomac River canals: the Potowmack Canal( opened in 1802, and officially known as the Great Falls Skirting Canal) on the Virginia side of Great Falls; and the C&O Canal, having supplied red sandstone for the latter for locks 9, 11, 15- 27, and 30, the accompanying lock houses, and Aqueduct No. 1, better known as Seneca Aqueduct, constructed from 1828 to 1833.
Seneca red sandstone, also known as redstone, formed during the late Triassic age, 230 to 210 million years ago.
The current geological name is Poolesville Member of Manassas Sandstone.
Iron oxide gives the sandstone its rust color.
It was prized for its ease of cutting, durability and bright color.
The stone quarried here for the Smithsonian Castle was originally described as" lilac grey" in color when quarried," but turned rusty red as it weathered.
Numerous quarries operated on the one- mile stretch of the Potomac River west of Seneca Creek.
The C&O Canal provided a way for the heavy sandstone to reach the Washington, DC market, and the quarry's success is attributed to the canal.
The Peter family of Georgetown, which built Tudor Place, owned the quarry from 1781 until 1866.
John P.C. Peter, a great- grandson of Martha Washington, made the quarry into a commercial success by utilizing the C&O and winning the bid to supply red sandstone for the Smithsonian Castle, constructed 1847- 1855.
Peter built the stonecutting mill, drawing power from the adjacent canal turning basin.
He also built a miniature of Tudor Place near the quarry called Montevideo, now owned by the Kiplinger family.
Seneca Quarry provided the stone for hundreds of buildings around the Washington, DC area, including houses in the Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan area, the James Renwick, Jr-designed Trinity Episcopal Church( 1849; demolished 1936), Luther Place Memorial Church( 1873), and the D.C. Jail in the 1870s.
Montgomery C. Meigs purchased the Government Quarry nearby for the Washington Aqueduct project in the 1850s, and that quarry provided stone for the parapet of the Union Arch Bridge, better known as the" Cabin John Bridge," the Washington Aqueduct Dam at Great Falls, McClellan Gate at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as the mile- long boundary wall that surrounds the cemetery.
After the American Civil War, the Seneca Sandstone Company purchased the quarry in 1866, expanding the stonecutting mill in 1868, but went bankrupt in 1876 after financial mismanagement, sometimes referred to as the" Seneca Stone Ring Scandal."
It was closed for seven years.
In 1883, the Potomac Red Sandstone Company reopened the quarry but only operated until 1889, when the Great Flood of 1889 knocked out the C&O Canal for two years.
Baltimore quarry operator George Mann purchased the Seneca quarry in 1891 and operated it for the next decade.
By 1901, quarrying operations had stopped as the quality of the rock diminished and Victorian architecture was no longer in vogue.
The Seneca Schoolhouse, a small one- room schoolhouse of red sandstone, was built in 1866 to educate the children of the stone cutters who worked at the quarry.
Located in Poolesville, Maryland, it provides tours to schoolchildren so that they can experience a typical school day as it would have been on March 13, 1880.
Seneca Quarry is now overgrown with sycamore trees, tulip poplars, and dense brush such as wild rose, such that it is impenetrable much of the year.
It is best visited in winter.
The property includes ruins of the stonecutting mill, located at" the Junction of Seneca Creek and the C&O Canal, just NW of the aqueduct" and the restored quarry master's house, located within Seneca Creek State Park.
The quarry proper, Seneca Aqueduct, and the quarry cemetery are all part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.
The quarry falls within the boundaries of the Seneca Historic District.
Seneca Quarry was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Wenvoe Quarry
Wenvoe Quarry is a quarry between Wenvoe and Culverhouse Cross in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales.
It is situated in an area off the A4050 road known as "The Alps", not far from Caerau and Culverhouse Cross on the outskirts of Cardiff.
Operations at the quarry took off in the 1880s to supply the building of Barry Docks, and as of 1889 the quarry employed some 200 men.
The quarry is operated today by CEMEX UK Materials (Aggregates)
Ltd. The closed Wenvoe Tunnel begins in close proximity to the quarry.
Original Sin (2001 film)
Original Sin is a 2001 erotic thriller film starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie.
It is based on the novel" Waltz into Darkness" by Cornell Woolrich, and is a remake of the 1969 François Truffaut film" Mississippi Mermaid".
The movie was produced by actress Michelle Pfeiffer's production company, Via Rosa Productions.
Earthdog trial
An earthdog test tests the working ability and instinct of the small, often short- legged terriers or Dachshunds.
These dogs were bred to hunt vermin and other quarry which lived in underground dens.
Earthdog den tests involve man-made tunnels that the dogs must navigate, while scenting a rat," the quarry."
The dog must follow the scent to the quarry and then" work" the quarry.
Depending on the sanctioning organization, “ working ” means barking, scratching, staring, pawing, digging; any active behavior.
The quarry is protected at all times by wooden bars across the end of the tunnel.
The hunting encounter is controlled, and neither the dog nor the quarry( usually two rats) are endangered by the activity.
In Canada, earthdog tests are sanctioned by the Canadian Kennel Club( CKC).
In the United States, two major organizations sanction earthdog tests: the American Kennel Club( AKC) and the American Working Terrier Association( AWTA).
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Thomas Marble Quarry Houses
Thomas Marble Quarry Houses is a set of three historic homes located in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
They are the Quarry Master's House and two worker's houses.
They are all stuccoed stone structures.
The property includes the site of the quarry and vestiges of two lime kilns and ruins from the quarry operation.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Fairy Cave Quarry
Fairy Cave Quarry  is between Stoke St Michael and Oakhill in the limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.
Quarrying was first started on the site in the early 1920s.
In 1963 the quarry was acquired by Hobbs (Quarries) Ltd., and production on a much larger scale began.
Excavations cut back into the hillside above St Dunstan's Well Rising, a Bristol Water abstraction point (long since abandoned); various caves were intercepted.
The quarry ceased production in 1977.
The caves in Fairy Cave Quarry include:
The caves in the quarry were formed by water from an unknown source.
Withybrook Slocker is an active swallet to the south of the quarry and although the water sinking here presently flows through the quarry caves the stream is misfit.
Withybrook Slocker, however, gives access to the upstream continuation of the quarry caves and digging activities by the Cerberus Spelaeological Society will hopefully lead to the discovery of the original source of the system.
The quarry has also been used extensively for climbing, with 136 named routes.
Although this was previously without permission of the landowners, in July 2010 access for climbers was agreed.
Mississippi Mermaid
Mississippi Mermaid is a 1969 French romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean- Paul Belmondo.
Adapted from the 1947 novel" Waltz into Darkness" by Cornell Woolrich, the film is about a tobacco planter on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean who becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know.
When she arrives it is not the same woman in the photo, but he marries her anyway.
Filmed in southern France and Réunion island," Mississippi Mermaid" was the 17th highest- grossing film of the year in France with a total of 1,221,027 admissions.
It was remade in 2001 as" Original Sin", directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas.
Mabel's Latest Prank
Mabel's Latest Prank is a 1914 film both starring and co-directed by Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett.

Question: Are Mississippi Mermaid and The Quarry (Film) both from the same country?
Answer: yes