shard glass from the historic church was recently donated to the museum, which is scheduled to open in 2015.
The Brooklyn Bridge, London's shard, Notre Dame—each structure is an expedition waiting to happen.
One person who wasn't impressed by Prince Andrew's abseil down the shard: writer Grace Dent.
Here's Prince Andrew abseiling down the shard in London earlier this week.
She turned away from the audience to smash a glass goblet, raising a shard to her throat.
And, faster and faster still, they crashed into the shard of steel.
He picked up a shard of rubidium that served as a paper weight and toyed with it.
On the floor under where it should have been I caught the flash of light from a shard of glass.
Well, look at the figures and lettering on the shard; you can see those.
Then, as he examined them, he saw that the shard and the four films had been changed.
also sherd, Old English sceard "incision, cleft, gap; potshard, a fragment, broken piece," from Proto-Germanic *skardas (cf. Middle Dutch schaerde "a fragment, a crack," Dutch schaard "a flaw, a fragment," German Scharte "a notch," Danish skaar "chink, potsherd"), a past participle from the root of Old English sceran "to cut" (see shear). Meaning "fragment of broken earthenware" developed in late Old English. Used late 14c. as "scale of a dragon." French écharde "prickle, splinter" is a Germanic loan-word.
