The first pic is of a lecture hall/seminar room ceiling in Welch Hall at the University of Texas at Austin. There are Texas Longhorn motifs in the patterns, and along the main beams there are alchemical symbols - seven of the eight are related to celestial symbols (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemical_symbol):
gold (Sun)
mercury (Mercury)
copper (Venus)
antimony (Earth)
iron (Mars)
tin (Jupiter)
lead (Saturn)
sulfur (no connection - maybe it should be for Jupiter's moon Io - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(moon))
The second pic is of a large periodic table done in chalk under a walkway - sheltered from the elements, so to speak. The building also features names of famous contributors to the field of chemistry, and a couple are shown in the third pic.
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