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On Christmas Day 1950, the Stone of Destiny was stolen from Westminster Abbey.
* 1965 – Robin Goodridge, English drummer ( Bush, Spear of Destiny, and Stone Gods )
* The Stone of Destiny is placed at Scone Palace, Scotland.
The English invasion campaign had subdued most of the country by August and, after removing the Stone of Destiny from Scone Abbey and transporting it to Westminster Abbey, Edward convened a parliament at Berwick, where the Scottish nobles paid homage to him as King of England.
In 1363, David went to London and agreed that should he die childless, the crown would pass to Edward ( his brother-in-law ) or one of his sons, with the Stone of Destiny being returned for their coronation as King of Scots.
The Stone of Scone (;, ), also known as the Stone of Destiny and often referred to in England as The Coronation Stone, is an oblong block of red sandstone, used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland and later the monarchs of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.
In the episode Pendragon of the Gargoyles second season originally airing in 1996, King Arthur comes to London and encounters the Stone of Destiny at Westminster Abbey.
In October 2008, a feature film, Stone of Destiny, based on the theft of the stone, was released by Infinity Entertainment of Vancouver.
Episode 4 of the Syfy series Legend Quest involved a hunt for the ' true ' Stone of Destiny.
* No Stone Unturned: The Story of the Stone of Destiny, Ian R. Hamilton, Victor Gollancz and also Funk and Wagnalls, 1952, 1953, hardcover, 191 pages, An account of the return of the stone to Scotland in 1950 ( older, but more available, look on ABE )
* Taking of the Stone of Destiny, Ian R. Hamilton, Seven Hills Book Distributors, 1992, hardcover, ISBN 0-948403-24-1 ( modern reprint, )
* The Stone of Destiny, sacred kingship in the 21st century
19th-century drawing of the Stone of Scone | Stone of Destiny.
Edward confiscated the Stone of Destiny – the Scottish coronation stoneand brought it to Westminster, deposed Balliol and placed him in the Tower of London, and installed Englishmen to govern the country.
Stone of Destiny may refer to:
** Stone of Destiny ( film ), a 2008 film directed by Charles Martin Smith
* Stone of Destiny, an Irish reel written in 2002 by Maurice Lennon of the folk goup Stockton's Wing
The presence of Scone Abbey, home of the Stone of Destiny where the King of Scots was crowned, enhanced the early importance of the town.
In the middle of the Forradh is a standing stone, which is believed to be the Lia Fáil ( Stone of Destiny ) at which the High Kings were crowned.
Atop the hill stands a stone pillar that was the Irish Lia Fáil ( Stone of Destiny ) on which the High Kings of Ireland were crowned ; legends suggest that the stone was required to roar three times if the chosen one was a true king ( compare with the Scottish Lia Fail ).

Stone and Symbol
" She was named Best Female Singer and Female Sex Symbol by Rolling Stone for the year 1993 in pop music.
* Reporting ( articles originally published in the New Yorker, including " The Yellow Bus ," " Symbol of All We Possess ," " The Big Stone ," " Terrific ," " El Unico Matador ," " Portrait of Hemingway ," and " Picture "), Simon & Schuster, 1964, with new introduction by the author, Dodd ( New York City ), 1981.

Stone and by
On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.
* " Alien ", a song by Bush on the album Sixteen Stone
In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".
The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.
Aon was created in 1982, when the Ryan Insurance Group ( founded by Pat Ryan in the 1960s ) merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America ( founded by W. Clement Stone in 1919 ).
Forced by his son's respiratory illness to winter in the South, Stone moved to Arkansas and Texas.
* Traded Out ; Hard Luck ; Stone Broke ; Papers from Pump Handle Court, by a Briefless Barrister ( 1884 )
Stone 1847 – 1938: Designer and Silversmith " by Elenita C. Chickering, 1994, Boston Athenaeum
The new incarnation of the journal was edited by Ormond Stone ( University of Virginia ).
These works, which included the famed Rosetta Stone, were the first important group of large sculptures to be acquired by the Museum.
Their most famous hit is the song " Fish Heads ", which was named as one of the top 100 videos of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
This gave way to alchemy and the search for the Philosopher's Stone which was believed to bring about such a transformation by mere touch.
It went on to be declared one of the best albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time issue in 2003.
Once labelled by Rolling Stone as " the most controversial woman in the history of rock ", Love's sometimes outrageous behavior has given her a lasting place in pop culture, as well as a polarizing reputation in the media.
Additionally, the ' 04 season led to the departure of popular commentator Steve Stone, who had become increasingly critical of management during broadcasts and was verbally attacked by reliever Kent Mercker.
Just inside the entrance is The Stone of Anointing, also known as The Stone of Unction, which tradition claims to be the spot where Jesus ' body was prepared for burial by Joseph of Arimathea.
The first article about disco was written in September 1973 by Vince Aletti for Rolling Stone magazine.
The first of these two groups, led by Barton W. Stone began at Cane Ridge, Bourbon County, Kentucky.
Dolores Fuller's autobiography, A Fuller Life: Hollywood, Ed Wood and Me, co-authored by Winnipeg writer Stone Wallace and her husband Philip Chamberlin, was published in 2008.
The story of the Sword in the Stone has an analogue in some versions of the story of Sigurd ( the Norse proto-Siegfried ), whose father, Sigmund, draws the sword Gram out of the tree Barnstokkr where it is embedded by the Norse god Odin.
Stone tools are first attested around 2. 6 Ma, when H. habilis in Eastern Africa used so-called pebble tools, choppers made out of round pebbles that had been split by simple strikes.
Prior to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and eastern North America, as well as from early 5th century Labrador, where the bird seems to have occurred only as a straggler.
Several magazines and websites have compiled what they intend as lists of the greatest guitarists — for example The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine, or 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Guitar World magazine.

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