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* the stone statue Allegory of Winter ( 1563 – 65 ), Villa Medici, Castello
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' When you say such you do not mean that the stone itself is Caesar, but rather, the name and honor you ascribe to the statue passes over to the original, the archetype, Caesar himself.
Next to menhir, stone table, and stone statue ; Austronesian megalithic culture in Indonesia also featured earth and stone step pyramid structures called Punden Berundak as discovered in Pangguyangan, Cisolok and Gunung Padang, West Java.
Two years later in Paris he repeated the proposal, listing the stone as one of several key items belonging to Egypt's cultural heritage, a list which also included the iconic bust of Nefertiti in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin ; a statue of the Great Pyramid architect Hemiunu in the Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Germany ; the Dendara Temple Zodiac in the Louvre in Paris ; and the bust of Ankhhaf from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
In front of this is a 3 meter tall, white stone statue of Yuri Gagarin, wearing a spacesuit, with one arm raised in greeting and the other holding a space helmet.
There is a similar great legend in Prague which says that when the Motherland is in danger or in its darkest times and close to ruin, the equestrian statue of King Wenceslaus in Wenceslaus Square will come to life, raise the army sleeping in Blaník, and upon crossing the Charles Bridge his horse will stumble and trip over a stone, revealing the legendary sword of Bruncvík.
For example, a spell to turn a person into a stone statue would involve Muto + Corpus or Terram ; The player would add the character's Technique ( Muto ) score to the lower of their Form ( Corpus and Terram ) scores to determine their casting total for the spell.
The statue is on a stone pedestal, which has a plaque that reads " Dem Dichterpaar / Goethe und Schiller / das Vaterland ".
The month before, the bronze equestrian statue of Charles, on a pedestal of carved Portland stone was given Grade I listed protection.
There was at the time ( middle of the 15th century, perhaps as early as 1388 ) a similar statue made of stone.
The nine archons took the oath of office while ceremonially standing on a stone in the agora, declaring their readiness to dedicate a golden statue if they should ever be found to have violated the laws.
Another relic from the Middle Ages in Modena is the Preda Ringadora, a rectangular marble stone next to the palace porch, used as a speakers ' platform, and the statue called La Bonissima (" The Very Good "): the latter, portraying a female figure, was erected in the square in 1268 and later installed over the porch.
The statue itself, which cost no more than £ 25, was constructed of bricks and mortar, and finished in a manner that gave it the appearance of stone " at least to the eyes of common spectators ".
The edifice was numerous times restored and renovated ; the interior has a court from the 16th century, a stone statue portraying a Madonna with Child ( 1339 ), frescoes, busts of illustrious Aretines, two paintings by Giorgio Vasari.
Behind the statue, five bronze plaques mounted on a stone wall quote King ’ s speeches calling for equal opportunities in education and a just society.
The memorial consists of a firefighter statue, engraved brick and stone, and a piece of one of the twin towers that collapsed in New York City.
The statue that can be seen on the Doric column today is a copy in Portland stone and was commissioned by the Chiswick House Friends in 2009.
stone and Winter
Aslan restored the Narnians whom the Witch had turned into stone, and killed the Witch herself at the Battle of Beruna and so ended the Age of Winter and began the Golden Age of Narnia.
Man has lived on the moors around Bolton for many thousands of years evidenced by a stone circle on Cheetham Close above Egerton and Bronze Age burial mounds on Winter Hill.
On the slopes of Winter Hill, stone was quarried and there were several small collieries and a firebrick and tile works.
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Shielded by the crowd during a ball given at Haddon Hall by Sir George in 1563, Dorothy slipped away and fled through the gardens, down stone steps and over a footbridge where Manners was waiting for her, and they rode away to be married.
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* 1248 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid.
* 1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
* 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey.
In the early Pleistocene, 1. 5 – 1 Ma, in Africa some populations of Homo habilis are thought to have evolved larger brains and made more elaborate stone tools ; these differences and others are sufficient for anthropologists to classify them as a new species, Homo erectus.
The period from 700, 000 – 300, 000 years ago is also known as the Acheulean, when H. ergaster ( or erectus ) made large stone hand axes out of flint and quartzite, at first quite rough ( Early Acheulian ), later " retouched " by additional, more subtle strikes at the sides of the flakes.
Leopards, hyenas, lynxes, wolves and bears lived among wild cattle, horses, deer, ibexes, oryxes and rhinos – all surrounded by olive trees and stone pines, with partridges and ducks overhead, tortoises in the underbrush and mussels, limpets and other shellfish in the waters.
The Giza pyramid complex, which includes among other structures the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, is surrounded by a cyclopean stone wall, the Wall of the Crow, and outside of which Mark Lehner has discovered a worker's town, otherwise known as " The Lost City ", dated by pottery styles, seal impressions, and stratigraphy to have been constructed and occupied sometime during the reigns of Khafre ( 2520 – 2494 BC ) and Menkaure ( 2490 – 2472 BC ).
( This section contains Matthew 16: 13 – 19, in which Simon, newly renamed Peter, ( πέτρος, petros, meaning " stone "), calls Jesus " the Christ, the son of the living God ", and Jesus states that on this " bedrock " ( πέτρα, petra ) he will build his church — the passage forms the foundation for the papacy's claim of authority ).
Since most of the plants grew in the forest, the Niger – Congo speakers invented polished stone axes for clearing forest.
* 1334 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile ( bell tower ) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
His grave was unmarked until 1966 when a stone was erected with the inscription Kurt Schwitters – Creator of Merz.
* Eric Idle – Mr Cheeky, Stan / Loretta, Harry the Haggler, Culprit woman who casts first stone, Intensely dull youth, Otto, Gaoler's assistant, Mr Frisbee III.
The most remarkable monument is the Stone labyrinths of Bolshoi Zayatsky Island-a group of 13 – 14 stone labyrinths on 0. 4 km < sup > 2 </ sup > area of one small island.
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