The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.

While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.

This approach was not favoured by most of the effects crew, who " couldn't believe " some of the things Tsuburaya asked them to do, such as Kong and Godzilla volleying a giant boulder back and forth.

The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays.

The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were also considered to constitute centres for the dispersion of glacial debris ; and Agassiz remarked " that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel ( boulder drift ) is found ; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc.

He kills Piggy with a boulder that was no longer aimed to miss, and becomes the executioner and torturer of Jack's tribe.

The final chapter compares the absurdity of man's life with the situation of Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a mountain, only to see it roll down again.

Experience showed that till ( boulder clay ), rather than just sand or clay, was the best primary material for a structure like the Afsluitdijk.

In Greek mythology Sisyphus (; Greek:, Sísyphos ) was a king punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever.

As a punishment from Queen Persephone for his trickery, King Sisyphus was made to roll a huge boulder up a steep hill.

Sisyphus was sentenced to an eternity of frustration in Tartarus where he rolled a boulder up a hill and it would roll back down when he got close to the top.

The site of Fort Clark is now marked by a large boulder and plaque, while the Fort Matson site was later the location for a church, name corrupted to Fort Madison ( not to be confused with the Iowa city ).

Near the spot where Gustavus Adolphus fell, a granite boulder was placed in position on the day after the battle.

The name was later changed to the Round Rock Hotel, because of a large, round boulder located in the northeast corner of the front yard.

The boulder was a feature of the summit of Rollstone Hill ; it was exploded and reassembled on the green in 1929 and 1930.

When a road from Hoboken to Fort Lee was built through the site in 1858, an inscription on a boulder where a mortally wounded Hamilton was thought to have rested — one of the many pieces of graffiti left by visitors — was all that remained.

In 1870, railroad tracks were built directly through the site, and the boulder was hauled to the top of the Palisades, where it remains today, located just off the Boulevard East.

In 1894, an iron fence was built around the boulder, supplemented by a bust of Hamilton and a plaque.

The plaque was stolen by vandals in the 1980s, and an abbreviated version of the text was inscribed on the indentation left in the boulder, which remained until the 1990s, when a granite pedestal was added in front of the boulder, and the bust was moved to the top of the pedestal.

They are opened and placed at the base of a boulder to cover irregularities in the landing and provide some cushion if the climber falls.

The jade head was placed at the pelvis of the body, with the face of the jade boulder facing the skull.

A boulder marking the site of McKinley's assassination was placed in a grassy median on Fordham Drive in Buffalo.

A large boulder of red millstone grit, bearing a square socket, is supposed to be the base of the cross, and has been placed by the cross roads at the northern end of High Street.

* Nest: a cup of moss and grass placed on the ground under a tuft of grass or boulder.

The city's logo depicts a well known ancient Greek trove, whereas a boulder representing the municipality's megalith-shaped form is placed at the main park of the city ( Eleftherias Square, meaning Square of Freedom ).

This is placed in a stone basin with an outlet for the juice, called a coimbi, and a heavy boulder is placed on top.

He was cremated and his remains placed under a large boulder from the Devils Marbles.

In 1922, the San Diego chapter of the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West had a large boulder brought from the battlefield and placed at the gravesite with a plaque affixed that lists the names of the dead.

On the parade ground a native boulder bears a bronze plaque in memory of Eagle Scout twin brothers from Troop 2, Towanda, Pennsylvania, Air Force Lieutenants John R. and William G. Winter.

Some time before his appointment, while pondering a boulder field that was surmounted by large projecting rocks on either side, the thoughts of George Cranmer drifted to a memory of something he had once seen while on tour in Sicily: an ancient Greek open-air theater with stone seating.

John Flynn's Memorial with the replaced boulder, Alice Springs

Other landmarks include the bronze statue of former president John A. Hannah, the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden, and the painted boulder known as " The Rock ", which is a popular spot for theatre, tailgating, and candlelight vigils.

Published in 2004, the book predominantly recounts Ralston's experience being trapped in Blue John Canyon in the Utah desert and how he was forced to amputate his own right arm with a dull multi-tool in order to free himself after his arm became trapped by a boulder.

Thirty minutes later, the outrigger grated on sand and other girls, waiting on shore, rushed forward to pull it up on the beach and make it fast with vine ropes to a large boulder.

The rancher went a mile down this road and then, when he reached a big red boulder, swung off the road.

Some chaps that know an area well can make their way by landmarks, a tree here, a wash here, a boulder there.

They were camped beside a large column-shaped boulder: a man, his lubra, and two children.

We drove close to the boulder, stopped the Land Rover, and walked over toward the family.

Samples obtained from this boulder delivered the final blow to the pre-mission volcanic hypothesis, proving it incorrect.

About 1 hour and 22 minutes after arriving, the astronauts departed for station thirteen, a large boulder field about from North Ray.

image: Moon-apollo17-schmitt boulder. jpg | Schmitt stands next to a large boulder during EVA 3.

* In 2003, 27-year-old Aron Ralston amputated his forearm using his pocketknife and breaking and tearing the two bones, after the arm got stuck under a boulder when hiking in Utah.

The poet's ashes were buried beside, or beneath, a boulder to the immediate west of where his childhood home ( destroyed by fire in 1957 ) stood ; some were also scattered in a stand of blue oaks near the boulder.

* The same Seatopian agent is crushed by a boulder hurled by Megalon.

Regulators are also responsive to external circumstances, however: if the same sun-baked boulder happens to host a ground squirrel, the animal's metabolism will adjust to the lesser need for internal heat production.

There is a mixture of boulder clay and other glacial deposits in the eroded valleys, and raised beach and marine deposits elsewhere, especially to the south and west which result in a machair landscape in places, inland from the sandy bays, such as Stravanan.

His monument is a boulder selected from the moraine of the glacier of the Aar near the site of the old Hôtel des Neuchâtelois, not far from the spot where his hut once stood ; and the pine-trees that shelter his grave were sent from his old home in Switzerland.