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During the period of 8500-7500 BC another hunter-gatherer group, showing clear affinities with the cultures of Egypt ( particularly the Outacha retouch technique for working stone ) was in Sinai.
The settlement grew into a group of shacks built mostly with wreckage from the Amaranth ( lumber from which was also used by the young Hawaiian colonists to build surfboards ), but later, stone and wood dwellings were built and equipped with refrigeration, radio equipment, and a weather station.
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.
If the opponent places a stone at B or D, the remaining hex can be filled to join the original two stones into a single group.
While successful, during his attempt the stone malfunctions and the group ends up losing time.
The stone is referred to in the comedy play by Derek Webb called Bringing Back the Bluestones in which a Welsh group decide to emulate the return of the Stone of Scone to Scotland by demanding the return of the Bluestones from Stonehenge to Pembrokeshire.
Doubts have been raised because the Castiglioni brothers also happen to be the two filmmakers who produced five controversial African shockumentaries in the 1970s — including Addio ultimo uomo, Africa ama, and Africa dolce e selvaggia — films in which audiences saw unedited footage of the severing of a penis, the skinning of a human corpse, the deflowering of a girl with a stone phallus, and a group of hunters tearing apart an elephant ’ s carcass.
Pohnpei " upon ( pohn ) a stone altar ( pei )" ( formerly known as Ponape ) is the name of an island of the Senyavin Islands which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group.
However, if a stone is placed at a 4-4 point and the opponent invades, the first player can build a surrounding wall as the second ( invader ) is forming a live group, thus exerting strong influence on a large area.
In 1981 Seev Jevin, the former director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, entered the passage after a group of Jewish settlers from Hebron had entered the chamber via the entrance near the mihrab and discovered the square stone in the round chamber that concealed the cave entrance.
At a festival of Poseidon at Onchestus, Clymenus quarreled with a group of Thebans over a minor cause and was mortally wounded as a result of a stone thrown at him by Perieres, the charioteer of Menoeceus.
All instruments made out of stone are in one group, all those made out of wood in another, those made out of silk are in a third, and all those made of bamboo in the 4th, as recorded in the Yo Chi ( record of ritual music and dance ), compiled from sources of the Chou period ( 9th-5th centuries BC ), and corresponding to the 4 seasons and 4 winds ( Kartomi, 1990 ).
# A stone or solidly connected group of stones of one color is captured and removed from the board when all the intersections directly adjacent to it are occupied by the enemy.
In the early 1950s the fraternal group E Clampus Vitus and the Riverside County Department of Transportation commemorated the Gromov flight by erecting a stone marker on Cottonwood Avenue, just west of Sanderson Road in west-central San Jacinto.
On June 16, 2012, a group of thieves entered the cage at night and tipped over the stone.
alt = The painting is of a group of 17th century men and women, under a large tree in front of a stone building.
Binford wanted to prove that the Mousterian assemblage, a group of stone artifacts from France during the ice age, was adapted to its environment, and so Binford spent time with the Nunamiut of Alaska, a people living in conditions very similar to those of France during the period in question.
As part of the village's tradition, he is taken by a group of warriors to a castle surrounded by water, and locked inside one of the stone coffins in a crypt.
In the pool in front of the ruin is a seemingly haphazard arrangement of stone fragments supporting a figural group which symbolizes the rivers Danube and Enns.
Near Wilsede there is also a well-known stone and juniper group with the name Hannibal's Grave ( Hannibals Grab ).
The album achieved platinum status and served as a stepping stone for Cam ' ron's group The Diplomats to sign with Roc-A-Fella.
The group discovered and excavated many Paleolithic stone artifacts in Miyagi prefecture, such as at Zazaragi site in 1981, Nakamine C site in 1983 and Babadan A site in 1984.
The collection is particularly rich in art from the Indian subcontinent, including monumental stone sculpture from the Kushana and Gupta periods, and a remarkable group of Chola bronzes from southern India.
His stone group of Justice is at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris.

group and reliefs
These include the Athena Parthenos, a magnificent miniature copy of the great image that Phidias created for the Parthenon in Athens ; a copy of Myron's Athena from the group of Athena and Marsyas ; a copy of Polyclitus's magnificent Diadumenos ; and a copy of the four Maenad reliefs by Callimachus.
Made of bronze towards 1553. The Prado, considers the finest examples of Renaissance sculptures in the museum to be the group of full-length portraits, busts and reliefs of Charles V and his family: the Empress Elizabeth, their son Philip II and Charles's sisters, Mary of Hungary and Leonora of Austria.
His best known works are the figures on the exterior of the ANZAC War Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney, the central group in the interior, and the bronze reliefs.
Ancient Roman pottery was not a luxury product, but a vast production of " fine wares " in terra sigillata were decorated with reliefs that reflected the latest taste, and provided a large group in society with stylish objects at what was evidently an affordable price.
The proposed link between the Israelites and the Shasu may, however, be undermined by the fact that in the Merneptah reliefs, the group later known as the Israelites are not described or depicted as Shasu.
Many Gothic cathedrals, especially in France, have reliefs of Abraham holding such a group ( right ), which are also found in other media.
The embracing couple depicted in the sculpture appeared originally as part of a group of reliefs decorating Rodin's monumental bronze portal The Gates of Hell, commissioned for a planned museum of art in Paris.
Albert Speer referred to Thorak as " more or less " my " sculptor, who frequently designed statues and reliefs for my buildings " and " who created the group of figures for the German pavilion at the Paris World's Fair.
Cave 3 is the first of the central group or cluster of shrines and reliefs.

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Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
Since then, and since the pure grain had gotten him divorced from every decent -- and even indecent -- group from Greenwich Village to the Embarcadero, he had become a sucker-rolling freight-jumper.
Shortly the group would issue its report to the Secretary General, recommending Paul Bang-Jensen's dismissal from the United Nations.
We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.
`` No complaints or charges have been filed during the past year, either verbally or written, from any individual or group.
Recently I traveled the parkway from East Orange to Cape May and I found the most courteous group of men you will find anywhere.
`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.
But a realization that each group has much of substance to learn from the other also developed, and a strong conviction grew that each had insights and dimensions to contribute to ethically acceptable solutions of urgent political issues.
And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.
He was reading from the Talmud with a group of men from his congregation.
The oyabun was entertaining a group of dignitaries, the secretary said, businessmen from Tokyo for the most part, and Kayabashi wished to show them the mission.
When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.
Helmut Roloff, playing with a group of musicians from the Bayreuth Ensemble, gives a sturdy reading, in much the same vein as that of the last-mentioned pianists.
After the judge moved all the dogs individually, she selected several from the group and placed them in the center of the ring.
Speer and coworkers, in a similar study of blood group antibodies of whole sera, used a series of gradients for elution from Aj.
Serum samples were obtained from normal group A, group B and group O donors.
Anti-A and anti-B activities were determined in fractions from the sera of group A, group B or group O donors by the following tube agglutination methods.
These fractions were tested for ABO agglutinin activity, using fractions from group AB plasma as a control.

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