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He returned in 1910 with his sons, daughter, and wife, establishing a quarry on the flanks of Fossil Ridge.
After the excavations of the early 1970s, the Armenian authorities converted this archaeological space into the Chapel of Saint Vartan, and created an artificial walkway over the quarry on the north of the chapel, so that the new Chapel could be accessed ( by permission ) from the Chapel of Saint Helena.
Between the years 1910 and 1914, a prison rock quarry was operated on the Fidalgo Island side of the pass.
K. leads them to a quarry where the two men place K's head on a discarded block.
Most accepted construction hypotheses are based on the idea that it was built by moving huge stones from a quarry and dragging and lifting them into place.
* Nant Gwrtheyrn former village on the North Welsh coast, abandoned after its quarry closed.
Horses carried limestone, along the Holy Island Waggonway, from a quarry on the north side of the island to the lime kilns, where it was burned with coal transported from Dundee, Scotland.
Investigators discovered incriminating evidence at his home: ammonium nitrate and blasting caps, the electric drill used to drill out the locks at the quarry, books on bomb-making, a copy of Hunter ( a 1989 novel by William Luther Pierce, the founder and chairman of the white nationalist National Alliance ) and a hand-drawn map of downtown Oklahoma City, on which was marked the Murrah Building and the spot where McVeigh's getaway car was hidden.
Comparisons with the Klemm collection of Egyptian rock samples showed a close resemblance to rock from a small granodiorite quarry at Gebel Tingar on the west bank of the Nile, west of Elephantine in the region of Aswan ; the pink vein is typical of granodiorite from this region.
They may have come from a quarry, around north of Stonehenge on the Marlborough Downs, or they may have been collected from a " litter " of sarsens on the chalk downs, closer to hand.
In one Bedouin method of hunting hares, the hunter rides close to the quarry on a camel while holding the Saluki, which he throws towards the prey while at speed, giving the dog a running start.
Individual hybrids of rhododendrons have been grafted on to a rootstock on a single rhododendron plant that was found growing in a chalk quarry.
Years later, however, Fionn invites Diarmuid on a boar hunt, and Diarmuid is badly gored by their quarry.
To quarry on thy Arab boy.
Presently, there is only one quarry on St. Kitts and there are quarries on Nevis.
Armstrong was a very keen angler, and while fishing on the River Dee at Dentdale in the Pennines, he saw a waterwheel in action, supplying power to a marble quarry.
Located west of the Butte, near the beginning of Rue Caulaincourt in Place de Clichy, the cemetery in the Montmartre quarter of Paris is built below street level in the hollow of an old quarry with its entrance on Avenue Rachel under Rue Caulaincourt.
Near Dunderhole Point on Glebe Cliff stands a building from the former slate quarry: this has been used as Tintagel Youth Hostel ( managed by YHA ( England and Wales )) for many years.
Since the quarry was uphill from the temple they had gravity on their side but care needed to be taken to control the descent.
The transformation scene centers on the dog, which always catches its quarry, and the uncatchable fox ; Jupiter turns them into stone.

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Just then Charles Lever yelled, `` Hey, Jack '', from the quarry road which ran behind the Carter house, and Jack grabbed the lunch from the table and darted out the kitchen door, yelling `` Good-bye, Mom '' over his shoulder.
During the 1970 – 1978 restoration works and excavations inside the building, and under the nearby Muristan, it was found that the area was originally a quarry, from which white meleke limestone was struck.
The quarry and tombs associated with it are north, not west of the main city and west only of the merchant area in the Tyropoeon Valley, which was enclosed by the Second Wall.
To match the look and texture of the original gallery's marble walls, builders re-opened the quarry in Knoxville, Tennessee, from which the first batch of stone had been harvested.
McVeigh rented a storage space, in which he stockpiled seven crates of 18-inch-long Tovex sausages, 80 spools of shock tube, and 500 electric blasting caps, which he and Nichols had stolen from a Martin Marietta Aggregates quarry in Marion, Kansas.
Salukis are " sight " hounds, which means they hunt by sight, run the quarry down, catch it, and kill or retrieve it.
When expertly " cut " by striking with a specialized tool in the quarry, many slates will form smooth flat sheets of stone which have long been used for roofing and floor tiles and other purposes.
The tribe were famed metal smiths and was granted land near a mountain quarry which looked like a helmet, from which they were said to have gotten their name 突厥 ( tūjué ).
Inmates were subjected to barbaric conditions, the most infamous of which was being forced to carry heavy stone blocks up 186 steps from the camp quarry.
It can be contrasted with the gun dog, which assists hunters by identifying the location of prey and / or recovers shot quarry.
The stand encompasses four large flowering trees, the largest of which is about tall, sited among hundreds of smaller trees that have not begun to flower, located in and around a sandstone quarry.
To protect pheasants for shooters, gamekeepers culled foxes almost to extinction in many areas, which caused the huntsmen to improve their coverts to preserve their quarry.
Other industries are lumber and mining which includes lead, zinc and marble, especially in the Panagia area where one of the mountains near the Thracian Sea has a large marble quarry.
It has a strong and vibrant local history which includes Saxon burial mounds and an Iron Age field system on Farthing Downs, an ancient church recorded in the Domesday book, Marlpit ( a former industrial chalk quarry ) and the former Cane Hill Mental Hospital ( a site currently under development ).
At a survey in 1934 the quarry was 15. 9 acres, of which 5. 3 acres was lake.
Another example would be the Bogey Hill just above the harbour at the Southern end of the town, which is named after the carts that carried Mourne granite from the quarry on Thomas ' Mountain down to the harbour.
Most of the religious buildings of the city were demolished in that period: in 1797, the old cathedral, which had been dubbed the " wonder of the low countries ", was sold to a merchant who exploited it as a stone quarry.
Vehicle access to the quarry site is restricted however a car-park and picnic facilities including toilets are within walking distance of the main site which is completely accessible on foot.
There are several panels containing historical information about the site spread around as part of the popular Railway Reserves Heritage Trail which runs close to the quarry.

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The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.
My quarry was in the apartment house for two hours.
This was formerly a sandstone quarry and then used as the council refuse tip before becoming a carpark, part of the overgrown and rocky bluff separating Aberdour's two bays.
Excavations were resumed at the Walcott Quarry by the Geological Survey of Canada under the persuasion of trilobite expert Harry Blackmore Whittington, and a new quarry, the Raymond, was established about 20 metres higher up Fossil Ridge.
The Walcott quarry produced such spectacular fossils because it was so close to the Stephen Formation — indeed the quarry has now been excavated to the very edge of the Cambrian cliff.
The Chelmscombe Quarry finished its work as a limestone quarry in the 1950s and was then used by the Central Electricity Generating Board as a Tower testing station.
After the end of the First World War, a chalk quarry known as the Swamps was identified as Charlton's new ground, and in the summer of 1919 work began to create the level playing area and remove debris from the site.
The area immediately to the south and east of the sepulchre was a quarry and outside the city during the early 1st century as excavations under the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer across the street demonstrated.
The camp was dismantled in 1924 and although abandoned as a quarry, the remains of the camp can still be found.
The extensive quarries at Foggintor provided granite for the construction of London's Nelson's Column in the early 1840s, and New Scotland Yard was faced with granite from the quarry at Merrivale.
A one-metre gauge line was laid down following the route of the former Jersey Railway from Saint Helier to La Corbière, with a branch line connecting the stone quarry at Ronez in Saint John.
The earliest patent was taken out by Henry Palmer in the UK in 1821, and the design was employed at Deptford Dockyard in South-East London, and a short line for moving stone from a quarry near Cheshunt, Hertfordshire to the River Lea.
At later times, during the prolonged illness and after the death of his mother in 1481 when he was just six years old, Michelangelo lived with a stonecutter and his wife and family in the town of Settignano, where his father owned a marble quarry and a small farm.
The three years Michelangelo spent in creating drawings and models for the façade, as well as attempting to open a new marble quarry at Pietrasanta specifically for the project, were among the most frustrating in his career, as work was abruptly canceled by his financially strapped patrons before any real progress had been made.

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