Laid in the shape of arches, vaults and domes, it quickly hardened into a rigid mass, free from many of the internal thrusts and strains that troubled the builders of similar structures in stone or brick.

In 1824, Joseph Aspdin patented a similar material, which he called Portland cement, because the render made from it was in color similar to the prestigious Portland stone.

Neolithic farming brought permanent settlements, and the wonderfully well-preserved stone house at Knap of Howar on Papa Westray dating from 3500 BC predates by about 500 years the village of similar houses at Skara Brae on West Mainland, Orkney.

The objects found in a cave near Xarrë include flint and jasper objects and fossilized animal bones, while those found at Mount Dajt comprise bone and stone tools similar to those of the Aurignacian culture.

However, there is substantial evidence that the meteorite known as Valera hit and killed a cow upon impact, nearly dividing the animal in two, and similar unsubstantiated reports of a horse being struck and killed by a stone of the New Concord fall also abound.

The traditional architecture of Santorini is similar to that of the other Cyclades, with low-lying cubical houses, made of local stone and whitewashed or limewashed with various volcanic ashes used as colours.

The Ridgeway passes near many Neolithic, Iron Age, and Bronze Age sites including Avebury Circle, a stone circle similar to Stonehenge ; Barbury Castle, Liddington Castle, Uffington Castle, Segsbury Castle, Pulpit Hill and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill, all Iron Age and Bronze Age hill forts ; Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic chieftain burial tomb ; the Uffington White Horse, an ancient chalk horse carved into the hillside near Uffington Castle ; and Grim's Ditch, a section of earthwork near Mongewell created by Iron Age peoples as a possible demarcation line.

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.

Rand, Loial and Hurin are separated from the Shienaran party and transported to an alternate world via a portal stone, a world similar to their own but where the land appears deserted and distorted.

Bone and stone artifacts similar to those found at Kunda have been discovered elsewhere in Estonia, as well as in Latvia, northern Lithuania and southern Finland.

After color follows clarity: similar to diamonds, a clear stone will command a premium, but a ruby without any needle-like rutile inclusions may indicate that the stone has been treated.

Filling the fractures inside the ruby with lead glass ( or a similar material ) dramatically improves the transparency of the stone, making previously unsuitable rubies fit for applications in jewelry.

The thefts are very similar, to the point of occurring on Christmas Day and the stone being recovered from Arbroath Abbey.

Cornelian, cognate with similar words in several Romance languages, comes from the Mediaeval Latin corneolus, itself derived from the Latin word cornum, the cornel cherry, whose translucent red fruits resemble the stone.

c ) A similar version by Stesichorus in “ Ilion ’ s Conquest ” narrated that Menelaus surrendered her indeed to his soldiers to stone her to death ; however, when she ripped the front of her robes, the Achaean warriors got stunned by her beauty and the stones fell harmlessly from their hands.

There was at the time ( middle of the 15th century, perhaps as early as 1388 ) a similar statue made of stone.

" The stone benches on which bodies were laid out and the small square entrance doors are similar to those found elsewhere in Judah.

In botany, blossom is a term given to the flowers of stone fruit trees ( genus Prunus ) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring.

The inscription matar kubileya at a Phrygian rock-cut shrine, dated to the first half of the 6th century BCE, is usually read as " Mother of the mountain ", a reading supported by ancient Classical sources, and consistent with Cybele as any of several similar tutelary goddesses, each known as " mother " and associated with specific Anatolian mountains or other localities ; a goddess " born from stone ".

Stone, clay and glass were used to make vases, and vases of hard stone have been dug up at Girsu similar to those of the early dynastic period of Egypt.

Other artifacts include bronze reliefs depicting a sea deity, fishermen and tritons, nine stone or bronze statues of dogs, one of which has a human face, and some of which are similar to Irish Wolfhounds, a bronze plaque of a woman, a bronze arm, an oculist's stamp ( used by physicians to mark their cakes of eye ointment ), about 320 pins, nearly 300 bracelets, and over 8, 000 coins.

** Paper marbling, a method of aqueous surface design in which paper or fabric is decorated with a spotted pattern similar to stone, as well as other swirled and combed patterns.

If one concept is defined by another, and the other is defined by the first, this is known as circular definition, somewhat similar to a circular reasoning: neither offers us any enlightenment about what we wanted to know.

A similar model is found in the Homeric account of the 8th century BCE in which " Okeanos, the personified body of water surrounding the circular surface of the Earth, is the begetter of all life and possibly of all gods.

In the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts it is revealed the ancient Egyptians believed Nun ( the Ocean ) was a circular body surrounding nbwt ( a term meaning " dry lands " or " Islands ") and therefore believed in a similar Ancient Near Eastern circular earth cosmography surrounded by water.

** Homoaromaticity ( exceptional: a cyclic homolog with ring expansion: e. g. homotropylium, bishomotropylium but the conjugated pi electron cloud remain very similar to the pair of circular donuts above and below the carbong ring and retain the similar electron configuration.

In Olympic format ( sport ) taekwondo, this technique is performed using the balls of the feet, and in a manner similar to a back thrust, rather than the circular technique adopted in other styles / Martial Arts.

The circular structure is also found in prokaryotes, and the similarity is extended by the fact that mitochondrial DNA is organized with a variant genetic code similar to that of Proteobacteria.

A paradox is a statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which ( if true ) defies logic or reason, similar to circular reasoning.

If a similar set of disks and a housing with an involute shape ( versus circular for the turbine ) are used, the device can be used as a pump.

All five fortresses had similar designs: " perfectly circular with gates opening to the four corners of the earth, and a courtyard divided into four areas which held large houses set in a square pattern.

Sipunculans have a body wall somewhat similar to that of annelids ( though unsegmented ) in that it consists of a non-ciliated epidermis overlain by a cuticle, an outer layer of circular and an inner layer of longitudinal musculature.

This air is then reheated by the sun to a higher temperature, moving up the mountain again, whereby the air moves up and down in a circular motion in cycles, similar to how a convection oven works, albeit a natural one.

Young plants of A. fistulosum and A. cepa look very similar, but may be distinguished by their leaves, which are circular in cross-section in A. fistulosum rather than flattened on one side.

MSA provided a small open-circuit breathing set with a small ( 5 to 7 liters ) air cylinder, a circular demand regulator with a two-lever system similar to Cousteau's design ( connected to the cylinder by a nut and cone nipple connection ), and one corrugated wide breathing tube connected to a mouthpiece.

* Both mitochondria and plastids contain DNA that is different from that of the cell nucleus and that is similar to that of bacteria ( both in their size and their having a circular form ).

Spin of a relativistic particle moving in a circular orbit precesses similar to the swing plane of Foucault pendulum.

In the early 16th century, the debate on the Earth's motion was continued by Al-Birjandi ( d. 1528 ), who in his analysis of what might occur if the Earth were rotating, develops a hypothesis similar to Galileo Galilei's notion of " circular inertia ", which he described in the following observational test:

The ball pick is similar to the half-diamond pick, except the end of the pick has a circular shape.

The orbital relationship between Janus and Epimetheus can be understood in terms of the circular restricted three-body problem, as a case in which the two moons ( the third body being Saturn ) are similar in size to each other.

Spaces of circular or octagonal plan were sometimes covered with vaults of a " double chevet " style, similar to the chevet apse vaulting in Gothic cathedrals.

* By the Faraday effect, where a magnetic field can cause a material to be circularly birefringent, with different indices of refraction for oppositely-handed circular polarizations similar to an optically active material ;

The missile was small enough to fit in existing large silos, like those for the Titan II, but was otherwise similar in concept to the ICBM-X, with a circular error probable ( CEP ) of about 0. 1 miles, and especially the ability to be quickly re-programmed to attack any targets needed.