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It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.
Today the cross, which is a replacement, is about 3 feet 4 inches ( 1 m ) tall and 1 foot 8 inches ( 0. 5 m ) across at the crosspiece, and it has its base in a socket stone which rests on a pedestal of granite blocks that raises the total height of the cross to 7 ft ( 2. 1 m ).
The dolmen in Ganghwa is a northern-type, table-shaped dolmen and is the biggest stone of this kind in South Korea, measuring 2. 6 by 7. 1 by 5. 5 metres.
The oldest known tools are the " Oldowan stone tools " from Ethiopia, 2. 5-2. 6 million years old, which predates the earliest known " Homo " species.
The oldest is Yiron in the northern portion of the Israeli Rift, with flint artifacts in a fluviatile deposit below a basalt layer dated at 2. 4 million years old, the oldest stone tools found anywhere outside Africa.
By approximately 2. 3 million years ago, primitive stone tools were first used to scavenge kills made by other predators and to harvest carrion and marrow for their bones.
These laws were inscribed on stone tablets ( stelae ) standing over eight feet tall ( 2. 4 meters ), of unknown provenance, found in Persia in 1901.
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.
( 2 ) The construction of the focal grave, an 11 ft by 8 ft rectangular stone enclosure containing a single cist grave.
Chunkey was a game that consisted of a stone shaped disk that was about 1 – 2 inches in diameter.
It extends from the earliest known use of stone tools, probably by Hominins such as Australopithecines, 2. 6 million years ago, to the end of the Pleistocene around 10, 000 BP.
The stone arch or vault, with or without ribs, dominated the roof structures of major architectural works for about 2, 000 years, only giving way to iron beams with the Industrial Revolution and the designing of such buildings as Paxton's Crystal Palace, completed 1851.
However, the presence of man in the Lower Paleolithic is attested by the discovery of stone tools characteristic of Acheulean such as hand axes reported by Théodore Monod at the tip of Fann in the peninsula of Cap-Vert in 1938, or cleavers found in the south-east .< ref > Abdoulaye Camara et Bertrand Duboscq, La préhistoire dans le Sud-Est du Sénégal, Actes du 2 < sup > e </ sup > Colloque de Kédougou, 18 – 22 fév.
Sapphire (; sappheiros, " blue stone ") is a gemstone variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminium oxide ( α-Al < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub >).
The beginning of the Stone Age marks the era when hominins first began manufacturing stone tools, and evidence of these tools dates back at least 2. 6 million years in Ethiopia.
image: Rufus stone side2. JPG | The Rufus Stone ( side 2 )
Traces of the Ligures remain today in the dolmens and other megaliths found in eastern Provence, in the primitive stone shelters called ' Bories ' found in the Luberon and Comtat, and in the rock carvings in the Valley of Marvels near Mont Bégo in the Alpes-Maritimes, at an altitude of 2, 000 meters.
Athletic victories achieved by Ceans in panhellenic festivals were recorded at Ioulis on slabs of stone and thus Bacchylides could readily announce, in an ode celebrating one such victory ( Ode 2 ), a total of twenty-seven victories won by his countrymen at the Isthmian Games.
A second tomb type described by Ussishkin has flat ceilings and 1, 2 or 3 chambers of well-dressed stone carefully squared into spacious rooms.
A stone ( 2. 43x1 Metre | m ) with Hebrew language | Hebrew inscription " To the Trumpeting Place " excavated by Benjamin Mazar at the southern foot of the Temple Mount is believed to be a part of the Second Temple
In the round chamber, which is below the entrance to the shaft, there are three stone slabs, the middle one of which contains a partial inscription of Sura 2, verse 255, from the Qur ' an, the famous Ayatul Kursi, Verse of the Throne.
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is famous for its 2. 4 kilometre long stone terrace built by André Le Nôtre from 1669 to 1673.
* 2, 600, 600 m³ — volume of stone in the Great Pyramid of Giza
At the time, the country had about 2. 2 million miles ( 3. 5 million km ) of rural roads, of which a mere 8. 66 percent ( 190, 476 miles or 306, 541 km ) had " improved " surfaces: gravel, stone, sand-clay, brick, shells, oiled earth, etc.

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I saw the pony fall like a stone and the young warrior flew over its head, bouncing like a rubber ball.
In spite of her attempt to preserve her balance, she fell, bruising her arm on a naked stone.
They followed him into the rain and across to the squat stone building fifty feet to the rear.
The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.
Delphine stood like stone, her eyes alive with hate as she looked down at the sheeted corpse.
Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.
Squatting on our haunches beside the flat stone we broke them on, we were safe behind the high closed gates at the end of the drive: safe from interruption and the observation and possible amusement of the passers-by.
The curb was a line of stone laid edgewise in the dirt and tilted this way and that by frost in the ground or the roots of trees.
Opposite every gate was a hitching post or a stone carriage-step, set with a rusty iron ring for tying a horse.
-- In France he had puzzled the meaning of the great stone monuments men had thrown up to the sky, and always as he wandered, he felt a stranger to their exultation.
He was not stone.
The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.
A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.
John leaned upon the stone balustrade.
The slow tapping of a cane on the stone steps coming up to the tower interrupted his reverie.
Somebody heaved a stone.
Before he could duck, another stone struck him.
Harold indicated the photograph on the wall and asked what church the stone sculpture was in.
Just before reaching it I came to a grey and brown stone building that looks somewhat like an Oriental pagoda, with Arabic lettering in gold and colored tile decorations -- the Fountain of Sultan Ahmet.
Time stands still as you climb the narrow, stone stairways in tiny villages clinging to steep mountain slopes or wander through story-book towns, perched atop lofty crags, their faces turned to the sea.
He piled everything neatly in a corner of the cellar and turned to stare at the blank stone wall.
Perhaps one bored holes in the stone with some kind of an electric gadget.
He didn't seem to think that attaching a pegboard to a stone wall was much of a problem and he tossed off the building of the worktable equally lightly.
At the same time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr. Blatz was usually standing in his line of vision and it all seemed so simple that he didn't like to disclose his ignorance.

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