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stone and memorial
At the cemetery in what is now the district of Pullach stood a memorial stone which was mentioned as recently as 1967, but which is no longer at the site.
All of these names are recorded on a war memorial, an imposing white stone cenotaph, which stands in Oak Hill Park in the south of the town.
The memorial is a fountain in the form of a round stone inverted cone.
The memorial stone for Enrico Fermi in the Santa Croce, Florence | church " Santa Croce " in Florence, Italy
The Younger Futhark inscription on the stone bears a commonly seen memorial dedication, but is followed by an encoded runic sequence that has been described as " mysterious ," and " an interesting magic formula which is known from all over the ancient Norse world.
In 1980, on the centenary of her death, a memorial stone was established for her in the Poets ’ Corner.
The stone remains as a memorial even though his body was later disinterred and reburied in Hanover, Germany, the grave being marked with a marble copy of his 1929 sculpture Die Herbstzeitlose.
There is a memorial outside the Olympic stadium in Munich in the form of a stone tablet at the bridge linking the stadium to the former Olympic village.
On the south end of the memorial is a field of symbolic bronze and stone chairs — one for each person lost, arranged according to what floor of the building they were on.
According to one tradition, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries his body was thrown into the nearby River Soar, although other evidence suggests that a memorial stone was visible in 1612, in a garden built on the site of Greyfriars.
There is currently a memorial ledger stone in the choir of the Cathedral, as well as a stone plaque on the bridge where his remains were allegedly thrown into the Soar.
The text then states that Samuel erected a large stone at the battle site as a memorial, and there ensued a long period of peace thereafter.
The memorial stone, now moved inside the church, has foxgloves and Witheringia solanaceae ( see below ) carved upon it to commemorate his discovery and his wider contribution to botany.
In 2005, the IWW's centenary year, a stone was laid ( 51 ° 41 ' 598N 4 ° 17. 135W Geocacher ), in a public access forest in Wales, commemorating the centenary, and with planted Sequoias, as a memorial to US IWW and Earth First!
Treblinka memorial stone for Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto.
In St. Paul's, Covent Garden, known as the actors ' church, a panel was installed to commemorate Novello, and in 1972, to mark the 21st anniversary of his death, a memorial stone was unveiled in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Subsequently the Lycians were verbose in stone, carving memorial, historical and governmental inscriptions.
In 1965 a memorial of stone from Montfort-l ' Amaury was laid on the site of the former altar by Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Harry Hylton-Foster and Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey.
Calligraphy continues to flourish in the forms of wedding and event invitations, font design / typography, original hand-lettered logo design, religious art, announcements / graphic design / commissioned calligraphic art, cut stone inscriptions and memorial documents.
The Piltdown Man memorial stone.
The inscription on the memorial stone reads:
Ptolemy III's stone contains decrees about priestly orders, and is a memorial for his daughter Berenice.
* The Decree of Canopus, also called " Table of Tanis ", is a memorial stone promulgated by an assemblage of priests in honour of Ptolemy III Euergetes and his consort Berenice.

stone and now
When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.
The original, now broken, socket stone for the cross lies nearby.
The Roman author Vitruvius, relying on the writings ( now lost ) of Greek authors, tells us that the ancient Greeks believed that their Doric order developed from techniques for building in wood in which the earlier smoothed tree trunk was replaced by a stone cylinder.
The mouth and estuary of the Congo was now discovered ( perhaps in August 1482 ), and marked by a Padrão, or stone pillar ( still existing, but only in fragments ) erected on Shark Point, attesting the sovereignty of Portugal ; the great river was also ascended for a short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives of the Bakongo kingdom.
For many years, granite and volcanic rocks have been quarried locally for road base metal, riprap, armour stone and asphalt, although the main purpose now is for concrete aggregates.
Archaeologists say the artifact is a 1st century Middle Eastern stone vessel, possibly from Antioch, Syria ( now Turkey ); its history can be traced to the 11th century, and it now rests atop an ornate stem and base, made in the Medieval era of alabaster, gold, and gemstones.
While laying the foundation stone of the National Defence Academy ( India ) in 1949, he stated: " We, who for generations had talked about and attempted in everything a peaceful way and practiced non-violence, should now be, in a sense, glorifying our army, navy and air force.
In the territory now covered by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, there is evidence of primitive inhabitants right back to the Paleolithic or old stone age over 35, 000 years ago.
General Jacques-François Menou, who had been one of the first to see the stone in 1799, was now in command of the French expedition.
Defeated in battle, Menou and the remnant of his army retreated to Alexandria where they were surrounded and besieged, the stone now inside the city.
Work on the stone now focused on fuller understanding of the texts and their contexts by comparing the three versions with one another.
No earlier evidence of human occupation has been found, but the island almost certainly formed part of the land bridge used for the settlement of Australia and New Guinea by at least 40, 000 BC There is no evidence of Homo erectus having reached Sulawesi ; crude stone tools first discovered in 1947 on the right bank of the Walennae river at Berru, which were thought to date to the Pleistocene on the basis of their association with vertebrate fossils, are now thought to date to perhaps 50, 000 BC
The river is now confined between high stone embankments which were begun in 1876.
Its stone was used to construct the pillars outside the British Museum in London, and to build London Bridge ( now in Arizona ).
The name " topaz " is derived ( via Old French: Topace and Latin: Topazus ) from the Greek Τοπάζιος ( Τοpáziοs ) or Τοπάζιον ( Τοpáziοn ), the ancient name of St. John's Island in the Red Sea which was difficult to find and from which a yellow stone ( now believed to be chrysolite: yellowish olivine ) was mined in ancient times ; topaz itself ( rather than topazios ) wasn not really known about before the classical era.
** Foundation stone for Mirzapur Cadet College is led in East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ).
The Hercules monument is a huge octagonal stone structure carrying a giant replica of Hercules " Farnese " ( now at Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, Italy ).
The stone was mined from the Mogok region of Burma ( now Myanmar ) in the 1930s.
There is no reason to assume that the precious stone referred to by this name in the Bible is the same as what is now understood by the name.
Llywelyn's stone coffin is now in Llanrwst parish church.
This abbey was later moved to Maenan, becoming the Maenan Abbey, near Llanrwst, and Llywelyn's stone coffin can now be seen in Llanrwst parish church.
Among them was the Campbell family of " Duntroon "; their imposing stone house is now the officers ' mess of the Royal Military College, Duntroon.

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