On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

This shelter could be built in regions where water or rock is close to the surface, making it impractical to build an underground shelter.

The shelter illustrated in figure 12 is based on such a room built in a new home in the Washington, D.C. area in the Spring of 1959.

The new Warwick plant is being built at our expense and under our direction.

It is a simple task to haul a boat fifty or one hundred miles to a lake or reservoir on the new, light, strong, easy-to-operate trailers which are built to accommodate almost any kind of small boat and retail from $100 to $2,000.

A new waterfront site for the bureau is now being built at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to provide the most modern marine testing facilities as a further tool to keep the sport safe.

The interlocking frame we built at the model railroader workshop and then installed on Paul Larson's railroad follows the Fig. 1 scheme and is shown beginning in Fig. 7, page 65, and in the photos.

Even when they are finished, however, the contrast will remain, for Istanbul is the only city in the world that is built upon two continents.

A well-publicized entrant which has achieved success only recently is the built liquid detergent, with which the major problem today is incorporation of builder and active into a small volume using a sufficiently high builder/active ratio.

These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.

The tenacity with which present metaphysical attitudes fetishize private intuition offers the strongest evidence that the gulf between scientific and delphic ways of philosophizing is built into the present conflict over the limits and purpose of science, religion and ideology.

Giovanni Bernini's `` Fountain of the Rivers '', in the center of the piazza, is built around a Roman obelisk from the Circus of Maxentius which rests on grottoes and rocks, with four huge figures, one at each corner, denoting four great rivers from different continents -- the Danube, the Ganges, the Nile, and the Plate.

Time is built into the motion picture, which cannot exist without time.

Last year Beyeler arranged to sell $1,500,000 worth of Klees to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which will house them in a museum that is yet to be built.

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

With such a dream arising, at least in part, from the Protestant heritage of the United States and built into the foundations of the nation, it is not surprising that many efforts were made to give it concrete expression.

Its size is determined by its function as a glycogen and fat storage unit, and may change with the seasons as these reserves are built or used up.

First a raft is built first, then eggs are laid in the centre, and then a foam cap is placed.

One such project is the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project that built on existing conservation efforts in Panama to create a country-wide response to the threat of chytridiomycosis.

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

In Greek mythology, Aquarius is sometimes associated with Deucalion, the figure who built a ship with his wife Pyrrha to survive an imminent flood.

Fire is represented in the Aztec religion by a flint ; to the Native Americans, a mouse ; to the Hindu and Islamic faiths, a lightning bolt ; to the Scythians, an axe, to the Greeks, an apple-bough ; and in Christian iconography, a lion.

Although first attested in the sense ' sharp pain caused by elves ', it is later attested denoting Neolithic flint arrow-heads, which by the 17th century seem to have been attributed in the region to elvish folk, and which were used in healing rituals, and alleged to be used by witches ( and perhaps elves ) to injure people and cattle.

The period from 700, 000 – 300, 000 years ago is also known as the Acheulean, when H. ergaster ( or erectus ) made large stone hand axes out of flint and quartzite, at first quite rough ( Early Acheulian ), later " retouched " by additional, more subtle strikes at the sides of the flakes.

( The spring-loaded arm that holds a piece of flint or pyrite is referred to as a cock because of its resemblance to a rooster.

Lead glass or flint glass is more ' brilliant ' because the increased refractive index causes noticeably more specular reflection and increased optical dispersion.

What is now England, a country within the United Kingdom, was inhabited by early humans 800, 000 years ago as the discovery of flint tools at Happisburgh in Norfolk have revealed.

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.

There is evidence of prehistoric settlements at the site of the town: flint arrowheads and Bronze Age artefacts have been found ; Iron Age forts have been excavated on both the East and West Hills suggests an early move to the safety of the valley in between, so that the settlement was already a port when the Romans arrived in Britain for the first time in 55 BC.

A kremlin (, fortress ; same root as in kremen (, flint )) is a major fortified central complex found in historic Russian cities.

The northern part of this sandy plateau includes a highly fertile flint area which is no longer affected by the folding processes found in the Alps, while the southern part is covered with morainic hills.

A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically a centimetre or so in length and half a centimetre wide.

It is produced from either a small blade ( microblade ) or a larger blade-like piece of flint by abrupt or truncated retouching, which leaves a very typical piece of waste, called a microburin.

They were all made from blades or from microblades ( nearly always of flint ), using the microburin technique ( which implies that it is not possible to conserve the remains of the heal or the conchoidal flakes from the blank ).

It is possible that this building was used as a house to make simple tools such as bone needles or flint axes.

The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with bamboo spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as flint, obsidian, iron, steel or bronze.

There is evidence of the exchange of obsidian and flint during the stone age.

Obsidian is thought to have provided the material to make cutting utensils or tools, although since other more easily obtainable material were available, use was found exclusive to the higher status of the tribe using " the rich man's flint ".

A slightly later-starting Neolithic culture found in central Wallonia is the so-called " Groupe de Blicquy ", which may represent an offshoot of the LBK settlers. One notable archaeological site in this region is the Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes.

Inside the nodule, flint is usually dark grey, black, green, white, or brown in colour, and often has a glassy or waxy appearance.

The exact mode of formation of flint is not yet clear but it is thought that it occurs as a result of chemical changes in compressed sedimentary rock formations, during the process of diagenesis.

Called " flint ", ferrocerium is also used in many cigarette lighters.

It is common to find chert or flint nodules embedded in chalk.