Polished red granite tombstone

Polished granite plaque at Missouri high point Taum Sauk reading " HIGHEST ELEVATION 1772. 68 MSL VERIFIED MARCH 23, 1991 MISSOURI: MISSOURI ASSOCIATION OF REGISTERED LAND SURVEYORS "

# Polished glutinous rice is soaked overnight and cooked.

A long poem that is often overlooked, because it first appeared in the commercially unsuccessful 1936 anthology New Provinces, is Canadian poet A. M. Klein's meditation on Spinoza, " Out of the Pulver and the Polished Lens.

Polished, bone is more opaque and less shiny than ivory.

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He is best remembered with his famous character " Cilalı İbo " ( Ibo the Polished ).

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Polished glass is especially prone to stiction.

Polished handovers can compensate for a lack of basic speed to some extent, and disqualification for dropping the baton or failing to transfer it within the box is common, even at the highest level.

In some sites, BRW pottery is associated with Late Harappan pottery, and according to some scholars like Tribhuan N. Roy, the BRW may have directly influenced the Painted Grey Ware and Northern Black Polished cultures.

It is succeeded by Northern Black Polished Ware from ca.

Polished is an award winning short film directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly, featuring William B. Davis as a lonely aging businessman who yearns for human contact from shoeshiner Karyn Dwyer.

The Northern Black Polished Ware culture ( abbreviated NBPW or NBP ) of the Indian Subcontinent ( circa 700 – 200 BC ) is an Iron Age culture, succeeding the Painted Grey Ware culture.

Polished stainless steel will also color ( usually a yellow tint ), but less than chrome in most cases.

In 2002, Austin Clarke won for his book The Polished Hoe, published by Canadian-owned Thomas Allen Publishers.

Polished adzes and axes made of ground stone, such as amphibolite, basalt or Jadeite are typical for the Neolithic period.

Polished stone axes were important for the widespread clearance of woods and forest during the Neolithic period, when crop and livestock farming developed on a large scale.

Pubs in the town centre include The Duke of York, The Wellington, The Royal George, The Golden Lion, The White Heart ( Wetherspoons ) and The Polished Knob, known for live bands and music.

* 2002, Giller Prize, for The Polished Hoe

* November 5-Austin Clarke wins the Giller Prize for his novel The Polished Hoe

** Polished stone cot, meant for cool effect

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In spite of his growing literary interests, Klein's early poetry of the 1920s and 1930s was largely concerned with Jewish themes, including the history of Jews in Western society (" Design for Mediaeval Tapestry "), the importance of religion as a mediating force in modern society (" Heirloom "), and tributes to important figures in Jewish culture (" Out of the Pulver and the Polished Lens ," about the philosopher Spinoza ).

The company's works, which include Austin Clarke's acclaimed The Polished Hoe have been nominated for several awards, including the Dora Mavor Moore award for 2008's production of Intimate Apparel.

Polished slabs are often cut into tiles or countertops and installed in all kinds of residential and commercial properties.

In 2011, the Town of Strathmore celebrated its centennial – and will release the book 100 Years of Memories: Celebrating Strathmore ’ s Centennial through Polished Publishing Group in early 2012.

Polished stones.

Polished stone mirrors from Central and South America date from around 2000 BC onwards.

Polished 12 " and 6 " silicon wafers.

Ibn al-Nafis, in The Polished Book on Experimental Ophthalmology, discovered that the muscle behind the eyeball does not support the ophthalmic nerve, and that the optic nerves transect but do not get in touch with each other.

The prize winning Barbadian novelist Austin Clarke writes in detail surrounding this attack in his novels " Pig Tails ' n Breadfruit: A Culinary Memoir " and Giller Prize-winning The Polished Hoe.

Polished jasper pebble, one inch ( 2. 5 cm ) long

Polished native copper nugget from Keweenaw County.

Polished cross-sections of elephant and mammoth ivory dentine display uniquely characteristic Schreger lines.

Polished surface, overall size 8. 6 x 7. 5 x 3. 1 cm.

On August 12 the band released BBC Sessions and Other Polished Turds, a collection of rare songs and b-sides, exclusively as a digital release.

Polished slab of bowenite serpentine, a variety of antigorite.

Scientists say it is the last spewings of a great glacier, but one rather feels that only a malevolent giant could have piled up those crouching monsters of granite which still seem to preserve a sort of suspended, ominous life in them.

The memorial is a pentagonal granite marker high.

More recently, high-quality crystals have been obtained from Pike's Peak, Colorado, where it is found associated with smoky quartz, orthoclase, and albite in a coarse granite or pegmatite.

Geologic occurrence is in granite pegmatites, high-temperature tin veins, and greisens.

Balmoral Castle is built from granite quarried at Invergelder on the estate, and comprises two main blocks, each arranged around a courtyard.

The Museum is faced with Portland stone, but the perimeter walls and other parts of the building were built using Haytor granite from Dartmoor in South Devon, transported via the unique Haytor Granite Tramway.

Bodmin Moor () is a granite moorland in northeastern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Bodmin Moor is one of five granite plutons in Cornwall that make up part of the Cornubian batholith ( see also Geology of Cornwall ).

The aggregate is generally a coarse gravel or crushed rocks such as limestone, or granite, along with a fine aggregate such as sand.

To the northwest is the Yade Massif, a granite plateau with an altitude of.

The weathering of silicate rocks like granite, on the other hand, is a net CO < sub > 2 </ sub > sink because it produces abundant Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > but very little CO < sub > 2 </ sub >.

Such rocks as granite, which have cooled very slowly and under great pressures, have completely crystallized ; but many kinds of lava were poured out at the surface and cooled very rapidly, and in this latter group a small amount of amorphous or glassy matter is common.

In the dry season, it has shallows, and is obstructed by sandbanks, a few rapids and granite rocks.

Childe's Tomb is a granite cross on Dartmoor, Devon, England.

Childe's Tomb is a reconstructed granite cross on the south-east edge of Foxtor Mires, about 500 metres north of Fox Tor on Dartmoor, Devon, England at.

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 whole is surrounded by a circle of granite stones set on their edge which once surrounded the cairn — the rocks of which are now scattered around — that was originally built over a large kistvaen that still exists beneath the pedestal.

The granite peak is located in the Tijuca Forest, a national park.

The peak of Corcovado is a big granite dome, which describes a generally vertical rocky formation.

The four pillars set up by Cão on his two voyages have all been discovered in situ, and the inscriptions on two of them from Cape Santa Maria and Cape Cross, dated 1482 and 1485 respectively, are still to be read and have been printed ; the Cape Cross padrão is now at Kiel ( replaced on the spot by a granite facsimile ); those from the Congo estuary and the more southerly Monte Negro are in the Museum of the Lisbon Geographical Society.

A solid base is a must for any successful course, and where early courses had plain dirt pads, modern courses use concrete, or more cost effective materials such as mulch, decomposed granite, or other natural materials.

Its intricately carved wooden fascia is supported on granite columns.

Ocean floor material is largely composed of basalt, which is relatively dense ; when it collides with the lighter granite rocks of Central America, the ocean floor is forced down under the land mass, creating the deep Middle America Trench that lies off the coast of El Salvador.