* Stone blocks used in masonry can be dressed or rough.

According to Archibald Sayce, the primitive pictograms of the Uruk period era suggest that " Stone was scarce, but was already cut into blocks and seals.

In the early 1780s Elias Stone bought Delight and divided it into blocks and streets ; these still carry their original names today.

Stone was removed from the cliff quarries either by sea, or using horse carts to transport large blocks to Swanage.

Stone carving differs from stone as in marble quarrying in that it is the act of shaping or incising the stone, whereas quarrying is the activity of acquiring useful stone, usually in blocks, from geological sources.

The west cliffs are quarried to obtain blocks of Hinuera Stone, the name given to welded Ignimbite used for building cladding.

* Anchor Stone Blocks, a brand of German stone blocks

Brooke Crutchley, Lewis's successor at the press, was responsible for printing the collection of Raverat's work by Reynolds Stone and described the care taken over printing from old warped blocks.

The first, by Reynolds Stone, presents many of her engravings printed from the original blocks at the Cambridge University Press ; the second, by Joanna Selborne and Lindsay Newman, presents some 75 engravings printed from the blocks at the Fleece Press, and has long listings of Raverat's work.

In Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, one of the various objects that Kirby randomly transforms into when using his " Stone " ( down + B ) special attack is one of Lip's garbage blocks from Panel de Pon.

They are meant to reflect the Stone Arch Bridge, a major landmark of the city that crosses the Mississippi River a few blocks away.

The first block to be built, the north, administration block was constructed from 9 June 1730, using Bath Stone this would be used for all the blocks, being finished in 1732, this contains the Great Hall and the main staircase the walls of which are covered by murals painted by William Hogarth, again he gave his services for free.

Stone constructions for snow storage along winter and its transformation in ice blocks to be sold.

These items consist of the Material Shield and Magic Shield, which makes one ally invunerable to physical attacks and magical attacks for three turns, respectively ; the Power Up and Speed Up items, which double the power or speed of one ally for three turns, respectively ; the Pandemionum, which forces an enemy to attack one ally for three turns, the Speed Down, which halves the speed of an enemy for three turns, the Magic Signet Stone, which blocks a minor enemy's actions for three turns, the Power Down, halving an enemy's attack and defense for three turns, the Smoke Ball, which guarantees escape from battle, and the Psyche Bomb X, a non elemental multi hit attack item which is the strongest in the game.

** No connection: toy blocks, Anchor Stone Blocks, KEVA planks and Kapla

Stone blocks had an advantage over timber sleepers in that they left the middle of the track unhindered for the hooves of horses.

This marks the beginning of the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age ; its end is taken to be the end of the last Ice Age, around 10, 000 years ago.

* Legends place the origins in Biblical times and consider the stone to be the Stone of Jacob taken by Jacob while in Haran.

In 1296 the Stone was captured by Edward I as spoils of war and taken to Westminster Abbey, where it was fitted into a wooden chair, known as King Edward's Chair, on which most subsequent English sovereigns have been crowned.

2011 novel by Jeanette Baker " Legacy " ( Casablanca Classics ) is a fictional account of the possibility of the original Stone of Scone being hidden away and a replica taken to Westminster.

The album only had one single taken from it, " Stone by Stone "-the group's final single release.

Fa Zhou learns that Mulan has taken his place and prays to his family's ancestors, who order their " Great Stone Dragon " to protect her.

Fa Zhou learns that Mulan has taken his place and prays to his family's ancestors, who order their " Great Stone Dragon " to protect her.

Just before Angmar captured and destroyed the Watchtower in, the Stone was removed and taken to Fornost.

Recently, film footage taken by Fred Stone of Astaire performing in Gay Divorce with Luce's successor, Dorothy Stone, in New York in 1933 was uncovered by dancer and historian Betsy Baytos and now represents the earliest known performance footage of Astaire.

From the 1970s, these ideas were taken up by popular writers of second-wave feminism and expanded with the speculations of Margaret Murray on witchcraft, by the Goddess movement, and in feminist Wicca, as well as in works by Elizabeth Gould Davis, Riane Eisler, and Merlin Stone.

The cliffs of the main plateau are split by Platteklip Gorge (" Flat Stone Gorge "), which provides an easy and direct ascent to the summit and was the route taken by António de Saldanha on the first recorded ascent of the mountain in 1503.

Stone County Courthouse, photo taken from Cavers Avenue, Wiggins, MS, circa 1920

Stone County Courthouse, photo taken from Cavers Avenue, Wiggins, MS, December 2010

Portions of the township have been taken to form Anglesea Borough ( on June 13, 1885 ; now North Wildwood City ), Avalon Borough ( April 18, 1892 ), Wildwood ( May 1, 1895 ), Stone Harbor Borough ( April 3, 1914 ) and West Wildwood ( April 21, 1920 ).

Stone has said that after EMI was taken over by Terra Firma, her relationship with the label has gone sour and that there is " no working relationship ".

Many of the medieval allegories for a Christ were adopted for the lapis, and the Christ and the Stone were indeed taken as identical in a mystical sense.

A studio portrait of Stone and baby Alice Stone Blackwell | Alice taken in Boston, 1858

Later, in 1977, since the name Mammoth was already taken by another band, the name was replaced by Van Halen, and Stone was replaced by Michael Anthony.

Any praise or insult to a Home Stone is taken personally by those who live in the city it symbolizes.

Zahi Hawass displays a Ptolemaic statue discovered at Taposiris Magna on May 8, 2010Hawass spearheaded a movement to return many prominent unique and / or irregularly taken Ancient Egyptian artifacts, such as the Rosetta Stone, the bust of Nefertiti, the Dendera zodiac ceiling painting from the Dendera Temple, the bust of Ankhhaf ( the architect of the Khafra Pyramid ), the faces of Amenhotep III's tomb at the Louvre Museum, the Luxor Temple's obelisk at the Place de la Concorde and the statue of Hemiunu, nephew of the Pharaoh Khufu, builder of the largest pyramid, to Egypt from collections in various other countries.

Barton W. Stone himself had in fact taken part in the abolition of the Springfield Presbytery, and authored at that time a very influential document, The Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery, which contained within it the idea that the existence of all such bodies was necessarily divisive and hence sinful.

By comparison, Stone Harbor bird sanctuary's allies seem less formidable, for aside from the Audubon Society, they are mostly the snowy, common and cattle egrets and the Louisiana, green, little blue and black-crowned herons who nest and feed there.

With these completed and ice gone from the St. Peter's River ( present-day Minnesota river ) their 250 bushels of wheat, 100 bushels of oats and barley and 30 bushels of peas and some chickens were loaded onto the flat-bottomed boats and rowed up the river to Big Stone Lake, across into Lake Traverse, and down the Red.

The view from the side of Stone Mountain

After marveling at the view from the side of Stone Mountain, which Duke described as " spectacular ", the astronauts gathered samples in the vicinity.

Bypassing station seven to save time, Young and Duke arrived at station eight on the lower flank of Stone Mountain, where they sampled material on a ray from South Ray Crater for about an hour.

On Christmas Day 1950, the Stone of Destiny was stolen from Westminster Abbey.

* Traded Out ; Hard Luck ; Stone Broke ; Papers from Pump Handle Court, by a Briefless Barrister ( 1884 )

* Stone, Geoffrey R. Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism ( 2004 )

Love and Erlandson continued to pursue with the band, and released the single " Be A Man "— an outtake from the Celebrity Skin sessions — for the soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film Any Given Sunday ( 1999 ).

" Litica " simply names the Stone Age as the point from which the transition began and is not another-lithic age.

The Eneolithic was never part of the Stone Age, which ended conclusively the moment the first smelterer succeeded in obtaining copper from copper ore for the first time.

Stone axes were being made from about 3000 BC not just from flint, but from a wide variety of hard rocks from across Britain and North America as well.

However, in the original article on Young from the first edition of the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll and a subsequent article in the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide, critic Dave Marsh used this album to accuse Young of deliberately manufacturing a self-mythology, arguing that while his highlights could be seen to place him on a level with other artists from his generation like Bob Dylan or The Beatles, the particulars of his catalogue did not bear this out.

In 1803 Stone and others withdrew from the Kentucky Presbytery and formed the Springfield Presbytery.

" The Last Will " is a brief document in which Stone and five others announced their withdrawal from Presbyterianism and their intention to be solely part of the body of Christ.

" Slap style " may have influenced electric bass guitar players who, from the mid-sixties ( particularly Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone ), developed a technique called slap and pop that used the thumb of the plucking hand to hit the string, making a slapping sound but still letting the note ring, and the index or middle finger of the plucking hand to pull the string back so it hits the fretboard, achieving the pop sound described above.

Prior to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and eastern North America, as well as from early 5th century Labrador, where the bird seems to have occurred only as a straggler.

Different from the Rolling Stone list, which listed guitarists in descending order, Guitar World divided guitarists by music genre — such as " Lords of Hard Rock " for hard rock artists or " Jazzmen " for jazz players.