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* 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey.
* 1996 – Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
The Scotichronicon describes how Scota, a sister of the Egyptian Pharoh Tutankhamen, fled her family and landed in Scotland, bringing with her the Stone of Scone.
** After its removal from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1950, the Stone of Scone resurfaces on the altar of Arbroath Abbey.
* The Stone of Destiny is placed at Scone Palace, Scotland.
The English invasion campaign had subdued most of the country by August and, after removing the Stone of Destiny from Scone Abbey and transporting it to Westminster Abbey, Edward convened a parliament at Berwick, where the Scottish nobles paid homage to him as King of England.
The Stone of Scone (;, ), also known as the Stone of Destiny and often referred to in England as The Coronation Stone, is an oblong block of red sandstone, used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland and later the monarchs of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.
Replica of the Stone of Scone at Scone Palace
The Stone of Scone in the Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey, 1855.
The Westminster Stone theory posits that the monks at Scone Palace hid the real stone in the River Tay or buried it on Dunsinane Hill, and that the English troops were fooled into taking a substitute.
The Stone, although not directly referred to, was mentioned in Macbeth: "... shall travel to be crowned at Scone ..."
The Stone of Scone figures prominently in Das Königsprojekt, a 1974 novel by the German writer Carl Amery.
The return of the Stone of Scone to Scotland is documented in the Scottish Gaelic song Oran na Cloiche ( Song of the Stone ), covered by artists including Kathleen MacInnes and Mànran.
In 1996 Trilobyte released the game Clandestiny in which the ultimate goal is to find the Stone of Scone and return it to its proper place.
Terry Pratchett authored the 1999 novel The Fifth Elephant centered around the theft of a Dwarfish coronation seat made from hardened bread and called the Scone of Stone.
Patricia Kennealy Morrison, in her science-fantasy series The Keltiad, has a 1986 novel The Throne of Scone, in which the Stone has been transmuted into a throne that her starfaring Kelts have brought with them from Earth.
The stone is referred to in the comedy play by Derek Webb called Bringing Back the Bluestones in which a Welsh group decide to emulate the return of the Stone of Scone to Scotland by demanding the return of the Bluestones from Stonehenge to Pembrokeshire.
In the ensuing argument the king refers to the Stone of Scone.
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.
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Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
Other forms of agate include Lake Superior agate, carnelian agate ( exhibiting reddish hues ), Botswana agate, blue lace agate, plume agates, moss agate, tube agate ( with visible flow channels or pinhole-sized ' tubes '), fortification agate ( which exhibit little or no banding structure ), fire agate ( which has internal flash or ' fire ', the result of a layer of clear agate over a layer of hydrothermally-deposited hematite ), Mexican crazy-lace agate, which often exhibits a brightly colored, complexly banded pattern ( also called Rodeo Agate and Rosetta Stone depending on who owned the mine at the time ).
Because of its classical Greco-Roman style, the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano's Great Stone Church in California, United States has been called the " American Acropolis ".
As early American Indians lacked the proper pottery that could be used directly over a fire, they developed a technique which has caused many anthropologists to call them " Stone Boilers ".
Once labelled by Rolling Stone as " the most controversial woman in the history of rock ", Love's sometimes outrageous behavior has given her a lasting place in pop culture, as well as a polarizing reputation in the media.
He has appeared as Count Rugen in The Princess Bride, Charley Ford in The Long Riders, Lord Cromer in Mrs Henderson Presents and Dr. Stone in A Few Good Men.
The story of the Sword in the Stone has an analogue in some versions of the story of Sigurd ( the Norse proto-Siegfried ), whose father, Sigmund, draws the sword Gram out of the tree Barnstokkr where it is embedded by the Norse god Odin.
According to Lawrence Stone, narrative has traditionally been the main rhetorical device used by historians.
Kid Rock has influenced such artist and groups as Uncle Kracker, Paradime, Ty Stone, Jocaine and 75 North, Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson, Jason Aldean, & The Young Brothers.
Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg criticised the magazine writing that " Rolling Stone has essentially become the house organ of the Democratic National Committee.
" Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner has made all of his political donations to Democrats.
Rolling Stone magazine has been criticized for reconsidering many classic albums that it had previously dismissed and for frequent abuse of the 3. 5 star rating.
Rolling Stone has maintained a website for many years, with selected current articles, reviews, blogs, MP3s, and other features such as searchable and free encyclopedic articles about artists, with images and sometimes sound clips of their work.
Rolling Stone also has a page at MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.
As of April 19, 2010, the website has been updated drastically and features the complete archives of Rolling Stone.
Evelyn Evelyn has been featured in three of the four publications ( Rolling Stone being the exception ).
According to the museum's records, the Rosetta Stone is its most-visited single object and a simple image of it has been the museum's best selling postcard for several decades.
Other than during wartime, the Rosetta Stone has left the British Museum only once: for one month in October 1972, to be displayed alongside Champollion's Lettre at the Louvre in Paris on the 150th anniversary of its publication.
For example, fully understanding the key set of genes to the human leucocyte antigen has been described as being " the Rosetta Stone of immunology ".
The flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana has been called the " Rosetta Stone of flowering time ".
A Gamma ray burst ( GRB ) found in conjunction with a supernova has been called a Rosetta Stone for understanding the origin of GRBs.
The technique of Doppler echocardiography has been called a Rosetta Stone for clinicians trying to understand the complex process by which the left ventricle of the human heart can be filled during various forms of diastolic dysfunction.
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Gellar has appeared on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Glamour, FHM, Rolling Stone, and other magazines.

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