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Stone and towers
: 12-14: North, East, and West Blockhouses: Stone towers built by the first Americans garrisoning Fort Mackinac standing like restless sentinels, watching over the three main palisades of Fort Mackinac.
* The towers are included in a collage on the rear cover of the Sly and the Family Stone album There's a Riot Goin ' On.

Stone and were
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.
There were four kinds of allegiances ( Rittson v Stordy ( 1855 ) 3 Sm & G 230 ; De Geer v Stone ( 1882 ) 22 Ch D 243 ; Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 54 LT 684 ; Gibson, Gavin v Gibson 3 KB 379 ; Joyce v DPP AC 347 ; Collingwood v Pace ( 1661 ) O Bridg 410 ; Lane v Bennett ( 1836 ) 1 M & W 70 ; Lyons Corp v East India Co ( 1836 ) 1 Moo PCC 175 ; Birtwhistle v Vardill ( 1840 ) 7 Cl & Fin 895 ; R v Lopez, R v Sattler ( 1858 ) Dears & B 525 ; Ex p Brown ( 1864 ) 5 B & S 280 );
Aron Habrit ), also known as the Ark of the Testimony, is a chest described in Book of Exodus as containing the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed and pieces of manna.
* 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.
These works, which included the famed Rosetta Stone, were the first important group of large sculptures to be acquired by the Museum.
Stone bas-reliefs, including the famous Royal Lion Hunt relief's ( Room 10 ), that were found in the palaces of the Assyrian kings at Nimrud and Nineveh.
According to George Cameron Stone, " Entire suits of mail kusari gusoku were worn on occasions, sometimes under the ordinary clothing ".
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.
Stone suggested that there was nothing absurd in this view, and noted that many entities now regarded as having legal rights were, in the past, regarded as " things " that were regarded as legally rightless ; for example, aliens, children and women.
Stone quarrying, sugar-beet farming, and the slaughter of sheep were among the area's earliest industries.
Groucho developed friendships with rock star Alice Cooper — the two were photographed together for Rolling Stone magazine — and television host Dick Cavett, becoming a frequent guest on Cavett's late-night talk show.
Stones attached to sticks with strips of leather or animal sinew were being used as hammers by about 30, 000 BCE during the middle of the Paleolithic Stone Age.
The original buildings of campus were designed by Edward Durell Stone.
Only three of his books were published during his lifetime: Mafeking Road published by Dassie, and Jacaranda in the Night and Cold Stone Jug published by APB.
A review in Rolling Stone magazine referred to Physical Graffiti as Led Zeppelin's " bid for artistic respectability ", adding that the only bands Led Zeppelin had to compete with for the title " The World's Best Rock Band " were The Rolling Stones and The Who.
Baum wrote a sequel, The Woggle-Bug, but since Montgomery and Stone balked at appearing when the original was still running, the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman were omitted from this adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz, which was seen as a self-rip-off by critics and proved to be a major flop before it could reach Broadway.
Religious works by Botta, including the Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center were shown in London at the Royal Institute of British Architects in an exhibition entitled, Architetture del Sacro: Prayers in Stone.
Subdivisions of " earlier " and " later " were added to the Stone Age by Thomsen and especially his junior colleague and employee Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae.
Stone tools were used by perhaps as many as hundreds of people to create the pillars, which may have supported roofs.
Christine Jorgensen, Beth Elliott, Renée Richards, Sandy Stone, Billy Tipton, Alan L. Hart, April Ashley, Caroline Cossey (" Tula "), Jahna Steele, and Nancy Jean Burkholder were outed as transsexuals by European or American media or, in the case of Billy Tipton, by his coroner.
After him in the 19th century in Russia there were written such operatic masterpieces as Rusalka and The Stone Guest by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky, Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin, Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and The Snow Maiden and Sadko by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
The Bambuti were linked to Pygmy tribes whose Stone Age culture was slowly replaced by Bantu tribes coming from regions north of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo about 2, 000 years ago, introducing Iron Age culture to the region.

Stone and found
Also, " Absalom, Absalom Would I die for you my son, I would have it all undone, The way it all came down " is found on the 1998 album Largo in the song " Gimme A Stone ".
Stone and bone needles found in ancient tombs have made Joseph Needham speculate that acupuncture might have originated in the Shang dynasty.
* 1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
Stone implements found in the Tian Shan mountains indicate the presence of human society in what is now Kyrgyzstan as many as 200, 000 to 300, 000 years ago.
Stone stelae, votive offerings, or ones probably commemmorating victories and showing feasts, are also found from temples, which unlike more official ones lack inscriptions that would explain them ; the fragmentary Stele of the Vultures is an early example of the inscribed type, and the Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III a large and solid late one.
The so-called Rosemarkie sculpture fragments | Daniel Stone, cross slab fragment found at Rosemarkie, Easter Ross
The Rosetta Stone is listed as " a stone of black granite, bearing three inscriptions ... found at Rosetta ", in a contemporary catalogue of the artifacts discovered by the French expedition and surrendered to British troops in 1801.
Two other inscriptions of the Memphis decrees have been found since the discovery of the Rosetta Stone: the Nubayrah Stele and an inscription found at the Temple of Philae.
A Gamma ray burst ( GRB ) found in conjunction with a supernova has been called a Rosetta Stone for understanding the origin of GRBs.
* In a huge area of nearly (( 2 km )) located in the center-south around the Gambia there have been found alignments of boulders known as the Stone Circles of Senegambia which were placed on the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites in 2006.
A number of enigmatic Carved Stone Balls have been found at the site and some are on display in the museum.
Other similar evidence can be found on standing stones from around the 7th century AD reflecting a hunt using hounds, such as the Hilton of Cadboll Stone ).
Modern Awash River, Ethiopia, descendant of the Palaeo-Awash, source of the sediments in which the oldest Stone Age tools have been found
De Gébelin wrote this treatise before Jean-François Champollion had deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs, or indeed before the Rosetta Stone had been discovered, and later Egyptologists found nothing in the Egyptian language to support de Gébelin's fanciful etymologies.
Also in Keen 3 a sign with the complete SGA can be found in the secret level, similar to the Rosetta Stone.
He found evidence that suggested that seagoing war canoes as large as Viking ships and lashed together two and two had brought Stone Age Northwest American Indians to Polynesia around 1100, and they mingled with Tiki's people.
Meanwhile, evidence of lentil cultivation has also been found in Egyptian pyramids and dry pea seeds have been discovered in a Swiss village that are believed to date back to the Stone Age.
Birds were perhaps important as a food source, and bones of as many as 80 species have been found in excavations of early Stone Age settlements.
The Bible's story is corroborated by the Mesha Stele, the Moabite Stone that was found in the Jordanian town of Dhiban in 1868.
The enigmatic Colter Stone, with the inscription " John Colter ", was found in a field in eastern Idaho in 1931.
Most of the cast and crew found jobs on Sesame Street through personal relationships with Stone and the other producers.

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