* 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.

Stone of Scone has appeared in print, television, and film:

The Stone, although not directly referred to, was mentioned in Macbeth: "... shall travel to be crowned at Scone ..."

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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* March 3 – Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain in the U. S. state of Georgia.

Wang has made wedding gowns for many well-known public figures, such as Chelsea Clinton, Karenna Gore, Ivanka Trump, Campbell Brown, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Victoria Beckham, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Garner, Sharon Stone, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Hilary Duff, Uma Thurman, Holly Hunter, Kate Hudson, Khloe Kardashian and Kim Kardashian.

* Written in Stone – Burial locations of literary figures.

The letter was signed by 34 prominent figures in the U. S. entertainment industry, including the top executives of MGM, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal and Sony Pictures Entertainment as well as actors Dustin Hoffman and Goldie Hawn, director Oliver Stone, writers Mario Puzo and Gore Vidal and talk-show host Larry King.

Comic fantasy may ignore all possible logic in search of humor, particularly if it is parodying other fantasies ' faulty world-building, as in Diana Wynne Jones's Dark Lord of Derkholm, or the illogic of the setting is integral to the comedy, as in L. Sprague de Camp's Solomon's Stone, where the fantasy world is populated by the heroic and glamorous figures that people daydream about being, resulting in a severe shortage of workers in the more mundane, day-to-day industries.

Quoting figures available at the time, a Rolling Stone feature claimed that up to half a million Bengalis had been killed by the cyclone in November 1970 − " a figure impossible to understand " − and the Pakistani army's subsequent brutal campaign of slaughter under Operation Searchlight accounted for at least 250, 000 civilians “ by the most conservative estimates ”.

John, or ' Johnny ', as he was called before The War, is a lover of literature, and is influenced by three separate cultural icons: the concept of becoming a Hero, in the sense of the legendary figures of ancient Greece ; Hawthorne's The Great Stone Face, in which legend predicts that a great man will appear, whose face is identical to the natural stone face which, in the Hawthorne story, is a local landmark ; and finally, the quest to find the legendary Raintree, which was supposedly planted somewhere in Raintree County by John Chapman, or Johnny Appleseed.

Robert B. Parker supposedly based the fictional town of Paradise on Marblehead which figures in his Jesse Stone book series.

At the beginning of the new millennium, while talent show contestants were one of the major forces in pop music, British soul maintained and even extended its high profile with figures like Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse and Adele, while a new group of singer / songwriters, including KT Tunstall and James Blunt, achieved international success.

Its age may be even greater, as Stone Age cave paintings show figures holding sticks, which may be symbolic representations of their power.

* Venus figures from the Stone Age-The Venus of Willendorf

The album was well received by critics ; Robert Christgau felt that her voice, raw and imperfect, free of " technical decorum ", would liberate female singers while Jon Landau in Rolling Stone felt that King was one of the most creative pop music figures and had created an album of " surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment ".

Stone was a pivotal figure in the establishment and development of aviation for the Coast Guard and the Navy and was a favorite of many of the famous aviation figures of the day, including Eddie Rickenbacker, aircraft designers Anthony Fokker, Igor Sikorsky, and Alexander P. de Seversky.

Past covers have featured celebrities and public figures such as: Katy Perry, Shenae Grimes, DJ AM, Emma Stone, Amber Heard, Sophia Bush, Rachel Bilson, Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Bell, Katie Couric, Audrina Patridge, Heidi Montag and Malin Åkerman.

High-profile figures in attendance included designers Azzedine Alaïa, Pierre Cardin, Alber Elbaz ( Lanvin designer ), Diane von Furstenberg, Marc Jacobs, Christopher Kane, Olivier Theyskens, Riccardo Tisci, Donatella Versace ; and Princess Charlene of Monaco, actresses Marion Cotillard, Mélanie Laurent, Jennifer Lawrence, Sharon Stone ; film producer Harvey Weinstein ; and Dior chairman Arnault with his daughter.

In his 1971 essay, Lawrence Stone discussed an ' older ' form of prosopography which was principally concerned with well-known social elites, many of whom were already well-known historical figures.

On SNL, Meyers has impersonated such figures as John Kerry, Michael Caine, Anderson Cooper, Carrot Top, Prince Charles, Ryan Seacrest, Sean Penn, Stone Phillips, Tobey Maguire, Peyton Manning, Ben Curtis ( also known as the Dell Dude ), Ty Pennington, Bill Cowher, Brian Williams, Nicollette Sheridan, Wade Robson, Donald Trump, Jr., Tom Cruise, and Kevin Federline.

Philosopher's Stone received positive sale figures, despite mixed reviews.

It was at his suggestion that Sly and the Family Stone came about, and he became one of its key figures.

In addition to the carved sites dating from the Stone Age, there is a series of caves on the coast of Central Norway containing painted human stick figures.

In the 2004 BBC7 Radio Serial " Ghost Zone ", a character refers explicitly to the ' Stone Tape theory ' as an explanation for the way an invading alien intelligence is ' replaying ' scenes and figures from the past of the remote Scottish village in which the story is set.