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The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.
While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.
This approach was not favoured by most of the effects crew, who " couldn't believe " some of the things Tsuburaya asked them to do, such as Kong and Godzilla volleying a giant boulder back and forth.
The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays.
The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were also considered to constitute centres for the dispersion of glacial debris ; and Agassiz remarked " that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel ( boulder drift ) is found ; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc.
He kills Piggy with a boulder that was no longer aimed to miss, and becomes the executioner and torturer of Jack's tribe.
The final chapter compares the absurdity of man's life with the situation of Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a mountain, only to see it roll down again.
Experience showed that till ( boulder clay ), rather than just sand or clay, was the best primary material for a structure like the Afsluitdijk.
In Greek mythology Sisyphus (; Greek:, Sísyphos ) was a king punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever.
As a punishment from Queen Persephone for his trickery, King Sisyphus was made to roll a huge boulder up a steep hill.
Sisyphus was sentenced to an eternity of frustration in Tartarus where he rolled a boulder up a hill and it would roll back down when he got close to the top.
The site of Fort Clark is now marked by a large boulder and plaque, while the Fort Matson site was later the location for a church, name corrupted to Fort Madison ( not to be confused with the Iowa city ).
Near the spot where Gustavus Adolphus fell, a granite boulder was placed in position on the day after the battle.
The name was later changed to the Round Rock Hotel, because of a large, round boulder located in the northeast corner of the front yard.
A boulder was placed in memory of John Dunbar.
When a road from Hoboken to Fort Lee was built through the site in 1858, an inscription on a boulder where a mortally wounded Hamilton was thought to have rested — one of the many pieces of graffiti left by visitors — was all that remained.
In 1870, railroad tracks were built directly through the site, and the boulder was hauled to the top of the Palisades, where it remains today, located just off the Boulevard East.
In 1894, an iron fence was built around the boulder, supplemented by a bust of Hamilton and a plaque.
The plaque was stolen by vandals in the 1980s, and an abbreviated version of the text was inscribed on the indentation left in the boulder, which remained until the 1990s, when a granite pedestal was added in front of the boulder, and the bust was moved to the top of the pedestal.

boulder and feature
Another type of boof is the " rock boof " which is a move that uses a glancing impact with a boulder at the top of a ledge to bounce the boater over a downstream feature, often finished with a mid-air eddy turn.
The Westford Knight, also known as the Sinclair Rock, is perceived as either a carving or a natural feature, or a combination of both, located on a glacial boulder in Westford, Massachusetts in the United States.
Periglacial boulder fields are a common feature in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

boulder and summit
Turk Mountain is the prominent landmark of Crimora and has a giant boulder on the north end of its summit.
The summit plateau of Scafell Pike, and that of other neighbouring peaks, is covered with shattered rock debris which provides the highest altitude example of a summit boulder field in England.
On Sròn an t-Saighdeir there are large sorted granite boulder circles 2 – 3 metres across on the flat summit and sorted stripes on the slopes.
The summit of Rocky Peak lies directly atop the line separating Ventura and Los Angeles counties and is indicated by a battered marker imbedded into the sandstone boulder summit.
The summit plateau of Scafell Pike, and that of other neighbouring peaks, is covered with shattered rock debris which provides the highest altitude example of a summit boulder field in England.
The term " summit " is generally only used for a mountain peak with some significant amount of topographic prominence ( height above the lowest point en route to the nearest higher peak ) or topographic isolation ( distance from the nearest point of higher elevation ); for example, a boulder next to the main summit of a mountain is not considered a summit.
The triangular rock summit can be clearly seen in, for example, an Outer Limits episode called " The Zanti Misfits ", in " Arena ", an original series Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk rolls a boulder onto a reptiloid alien called a Gorn, and throughout a Bonanza episode called " Between Heaven and Earth ".
The summit is accessible both via trails and a paved Forest Service road, and is crowned with a stone lookout tower amid a mixture of boulder fields, meadows and trees.
Mansewood is located on the summit and slopes of a boulder clay Drumlin lying approximately NE to SW and rises approximately 63m ( 207 feet ) above sea level.

boulder and Hill
View west from the Eastern Enclosure of the Hill Complex, showing the granite boulder that resembles the Zimbabwe Bird and the balcony.
Notable features of the Hill Complex include the Eastern Enclosure, in which it is thought the Zimbabwe Birds stood, a high balcony enclosure overlooking the Eastern Enclosure, and a huge boulder in a shape similar to that of the Zimbabwe Bird.
While its remaining portion is currently located in the Sung Wong Toi Garden in Ma Tau Wai, it was originally a 45 m tall boulder standing on the top of Sacred Hill ( 聖山 ) in Ma Tau Chung above Kowloon Bay.
During the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong in 1941-1945, the boulder was dislodged from its place when the Sacred Hill was leveled for an extension of the Kai Tak Airport.
The event is commemorated by a boulder monument that formerly was on Mystic Hill upon the pedestal of which is a life-size statue of Major Mason drawing his sword, representing the moment when he heard the war-whoop of " Owanux.

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The poet's ashes were buried beside, or beneath, a boulder to the immediate west of where his childhood home ( destroyed by fire in 1957 ) stood ; some were also scattered in a stand of blue oaks near the boulder.
His monument is a boulder selected from the moraine of the glacier of the Aar near the site of the old Hôtel des Neuchâtelois, not far from the spot where his hut once stood ; and the pine-trees that shelter his grave were sent from his old home in Switzerland.
There is a wealth of good quality climbs in the county, from granite rocks in the south to quartzite and dolerite in the north ; from long mountain routes in the Poisoned Glen to boulder challenges of excellent quality in the west and in the Inishowen Peninsula.
This is a trivial solution because, for example, an omnipotent being could create a boulder that the strongest human could not lift ( it needn't do that anyway since such boulders exist ) and then give itself the potency of an average human ; it would then not be able to lift the stone.
A great boulder marks his grave ; there is no inscription.
:' But Jason called to mind the counsels of Medea full of craft, and seized from the plain a huge round boulder, a terrible quoit of Ares Enyalius ; four stalwart youths could not have raised it from the ground even a little.
In Aboriginal mythology, Erathipa is a boulder that has the shape of a pregnant woman ; contained within Erathipa are the souls of dead children which can inhabit the bodies of fertile young women.
The source area for the boulder was nearby in the Ramapo Mountains-Hudson Highlands ; it is difficult to know for certain exactly where it was picked up by the glacier, but most likely not more than 5 to 10 kilometers from its current location.
Previous experiences had demonstrated that till ( boulder clay ), rather than just sand or clay, was the best primary material for a structure like the Afsluitdijk, with the added benefit that till was in plentiful supply in the area ; it could be retrieved in large quantities by simply dredging it from the bottom of the Zuiderzee.
The boulder is accessible by foot from the Shenandoah National Park and The Appalachian Trail ; the overlook has views of Crimora and surrounding areas.
* Little Thetford, settled on a boulder clay island within the fens since the Bronze Age, south of Ely ;
; < span id =" beta "> Beta </ span >: Advice on how to successfully complete ( or protect ) a particular climbing route, boulder problem, or crux sequence.
; < span id =" dead_ball "> Dead Ball </ span >: Type of High Ball boulder, where one can possibly die when falling from above.
; < span id =" high_ball "> High Ball </ span >: A tall boulder problem.
The juveniles were found in a variety of habitats where they were highly concealed: under coral blocks and rubble in the boulder zone of the exposed reef front ; on dead bases of Acropora species in more sheltered areas ; in narrow spaces within the reef crest ; and on the fore-reef slope to depths of 8 m.
:* Restricted areal extents-the boulder fields tend to have limited areal extent ; the boulders cluster together, consistent with the boulders landing on the surface of the glacier and subsequently deposited on top of the glacial drift.
Four underground camps established in the cave: in the Main Branch at − 500, − 1, 200 and − 1, 400 m and in the Nekujbyshevskaja Branch at − 500 m. Systematic inspection and probing of potential leads in the deep sections of the Main Branch ; climbing in the Lamprechtsofen tributary ; digging in the boulder choke in the Nekujbyshevskaja Branch.
He tried to build it in 1969, with a smaller boulder ; but the crane attempting to lift it snapped.

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