The first bridges made by humans were probably spans of cut wooden logs or planks and eventually stones, using a simple support and crossbeam arrangement.

The tunnel is cut straight through the masonry of the pyramid for approximately, then turns sharply left to encounter the blocking stones in the Ascending Passage.

The two main classifications are stones cut as smooth, dome shaped stones called cabochons, and stones which are cut with a faceting machine by polishing small flat windows called facets at regular intervals at exact angles.

The sacrificial feast followed, after which the Luperci cut thongs from the skins of the victims, which were called februa, dressed themselves in the skins of the sacrificed goats, in imitation of Lupercus, and ran round the walls of the old Palatine city, the line of which was marked with stones, with the thongs in their hands in two bands, striking the people who crowded near.

Unlike precious stones which must be cut and polished to reveal their clarity and beauty, the pearl is perfect as it comes from the oyster.

The lower surfaces of the separate stones, here shown as flat, were sometimes cut to a point or edge in order to grasp the nucleus, or next layer, more firmly .( F ).

The first such scene took place immediately after the excavation of the Stargate in 1928 and showed petrified Horus guards near the cover stones ; the producers had tried to introduce the idea that beings had attempted to come through the Stargate after its burial, but they cut the scene for time concerns.

When the Capitol was expanded in the 1850s, some of the construction labor was carried out by slaves " who cut the logs, laid the stones and baked the bricks ".

The name Almandine is a corruption of Alabanda, a region in Asia Minor where these stones were cut in ancient times.

In 1877 Frenic and Freil made crystal corundum from which small stones could be cut.

The Romans also cut tuff into small rectangular stones that they used to create walls in a pattern known as opus reticulatum.

Peruvian opal ( also called blue opal ) is a semi-opaque to opaque blue-green stone found in Peru which is often cut to include the matrix in the more opaque stones.

The round brilliant cut and square brilliant cuts are preferred when the crystal is an octahedron, as often two stones may be cut from one such crystal.

Hercules was about to cut him down with his sword when Telamon began to quickly assemble an altar out of nearby stones in honor of Hercules.

He will be able to devise plans as well as work in gold, silver and copper, cut stones to be set, carve wood, and do other work.

Transparent stones of clean color have been faceted, and chatoyant specimens have been cabochon cut.

* Derbyshire Peak stones of grey Millstone Grit, cut from one piece, used for grinding barley ; imitation Derbyshire Peak stones are used as decorative signposts at the boundaries of the Peak District National Park.

Travelers entering from the desert were confounded by what must have seemed an illusion: a great garden filled with nightingales and roses, cut by canals and terraced promenades, studded with water tanks of turquoise tile in which were reflected the glistening blue curves of a hundred domes.

Demand for parts for home entertainment was strong in the first half, but purchases were cut back to lower levels during the fall as set manufacturers reduced their own operating rates.

As a result, distribution costs were cut, customer relations improved.

Not so long ago many builders were finding they could cut their costs by `` buying direct '' and short-cutting the dealer.

The unstained strips were then marked, using the stained ones as a guide, and cut transversely so as to separate the various protein bands.

Root and stem tumors from sweet clover plants infected with WTV were quick-frozen in liquid nitrogen, embedded in ice, and cut at 3 - 6 **ym in a cryostat maintained at -16-degrees to -20-degrees.

The affixed elements of collage were extruded, as it were, and cut off from the literal pictorial surface to form a bas-relief.

There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.

The last couple of years the Bears management got the business from the `` Living Room Athletic Club '' when games were cut off.

If the Southerners were sufficiently aroused, they could very well cut the Kennedy legislative program to ribbons from their vantage point of committee chairmanships, leaving Sam Rayburn leading a truncated, unworkable party.

Within a year, without reducing wages, Underwood's production costs were cut one third, prices were slashed.

They were even, Anne and George, probably thinking themselves very considerate in not hinting that she really should cut out `` one or two countries '' and come home in August to get Cousin Emma's house ready before the teachers came to Tuxapoka in September.

The conventions of this representation, head tilted, lips slightly parted, large-eyed, curling hair cut in locks grazing the neck, were developed in the 3rd century BCE to depict Alexander the Great.

Finally, features such as long linear grooves were cut into the bedrock along certain roads which do not seem to point to a specific direction.

His right hand was cut off, his teeth and hair were pulled out, one of his eyes was gouged out, and, among many other sufferings, boiling water was thrown in his face, punishment probably associated with his handsomeness and life of licentiousness.

Although most of the legions were lost, about 10, 000 Romans cut their way through to safety, maintaining unit cohesion.

There were two lesser approaches up the hill on its north side, consisting of steep, narrow flights of steps cut in the rock.

However, in 1975 the closure of a major factory cut the celebration short and new challenges were created overnight.

The heads of the main Abbasid leaders were cut off.

However, other songs, including " In Praise of Women ", " The Miller's Son " and " Liaisons ", were cut and remain heard only as background orchestrations.

( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

They appeared as if they were about to attack him or cut him into pieces.

) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.

Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).

The reputation and history of Damascus steel have given rise to many legends, such as the ability to cut through a rifle barrel or to cut a hair falling across the blade, but no evidence exists to support such claims.

Austerity measures were introduced: public spending was cut, there was a tax and VAT increase and public employees were given a 10 % wage-cut.

Whale's original cut of the film was given generally positive reviews but sometime between preview screenings and the film's general release Rogers capitulated to the Germans, ordering that cuts be made and additional scenes be shot and inserted.

He demanded and got the following: his name was made part of the title, " John Frankenheimer's The Train "; the French co-director, demanded by French tax laws, was not allowed to ever set foot on set ; he was given total final cut ; and a Ferrari.

Men were not allowed to have hair below the collar ; when men whose hair was too long, arrived in the country from overseas, they were given a hair cut before they could leave the airport.

After a deck of cards is shuffled by the dealer, it is often given to a player other than the one who performed the shuffle for a procedure called a cut.

In fact, knowing the size of the deck and the size of the cuts, the formula for the composite single cut is given as the sum of the sizes of the cuts modulo the size of the deck.

If any two simple polygons of equal area are given, then the first can be cut into polygonal pieces which can be reassembled to form the second polygon.

Unlike the Gliese, it does not cut off at a given distance from the Sun ; rather it attempts to catalogue all known measured parallaxes.

Vilas gave a lengthy defense of the Cleveland administration's policies, so long that Russell, fearing that Vilas ' speech would cut into his time, asked that the time given to the gold proponents be extended by ten minutes.

It was reported that Blatter had " cut an unofficial deal with UEFA head Michel Platini " to ensure Europe would receive the 2018 World Cup, such that if the non-European bids did not withdraw from 2018 " they will find themselves frozen out and not given any backing by the FIFA High Command, damaging their chances of being serious contenders for the second tournament.

Under Article XVII of the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), British cutters were for the first time given the right to cut logwood in Yucatan unmolested, within agreed limits.

Polishing is the name given to process whereby the facets are cut onto the diamond and final polishing is performed.

Zanuck was unhappy with Preminger's first cut of the film and insisted it be given a new ending, in which it was revealed Lydecker had imagined the entire story.

They each were given a one-off variety special ; Barker's, called The Ronnie Barker Yearbook, featured a sketch for each month of the year, although because of time constraints the first two had to be cut.

The Hydra's one immortal head was cut off with a golden sword given to him by Athena.

Traditionally, Roman marriages included a ritual where the bride's hair was cut or parted with a spear-some see this as the result of Juno's association with marriage, although other explanations for the ritual are given as well.

When a given piece is completely surrounded by all the adjacent shapes, the basting thread is cut, and the basting and the paper shape are removed.

La Barraca's subsidy was cut in half by the new government in 1934, and its last performance was given in April 1936.

Since the referee ruled the cut came from a punch, initially the fight and the world title were given to Villablanca.

However operating revenue for the company was at a deficit of £ 3. 7 million, a result of a large cut of 16 per cent in the government grant given to BW, and through the continuing programme of renovation and works costing £ 92. 1 million.