Ajax at first gets the better of the encounter, wounding Hector with his spear and knocking him down with a large stone, but Hector fights on until the heralds, acting at the direction of Zeus, call a draw: the action ends without a winner and with the two combatants exchanging gifts, Ajax giving Hector a purple sash and Hector giving Ajax a sharp sword.

** Folio 97 recto: The first stone, Jasper

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

The first one holds The Angel's Stone, a fragment of the stone believed to have sealed the tomb after Jesus ' burial.

Diamonds are thought to have been first recognized and mined in India, where significant alluvial deposits of the stone could be found many centuries ago along the rivers Penner, Krishna and Godavari.

The artist who toppled the first stone was the Finnish acrobat Salima Peippo.

The term dolmen originates from the expression taol maen, which means " stone table " in Breton, and was first used archaeologically in Théophile Corret de la Tour d ' Auvergne's Origines gauloises.

On the other hand, the statement " A bridge crosses the Styx at Limbo " has the same form, but while in the first case we understand a real bridge in the real world made of stone or brick, what " existence " would mean in the second case is less clear.

At first, only Elizabeth made a virtue of her virginity: in 1559, she told the Commons, " And, in the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin ".

Homo habilis is the first species for which we have positive evidence of use of stone tools.

Homo habilis is the first species for which we have positive evidence of use of stone tools.

One of the first known hominids, it was nicknamed ' handy man ' by discoverer Louis Leakey due to its association with stone tools.

The period from 700, 000 – 300, 000 years ago is also known as the Acheulean, when H. ergaster ( or erectus ) made large stone hand axes out of flint and quartzite, at first quite rough ( Early Acheulian ), later " retouched " by additional, more subtle strikes at the sides of the flakes.

* 1914 – In Washington, D. C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.

The first is a type of stone setting found uniquely within the British Isles.

Black plays first, and players alternate in placing a stone of their color on an empty intersection.

The earliest settlers to Prehistoric Europe came during the paleolithic or " old stone " age, when humans first made use of primitve stone tools.

), sometimes performing a symbolic act such as cutting a ribbon or pushing a button at an opening, christening something with champagne, laying the first stone, and so on.

There is stone carving evidence that the lyre and / or perhaps a non-triangular harp were present in Ireland during the first millennium.

The first is a hillside at Kadarim, where stands a small stone building containing a tomb.

By approximately 2. 3 million years ago, primitive stone tools were first used to scavenge kills made by other predators and to harvest carrion and marrow for their bones.

Vortimer attacked the Saxons four times: first enclosing the Saxons in Thanet, secondly fighting at the river Derwent, the third time at Epsford, where both Horsa and Vortigern's son Catigern died, and lastly " near the stone on the shore of the Gallic sea ," where the Saxons were defeated and fled to their ships.

The Egyptian historian Manetho credited him with inventing the method of a stone-dressed building during Djoser's reign, though he was not the first to actually build with stone.

This was renovated first in 1415 and again in 1635 – 1666, with the heightening of the aisles and nave, the addition of a bresbytery, a dome and of the chapel of St. Joseph.

His first feature film, La nave bianca ( 1942 ) was sponsored by the audiovisual propaganda centre of Navy Department and is the first work in Rossellini's " Fascist Trilogy ", together with Un pilota ritorna ( 1942 ) and Uomo dalla Croce ( 1943 ).

Within three years, an aisled nave had been added to the stone church, and the first permanent claustral buildings built in stone and roofed in tile had been completed.

It was consecrated in 1768 and has dimensions of 105 meters long, 50 meters wide and 33 high in the nave, has 18 chapels and has three doors: El Perdón, San Frutos and San Geroteo, first bishop of the diocese.

Normally medieval churches were built from east to west so that the choir could be completed first and put into use ( with a temporary wall sealing off the west end ) while the crossing and nave were completed.

Shortly after his work on the nave at Downside Abbey he was commissioned to design the small Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady & St Alphege, Bath, the first part of which was completed in 1929.

During the Sixth Hour, after Psalm 90, the reader who is to be ordained subdeacon is presented to the bishop by two other subdeacons, who first lead him to the nave.

At one point, when we reach the first Gospel which speaks of the Crucifixion, there is a custom for the priest to bring out a large cross with an icon the crucified Christ attached to it, and places it in the center of the nave for all the faithful to venerate.

From its first building period ( 1147 until the first decades of the 13th century ), Lisbon cathedral has preserved the West façade with a rose window ( rebuilt from fragments in the 20th century ), the main portal, the North lateral portal and the nave of the cathedral.

The first church on this spot was built in the middle of the 16th century with a simple nave and facade, now destroyed.

The university's charter was presented to the first university president in the nave of Christ Episcopal Church.

The presbytery and transepts were built first to allow the monks to hold services, and the nave was filled in over time.

There was formerly a chancel screen stretching across the nave and aisles at the first pier, which was taken down in 1844.

His first suggestion was for a church with a circular nave and a domed ceiling ; this was considered too expensive, and Gibbs then produced a simpler rectilinear plan, which was accepted.

All Saints Church is the oldest surviving building in Loughtonthe chancel and nave probably date from the first years of the 13th century, though all the original details have been removed during subsequent alterations.

The nave, chancel and tower date from the first half of the 13th century.

As has been pointed out, the aisles had already in the early Christian churches been covered over with groined vaults, the only advance made in the later developments being the introduction of transverse ribs ' dividing the bays into square compartments ; but when in the 12th century the first attempts were made to vault over the naves, another difficulty presented itself, because the latter were twice the width of the aisles, so that it became necessary to include two bays of the aisles to form one square bay in the nave.

The nave was not completed at first.

The first phase of the work was to repair the clerestory of the nave, the nave could then be used for service whilst the choir and transepts were worked upon.

The first nave is the oldest part of the building, dating to the second half of the 15th century, constructed right after the Hundred Years War.

The Athenian marble columns supporting the nave are even older, and either come from the first basilica, or from another antique Roman building ; thirty-six are marble and four granite, pared down, or shortened to make them identical by Ferdinando Fuga, who provided them with identical gilt-bronze capitals.