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It was built in the Ionic order and consists of seven fluted columns, unusually carved from single pieces of stone ( most columns were constructed from a series of discs joined together ).
Colloid mill uses stone grinding discs.
Not to be confused with stone lids are the stone discs.
The Viking-style loom weights, spindle whorls and other vessels were found with stone discs and other objects of a Pictish design.
The façade, of grey marble and white stone set with discs of coloured marble, was built by a master named Rainaldo, as indicated by an inscription above the middle door: Rainaldus prudens operator.
The symbols are also sometimes found on other movable objects like small stone discs and bones mostly from the Northern Isles.
Large discs of precisely-carved stone with holes in the middle are used for almost every imaginable purpose except making wheels, a technology which they have not yet discovered.
The technology was considered a stepping stone to true high definition optical disc formats ( HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc ) and Microsoft never intended the discs to be played on anything but personal computers.
Personal ornaments in the Natufian period consisted of pierced shells and small stone and shell discs.
In the archaeological record of Mesoamerica, stone discs have been found which are generally considered to be the caps of long-disintegrated logs which once housed the beehives.

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Its usage is mostly restricted to engravings on stone and jewelry, although inscriptions have also been found on bone and wood.
According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.
In 2007, Geoffrey Robertson QC alleged that Phillip's remains are no longer in St Nicholas Church, Bathampton and have been lost: "... Captain Arthur Phillip is not where the ledger stone says he is: it may be that he is buried somewhere outside, it may simply be that he is simply lost.
The dedication stone for the church has survived to the present day ; it is dated 23 April 685, and as Bede would have been required to assist with menial tasks in his day-to-day life it is possible that he helped in building the original church.
The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old, but older hunting sticks have been discovered in Europe, where they seem to have formed part of the stone age arsenal of weapons.
In Nyaunggan, Burma bronze tools have been excavated along with ceramics and stone artifacts.
Nennius, a ninth-century historian, mentions a " Hot Lake " in the land of the Hwicce, which was along the Severn, and adds " It is surrounded by a wall, made of brick and stone, and men may go there to bathe at any time, and every man can have the kind of bath he likes.
Crannogs have been variously interpreted as free-standing wooden structures, as at Loch Tay, although more commonly they exist as brush, stone or timber mounds which can be revetted with timber piles.
The central chambers are tall and steep-sided and have corbelled roofing faced with high quality stone.
The first one holds The Angel's Stone, a fragment of the stone believed to have sealed the tomb after Jesus ' burial.
The fourth temple was said to have been constructed from stone by Trophonius and Agamedes.
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.
Alternatively, domino sets have been made from many different natural materials: stone ( e. g., marble, granite or soapstone ); other hardwoods ( e. g., ash, oak, redwood and cedar ); metals ( e. g., brass or pewter ); ceramic clay, or even frosted glass or crystal.
Apart from overground dolmens, underground burial chambers built with dressed stone slabs have also been discovered in Marayoor.
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.
In the early Pleistocene, 1. 5 – 1 Ma, in Africa some populations of Homo habilis are thought to have evolved larger brains and made more elaborate stone tools ; these differences and others are sufficient for anthropologists to classify them as a new species, Homo erectus.
Until about 50, 000 – 40, 000 years ago the use of stone tools seems to have progressed stepwise.
The latte stone was used as a part of the raised foundation for a magalahi ( matao chief ) house, although they may have also been used for canoe sheds.
In Monte Alto near La Democracia, Escuintla, giant stone heads and potbellies ( or barrigones ) have been found, dating back to around 1800 BC.
The stone heads have been ascribed to the Pre-Olmec Monte Alto Culture and some scholars suggest the Olmec Culture originated in the Monte Alto area.
The Giza pyramid complex, which includes among other structures the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, is surrounded by a cyclopean stone wall, the Wall of the Crow, and outside of which Mark Lehner has discovered a worker's town, otherwise known as " The Lost City ", dated by pottery styles, seal impressions, and stratigraphy to have been constructed and occupied sometime during the reigns of Khafre ( 2520 – 2494 BC ) and Menkaure ( 2490 – 2472 BC ).
* Architect Earl Young built a number of stone houses in Charlevoix, Michigan, that have been referred to as gnome homes.
Physical characteristics that make a colored stone valuable are color, clarity to a lesser extent ( emeralds will always have a number of inclusions ), cut, unusual optical phenomena within the stone such as color zoning, and asteria ( star effects ).

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Delphine stood like stone, her eyes alive with hate as she looked down at the sheeted corpse.
Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.
Squatting on our haunches beside the flat stone we broke them on, we were safe behind the high closed gates at the end of the drive: safe from interruption and the observation and possible amusement of the passers-by.
Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;
He piled everything neatly in a corner of the cellar and turned to stare at the blank stone wall.
Thus a man who is butting a stone wall at the office may become unusually aggressive in bed -- the one place he can still be champion.
Hoag descended the stone steps to the street and looked up at the building.
His hands were swinging at his sides, and he passed through the dingy market place with his back straight and, pivoting on his heel, he entered an old stone building.
At the cemetery in what is now the district of Pullach stood a memorial stone which was mentioned as recently as 1967, but which is no longer at the site.
It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.
It is usually just a large block of concrete or stone at the end of the chain.
Pliny is presenting an archaic view, as in his time amber was a precious stone brought from the Baltic at great expense, but the Germans, he says, use it for firewood, according to Pytheas.
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.
Abu Bakr hurled the stone at the idol and left the Kaaba.
Many stone reliefs were discovered in the royal palaces at Nimrud ( Kalhu ) and Khorsabad ( Dur-Sharrukin ).
* Weapons, tools and implements ; In stone, clay and bronze, and at the last iron, sometimes richly ornamented or inlaid.
When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.
Euan MacKie, recognizing that Thom's theories needed to be tested, excavated at the Kintraw standing stone site in Argyllshire in 1970 and 1971 to check whether the latter's prediction of an observation platform on the hill slope above the stone was correct.
There was an artificial platform there and this apparent verification of Thom's long alignment hypothesis ( Kintraw was diagnosed as an accurate winter solstice site ) led him to check Thom's geometrical theories at the Cultoon stone circle in Islay, also with a positive result.
Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.
With the span of, the Solkan Bridge over the Soča River at Solkan in Slovenia is the second largest stone bridge in the world and the longest railroad stone bridge.
* c. 200 AD: A stone go board with a 17 × 17 grid from a tomb at Wangdu County in Hebei, China.

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