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In 1908, Frankel sold the diamond for $ 400, 000 to a Salomon or Selim Habib, a wealthy Turkish diamond collector, reportedly in behalf of Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey ; however, on June 24, 1909, the stone was included in an auction of Habib's assets to settle his own debts, and the auction catalog explicitly stated that the Hope Diamond was one of only two gems in the collection which had never been owned by the Sultan.
" Habib reportedly sold the stone in Paris in 1909 for $ 80, 000.
William Strachey, a secretary of the Jamestown Colony, wrote in his The historie of travaile into Virginia Britannia in 1612 that, at the Indian settlements of Peccarecanick and Ochanahoen, there were reportedly two-story houses with stone walls.
William Strachey, a secretary of the Jamestown Colony, wrote in The History of Travel Into Virginia Britannia in 1612 that, at the Indian settlements of Peccarecanick and Ochanahoen, there were reportedly two-story houses with stone walls.
A Fleming, Wizo, who died in 1130 founded at Wiston a motte and bailey fortification, forerunner of the stone castle, for protection against the Welsh warlords: the Flemings were reportedly unpopular wherever they settled.
King George was reportedly more enraged by the breach of protocol than by the nature of the request, yet it attracted the support of the Common Councilmen of London who expressed their gratitude by erecting a monument in the Guildhall, London including a life-size statue of Beckford ( pictured ), surmounting a stone tablet on which the words Beckford had used to admonish the king are engraved in gold.
Physically the couple, both reportedly enormous eaters, each weighed nearly 20 stone in later years.
In 1907 the stone was purchased, reportedly for ten dollars, by Hjalmar Holand, a former graduate student at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
A large man of 6 ' 2 " ( 1. 88 m ), he reportedly stopped weighing himself when he weighed 24 stone ( 336 lb, 153 kg ).
" The church was built to honor a relic, a stone reportedly taken from the stable in Bethlehem where Jesus was born.
The recovered stone implements also reportedly fit well into those belonging to the Upper Kenya Capsian culture.
Ciarán died less than one year later of the yellow fever ( Justinian Plague ) and was reportedly buried under the original wooden church, now the site of the 9th century stone oratory, Temple Ciarán.
Among her reported acts of kindness were filling a stone coffin with food each day, then giving it to the poor ; she also reportedly founded the church at Hovestadt, Westphalia, and the convent of Herzfeld, Westphalia, sometimes recorded as Hirutveldun.
The 93-mile railroad built from the major anthracite coal fields of Pottsville to Reading and then to the port at Philadelphia was the first double track mainline in the United States ( after the British model ), included three of the nine first railroad tunnels in the United States, and was reportedly the first to use crushed stone ballast.
Architect George Oakley Totten, Jr. bought the exterior stone ( except the main doorway, which reportedly went to the Smithsonian ) and much of the interior woodwork.

stone and fell
In spite of her attempt to preserve her balance, she fell, bruising her arm on a naked stone.
Chretien's story attracted many continuators, translators and interpreters in the later 12th and early 13th centuries, including Wolfram von Eschenbach, who makes the grail a great precious stone that fell from the sky.
In Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach, citing the authority of a certain ( probably fictional ) Kyot the Provençal, claimed the Grail was a stone ( called lapis exillis ) that fell from Heaven, and had been the sanctuary of the neutral angels who took neither side during Lucifer's rebellion.
This was so that when the plaster with Ptolemy's name fell off, Sostratus's name would be visible in the stone.
The last restoration was carried out in 1963 after stone 23 of the Sarsen Circle fell over.
As James Hutton wrote: " If the stone, for example, which fell today, were to rise again tomorrow, there would be an end of natural philosophy science, our principles would fail, and we would no longer investigate the rules of nature from our observations.
A stone known as the Rufus Stone marks the spot where he supposedly fell,.
c ) A similar version by Stesichorus in “ Ilion ’ s Conquest ” narrated that Menelaus surrendered her indeed to his soldiers to stone her to death ; however, when she ripped the front of her robes, the Achaean warriors got stunned by her beauty and the stones fell harmlessly from their hands.
It fell into ruin, leading people to strip it of some of its usable stone, metal, and woodwork.
He fell from a high wall onto the stone pavement below.
Before this the stone was referred to by a variety of names, but these fell from use after 250 BC.
The tombs typically contain the remains of a dead soldier who is unidentified ( or " known but to God " as the stone is sometimes inscribed ) and thought to be impossible ever to identify, so that he might serve as a symbol for all of the unknown dead wherever they fell.
The stone fell at around 3 O ' clock, on 13 December 1795, it created a crater approximately 1 yard across, and embedded itself in the underlying chalk rock to a depth of 7 inches, passing through 12 inches of topsoil.
As discovered at its landing point the stone was warm and smoking ; several people reported sounds of explosions as it fell.
A more likely explanation is that a wedge of stone cemented into the ball as part of a repair job became loose and fell out into the river.
Trying to get down from the roof of Circe's stone house to join his comrades, the drunken Elpenor missed a step on the ladder and fell to the ground, breaking his neck.
The stone on which Capt Davis mortally fell is situated between the west side of the monument and Rt 27.
The sentry would hold a stone in its claw, so that if it fell asleep it would drop the stone and waken.
On their return, Nimmo was checking an external alarm when he lost his footing and fell down a stone staircase into the basement.
When the Western Roman Empire fell, building in dressed stone decreased in much of Western Europe, and there was a resulting increase in timber-based construction.
In still others, Acrisius is one of the wedding guests when Polydectes tried to force Danaë to marry him, and when Perseus turns them to stone with the Gorgon's head ; as Polydectes fell in love with Danaë because Acrisius abandoned her at sea, and Perseus killed the Gorgon as a consequence of Polydectes's attempt to get rid of Danaë's son so that he could marry her, the prophecy fulfilled itself in these variants.
The castle fell into disrepair in the 15th century and its stone is said to have been used to build local houses.
Cormoran awoke and kicked the stone out of her apron, where it fell to form the island of Chapel Rock.

stone and through
Time stands still as you climb the narrow, stone stairways in tiny villages clinging to steep mountain slopes or wander through story-book towns, perched atop lofty crags, their faces turned to the sea.
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.
Then, without knowing why, she found herself running from them, fleeing wildly through the trees, dodging her own shadows until she came to a little hollow in the rocky ground with a big stone in the center behind which she knelt and hid, listening to the madness of her heart and wanting for once to cry.
The other is stone and ' Time Binding ', through the construction of temples and the pyramids can sustain their authority generation to generation, through this media they can change and shape communication in their society ( Wark, McKenzie 1997 ).
The Euphrates flowed through the center of the city, spanned by a beautiful stone bridge.
The draugr could also move magically through the earth, swimming through solid stone as does Killer-Hrapp:
When the gods knew that Fenrir was fully bound, they took a cord called Gelgja ( Old Norse " fetter ") hanging from Gleipnir, inserted the cord through a large stone slab called Gjöll ( Old Norse " scream "), and the gods fastened the stone slab deep into the ground.
During this festival, Elagabalus placed the Emesa stone on a chariot adorned with gold and jewels, which he paraded through the city:
Hail is composed of transparent ice or alternating layers of transparent and translucent ice at least thick, which are deposited upon the hail stone as it cycles through the cloud, suspended aloft by air with strong upward motion until its weight overcomes the updraft and falls to the ground.
The outer bailey of Kenilworth Castle is usually entered through Mortimer's Tower, today a modest ruin but originally a Norman stone gatehouse, extended in the late 13th and 16th centuries.
The weight was supplied by a stone passing laterally through the U of the yoke.
When the hydrophobic image is loaded with ink, the stone and paper are run through a press which applies even pressure over the surface, transferring the ink to the paper and off the stone.
A separate stone was used for each color, and a print went through the press separately for each stone.
There a 4 kg stone chondrite crashed through a roof and hit Ann Hodges in her living room after it bounced off her radio.
Both rubble and ashlar masonry can be laid in coursed rows of even height through the careful selection or cutting of stones, but a great deal of stone masonry is uncoursed.
An image of " the South " was fixed in Mitchell's imagination when at six years old her mother took her on a buggy tour through ruined plantations and " Sherman's sentinels ", the brick and stone chimneys that remained after William Tecumseh Sherman's " March and torch " through Georgia.
Ultrasonic time-domain reflectometers ( which send an ultrasonic pulse through a material and measure reflections from discontinuities ) could find flaws inside cast metal and stone objects, improving structural safety.
Due to a still-tangible faith in the viability of the state socialist system, most socialist groups of that period emphasised the importance of political action through party organisations as a means of bringing about socialism ; in syndicalism, trade unions are thus seen as simply a stepping stone to common ownership.

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