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" The stone was vandalized in the 1980s and replaced with the current marker, as well as an accompanying bronze plaque: " Beginning here, the Willamette meridian was established running north to Puget Sound and south to the California border, and the baseline was established running east to the Idaho border and west to the Pacific Ocean.
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It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.
The curb was a line of stone laid edgewise in the dirt and tilted this way and that by frost in the ground or the roots of trees.
Opposite every gate was a hitching post or a stone carriage-step, set with a rusty iron ring for tying a horse.
He was not stone.
The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.
A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.
Harold indicated the photograph on the wall and asked what church the stone sculpture was in.
He didn't seem to think that attaching a pegboard to a stone wall was much of a problem and he tossed off the building of the worktable equally lightly.
At the same time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr. Blatz was usually standing in his line of vision and it all seemed so simple that he didn't like to disclose his ignorance.
In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked up in Bombay, and occasionally, to make merit, my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a few pennies in its lap.
She was also stone deaf in her right ear.
It was silent in the stone alley.
The Greeks gave to him the name αγυιεύς agyieus as the protector god of public places and houses who wards off evil, and his symbol was a tapered stone or column.
The houses were built of unmortared stone, which means that no cement or mortar was used to hold the stones together.
Throughout ancient and medieval history, most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans, such as stone masons and carpenters, rising to the role of master builder.
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.
The suffering of ten unknown victims of the camp was recorded on the stone.
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.
The death of André-Marie Ampère occurred decades before his new science was canonized as the foundation stone for the modern science of electromagnetism.
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.
The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the river Achates () sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.
Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.
As a result, Sumer and Akkad had a surplus of agricultural products, but was short of almost everything else, particularly metal ores, timber and building stone, all of which had to be imported.
In the second account given by the Thebans, when Alcmene died, she was turned from human form to a stone.
stone and vandalized
Plath's gravestone was repeatedly vandalized by those aggrieved that " Hughes " is written on the stone and attempted to chisel it off, leaving only the name " Sylvia Plath.
stone and 1980s
In the mid 1980s the paved road through Heptonstall was torn up, revealing the original stone setts.
The original station buildings-gabled and highly decorated, built in Kentish ragstone with Caen stone dressings, with windows which replicate those at Aylesford Priory-have been used as a fast food restaurant in recent years following restoration to an award-winning standard in the 1980s.
It was painted in red, with black fender flares, and was designated " LP 500S " like the standard Countach model from the 1980s, and was the stepping stone that led to this later production model.
The Rother Navigation joined the Arun near Stopham Bridge, a fine medieval stone bridge built in AD 1423, which carried the heavy traffic on the A283 road until a new bridge was built beside it in the 1980s.
While typical castle / fortress-type gusuku in the Okinawa Islands were featured by stone walls, it was discovered in the 1980s and 90s that some fortifications in northern Okinawa Island lacked stone walls but instead were characterized by earthworks, kuruwa and dry moats.
His family erected a memorial stone at the site, which was subsequently re-laid in its current grave-like horizontal position by them after it was damaged by vandals in the early 1980s.
The stone was formerly used for purposes of trade in many North-West European countries where its value ranged from about 5 to 40 local pounds ( 3 to 15 kg ), but with the advent of metrication from the mid-nineteenth century onwards it was superseded by the kilogram ; its use for trade in the United Kingdom and in Ireland being rescinded in the 1980s.
In the late 1980s to 1990s Abakanowicz began to use metals, such as bronze, for her sculptures, as well as wood, stone, and clay.
Other suggestions have been put forward arguing that the stone was once a part of a long barrow, but this has been dismissed since archaeological investigation in the 1980s failed to reveal any other evidence for such a monument.
The cut stone former Methodist Hall on Ardclough Road fell into disrepair during the 1980s but was acquired and renovated by Cunninghams Funeral Directors in the mid 1990s.
Goodyear, who began excavating the Topper site in the 1980s, believes that lithic artifacts at that level are rudimentary stone tools.
After the Conrail takeover the bridge between Bayonne and Elizabethport was demolished in the 1980s, but some of the stone piers were left standing along the shores of Newark Bay.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Whisky was known as a stepping stone for bands such as Guns N ' Roses and Mötley Crüe.
Excavation re-started in the 1980s with the stone being used for building the Caen Memorial.
After stone production ceased, it was not until the late 1980s that an alternative use was found for the site and in the intervening decades the derelict site was used as a tip by local residents.
A given female name meaning " jewel " or " precious stone " which peaked in popularity in the United Kingdom during the 1980s.
In the mid 1980s the brook was reconstructed of concrete and stone from the Swan Street area to East Hobart Gap Road.
In the late 1980s, a local quarry company had announced their plans to demolish the southern windmill in order to gain access to stone in the area.
There are also three major blocks from the late 18th / early 19th centuries, all in natural stone and clay tile or slate, and three more modern buildings from the 1950s and 1980s.
It was not until the 1980s that it was rebuilt in stone.
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