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The stones ( Ammonite fossils ) collected from the bed of the Gandaki River at a place close to Saligrama or Muktinath ( literally meaning " place of salvation ") in the Mustang district of Nepal, it is first mentioned in " Devi Bhagavath " completely if we want to refer puranas, it is as so there was king name Dharmadwaja who was initially a devotee of goddess Lakshmi later became rival of the same & completely ruined but his son Padmadwaja realized his father mistake became a devotee of Lakshmi, pleased to his devotion Lakshmi herself incarnated as Tulasi, later Tulasi fell in deep love with Lord Krsna for which they got married, in order to keep their relation for ever Lord Krsna converted himself as Salagrava ( saligram ) & Tulasi as river Gandaki, even today salagrava are available in gandaki only, later the Great Master Sri Shankaracharya who knew this story told to his disciples that when ever this stones are taken for the purpose of worship one should never worship those shila without tulasi, that is in order to keep the same relation of tulasi & Sri Krsna, he also further says the Tulasi which we use foe worship is hair of that Tulasi who converted into river Gandaki.
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He brought his collection of fossils and stones to the Vatican, where he studied them at leisure, compiling the results in a manuscript, which was published posthumously by the Vatican at Rome in 1717 as Metallotheca.
It was also Anning who noticed that the oddly shaped fossils then known as " bezoar stones " were sometimes found in the abdominal region of ichthyosaur skeletons.
There are also precious stones and large polished fossils.
Smaller fossils include ammonite, or " snake stones " from the alum shales and at Whitby Scar and nautilites in the lower beds of the lias strata.
Franz Boas removed the idea of unilineal cultural evolution from the realm of serious anthropological research as too simplistic, allowing tribes to be studied in their own right, rather than stepping stones to civilization or " living fossils ".
* Museo Mineralógico ( Mineralogical Museum ): has exhibits of precious stones, minerals, and fossils
Visible marine fossils are mainly found in the limestone, no occurrences of precious stones or ore deposits are known.
Dinosaurs which are believed to have had gizzards based on the discovery of gizzard stones recovered near fossils include:
They planted the stones on Mount Eibelstadt where Beringer frequently went to search for fossils.
Beringer took a poor scientific approach to the matter ; he proposed several possible explanations for the fossils in addition to his own preferred interpretation, that while some few of these stones might be dead animals ( fossils ) most were just " capricious fabrications of God ".
Gastroliths have only rarely been found in association with fossils of theropod dinosaurs and a trituration of their food with the stones is not plausible.
On the upper floor ( Hochparterre ) precious stones, minerals ( some with origin in old Renaissance collections ) and meteorites ( the largest display collection in the world ) can be seen, along with large dinosaur displays and rare fossils, and along with prehistoric art works: the Venus von Willendorf, the skeleton of Diplodocus, a giant topaz crystal weighing 117 kg ( 258 lb ), and the gemstone-and-diamond bouquet of flowers which Maria Theresia had made as a present for her husband.
The Fossils Museum houses fossils of mammals, reptiles, and invertebrates, and the Petrified Wood Museum displays fossils of plants, colorful stones, toddy-palm roots, as well as things made from fossils of plants.
This can be for gold, precious stones, fossils, etc.
stones and collected
We collected `` lucky stones '' -- all the creamy translucent pebbles, worn smooth and round, that we could find in the driveway.
Half organic building, half massive sculpture, it was constructed from stones collected on his postal round, held together with chicken wire, cement, and lime.
It is widely believed that stones from the castle were used when building some of the houses in Mere, yet even here there is much evidence to be collected.
Local Ballater residents donate to and build ' The Jubilee Cairn ' consisting of 60 local stones collected from the hills around Balmoral Castle and Ballater.
Once all the stones have been collected, and the villages rebuilt, Max and Monica travel 10, 000 years into the past to face Griffon.
He was also known to carry a saw around with him, for the purpose of removing bark from trees, which he would then burn whilst muttering certain words, whilst he similarly used to spit onto stones that he collected, believing that it improved their value.
He suggested the possibility that the builders had constructed a ramp out of " collected stones ", which was then " placed against the back of the chamber ", with the capstone then being " hauled up on rollers, probably running on logs embedded longitudinally in the ramp " in order to get it into position.
Once the stones and seaweed have been collected, a fire pit is prepared.
* Dunrobin Castle Museum, Golspie — collection of over 20 Class I and II Pictish stones collected by the Dukes of Sutherland.
This tributary of the Irvine was famous for its rich jasper pebbles ; semi-precious stones which were collected, cut and polished for use in jewellery.
A saying tells the tale that the inhabitants of Valsörarna grew tired upon always finding skeletons everywhere around the islands and collected them all in one place, which today is the mound of stones.
When a player's dig teams are excavating a site, they occasionally will come across various precious metals and stones which can be sold when collected and can help raise park funds.
Situated next to the city wall, 157 ballista stones were collected from the synagogue's hall alone and 120 arrowhead from its vicinity.
Most of the fort was built with ashlar stones collected from its surrounding villages such as Tarraki village.
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This garden is embellished with exotic stones and minerals collected by the Gardens ’ founder Harrison Yocum.
In 1957 stones were collected all across East Germany to build a new jetty at Rostock harbour.
Heavy stones were collected from the site, painted white and used to form the words ' Keen's Curry ' in letters some fifty feet ( 15 m ) high.
The collection of early Christian Celtic crosses and inscribed stones which the Talbot family had collected from the locality, were moved in 1932 into the nearby Church Schoolroom, to become the Margam Stones Museum, now managed by Cadw.
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He beat the air with his stick, and it fell from his claws and clattered on the stones.
The Babylonian star-figure appears on entitlement stones and cylinder seals from the second millennium.
The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.
Scott then built additions to the house and made it into a mansion, building into the walls many sculptured stones from ruined castles and abbeys of Scotland.
The tombs were plundered and the stones from the beautiful edifices were brought to Limassol to be used for new constructions.
He explained that though both sun and the stars were fiery stones, we do not feel the heat of the stars because of their enormous distance from earth.
A total of 2, 675 tons of architectural members were restored, with 686 stones reassembled from fragments of the originals, 905 patched with new marble, and 186 parts made entirely of new marble.
Many cultures have built devices that travel through the air, from the earliest projectiles such as stones and spears, the boomerang in Australia, the hot air Kongming lantern, and kites.
As memorials, twelve stones were taken from the Jordan at the place where the priests had stood ( Josh.
The name is taken from that of the Amazon River, from which certain green stones were formerly obtained, but it is doubtful whether green feldspar occurs in the Amazon area.
This was identified across a gorge where a platform was formed from small stones.
The natural inorganics include various types of stones ( from gemstones to common minerals ) and metals.
They have also removed the plaques from the other trees, with plans to incorporate the stones into their own memorial to the dead.
Rafting by ice of stones into marine environments occurred during much of the Cretaceous but evidence of deposition directly from glaciers is limited to the Early Cretaceous of the Eromanga Basin in southern Australia.
Curling is thought to have been invented in medieval Scotland, with the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February 1541.
The stones they used were the heavy stone weights from the weavers ' " warp beams ," fitted with a detachable handle for the purpose.
The crossbow is portrayed as a hunting weapon on four Pictish stones from early medieval Scotland ( 6th to 9th centuries ): St. Vigeans no.
These missiles included anything from stones to excrement to rotting carcasses.
The chambers were created from large stones set on end, roofed with large flat stones and often sub-divided by slabs into small compartments.
Centaurs are shown on a number of Pictish carved stones from north-east Scotland, erected in the 8th – 9th centuries AD ( e. g., at Meigle, Perthshire ).
For his exhibition in Jerusalem in 2000, in addition to the glass pieces, he had enormous blocks of transparent ice brought in from an Alaskan artesian well and formed a wall, echoing the stones of the nearby Citadel.
The word is a compound from two Greek terms, ἢλεκτρον, ēlektron, " amber " ( as electrostatic phenomena were first described as properties of amber by the philosopher Thales ), and μαγνήτης, magnētēs, " magnet " ( the magnetic stones found in antiquity in the vicinity of the Greek city of Magnesia, in Lydia, Asia Minor ).
Fire falls from the sky, consuming the water, the sacrifice and the stones of the altar itself as well.
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