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This stone building around a patio, the cloisters of the Monastery of St. Bernard de Clairvaux, was built in Sacramenia, Segovia, Spain in the 12th century.
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They followed him into the rain and across to the squat stone building fifty feet to the rear.
Just before reaching it I came to a grey and brown stone building that looks somewhat like an Oriental pagoda, with Arabic lettering in gold and colored tile decorations -- the Fountain of Sultan Ahmet.
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.
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.
He could see the stone building where he lived.
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.
It is a red brick building with white stone detailing in the Queen Anne style with French influences.
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.
Tools, weapons, armor, and various building materials, like decorative tiles, made of bronze were harder and more durable than their stone and copper (" Chalcolithic ") predecessors.
The Museum is faced with Portland stone, but the perimeter walls and other parts of the building were built using Haytor granite from Dartmoor in South Devon, transported via the unique Haytor Granite Tramway.
The holy well of St Guron is a small stone building at the churchyard gate.
Granite boulders were also taken from the moor and used for stone posts and to a certain extent for building ( such material is known as moorstone ).
Either the body of the canal is dug or the sides of the canal are created by piling dirt, stone, concrete, or other building materials.
In Britain particularly, good quality building stone became ever more expensive during a period of rapid growth, and it became a common practice to construct prestige buildings from the new industrial bricks, and to finish them with a stucco to imitate stone.
The building was designed to distance the Irwin Union Bank from traditional banking architecture, which mostly echoed imposing, neoclassical style buildings of brick or stone.
The Roman author Vitruvius, relying on the writings ( now lost ) of Greek authors, tells us that the ancient Greeks believed that their Doric order developed from techniques for building in wood in which the earlier smoothed tree trunk was replaced by a stone cylinder.
The town's oldest building is the Maguire's stone castle, built by Hugh the Hospitable who died in 1428.
A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building.
Based on these estimates, building this in 20 years would involve installing approximately 800 tonnes of stone every day.
The usual pattern for building a railway terminus was to conceal the metal structure behind an elaborate facade: Eiffel's design for Budapest used the metal structure as the centrepiece of the building, flanked on either side by conventional stone and brick-clad structures housing administrative offices.
The most common building materials used are brick or stone.
This was the second major earthquake to hit Saint-Domingue as it followed the 1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake which had left only a single stone built building standing in the town.
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Now as you step inside, instead of seeing particles orbiting around like planets, you see waves and ripples very much like the ripples that you get on the surface of a pond when you drop a stone into it.
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.
One of the earliest evidence of Hindu influence in Southeast Asia were stone pillars which bear inscriptions in the Pallava script found in Kutai along the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan, dating to around the second half of the 300s AD.
One tradition tells of snakes coiling around their legs then turning into stone ; another that Hades feigned hospitality and prepared a feast inviting them to sit.
* The comic series Concrete ( 1986 -) revolved around the life of an ordinary human whose brain had been placed in a large artificial stone body by aliens.
Between 400, 000 years ago and the second interglacial period in the Middle Pleistocene, around 250, 000 years ago, the trend in skull expansion and the elaboration of stone tool technologies developed, providing evidence for a transition from H. erectus to H. sapiens.
In Monte Alto near La Democracia, Escuintla, giant stone heads and potbellies ( or barrigones ) have been found, dating back to around 1800 BC.
Numerous other sites found around Scotland build up a picture of highly mobile boat-using people making tools from bone, stone and antlers.
The Holy Grail is a dish, plate, stone, or cup around which an important theme of Arthurian literature revolves.
The granite quarries around Haytor were the source of the stone used in several famous structures, including the New London Bridge, completed in 1831.
The lowest floor is filled with earth, possibly taken from the earlier motte that may have been present on the site, and is further protected by a sloping stone plinth around the base.
He also constructed a stone wall around Rome.
The ancient stone structures are located around the beach ridges, principally on the north and south sides.
According to Gregory of Tours it was bishop Monulph who, around 570, built the first stone church on the grave of Servatius, the present-day Basilica of Saint Servatius.
Polished stone mirrors from Central and South America date from around 2000 BC onwards.
Early hunter-gatherer tribes made stone weapons from around 10, 000 years ago ; as the age of metallurgy dawned, newer technologies were used and more efficient weapons produced.
The road network was estimated to be around 31, 200 km in 1999 up from between 23, 000 and 30, 000 km in 1990, of which only 1, 717 kilometers — 7. 5 percent — are paved ; the rest are of dirt, crushed stone, or gravel, and are poorly maintained.
The stone tools, some up to 125, 000 years old, resemble those made by humans in Africa around the same period.
It extends from the earliest known use of stone tools, probably by Hominins such as Australopithecines, 2. 6 million years ago, to the end of the Pleistocene around 10, 000 BP.
The site of the tomb in Dunfermline Abbey was marked by large carved stone letters spelling out " King Robert the Bruce " around the top of the bell tower, when the eastern half of the abbey church was rebuilt in the first half of the 19th century.
In Anatolia, the Hittites built massive stone walls around their cities, taking advantage of the hillsides.
Archaeological excavation has indicated that around 2600 BC, the builders abandoned timber in favour of stone and dug two concentric arrays of holes ( the Q and R Holes ) in the centre of the site.
Each standing stone was around high, wide and weighed around 25 tons.
Swedish cuisine could be described as centered around cultured dairy products, crisp and soft ( often sugared ) breads, berries and stone fruits, beef, pork, seafood and fish.
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