A great deal of strategy and teamwork goes into choosing the ideal path and placement of a stone for each situation, and the skills of the curlers determine how close to the desired result the stone will achieve.

Though an egg appears to be like the stone of a tomb, a bird hatches from it with life ; similarly, the Easter egg, for Christians, is a reminder that Jesus rose from the grave, and that those who believe will also experience eternal life.

Accessories are made of different materials such as copper, stone, wood, bamboo, metal, stainless steel, clay, stained glass, concrete, iron, and the weather where the garden is located will determine which material works best to ensure accessories last long.

Large accessories such as benches, water fountains, stone features, urns, and statues should be used sparingly or they will cause a cluttered appearance.

* The women ask each other who will roll away the stone (), cf.

This is significant because Jesus had prophesied concerning the temple when He said " As for these things which you are looking at, the days will come in which there will not be left one stone upon another which will not be torn down ," ( Luke 21: 6, see also Matt.

( This section contains Matthew 16: 13 – 19, in which Simon, newly renamed Peter, ( πέτρος, petros, meaning " stone "), calls Jesus " the Christ, the son of the living God ", and Jesus states that on this " bedrock " ( πέτρα, petra ) he will build his church — the passage forms the foundation for the papacy's claim of authority ).

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 ).

By analogy, stone arches are irreducibly complex — if you remove any stone the arch will collapse — yet we build them easily enough, one stone at a time, by building over centering that is removed afterward.

A single-use item, the hammer, can destroy stone statues, which frees a flying soldier called a Centurion that will aid the player in boss battles.

The gum solution penetrates into the pores of the stone, completely surrounding the original image with a hydrophilic layer that will not accept the printing ink.

Especially where stone was readily available for building, the wood will have been replaced by stone to a higher or lower standard of security.

However, people will often quote only a fraction of a proverb to invoke an entire proverb, e. g. " All is fair " instead of " All is fair in love and war ", and " A rolling stone " for " A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Since Matthew 24 begins with Jesus visiting the Jerusalem Temple and pronouncing that " there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down " ( vs. 3 ), preterists see nothing in Scripture to indicate that another Jewish temple will ever be built.

The elaborate procedure was recorded by a 15th-century witness in an oft-quoted description: " he will lie upon his back, with his head covered and his feet, and one arm will be drawn to one quarter of the house with a cord, and the other arm to another quarter, and in the same manner it will be done with his legs ; and let there be laid upon his body iron and stone, as much as he can bear, or more ..."

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.

This technology was to provide a stepping stone to the development of electronic calculators.

About eight to 12 annual changing exhibitions and permanent collection exhibitions provide educational opportunities for all ages, from learning the history of a quilt hand-stitched over 100 years ago to discovering how scientists analyze the physical properties of artists ' materials, such as glass or stone.

Like pottery, the typology of the stone tools combined with the relative sequence of the types in various regions provide a chronological framework for the evolution of man and society.

Facing the hieroglyphs of the last canvases of the Parisian period ( which are said to be the most difficult ), they provide the Rosetta stone on which the meaning of these mysterious figures is inscribed ".

Retaining walls are a special type of wall, that may be either external to a building or part of a building, that serves to provide a barrier to the movement of earth, stone or water.

Although knowledge of prehistoric Bhutan has yet to emerge through archaeological study, stone tools and weapons, remnants of large stone structures, and megaliths that may have been used for boundary markers or rituals provide evidence of civilization as early as 2000 BC.

In the Middle Ages, opal was considered a stone that could provide great luck because it was believed to possess all the virtues of each gemstone whose color was represented in the color spectrum of the opal.

Ladakh receives about 320 days of sun annually, and the traditional building materials — stone and mud brick — provide the thermal mass needed for heat collection in a Trombe wall.

When ice skates are sharpened the blade is ground with a stone with a curved surface, dressed to either restore the hollow or provide a different radius.

A bastion, a large earthwork projecting eastwards from the Bastille, was built to provide additional protective fire for the Bastille and the Arsenal ; the bastion was reached from the fortress across a stone abutment using a connecting drawbridge that was installed in the Bastille's Comté tower.

The famous layered cliffs at Hunstanton ( consisting of chalk, red chalk and Carr stone ) also provide the backdrop for Eustace and Hilda's games among the rock pools.

Sylacauga marble producers rest on seemingly endless supplies of such beautiful stone, which provide a unique contribution toward the development of an industry and the advancement of mankind.

Instead the designs, including their focus on large stone keeps, were intended both to increase the prestige of the baronial owners and to provide adequate space for the administrative apparatus of the new territories.

The overall purpose is to provide an accurate, and precise, analytical instrument for the identification of stone tool function.

" It would " at least provide a stepping stone which will make it very simple for the masses to understand, and therefore, enjoy symphony and opera.

Starting in around the 14th century locals began dismantling the stone circles for one reason or another, to clear land, to provide material for other building projects, or simply to efface a pagan monument.

The Tleilaxu also provide artificial eyes for soldiers blinded by a stone burner.

For the construction of the fort, stone from the Cap Couronne was used and materials recovered from the demolition of buildings located outside the ramparts of the city and likely to provide a shelter to the enemy troops.

In 855 a stone church was built on the same site, fragments of stone have been found during restoration work which provide strong evidence of this Saxon church.

The stone cottages that make up the hamlet were largely constructed to provide houses for workers on the railway in the early Victorian era.

Broken stone was wedged into the spaces between the tapered perpendicular faces to provide the layer with good lateral control.

Its widespread use in many Roman structures, a key event in the history of architecture termed the Roman Architectural Revolution, freed Roman construction from the restrictions of stone and brick material and allowed for revolutionary new designs in terms of both structural complexity and dimension.

But meritocratic governance within the bureaucracy remains a key stone of Chinese government all the way to the present.

The discovery was reported in Courrier de l ' Égypte, the official newspaper of the French expedition, in September: the anonymous reporter expressed a hope that the stone might one day be the key to deciphering hieroglyphs.

Two years later in Paris he repeated the proposal, listing the stone as one of several key items belonging to Egypt's cultural heritage, a list which also included the iconic bust of Nefertiti in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin ; a statue of the Great Pyramid architect Hemiunu in the Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Germany ; the Dendara Temple Zodiac in the Louvre in Paris ; and the bust of Ankhhaf from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The term Rosetta stone has been used idiomatically to represent a crucial key to the process of decryption of encoded information, especially when a small but representative sample is recognized as the clue to understanding a larger whole.

Clave is a Spanish word meaning ' code ,' ' key ,' as in key to a mystery or puzzle, or ' keystone ,' the wedge-shaped stone in the center of an arch that ties the other stones together.

Some of the key elements of the stone temple were donated by Egypt to the museum at the University of Pennsylvania, which financed the expedition, while the other remained at the Museum in Cairo.

Long gone are the log meetinghouse, stone fort, tall rows of poplars, and the Sanpete infirmary ( or " Poor House "), but many other remnants of the rural landscape remain which identify key elements of Fairview's history and present character.

Alchemists once thought a key component in the creation of the stone was a mythical element named carmot.

This was a key moment in the history of classical epigraphy: for the first time in print a humanist explicitly demonstrated the value of such archaeological remains for the discipline of law, and implicitly accorded texts inscribed in stone as authoritative status as those recorded in manuscripts.

Third, the angelic material takes the form of a set of conjurations that were supposed to summon an extremely powerful set of angelic beings who, he believed, would be able to reveal many secrets, especially the key to the philosopher's stone.

Clave is a Spanish word meaning ' code ,' ' key ,' as in key to a mystery or puzzle, or ' keystone ,' the wedge-shaped stone in the center of an arch that ties the other stones together.

Suitable targets for the knife hand strike include the mastoid muscles of the neck, the jugular, the throat, the collar bones, the 3rd vertebra ( key stone of the spinal column ), the upper arm, the wrist ( knife hand block ), the elbow ( outside knife hand block ), and the knee cap ( leg throw ).

The picture then, by loose analogy, is that the formation of the language faculty in humans is akin to the formation of a crystal ; discrete infinity was the seed crystal in a super-saturated primate brain, on the verge of blossoming into the human mind, by physical law, once a single small, but crucial, key stone was added by evolution.

Another key element of Chichicastenango is the Cofradia of Pascual Abaj, which is an ancient carved stone venerated nearby and the Maya priests perform several rituals there.

The work of Jean-François Champollion in deciphering the Rosetta stone to discover the hidden meaning of hieroglyphics proved the key to the study of Egyptology.

CSNET was the key transitional stepping stone from the original ARPANET to the NSFNET and then the Internet.

In the Japanese version, it is explained that the statue was actually a triggering mechanism for a nuclear bomb developed by an ancient civilization and that the precious stone was actually the key needed to activated it.

# Tootles and the Dragon-Peter and the boys find a big magic key that stucks in the stone.

:" A human level of intelligence -- unlike an elephant's trunk -- is a key step in march of evolution, for it gives rise to a rapid and powerful kind of cultural evolution, an evolution that increasingly, in a sense, takes on a life of its own, and has gotten us from the stone age to now ....

However, Pitfall Harry's quest becomes tougher when he sees that the faithful Quickclaw is imprisoned in a cage and a key must be found, and that when Pitfall Harry finds his niece Rhonda, she has been turned to stone and he must locate a magic potion that will turn her back into a little girl.

The three face a series of obstacles that protect the stone which includes surviving a deadly plant, catching a flying key, playing a life-sized game of Wizards Chess and choosing the correct potion to get through a magical fire.