Evidence of early habitation includes pieces of Roman amphora as well as stone boat anchors.

In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark Bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in.

Among these were the teeth of a reptile / mammal hybrid, Plagiaulax dawsoni, " found " in 1891 ( and whose teeth had been filed down in the same way that the teeth of Piltdown man would be some 20 years later ), the so-called " shadow figures " on the walls of Hastings Castle, a unique hafted stone axe, the Bexhill boat ( a hybrid seafaring vessel ), the Pevensey bricks ( allegedly the latest datable " finds " from Roman Britain ), the contents of the Lavant Caves ( a fraudulent " flint mine "), the Beauport Park " Roman " statuette ( a hybrid iron object ), the Bulverhythe Hammer ( shaped with an iron knife in the same way as the Piltdown elephant bone implement would later be ), a fraudulent " Chinese " bronze vase, the Brighton " Toad in the Hole " ( a toad entombed within a flint nodule ), the English Channel sea serpent, the Uckfield Horseshoe ( another hybrid iron object ) and the Lewes Prick Spur.

It was constructed in 1826 to carry granite from a Quincy quarry to the Neponset River in Milton so that the stone could then be taken by boat to erect the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Peninsula was a bustling canal boat stop — home to several mills, stone quarries and boat yards, five hotels and 14 bars until 1887.

A horse-drawn " stone boat ", a sled used in horse pulling competition, Spring Fair, Woolbrook, NSW

It is not clear to what extent the Mole was used for navigation in the past: In the late 13th century, Thorncroft Manor ( south of Leatherhead ) purchased a shout, a type of boat up to in length used to carry produce to market and it has been suggested that stone cut from quarries in Reigate was transported to London via the river.

Business and industries included in the townships history have included, still include, glass factories, asheries, tanniers, restaurants, gas stations, auto repair, 2 post offices, a lumber yard, a bowling alley, a bank, a library, a phone company, cottage rentals, boat / motor / general marine services, barber shops, antiques, saw mills, black smiths, farm store -( AGWAY ), general stores, stone quarries, milk processing plants, cheese factories, coal storage cribs / coal sale and delivery etc.

According to ancient history, Qin Shi Huang traveled east into the sea, and moored the boat to this stone.

As a consequence, the stone had to be first quarried then shipped by boat to France and then transported to Vimy Ridge by truck and by rail.

The Olga sent out a rescue boat with six volunteers, but the boat capsized and all six crew were lost-named today on a bronze plaque attached to the foot of the needle's mounting stone.

Of the later graves, some women's graves appear to be distinguished by placement of rocks in a circle or oval, but most of the graves are marked with rocks either in a triangle or in the traditional shape of a boat ( stone ship ), indicating the importance that the Vikings placed upon water.

Archaeological evidence of the Norse presence in the Hebrides is scant, but boat shaped stone settings found not far from the chapel may be graves from this period of occupation.

A stone rip-rap and concrete wharf was constructed and a sight seeing boat called " La Novia de Xolotlán " makes hour-long lake tours when there are sufficient tourists.

It is not a boat designed for beginners ; however, its earlier designed smaller sister, the 420, is a stepping stone to the 470.

These included the famous Italian Barge ( 1917 – 19 ), a stone folly in the shape of a boat, projecting into Biscayne Bay.

A plaque embedded into a stone monument was erected in the town of Eagle River, just a few miles where his boat went down.

: Hither stone the man stained with corpse-sea, made thus oarpins in the bearing-worn boat

The first fishing boat to return with its catch placed its haul alongside stone number one, the second boat at stone two and so on.

The name comes from the Ancient Greek ἀ a-(" not ") and μέθυστος methustos (" intoxicated "), a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness.

The Chalcolithic ( khalkos " copper " + lithos " stone ") period or Copper Age, also known as the Eneolithic / Æneolithic ( from Latin aeneus " of bronze "), is a phase of the Bronze Age in which the addition of tin to copper to form bronze during smelting remained yet unknown by the metallurgists of the times.

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.

( 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 ).

The name has an Indo-European origin ( from karra meaning " stone "), and in antiquity it was called " Carusardius " in Latin.

* Keratolysis, of dead surface skin cells usually using salicylic acid, blistering agents, immune system modifiers (" immunomodulators "), or formaldehyde, often with mechanical paring of the wart with a pumice stone, blade etc.

* The novel Kámen a bolest (" suffering and the stone "), Karel Schulz's historical novel about the life of Michelangelo features Savonarola as an important character.

Sergei Eisenstein's famous motion picture The Battleship Potemkin commemorated the uprising and included a scene where hundreds of Odessan citizens were murdered on the great stone staircase ( now popularly known as the " Potemkin Steps "), in one of the most famous scenes in motion picture history.

The Three were called Narya, the Ring of Fire ( set with a ruby ); Nenya, the Ring of Water or Ring of Adamant ( made of mithril and set with a " white stone "), and Vilya, the Ring of Air, the " mightiest of the Three " ( made of gold and set with a sapphire ).

In the saga Baile in Scáil (" The Phantom's Ecstatic Vision "), Conn treads on the stone by accident while walking the ramparts of Tara, implying that the stone had been lost and half-buried since Cúchulainn's time.

The idea implicit in all these rites, is that certain stones have the power to make sterile women fruitful, either because of the spirits of the ancestors that dwell in them, or because of their shape ( the pregnant woman, " woman stone "), or because of their origin (" autogenesis ").

The 8-fold system of pa yin (" 8 sounds "), from the same source, occurred gradually, and in the legendary Emperor Shun's time ( 3rd millennium BC ) it is believed to have been presented in the following order: metal ( chin ), stone ( shih ), silk ( ssu ), bamboo ( chu ), gourd ( p ' ao ), clay ( t ' u ), leather ( ko ), and wood ( mu ) classes, and it correlated to the 8 seasons and 8 winds of Chinese culture, autumn and west, autumn-winter and NW, summer and south, spring and east, winter-spring and NE, summer-autumn and SW, winter and north, and spring-summer and SE, respectively ( Kartomi, 1990 ).

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.

Whereas proverbs in English are typically multi-worded phrases (" kill two birds with one stone "), Japanese borrowed from Chinese compactly conveys the concept in one word.

In 1747 Linnaeus first related the phenomenon to electricity ( he called tourmaline Lapidem Electricum, " the electric stone "), although this was not proven until 1756 by Franz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus.

The people who lived in those places were of the Hernici, migrated-as it seems-from the Aniene valley and descendant from the Marsi ( Marsians ) ( or from the Sabines ), at least according to the ethnical term deriving from the Marsian herna (" stone "), that is: " Those who live on the stony hills ".

The most famous was a large circular church known as the Daimhliag (" stone house "), which was burned to the ground by Viking attackers in the 12th century.

The new interiors sought to recreate an authentically Roman and genuinely interior vocabulary, employing flatter, lighter motifs, sculpted in low frieze-like relief or painted in monotones en camaïeu (" like cameos "), isolated medallions or vases or busts or bucrania or other motifs, suspended on swags of laurel or ribbon, with slender arabesques against backgrounds, perhaps, of " Pompeiian red " or pale tints, or stone colors.

The family name was likely derived from Pazzo (" the madman "), one of the first soldiers over the walls in the Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, who brought away with him and returned to Florence a stone from the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre.

Ukko's hammer, the Vasara ( means merely " hammer "), probably meant originally the same thing as the boat-shaped stone axe.

Hijazi cuisine is popular as well and dishes like Mabshoor, Mitabbak, Foul, Areika, Hareisa, Kabab Meiroo, Shorabah Hareira ( Hareira soup ), Migalgal, Madhbi ( chicken grilled on stone ), Madfun ( literally meaning " buried "), Magloobah, Kibdah, Manzalah ( usually eaten at Eid ul-Fitr ), Ma ' asoob, Magliya ( a Hijazi version of falafel ), Saleeig ( a Hijazi dish made of milk rice ), hummus, Biryani, Ruz Kabli, Ruz Bukhari, and Saiyadyia can be acquired in many traditional restaurants around the city, such as Althamrat, Abo-Zaid, Al-Quarmooshi, Ayaz, and Hejaziyat.

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

Larger crannogs could be occupied by extended families or communal groups, and access was either by logboats or coracles while evidence for timber or stone causeways exists on a large number of crannogs.

Northern style dolmens are above ground with a four sided chamber and a megalithic roof ( also referred to as table type ), while southern style ( usually but not always underground ) are made up of a stone chest or pit covered by a slab.

On the other hand, the statement " A bridge crosses the Styx at Limbo " has the same form, but while in the first case we understand a real bridge in the real world made of stone or brick, what " existence " would mean in the second case is less clear.

A Syrian clay tablet records a solar eclipse which occurred on March 5, 1223 B. C., while Paul Griffin argues that a stone in Ireland records an eclipse on November 30, 3340 B. C.

Dwarves are literally made of stone and exist as manifest rigid inflexible laws of creation, while elves are intelligent, mobile plants.

He used this knowledge while working on the Bolton and Leigh Railway, and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway ( L & MR ), executing a series of difficult cuts, embankments and stone viaducts to smooth the route the railways took.

A stone can be called " pink " by one lab while another lab calls it " Padparadscha ".

One lab can conclude a stone is untreated, while another lab might conclude that it is heat-treated.

For example, a large fraction of American houses use wood, while most British and many European houses utilize stone or brick.

The objects found in a cave near Xarrë include flint and jasper objects and fossilized animal bones, while those found at Mount Dajt comprise bone and stone tools similar to those of the Aurignacian culture.

The Rozwi continued the stone building traditions of the Zimbabwe and Mapungubwe kingdoms while adding guns to its arsenal and developing a professional army to protect its trade routes and conquests.

When Europeans first arrived, inhabitants of New Guinea and nearby islands – while still relying on bone, wood, and stone tools – had a productive agricultural system.

Slate is an ideal, and durable material, while in the Swiss Alps roofs are made from huge slabs of stone, several inches thick.

By November 2005, Hawass was suggesting a three-month loan of the Rosetta Stone, while reiterating the eventual goal of a permanent return ; in December 2009, he proposed to drop his claim for the permanent return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum loaned the stone to Egypt for three months, for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza in 2013.

His engineers built a causeway that was originally wide and reached the range of his torsion-powered artillery, while his soldiers pushed siege towers housing stone throwers and light catapults to bombard the city walls.

In this way he discovered that stone tools did not co-occur with bronze or iron in the earliest deposits while subsequently bronze did not co-occur with iron-so that three periods could be defined by their available materials, stone, bronze and iron.

The oldest habitation discovered in the Philippines is located at the Tabon Caves and dates back to approximately 50, 000 years ; while items there found such as burial jars, earthenware, jade ornaments and other jewelry, stone tools, animal bones, and human fossils dating back to 47, 000 years ago.

Elsewhere, wealthy people wiped themselves with wool, lace or hemp, while less wealthy people used their hand when defecating into rivers, or cleaned themselves with various materials such as rags, wood shavings, leaves, grass, hay, stone, sand, moss, water, snow, maize, ferns, may apple plant husks, fruit skins, or seashells, and corncobs, depending upon the country and weather conditions or social customs.

Ala Muhammad Abdul-Rahman Mahfuz al-Jawabra, 14, of Aroob refugee camp, died of head wounds sustained Oct. 6 from IDF gunfire while on the terrace of his home one hour after injuring an Israeli soldier with a stone.

* Legends place the origins in Biblical times and consider the stone to be the Stone of Jacob taken by Jacob while in Haran.

This broken stone is returned to Westminster Abbey, while the real stone is hidden in plain sight as a conveniently placed seat on the Royal Highlands Golf Course in Scotland.

Therefore, in this theory, God would not be omnipotent while not being able to lift the stone.