In the 18th century Aberdour's harbour was improved by the addition of a stone pier to help handle the coal traffic from nearby collieries.

In the end Bilbo gives up the precious stone and most of his share of the treasure to help those in greater need.

However, Rhea asked Gaia and Uranus for help in saving Zeus by sending Rhea to Crete to bear Zeus and giving Cronus a huge stone to swallow thinking that it was another of Rhea's children.

For a stone greater that 10 mm, ESWL may not help break the stone in one treatment ; instead, two or three treatments may be needed.

Later, they find another portal stone with the help of a mysterious woman called Selene.

He asked the Phoenix to help him by lending its energy to project a stone pillar ( which resembled a lighthouse ) across the multiverse.

A good exercise is also asking a student to solve Lat Sao problems using newly learned techniques in each program ; even if the things they come up with do not work, the habit of investigating the problem from different angles and not taking Lat Sao as something set in stone will help them avoid the pitfalls.

The pool is stone lined, but underneath there is evidence of an earlier version which was merely plastered ( to help it retain water ).

They recognize the danger Coraline is in after reading her fortune through tea leaves and give her a stone with a hole in it to help protect her.

They come to Mayapore, a desolate village in northern India, where the poor villagers believe them to have been sent by the Hindu god Shiva and enlist their help to retrieve the sacred Sivalinga stone stolen from their shrine, as well as the community's children, from evil forces in the nearby Pankot Palace.

Whilst travelling through Ireland, Oisín was asked by some men to help them move a standing stone.

Subsequently, farmers were forced to replant the fields with stone fruit, or ( particularly on the west side of town ) sell their land to developers to help cope with the rising population.

It is usually transliterated as a proper name by dropping the definite article ( Ha ) from the Hebrew word for " help " ( Ezer ) and putting it together with the Hebrew word for " stone " ( Even ) to create: " Ebenezer.

The earliest legend narrated to the iconic emerald image of the Buddha is that of Nagasena, a saint in India who with the help of Hindu god, Vishnu and demigod Indra got the Emerald Buddha image made, 500 years after Buddha attained Nirvana, from the precious stone of Emerald.

The classical rabbinical literature argues that Judah reacted violently to the threat against Benjamin, shouting so loudly that Hushim, who was then in Canaan, was able to hear Judah ask him to travel to Egypt, to help Judah destroy it ; some sources have Judah angrily picking up an extremely heavy stone ( 400 shekels in weight ), throwing it into the air, then grinding it to dust with his feet once it had landed.

Later, privately owned tenements benefited from government help in " stone cleaning ", revealing a honey-coloured sandstone behind the presumed " grey " tenemental facades.

Hagerty help to draft the gathering's " Industrial Union Manifesto ," a document which was to serve as an intellectual foundation stone for the establishment of the Industrial Workers of the World at a convention later that same year.

They enlisted the help of some nearby farmers until they finally uncovered the massive head of a stone lion which they recognized as the same lion mentioned by Pausanias.

Sometimes a 58th facet, called a culet is cut on the bottom of the stone to help prevent chipping of the pavilion point.

It was recognised that the straight engineered channel where the river had been re-instated after coal mining was not well suited to the support of life, and so a stone weir was constructed, to help with natural aeration of the water, and to increase the flow velocity so that the gravel below the weir was scoured clean.

Shortly thereafter, she gains sixty pounds ( 4 stone 4 pounds ), but Niles is so blinded by love he doesn't notice until Daphne falls to the floor and is too heavy to get up without the help of Frasier, Niles and Martin ( who remarks " it took three Cranes to lift you ").

The fortress was rebuilt in stone in 1352 by Archbishop Vasilii Kalika of Novgorod ( 1330 – 1352 ), who, according to the Novgorod First Chronicle, was sent by the Novgorodians after several Russian and Lithuanian princes ignored the city's pleas to help them rebuild and defend the fort.

In the cemetery's Jewish section, a stone chapel was built in 1950 with the help of Hollywood mogul Louis B. Mayer, who grew up in Saint John and whose mother is interred here.

In the Ancient Macedonian language ( pella ) means stone, and some toponyms are derived from this word: ( Pella: capital of Ancient Macedonia ), ( Pellini-Pallini ).

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

It lists 144 items of shared basic vocabulary ( most of them already present in Starostin 1991 ), including words for such items as ' eye ', ' ear ', ' neck ', ' bone ', ' blood ', ' water ', ' stone ', ' sun ', and ' two '.

The best-preserved examples of the stone and adobe dwellings are in National Parks ( USA ), such as Chaco Canyon or Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Bandelier National Monument, Hovenweep National Monument, and Canyon de Chelly National Monument.

The ancient population centers such as Chaco Canyon ( outside Crownpoint, New Mexico ), Mesa Verde ( near Cortez, Colorado ), and Bandelier National Monument ( near Los Alamos, New Mexico ) for which the Ancestral Pueblo peoples are renowned, consisted of apartment-like complexes and structures made from stone, adobe mud, and other local material, or were carved into the sides of canyon walls.

New sectors, such as precious stone processing and jewelry making and communication technologyArmentel ( left fromt the USSR era ), which is not even owned by the government or Armenian investors.

Under the heading of " materials ," his class examines the relations between different kinds of writing surfaces ( including stone, wax, parchment, paper, walls, textiles, the body, and the heart ), writing implements ( including styluses, pens, pencils, needles, and brushes ), and material forms ( including scrolls, erasable tables, codices, broadsides and printed forms and books ).

Pizza -- made with very thin, and sometimes thick, high-rising doughs, with or without cheese, cooked in the oven or a la piedra ( on a stone oven ), and stuffed with numerous ingredients -— is a dish which can be found in nearly every corner of the country.

* Art products ; for example, plastic objects, carved in stone or ivory, cast or beaten in metals ( gold, silver, copper and bronze ), or modelled in clay, faience, paste, etc.

When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.

Nowadays Afyon is known for its marble ( in 2005 there were 355 marble quarries in the province of Afyon producing high quality white stone ), its sucuk ( spiced sausages ), its kaymak ( meaning either cream or a white Turkish Delight ) and various handmade weavings.

* the stone statue Allegory of Winter ( 1563 – 65 ), Villa Medici, Castello

His original system consisted of the four classical elements found in the ancient Greek traditions ( air, earth, fire and water ), in addition to two philosophical elements: sulphur, ‘ the stone which burns ’, which characterized the principle of combustibility, and mercury, which contained the idealized principle of metallic properties.

Computer controlled music is also found in the performance pieces by the Canadian composer Udo Kasemets such as the Marce ( ntennia ) l Circus C ( ag ) elebrating Duchamp ( 1987 ), a realization of the Marcel Duchamp process piece Erratum Musical using an electric model train to collect a hopper-car of stones to be deposited on a drum wired to an Analog: Digital converter, mapping the stone impacts to a score display ( performed in Toronto by pianist Gordon Monahan during the 1987 Duchamp Centennial ), or his installations and performance works ( e. g. Spectrascapes ) based on his Geo ( sono ) scope ( 1986 ) 15x4-channel computer-controlled audio mixer.

The mouth and estuary of the Congo was now discovered ( perhaps in August 1482 ), and marked by a Padrão, or stone pillar ( still existing, but only in fragments ) erected on Shark Point, attesting the sovereignty of Portugal ; the great river was also ascended for a short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives of the Bakongo kingdom.

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.

Enlil ( nlin ), ( EN = Lord + LÍL = Storm, " Lord ( of the ) Storm ") was the name of a chief deity listed and written about in Sumerian religion, and later in Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite and other Mesopotamian clay and stone tablets.

The period from 700, 000 – 300, 000 years ago is also known as the Acheulean, when H. ergaster ( or erectus ) made large stone hand axes out of flint and quartzite, at first quite rough ( Early Acheulian ), later " retouched " by additional, more subtle strikes at the sides of the flakes.

Amaterasu was moved to in Yamato Province ( Nara ), and there built as Himorogi altar ( place for deities to make their descent ) out of solid stone, placing a daughter, the princess in charge.

* Tsoureki, a traditional Christmas and Easter sweet bread also known as ' Lambropsomo ' ( Easter bread ), flavored with " mahlepi ", the intensely aromatic extract of the stone of the St. Lucie Cherry.

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.