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unusual facts about The Stone


The Stone

The Rolling Stones, a British rock and roll band, often called "the Stones"


The Upbeat

Immediately after the band started, they began to play local parties in the nearby college town of Isla Vista, CA (University of California at Santa Barbara), as well as accepting opportunities to play gigs at more famous clubs such as The Country Club and Fenders Ballroom in Los Angeles and The Stone and Slims in San Francisco.


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2 Columbus Circle

May 2005 – Nicolai Ouroussoff, chief architecture critic of The New York Times, wrote, "Representing a pivotal moment in architecture's eventual turn from mainstream Modernism, the Stone building's modest scale and concave facade are a gentle counterpoint to the new Time Warner Center's bland gigantism.

Abbotsbury Railway

First proposed in 1872, to tap the stone deposits at Portesham and ironstone around the village of Abbotsbury itself, the first Parliamentary Bill was opposed by a local landowner and withdrawn in 1873.Further application was made in 1876 and received Royal Assent on 6 June 1877.

Ada Odd Fellows Temple

The remainder of the stone was donated to the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, which used it in the construction of its outdoor theater on Warm Springs Avenue, and to the Boise School District, which used it in the restoration of the Bown House, an 1879 building on the campus of Riverside Elementary School.

Almandine

When the color inclines to a violet tint, the stone is often called Syriam garnet, a name said to be taken from Syriam, an ancient town of Pegu (now part of Myanmar).

Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond

The island was visited in 1772 by Sir Joseph Banks, who remarked that the stone was a coarse kind of basalt, very much resembling the Giant's Causeway in Ireland as noted in (Pennant's Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides).

Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse

The stone that killed Simon de Montfort in 1218, while he was besieging Toulouse, was thrown from the roof of Saint-Sernin.

Brethren of the Free Spirit

:"It is I who am the light which is above them all. It is I who am the all. From me did the all come forth, and unto me did the all extend. Split the piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there." (Gospel of Thomas)

Buddleja davidii 'Florence'

Buddleja davidii 'Florence' is a variegated cultivar introduced and registered by the Stone Green Nursery, Bethersden, Ashford, UK.

Bzyb Range

This is a view from the Stone Sack to the lower stream of the Bzyb River.

Caen stone

Excavation restarted in the 1980s with the stone being used for building the Caen Memorial.

Cathcart Castle

The newly created 1st Earl Cathcart bought back his ancestral home in 1814, although with the intention of selling off the stone rather than living in it.

Comblanchien

The stone has characteristics similar to those of marble and is notable for the variety of its shades of colour, the pink of bindweed (Convolvulus) and beige.

Cotta Sandstone

The stone is quarried in Dohma (Groß-Cotta), Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel (in the villages of Gottleuba and Berggießhübel), Langhennersdorf, Rottwerndorf, at Neundorf and Lohmgrund south of Pirna, in Gersdorf and Bahretal (Ottendorf), and in the Krippenbach valley.

Crispus Allen

Meanwhile, in a world corrupted by Darkseid and the Anti-Life Equation the Cult of the Stone, a religious sect devoted to the adoration of Cain, used the Spear of Destiny, carelessly misplaced by Allen himself while judging Montoya, to resurrect Cain in the body of Vandal Savage.

Gauntlet track

The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway: a short section at Wirksworth to allow either the passenger platform or the stone dock to be used.

Granite, Virginia

The McIntosh Quarry furnished the stone used in the approaches and steps in the renovation and expansion of the Virginia State Capitol which had recently been completed (1904–06).

Hansen, Wisconsin

the streams are fed by the swamps and are subject to very sudden rise & fall the timber is of various kinds such as soft-maple sugar Pine (TamaracK & alder in the swamps) Linn Oak Ash Ironwood +c, the stone are a Blue Flint.

Hedsor Water

The paper made at nearby Cookham Paper Mill was shipped from there and the stone used to build Shardeloes was brought from Oxford to Hedsor Wharf.

I Am the Resurrection

John Squire designed the "I Am the Resurrection" cover, (an up-close shot from the cover of the first album) continuing the Jackson Pollock-influenced theme of singles from The Stone Roses.

I Sat by the Ocean

On July 31, 2013 Queens of the Stone Age performed the song on the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, together with the first single from the album, "My God Is the Sun".

Jean Baker Miller

Following the publication of Toward a New Psychology of Women, Dr. Miller became the first director of the Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies at Wellesley College, which incorporated the relational model into all aspects of the Stone Center's treatment.

Johann Weißheimer II

Johann Weißheimer II was born on 25 October 1797 in Osthofen as the eldest son of John I and Margaret Weißheimer, née Dechen, in his father's estate, the stone mill in Osthofen.

John L. Reese

That led to Guns N' Roses manager Doug Goldstein hiring him to become the band's tour manager for their 1989 Los Angeles Coliseum concerts with the Rolling Stones, then as the tour manager for the massive Use Your Illusion Tours and then as a partner and personal manager with Big FD Entertainment, representing a number of artists including Guns N' Roses, The Stone Roses, Blind Melon and many more.

Lament for the Numb

The Stone People consisted of Dobbyn himself on the guitar, piano and as the lead vocalist, album producer Mitchell Froom on the keyboard, Bruce Thomas on the bass guitar and Pete Thomas on the drums and as the percussionist.

Lulu on the Bridge

Distressed, Lulu takes the rock and walks to Ha'penny Bridge, where she drops the stone into the dark river below.

Maen Llia

The stone which is composed of Old Red Sandstone measures 3.7 m (12 ft) high by 2.8 m (9 ft) wide by 0.6 m (2 ft).

Marienehe Charterhouse

The stone was mostly put to use in the construction of Schloss Güstrow.

Matthew Sweet discography

In 2007, Sweet contributed the song "Come to California" for the film, Nancy Drew, and a cover of the Stone Poneys' "Different Drum" for the film, The Heartbreak Kid.

Mike Knapp

Snap went on to drum for Dave Dobbyn and the Stone People band, with tours in both Australia and New Zealand, The Warratahs mostly performing in New Zealand.

Mount Qingyuan

There are also the "Four Superlatives" which include the stone statue of Laozi from the Song Dynasty, the Vedic stone statues of Buddha for Three Lives, the holy Islamic tombs and the pray for wind stone inscriptions.

Munjoy Hill

The Eastern Promenade rings the neighborhood and offers panoramic views of these features, as well as two lighthouses, Mason Station power plant, and the stone battlement of Fort Gorges.

Northwestern Pacific Railroad

The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was featured in films, used from backgrounds to on-board filming, most notably is Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, which was filmed in downtown Santa Rosa, California in the summer of 1942, using the stone depot and railroad yard as a background.

Numbers in Egyptian mythology

"Osiris, the murdered god," A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries, Mircea Eliade, page 97, note 35.

Pschyrembel Klinisches Wörterbuch

However, the stone louse is only a fictitious animal created by the German satirical comedian Loriot to parody nature documentaries.

Rideau Lakes, Ontario

The many tourist attractions in Rideau Lakes, including historic trails, the stone arch dam at Jones Falls, and the Rideau Waterway, are also an important part of the township's economy.

Roll Away the Stone

"Roll Away the Stone" is a single released by Mott the Hoople.

Sandsfoot Castle

Evidence suggests that some of the stone used in the construction possibly came from earlier local ecclesiastical buildings that were destroyed after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, notably the Cistercian monastery Bindon Abbey, near Wool.

Scone Palace

When Edward I of England carried off the Stone of Scone to Westminster Abbey in 1296, the Coronation Chair that still stands in the abbey was specially made to fit over it.

Sick, Sick, Sick

Additionally, the song appears in a 3-song pack - Along with other Queens of the Stone Age songs "Little Sister" and "3's and 7's" - as downloadable content for the music video game series Rock Band and also appears on the soundtrack of the game MotorStorm: Pacific Rift.

St Mary's Church, Roecliffe

The stone used in its construction came from an old Roman quarry in the grounds of Aldborough Manor, and from a quarry at Cotgrove, while the stone for the internal arch was from Burton Leonard.

Stone of Destiny

Pedra Fadada,(stone of destiny) in Portuguese and Galician legends was the stone that Goídel Glas chose as his seat to do justice in his town while he was still in Hispania.

The Stone Book Quartet

Among Garner's works, The Stone Book is the tenth most widely held (catalogued) in WorldCat participating libraries.

The Stone Clinic

The Stone Clinic is a sports medicine clinic in San Francisco, California, offering orthopaedic surgery and medical care, physical therapy and rehabilitation, and radiology imaging services.

Theatre Passe Muraille

Other notable productions produced at Passe Muraille include O.D. on Paradise and Maggie and Pierre by Linda Griffiths; Fire by David Young and Paul Ledoux; The Stone Angel, James Nichol's adaptation of the novel by Margaret Laurence; Judith Thompson's The Crackwalker; and Lilies by Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard.

Thembang

In an early days the people of the village have fought many battles, most important one is the war with Chandagmai a miji queen, some more were a war with Tukpenpa (present Rupa), the head of the a Mag-pon (general) of Tukpen is still buried under the stone stair near the fort at Thembang.

Walden United Methodist Church

The stone belt courses amid the red brick facade and understated polychromy are also more distinctly High Victorian Gothic, showing the influence of John Ruskin's aesthetic theories and the Venetian Gothic.

WaterTower Theatre

WaterTower and the Addison Theatre Center were profiled in the “American Stages” series produced by National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, in a segment on “Theater Shape and Design.” Productions are also staged in the Stone Cottage (seating approximately 50) adjacent to the Theatre Centre.

Westminster Stone theory

The Stone of Destiny was kept by the monks of Iona, the traditional headquarters of the Scottish Celtic church, until Viking raiding caused them to move to the mainland, first to Dunkeld, Atholl, and then to Scone.

Writing implement

Words and names are still commonly inscribed into commemorative objects, such as the engraved winners' names on the silver Stanley Cup or the Gettysburg Address carved into the stone wall of the Lincoln Memorial, but the requisite tools are not exclusively considered to be writing instruments.