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unusual facts about pebble



Barium

Smooth pebble-like stones of mineral barite found in Bologna, Italy, were known as "Bologna stones."

Charmstone

In the Life of St. Columba it is recorded that he visited King Bridei in Pictland in around the year 565 AD and taking a white stone pebble from the River Ness he blessed it and any water it came into contact with would cure sick people.

Geothermal power in Canada

Canada's government (which officially notes some 30,000 earth-heat installations for providing space heating to Canadian residential and commercial buildings) reports that the most advanced project exists as a test geothermal-electrical site in the Meager Mountain-Pebble Creek area of British Columbia, where a 100 - 300 MW facility could be developed.

Hotel Del Monte

The famous 17-Mile Drive was originally designed as a local excursion for visitors to the Del Monte to take in the historic sights of Monterey and Pacific Grove and the scenery of what would become Pebble Beach.

James Dietz

Peter Helck Award, Automotive Fine Artists of America show at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, 1999, 2000

Lake Ram

Most notably, excavation led to the discovery of the Venus of Berekhat Ram, a pebble allegedly worked by Homo erectus.

Mani Peninsula

Some popular beaches during the summer are Kalogria and the beaches by Stoupa harbor, while Kardamyli and Agios Nikolaos have good pebble and sand beaches, too.

Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance

The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is an automotive charitable event held each year on the Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California, considered the most prestigious event of its kind.

Pebble Beach Golf Links

The final round on Sunday is played at Pebble Beach, but the first three rounds of pro-am play are contested in round-robin format at Pebble Beach and two other courses: currently Spyglass Hill Golf Course and Monterey Peninsula Country Club.

Pebble in the Sky

The book was adapted for radio by Ernest Kinoy for Dimension X as "Pebble in the Sky"; first broadcast in 1951 it was released as an audio download in 2007 by Radio Spirits, and again in 2011.

Rosetta Pebble

Rosetta Pebble was formed by Eric Frakes and Steve Gulian in summer 1999, in Barcelona, Spain.

Rudolf Schulten

The idea took root and in due course a 46 MW th (megawatt thermal) experimental pebble bed reactor (the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Versuchsreaktor, or AVR) was built at the Jülich Research Centre in Jülich, West Germany.

Simon Hang-Bock Rhee

He was Project Manager for Hanjin Heavy Industries (formerly Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation) in Korea and Hong Kong (1976–1990), General Manager of Architectural Marketing Team and Project Manager for various international construction sites including the Pebble Bay Condominiun and Pulau Seraya Power Station in Singapore, as well as the Incheon International Airport for Samsung C&T Corporation (1990–2008).

Stroop Report

It was a typed document, bound in black pebble leather, with over 50 photographs accompanied by hand-written Gothic script captions.

Trying to Stop Your Leaving

For example, in one verse, he compares the situation to throwing a pebble into the Rio Grande, stating that he could "throw in a million more and not slow it down".

We Must Believe in Magic

Janie Fricke, Marcia Routh, Pebble Daniel, Sandy Mason Theoret, Garth Fundisbacking vocals


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