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unusual facts about stone wall


Stone Wall

It is of geological interest because it provides outstanding exposures of five Cretaceous formations unconformably overlying the Ordovician Tumblagooda sandstone.


Ramalina siliquosa

Ramalina siliquosa, also known as sea ivory, is a tufted and branched lichen which is widely found on siliceous rocks and stone walls on coastlands round the British Isles, occasionally slightly inland.


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1746 Lima-Callao earthquake

There, near the village of Bellavista, there still are remains of a stone wall and some few cellars, which remained from the terrible earthquake of 1746.

Barikot

A stone wall in Hellenistic style was built around the city, with equidistant quadrangular bastions, all according to Attic measurements.

Brooks Bowman

A New York music publisher offered the team a contract, but before it was signed Brooks Bowman died on October 17, 1937 when a car in which he was riding crashed into a stone wall on Cat Rock Road near Garrison, New York.

Lackeen Castle

It was at Lackeen Castle that the Lorrha Missal was rediscovered in the 18th century, concealed inside a stone wall.

Pechersk Lavra fortification

Hetman Ivan Mazepa financed the fortification's construction at the height of the Great Northern War, and had a thick stone wall with four towers added for protection of the monastery in case of Swedish or Russian attack.

Ubi caritas

Paul Halley combined phrases of the original chant melody sung in Latin with other songs in the track Ubi caritas on his 1991 album Angel on a Stone Wall.

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.