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Howlite: The borate mineral Howlite information and pictures
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Rare Ancient Millstone Found Decorated With A Roman Phallus Carving
When archaeologists pieced together a broken millstone they were shocked to find an ancient Roman phallus carving. Experts say that the Roman phallus decoration is both "highly significant" and rare. The broken millstone bearing the ancient carving was discovered during major roadworks between Cambridge and Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, England between 2017 and 2018. It is just one of more than 300 examples of hand mills and millstones that were discovered during the work. Cambridgeshi...
Ophthalmite (definition) by Webster 1913 - Everything2.com
Ophthalmite (definition) See all of Ophthalmite, no other writeups in this node. Oph*thal"mite (?), n. [Gr. the eye.] Zool. An eyestalk; the organ which bears the compound eyes of decapod Crustacea. © Webster 1913. link viewEpicenter You have 1 C! and 50 votes left today. server time Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 8:51:03 your time Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 4:51:03Current User PollChatterbox(r) 2020-09-13@20:41 (9.7 y) Cool Man Eddie says Hey, Chord just cool...
Twin Peaks on Mars - NASA
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Why Did Moses Break the Tablets? - Parshah Focus - Parshah
Why Did Moses Break the Tablets? Question: Why did Moses break the tablets? I heard that his reason was the Torah-mandated capital punishment for idolatry. If he would give the Torah to the Jews at this point, they would be condemned to death, so he instead broke the tablets to save the Jews. Is this correct? Are there other reasons too? Answer: The midrashim and various biblical commentaries suggest many reasons to explain Moses’ action. The following are a few of them: 1) The ...
Genesis Tablet Theory
Genesis Tablet Theory Genesis Tablet Theory News in Stone? In our six-part article discussing the Genesis tablet-theory we will present the following terms and concepts: - Genesis writings parallel the writing-format of ancient Near Eastern tablets. - JEDP Documentary Hypothesis is obsolete. - "Wiseman Hypothesis," Percy&Donald Wiseman, Assyriologist. - R.K. Harrison, Cuneiform&Mesopotamian Historiography. - Colophons&Toledoths (genealogies follow completed texts). - Ancient literary ...
Like Standing Stones: On Vona Groarke’s “Double Negative” - Los Angeles Review of Books
Like Standing Stones: On Vona Groarke’s "Double Negative" By Declan Ryan AUGUST 16, 2020 "THAT I AM not as young as the morning / is known even to the weather / which knows everything," Vona Groarke writes in "As ever, Sunday Morning," a poem that has more than a title in common with Wallace Stevens’s tale of peignoir complacencies. Groarke’s language here, though, as throughout Double Negative, makes for a barer sort of music than Stevens’s rococo...
Amazonite - Extraordinary Feldspar
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Big Obsidian Flow is one of Oregon's greatest volcanic attractions - oregonlive.com
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SimpC Dateline Bangkok: Stone
Wednesday, 2 October 2019 Stone Stone is the latest in a series of coffee-table books on building materials, edited by William Hall and published by Phaidon. Like its predecessors Concrete, Brick, and Wood, Stone features stunning full-page photographs of more than 150 buildings, each with a paragraph-length caption. "Many of the world’s most significant, revered, influential and memorable structures are built with stone," Hall notes in his preface. Stone is the oldest and most durable ...
Earth's rock-solid connections between Canada and Australia contain clues about the origin of life
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TMOLUS (Tmolos) - Lydian Mountain-God of Greek Mythology
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Black Stone (thing) by Grayman
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Black Stone (thing) See all of The Black Stone, no other writeups in this node. See also: Kaaba (thing) by Grayman Sun Sep 29 2002 at 5:36:48 A Muslim object of veneration built into the eastern-facing corner of the Caaba. It predates the Islamic religion and is probably of meteoric origin although according to Islamic legend the stone was given to Adam on his fall from paradise (however some conflicting legends say it was give...
Alchemy in Death of Procris painting
In Death of Procris - The Considering the alchemist background of Cosimo Rosselli (the painter's teacher and father-in-law), it has been suggested that the painting "can be explained in terms of the pictorial language of alchemy".[3] According to this conceit, the dog (whose form is visually echoed by three other dogs in the background) represents none other than Hermes Trismegistos and a tree shown growing over Procris's breast symbolises the arbor philosophica.[3] The red-and-gold veil...
The Math of Sisyphus – TechCrunch
The Math of Sisyphus Devin Coldewey @techcrunch / 1 day ago "There is but one truly serious question in philosophy, and that is suicide," wrote Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. This is equally true for a human navigating an absurd existence and an artificial intelligence navigating a morally insoluble situation.As AI-powered vehicles take the road, questions about their behavior are inevitable — and the escalation to matters of life or death equally ...
Lapis lazuli - Wikipedia
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