Examples of the Black Stone in the following topics:
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- The Black Stone, a sacred object, had been removed to facilitate renovations to the Kaaba.
- The leaders of Mecca could not agree on which clan should have the honor of setting the Black Stone back in its place.
- He asked for a cloth and put the Black Stone in its center.
- The clan leaders held the corners of the cloth and together carried the Black Stone to the right spot; then Muhammad set the stone in place, satisfying all who were present.
- An illustration from c. 1315 depicting Muhammad's role in re-setting the Black Stone in 605 CE.
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- As in the Old Kingdom, stone was most often reserved for tombs and temples, while bricks were used for palaces, fortresses, everyday houses, and town walls.
- Architects carefully planned all their work, fitting their stones and bricks precisely together.
- The Black Pyramid, the first to house both the pharaoh and his queens, was built for Amenemhat III (r.
1860–1814 BCE).
- Originally named Amenemhet is Mighty, the pyramid earned the name "Black Pyramid" for its dark, decaying appearance as a rubble mound.
- Typical for Middle Kingdom pyramids,
the Black Pyramid, although encased in limestone, is made of mud brick
and clay instead of stone.
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- For hundreds of years, the Pueblo created utilitarian grayware and black-on-white pottery, incorporating reds and oranges toward the end of their era in the 13th century.
- Designs were painted on the exterior of black-on-white pottery and the interior of bowls, primarily with geometric shapes or representations of people, animals, and birds.
- Jewelry and other ornaments were made by the Pueblo using shells and stones bartered from the coasts of Mexico and California.
- Brown can be made by mixing red and black; red and white make pink.
- The Anasazi culture is perhaps best known for the stone and adobe dwellings built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II (900-1150 CE) and Pueblo III (1150-1350 CE) eras.
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- This resulted in postwar social tensions related to the demobilization of veterans of World War I, both
black and white, and competition for jobs among ethnic whites and blacks.
- On July 27, 1919, an
African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after being stoned by a
group of whites for violating the unwritten segregation between whites and
blacks on the city’s beaches.
- When the rioting and fighting finally ended on the 3rd of August,
15 whites and 23 blacks were dead, another 500 were injured, and 1,000 black
families lost their homes to fires set by rioters.
- FBI
agents filed reports that leftist views were winning converts in the black
community.
- More than half the report documented radicalism in the black
community and the "open defiance" black leaders advocated in response
to racial violence and the summer's rioting.
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- The Jelling stones are visual records of the transitional period between Norse paganism and the process of Christianization in Denmark.
- The Jelling stones are massive carved runestones from the tenth century, which are named for the town of Jelling in Denmark .
- Art historians consider the runic inscriptions on the Jelling stones as the best known in Denmark.
- The Jelling stones are also strongly identified with the creation of Denmark as a nation-state, and both stones offer the earliest examples of the name "Danmark" (in the form of "tanmaurk" on the large stone, and "tanmarkar" on the small stone).
- Examine the function and symbolism of the Runic Stones in Jelling.
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- Ceramics began in China around 6,000 years ago during the New Stone Age, of which the advent was marked by the invention of pottery.
- Yangshao artisans created fine white, red, and black painted pottery with human facial, animal, and geometric designs.
- The Longshan culture was noted for its highly polished black pottery (also known as egg-shell pottery).
- This type of thin-walled and polished black pottery has also been discovered in the Yangzi River valley and as far as the southeastern coast of modern China.
- Toward the end of the era, the population decreased sharply; this was matched by the disappearance of high-quality black pottery found in ritual burials.
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- Natural remedies are available which can help in passing the kidney stone with ease.
- Drinking cranberry juice and green tea has been said to help dissolve and reduce the size of kidney stones.
- Kidney stones typically leave the body by passage in the urine stream, and many stones are formed and passed without causing symptoms.
- The diagnosis of kidney stones is made on the basis of information obtained from the history, physical examination, urinalysis, and radiographic studies.
- Sometimes, a tube (ureteral stent) may be placed in the ureter to bypass the obstruction and alleviate the symptoms, and to prevent ureteral stricture after ureteroscopic stone removal.
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- The grand city of Tenochtitlan contained some of the finest examples of Aztec sculpture, from its temples and pyramids to its elaborate stone palaces.
- One of the most well known Aztec sculptures is the Calendar Stone.
- Also known as the Mexican Sun Stone, Stone of the Sun, or Stone of the Five Eras, it is a large monolithic sculpture that was excavated in the Zócalo, Mexico City's main square, on December 17, 1790.
- While the exact purpose of the stone is unclear, archaeologists and historians theorize that there could have been many functions to the stone, from spacial and time-related to political and spiritual.
- The monolith of the Stone of the Sun, also known as the Aztec calendar stone (National Museum of Anthropology and History, Mexico City).
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- The Etruscans are known for their production of impasto and bucchero pottery, as well as local versions of black- and red-figure vase painting.
- Impasto is a coarse form of pottery made from a clay that contained chips of mica, a silicate, or stone.
- After it is fired, its surface becomes black and glossy.
- It was created from a fine clay fired to produce a glossy black surface and burnished to shine.
- The black-figure style ended about 480 BCE.
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- The Anasazi (1000 BCE–700 CE) are the ancestors of today's Pueblo tribes.
- For hundreds of years, the Anasazi created utilitarian grayware and black-on-white pottery, as well as orange or red ceramics.
- The Hopi culture emerged in the Southwest in the fourteenth century.
- These were usually finished with polished surfaces and decorated with black painted designs.
- Artisans produced jewelry from shell, stone, bone and carved stone figures.