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We took visitors to see the stone laid by the then Prince of Wales in 1920 on Capitol Hill [picture].
No full textTitle from caption in book Growing up in early Canberra.; The foundation stone was laid on Capitol Hill for the Capitol building (which was never built) designed by Walter Burley Griffin. The stone was subsequently removed and relaid in 1983 in the new Parliament House.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24509237; Published in: Growing up in early Canberra : birthpangs of a capital city / W. M. Rolland. Kenthurst [N.S.W.] : Kangaroo Press, 1988, p. 25
Old Stone Jail, Fluvanna County, Palmyra, VA
No full text3D dataset for the Old Stone Jail located in Palmyra, Virginia, Fluvanna County; data was collected with (2) FARO Focus 3D X130 laser scanners by students of ARH5600 : 3D Cultural Heritage Informatics, Spring 2023 semester taught by Will Rourk in collaboration with Architectural Historic Preservation director Andy Johnston; data was mainly processed by MaryCate Azelborn and edited for archive by Will Rourk in FARO Scene v.2023; this project was a collaboration with the Fluvanna Historical Society, executive director Tricia Johnson
Ruth Stone, 12th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textRuth Stone is the author of six books or chapbooks of poetry: In an Iridescent Time, 1960; Topography and Other Poems, 1971; Unknown Messages, 1973; Cheap, 1975; American Milk, 1986; Second-Hand Coat: New and Selected Poems, 1987. Three new books will be published this year: Who is the Widow\u27s Muse?; The Yasha Poems, and The Solitary. We were very fortunate that Ruth Stone taught creative writing as a visiting faculty member at Old Dominion University during 1989-90
Building Stone Walls
No full textIn this activity, students will learn to identify the distinguishing characteristics of a stone wall. They will first draw a picture of a stone wall from memory, then go outside to view and sketch a real wall. Following the field activity, they will construct models of walls using modeling clay. A recipe for the clay ('model magic') is provided. Educational levels: Intermediate elementary
Laurie Stone, 23rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textLaurie Stone is the author of the novel Starting with Serge; a collection of literary memoirs, Close to the Bone; and Laughing in the Dark: A Decade of Subversive Comedy. She was a columnist for The Village Voice for twenty-five years and her work has been published in Ms. Magazine, New York Woman, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Utne Reader, and Art Forum.
Stone is the recipient of grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts and The MacDowell Colony, and she received the 1996 Nona Balakain Excellence in Reviewing Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Stone is currently writing short fiction and a second novel, Apart from Sex. She will be Old Dominion’s Writer In Residence for fall 2000
Huddersfield Open Access Publishing
No full textThis paper presents the findings of the Huddersfield Open Access Publishing Project, a JISC funded project to develop a low cost, sustainable Open Access (OA) journal publishing platform using EPrints Institutional Repository software
Amoco Building
No full textView looking up the south elevation; The second tallest tower in Chicago, the Standard Oil Building is a stand-out due to its monumental proportions and gleaming white facade. Measuring 194 feet square in plan and boasting generous 30,000 square-foot floor plates, the tower was originally clad in Italian Carrara marble, and later (1990-1992) replaced with 44,000 pieces of 2-inch thick granite. The building employs a tubular steel-framed structural system with V-shaped perimeter columns to resist earthquakes, reduce sway, minimize column bending, and maximize column-free space. To further expand rentable area, 40 of the building's 50 elevators are double-deckers, an often preferred solution to ensure efficient vertical circulation while reducing the space consumed by the central service core. The foundation features 56 caissons consisting of steel-encased vertical shafts filled with reinforced concrete and socketed several feet into solid bedrock more than 100 feet below ground. The caissons contain 50 million pounds of concrete and 2 million of steel. It was renamed as the Aon Center on December 30, 1999. Source: The Skyscraper Museum [website]; http://www.skyscraper.org/ (accessed 12/9/2007
Observing Stone Walls
No full textIn this lesson, students will learn why and how stone walls were built. A prior knowledge of New England colonists and the history of New England is helpful. After a directed reading and discussion, they will take a nature walk to an area where they can examine a stone wall. The students will then use notebook and pencil to sketch the wall and make observations of the stones, the plants growing nearby, and other materials they see around the wall. Educational levels: Intermediate elementary
Decoding changes: technological and statistical investigation of the Middle Stone Age-Later Stone Age transition in the Horn of Africa
No full textThe transition from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) to the Later Stone Age (LSA) in East Africa presents a complex topic in archaeology, marked by a technological shift where MSA traits decline while LSA characteristics increase during the MIS4 and 2. However, the regional variation in the timing and patterns of these changes made more challanging its comprehension.
This thesis centers on the MSA-LSA transition in the Horn of Africa, analysing local lithic assemblages in the Gotera area (southern Ethiopia) and then investigating other contexts across the region and parts of Kenya, by doing a comparative analysis of lithic assemblages. Furthermore, the integration of archaeological data with paleoclimatic and environmental factors at macro-regional level sheds light on the environmental influences for this transition.
The study confirms subtle distinctions between MSA and LSA techno-complexes but acknowledges the difficulty in creating a comprehensive model due to data limitations. Nevertheless, the correlation between lithic industries and paleoclimatic factors introduces new hypotheses regarding environmental adaptability and behavioral responses during the Late Pleistocene in East Africa.
Despite challenges stemming from data limitations, environmental factors likely served as significant influencing factor for observed changes during the MSA-LSA transition. Continual testing of hypotheses through quantitative analysis and data integration remains crucial for a deeper comprehension of this pivotal period in human prehistory
‘Vertopia’: The Future of Dark Tourism Places
No full textStone adopts Foucauldian perspectives to examine surreal future emplacements within virtual realms. He argues these will not only be physical places or (re)imagined spaces but will blend with technologies hitherto undeveloped that liminal seams of the real world and virtual world will become indistinguishable. Stone entitles these new future spaces - vertopia - where technology fuses the entire fabric of our lived reality with virtual reality, distinct only by the multiple stories that can be played out. The chapter contextualises the vertopia in a creative scenario of future dark tourism and penal heritage hyperreality. Consequently, we will engage our digital dead through augmented performances, lived and virtual experiences, as well as a deifying Artificial Intelligence
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