…hard solid non-metallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material…
…(1902–78), US architect. His notable designs include the Museum of Modern Art in New York City 1937–39; the US embassy in New Delhi, India 1954–58; and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC 1964–69…
…(1872–1946), US chief justice 1941–46. He was the dean of the Columbia Law School 1910–24 and, briefly, US attorney general 1924 in President Coolidge’s cabinet before he was appointed to the US Supreme Court as an associate justice 1925–41. He was named chief justice by President Franklin D. Roosevelt…
…(1818–93), US feminist and abolitionist. The first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree (Oberlin College 1847), she traveled widely during the 1850s lecturing on women’s rights. In 1869, she founded the American Woman Suffrage Association, which merged with the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1890 to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association…
…(b.1946), American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He has won Oscars for his adaptation of the novel Midnight Express (1978) and his direction of Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989), both of which indict American involvement in the Vietnam War…
…an exclamation of surprise or shock…
…a prehistoric period when weapons and tools were made of stone or of organic materials such as bone, wood, or horn…
…a type of oolitic limestone found especially near Bath in SW England, grey to yellowish in colour and used in building and sculpture…
…the sacred reddish-black stone built into the outside wall of the Kaaba and ritually touched by Muslim pilgrims…
…a chalky deposit of sodium urate formed in the hands and feet of sufferers from severe gout…
…partly kaolinized granite containing plagioclase feldspar, which is ground and mixed with kaolin to make porcelain…
…an artificial stone claimed to have greater resistance to frost and heat than natural stone, formerly much used for statues, decorative work, etc.…
…stone that can withstand fire and great heat, used especially for lining furnaces and ovens…
…a large stone carved with runes by ancient Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons…
…a flat-bottomed sled used for transporting stones and other heavy objects…
…a large, heavy, edible crab of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean area…
…a fruit with flesh or pulp enclosing a stone, such as a peach, plum, or cherry…
…an umbrella-shaped southern European pine tree with large needles, very large glossy brown cones, and edible seeds (pine nuts)…
…a large polished circular stone, with a handle on top, used in the game of curling…
…a hard mass formed in the kidneys, typically consisting of insoluble calcium compounds; a renal calculus…
…a small succulent southern African plant which resembles a pebble in appearance. It consists of two fleshy cushion-like leaves divided by a slit through which a daisy-like flower emerges…
…a monument erected by Mesha, king of Moab, in circa 850 bc which describes (in an early form of the Hebrew language) the campaign between Moab and ancient Israel (2 Kings 3), and bears an early example of an inscription in the Phoenician alphabet. It is now in the Louvre in Paris…
…a large, flat piece of stone or similar material, used in paving…
…an inscribed stone found near Rosetta (now called Rashid) in Egypt in1799. Its text is written in three scripts: hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek. The deciphering of the hieroglyphs by Jean-François Champollion in 1822 led to the interpretation of many other early records of Egyptian civilization…
…a megalithic monument of a type found mainly in western Europe, consisting of stones, typically standing stones, arranged more or less in a circle…
…a large-eyed bird resembling a plover with mottled brownish plumage, inhabiting open stony or sandy country. Also called thick-knee…
…a Eurasian marten that has chocolate-brown fur with a white throat…
…limestone from the Isle of Portland in Dorset, highly prized as a building material…
…a highly attractive and valuable piece of mineral, used especially in jewellery; a gemstone…
…a raised stone used singly or in a series as a place on which to step when crossing a stream or muddy area…
…a granite mass east of Atlanta, Georgia, site of the Confederate Memorial Carving, the world’s largest bas-relief sculpture, which features the figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, all on horseback…
…a stone laid at a ceremony to celebrate the beginning of construction of a building…
…the stone on which medieval Scottish kings were crowned. It was brought to England by Edward I and preserved in the coronation chair in Westminster Abbey, and returned to Scotland in 1996. Also called Coronation stone, Stone of Destiny…
