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41 matches to Helnaes Stone
Helnaes Stone. c800. Oldest Danish runic stone.
Alchemy. Magic art of Egyptian origin attempting to transmute metals, esp lead to gold. Based on belief that all metals are a pure base metal + impurities which the philosopher’s stone can remove.
Blackstone, William. 1723-80. English common law scholar/jurist. Commentaries 1765-9.
British Museum. World’s largest museum. Building 1823-52. Founded 1753 from Sloane Collection legacy. Elgin Marbles. Rosetta Stone.
Carmathians. 890-10C. Moslem reform sect. Kidnaped and ransomed Stone of Ka’bah 930-950.
Champollion, Jean. 1790-1832. French. Deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics. Rosetta Stone.
Creek War. 1813-14. Creek Indians defeated by Jackson, give up lands to US.
Cyprus. Stone, Bronze Age civilizations. 1450BC Egypt. 1200BC Greek. 1000 Phoenicia. 709 Assyria. 569 Egypt. 6C Persia. 333 Macedonia. 294 Egypt. 47BC Rome...330 AD Byzantine. 7C Moslem. 1191 Crusaders. 1489 Venice. 1571 Turk. 1878 British lease...1914 Britain annexes. 1927 Crown Colony. 1960 Republic. 1963-4 Civil War, Greece and Turkey intervene. 1974 Turkey invades, partition.
Eolithic. 750,000-250,000BC. Earliest stone age.
Gladstone, William. 1809-98. English Liberal reform Prime Minister 1868~94. Secret ballot. Public Education. Irish land reforms.
Hemingway, Ernest. 1898-1961. US novelist: Fairwell to Arms 1929. For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940. Old Man and the Sea 1952. Style:“A stream with stones of nouns and a surface of prepositional ripples” -L. Morrow.
Hieroglyphics. c3400BC-500. Egyptian picture writing system. Rosetta Stone.
Jackson, Thomas “Stonewall”. 1824-63. Mexican War and Confederacy general. Bull Run, Shenandoah, Antietam.
Ka’bah. Shrine in Great Mosque. Moslem Hijrah pilgrimage objective. Contains Black Stone of Mecca given to Adam to absorb his sins. Kidnaped 930-950.
Livingstone, David. 1813-73. Scottish missionary, central Africa 1840-73. Discovered Victoria Falls, Zambesi River. Stanley.
London Bridge. 963 wood. 1176 stone. 1831 rebuilt. 1971 Sold, moved to US.
Lot. His wife was turned to stone. Sodom.
Malawi. c13C Chewa. 19C Yao, Ngoni. 1859 Explored by Livingstone. 1893 British protectorate. 1907 =Nyasaland. 1953 +Northern Rhodesia. 1964 Independent =Malawi. Zambia. Banda.
Medusa. Gorgon. Hair of snakes. Gaze turned people to stone.
Megaliths. Neolithic monuments of very large stones. Stonehenge.
Mesolithic. c8000-2700BC. Middle stone age between Paleolithic, Neolithic.
Neolithic. 10,000-2,000BC. New Stone age.
Paleolithic. 2.5M-10,000BC. Old Stone Age.
Palermo Stone. Carved history of Egyptian dynasties I-V.
Peirce, Charles. 1839-1914. US philosopher. Pragmatism. -“logic is keystone of all knowledge”.