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  Bernard Takawira - Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bernard Takawira was born in 1948 in the mountainous and beautiful Nyanga district of Zimbabwe, the third son of six children.
Her natural gift for story-telling perhaps more than anything moulded the talents and hearts of her sons, as their later work was to be guided by dreams and the magical in all forms of life.
After leaving school, Bernard Takawira trained as an agricultural advisor to the Government, but he was encouraged to begin carving by his elder brother, John, who was fast becoming a rising star at Frank McEwen's Nyanga workshop, Vukutu.
www.cama.org.za /CAMA/countries/zimbabwe/Makers/btakawir/Html/index.htm   (470 words)

  
 Descendants of Josiah Stone - pafg03.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bernard Barnett STONE-740 (Spilsby, Josias Josiah) died on 27 Apr 1857.
Bernard married Elizabeth SLOAN-2531 daughter of Bryant SLOAN-2532 and Elizabeth KING-2533 on 9 Nov 1819.
Charles RATLIFF Sr-2021 (Philadelphia STONE, Josias Josiah) was born on 15 Jul 1785 in, Prince William County, VA, USA.
home.att.net /~boshy/stone/pafg03.htm   (709 words)

  
 Bernard Matemera - Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bernard Matemera is acknowledged to be one of Zimbabwe's master sculptors.
Born in 1946 in the Northern district of Guruve, he has spent his entire professional career at Tengenenge where he occupies the position of figurehead amongst the artists in the community.
His reluctance to discuss his work only serves to help the process of sending the sculptures out on their own in the world, fully formed and capable of communicating in universal language of powerful, emotional, sexual, physical and culturally challenging imagery.
www.cama.org.za /CAMA/countries/zimbabwe/Makers/matemera/Html/index.htm   (392 words)

  
 Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Stone Soup or St. Bernard’s Soup.
A beggar asked alms at a lordly mansion, but was told by the servants they had nothing to given him.
In he popped the stone, and begged for a little salt and pepper for flavouring.
Stirring the water and tasting it, he said it would be the better for any fragments of meat and vegetables they might happen to have.
www.bartleby.com /81/15935.html   (185 words)

  
 Uczucia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bernard Stone - rzucił z uśmiechem i wyciągnął rękę w kierunku kobiety.
Ike szybko zmiatał swoją porcję jedzenia, a Bernard powoli sączył kawę i zapoznawał się z treścią gazety, którą przyniósł tu w kieszeni.
Bernard zatrzymał się i chciał iść w drugą stronę.
www.gildia.com /teksty/chris/uczucia   (1146 words)

  
 bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is only at age of 36 that he discovered, by accident, the world of the stone, through the "Tengenenge" community created by the white farmer Tom Bloomfield.
But stifled by the creative power and aura of his brother, he preferred in the beginning to stay away from the stone and devote himself to his studies in agronomy.
Bernard Takawira received several times the first prize of the "National Gallery", and prizes from many large international expositions.
www.tamarin.com /shona/shohiste.html   (685 words)

  
 Richard Stone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Richard Bernard Stone was born in New York City on September 22, 1928.
Stone was; admitted to the Florida bar in 1955 and commenced practice in Miami.
Stone served as Florida secretary of State (1970-1974) before being elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1974, for the six-year term commencing January 3, 1975.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/RStone.html   (179 words)

  
 Stones of France - Petit Saint Bernard stone circle
Forty-six low stones remain, but originally there were probably more, as the site is now crossed by a road which almost certainly destroyed several others.
A group of three large stones is aligned to the point where the sun sets at the summer solstice, but some of these stones may have been moved, or even replaced, over the centuries, so it is very difficult to prove that this alignment was important to the original builders.
Petronius (a 1st century AD Roman satirist) appears to mention the stone circle in one of his books: In the Alps near the sky, where the rocks are getting lower and let you cross them, there is a holy place where the altars of Hercules rise.
www.stonepages.com /france/petitstbernard.html   (302 words)

  
 Bernard of Treviso's quest for the Stone
This is an extract from an English translation in MS Ferguson 28, of a work on alchemy by Bernard [1406-1490] Count of the Mark of Treviso (in fact Treves), which includes his famous fountain allegory.
We all waited for the event of the generation of the said concretions in the bottoms of the vessels for 5 years, but in vain: indeed, as is said in the Turba, there is no need of any thing extraneous for that Stone: for it is manufactured by itself in its own metallic matter.
There was a rumour that he possessed the Stone so much sought after, with whom I entered into friendship at a very great expense.
www.levity.com /alchemy/bernard.html   (1409 words)

  
 Guardian | Bernard Stone
For the best part of three decades, the poet, publisher and bookseller Bernard Stone, who has died aged 80, was a prominent and enduringly popular figure on the London literary scene.
The child of Jewish refugees from Odessa, Stone was born in Nottingham, only a few years before his future friend, the novelist Alan Sillitoe.
Stone went on to create Cafe Books, which specialised in pamphlets by young poets such as Roger McGough and Brian Patten.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5123350-103684,00.html   (709 words)

  
 STONE, Beatrice "Bunti"
STONE, Beatrice "Bunti" - February 13, 1926 to July 1, 2004 Dearly beloved wife of the late Bernard Stone, MD; loving mother of Judith Stone Kaplove, Henya Stone (predeceased) and Peggy Stone; adored grandmother of Rachel Kaplove, Jake Kaplove, Justine Sarfan, Laurel Sarfan, Hana Sarfan; dear sister of Paula Von Simson.
After the war, she married Bernard and they came together to the United States in 1951.
Donations may be made in her honor to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 1201 Ortega, San Francisco, CA 94122.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/18/MNSTONEBEA22.DTL&type=printable   (212 words)

  
 Hitherby Dragons: The Failed Escape Attempt
The prisoner, Bernard, has his hands upon a single stone in the cell wall.
I tried to recognize that the stone and I are one being---one unitary force, a machine powered by the great throbbing engine of universal love.
I'm rather surprised that some as excellent at lateral thinking as Bernard did not arrive at the solution of wooing not one of the stones in the wall, but rather the locking mechanism used to restrain him.
rebecca.hitherby.com /archives/000455.php   (374 words)

  
 The Press Pack for IN SEARCH OF AMELIA EARHART
Way back in the late 1960s, I was introduced by Adrian (Henri) to his friend Bernard Stone, who had a bookshop in Kensington Church Walk, called Turret Books.
You walked in (and this went for anyone!), and within 5 minutes you had a glass of wine (which became several within half an hour) and Bernard was enthusing madly about someone or something he wanted to put on the map.
I remember that when we launched the record Bernard Stone got us a box of the books for the press.
www.andyrobertsmusic.com /plainsong_presspack.html   (469 words)

  
 Richard Long -Stone water miles MusÈee Rath Gen?eve du 7 mai au 21 juin 1987 - Bernard Cornwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Stone water miles MusÈee Rath Gen?eve du 7 mai au 21 juin 1987
1: Stone water miles MusÈee Rath Gen?eve du 7 mai au 21 juin 1987.
Stoned A Memoir of London in the 1960s.
www.boook.net /334986stone_water_miles_musqee_rath_gensseve_7_mai_au_21_juin_1987.html   (53 words)

  
 Bernard W d Bklyn NY 12th ward stone cutter Albany
Bernard W d Bklyn NY 12th ward stone cutter Albany
He was born in the old Twelfth Ward sixty-four years ago and when a young man learned the stone cutting trade and did much work in the construction of the State Capitol at Albany.
employee in the Navy Yard, and Bernard, attached to the Brooklyn Detective Bureau; four daughters, Mrs.
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 Kidney historical posts July 1998
Having the stone analysis is the only way to be sure what treatment will stop or slow down production of stones.
I was found to have a large stone in the left kidney (10-15 mm)and some small ones on the right.
I hope hs is sure to catch the stone when it passes so that the diagnosis is certain.
www.askwaltstollmd.com /archives/kidney/k071998.html   (1527 words)

  
 Bernard I
Using the instruments of measure, mathematics and geometry, Bernard’s approach to reading the great monuments is original and innovative.
It is an amalgam of biological, astronomical, chemical and geo-magnetic harmonics infused with the physiological rhythms of the human body.
By applying the Canon to the great stone monuments of antiquity, he is able to read the intended communication of the designer of the work.
www.gizapyramid.com /BIO-Pietsch.htm   (689 words)

  
 AIA - Lecture Program - Nancy Stone Bernard Lecture
In 1999, Nancy Stone Bernard established this annual lectureship for the Westchester Society of the AIA.
Nancy Stone Bernard, an active trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America since 1994, is actively involved in archaeology in several different venues.
The director and founder of Archaeological Associates of Greenwich, she has served as an instructor at the Bruce Museum of Greenwich, CT, in Old World Archaeology, early Civilizations and Prehistory as well as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bridgeport and Fairfield University.
www.archaeological.org /webinfo.php?page=10056   (194 words)

  
 Community Media Workshop
Bernard Stone has proposed funding CAN TV with one-fifth of the city's cable franchise fee, or about $2 million a year.
The funding stream proposed by Stone would be based on total revenues generated by cable companies.
The City Council Finance Committee is scheduled to consider Stone's ordinance on June 18, and nonprofit leaders will testify in support.
www.newstips.org /print.php?section=Newstips&main_id=382   (722 words)

  
 Descendants of Josiah Stone - pafg02.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Josias Josiah STONE Jr.-2070 (Josias Josiah) was born on 17 Jul 1747 in, Stafford County, Va, Usa.
Matilda married Charles STONE-2002 son of Josias Josiah STONE Jr.-2070 and Margaret Cohnig CASH-2065.
Daniel Stone RALLS-5696 was born in 1785 in Prince William Co., Virginia.
home.att.net /~boshy/stone/pafg02.htm   (597 words)

  
 Bernard Iowa Stone Flooring
Along with wood stone is one of the worlds most versatile floor coverings.
Its versatility and non-slip qualities enable the product to be used almost anywhere although, due to its hardwearing surface, it is particularly suitable for those areas subject to heavy traffic.
There are three categories of stone - sedimentary (limestone and sandstone), metamorphic (marble and quartzite) and igneous (granite).
www.contractor-match.com /Bernard-iowa/Stone-Flooring.html   (240 words)

  
 Ralph Steadman - Wikipedia
Steadman absolvierte das "East Ham Technical College" und das "London College of Printing and Graphic Arts" während der 1960er Jahre.
In dieser Zeit arbeitete er freiberuflich für Punch, "Private Eye", The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times und das Rockmusik-Fachblatt Rolling Stone.
Steadman ist bekannt für seine ironischen, politisch and sozial akzentuierten Karikaturen and Cartoons und für seine Illustrationen in einer Reihe von Bildbänden, etwa Alice im Wunderland, Die Schatzinsel und Animal Farm.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ralph_Steadman   (396 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Letters: the late Bernard Stone
Iltyd Harrington writes: One of the intriguing sides of Bernard Stone (obituary February 10), bookseller and publisher, was his role in the formation of a Jewish Defence Force.
Jewish street market traders in areas such as Ridley Road, Hackney, were being physically attacked by Mosley's heavies and their goods destroyed.
Bernard ran the West End office when one morning a busty young girl turned up and offered to join the counter-attack.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1428408,00.html   (123 words)

  
 The Nation, 10/17/1942 - The Return of Bernard Baruch by Stone, I. F.
The article presents information on statesman Bernard Baruch.
The extent of Baruch's influence on the United States industry is open to question.
...The Return of Bernard Baruch BY I. STONE Washington, October 9 BEST news of the week is the appointment of Benjamin V. Cohen, of the old team of Corcoran and Cohen, as chief counsel to Director of Economic Stabilisation James F. Byrnes...
www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v155i0016_06.htm   (1281 words)

  
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 North Pennines AONB - Barnard Castle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Barnard Castle is named after the men that built the stone castle and founded the town.
In 1125, Bernard de Balliol succeeded to the lands first given to Guy de Balliol in 1095.
The original timber castle was rebuilt in stone and expanded by Bernard and his younger son, Bernard de Balliol II.
www.northpennines.org.uk /index.cfm?Articleid=716   (202 words)

  
 Stone Bernard, IA Iowa Professionals
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 Interview with Bernard Sumner in Rolling Stone magazine
Interview with Bernard Sumner in Rolling Stone magazine
It's rush hour in Manchester, England, and New Order lead singer/former Joy Division guitarist Bernard Sumner has just returned from Johnny Marr's house.
The two legendary British musicians are finishing off songwriting sessions for the third Electronic album -- an off-and-on project that he and the former Smiths guitarist have used to create some brilliant music over the last few years.
www.neilbradbury.com /bm/html/rollingstone.html   (755 words)

  
 Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Stone Still.
Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Stone Still.
Perfectly still; with no more motion than a stone.
“I will not struggle; I will stand stone still.”
www.bartleby.com /81/15936.html   (59 words)

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