Thermal heat is easy to store -water and masonry or stone is an excellent thermal mass.
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Combined with prominent red brick chimneys and a brick or stone base, the effect is a three-color scheme.
In West Africa, apes at several locations use wood or stone tools to crack nuts to feed on the kernels.
Most of them are Muslim men with very specialized skills, such as thread embroidery or stone embroidery -- just like shoemakers, or artists.
For over 600 years lapidarists, or stone-cutters, have been using essentially the same techniques to cut diamonds and determine their value, says Dr Holden.
It is not clear whether Alwaleed would be buying shares from Twitter cofounders Evan Williams or Biz Stone.
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They may take The Economist, with the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and perhaps the New Yorker or Rolling Stone.
In addition, Tumblr promised a "mass promotion" package that would include tweets to 300, 000 Twitter followers and additional coverage in another publication, such as Seventeen or Rolling Stone.
Like what needs to be sort of written out or in stone to allow that to happen, to allow Copenhagen to be a success, springing from this bilateral meeting?
Everywhere you looked, one of them seemed to be staring at nothing, drinking it in, transfixed: a dead stalk of dock weed or the blank corner of a stone wall or an icicle dribbled from the lip of a gutter.
But the sculptor isn't about to turn out tableaux in stone or wood anytime soon.
Well, we can assume that the flooring is either made of stone or is carpeted.
Hammer bruises are as common as cuts from flying pieces of the stone or slices from the chisel.
Most traditional Walser houses are of the sturdy farmhouse type, built out of wood, stone or plaster in styles particular to each valley.
"A little layer of rubber -- it will protect you from a stone or a glass, but a nail could puncture that, " Thompson said.
Two of the most buzzworthy pieces of long-form journalism in the past month were not published by The New Yorker, Rolling Stone or Vanity Fair.
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The Ottoman powers in Athens cared nothing for the ruins of Greek antiquity, and had already pillaged them for building stone or bricked them up for gun-placements.
The most dangerous asteroids contain a lot of stone or iron, according to NASA. 1998 QE2 contains a good bit of carbon and well as amino acids, the building blocks of protein.
While it's not as snazzy as the Jawbone Icon or the Jabra Stone, its ear piece and ear hook contain capacitive sensors that know when you've got the device on your ear or in your hand.
Stones that are resistant to lithotripsy may be treated with a surgical procedure known as a percutaneous nephrolithotomy, in which an instrument is passed through the skin into the kidney to grab and break up or remove the stone.
It's debatable whether this dollar-book Freud tells us more about the president or about Oliver Stone, but it's an insight -- if a mundane one -- into a subject who may not be complex enough to justify a multifaceted portrait.
Bronze medallist Alex Coomber, the women's bobsleigh team, luger Mark Hatton, speed skater Debbie Palmer - and of course Fiona MacDonald's husband Ewan, were whistling and cheering every time our girls blasted the Swiss stone or added another point to the scoreboard.
Founded in 2006, the chamber orchestra does not have a set-in-stone season or a salaried company roster.
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But, every now and then, just ahead: the patter of foot flesh striking wet stone, or the lip and tongue smacks of very small mouths.
Of all the mass media, from ancient official or personal inscriptions on stone to today's satellite broadcasts, those printed on paper have had the most profound influence.
This ensures that the new kilogram will be a truly universal and immutable standard, set in something much firmer than stone, or even platinum: the fundamental laws of nature.
Archaeologists first discovered the 1, 300-year-old fort 10 years ago and concluded it was engulfed by a ferocious fire that fused together - or vitrified - the stone walls during a siege.
Now he weighs around 16 stone (101 kg) and would like to reach 12 or 13 (76-82 kg) stone.
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