• More than a dozen other graves were also interfered with by having the pieces of York Stone used to top them off removed.

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  • Removing beavers entirely from Canada's national symbols would be labour-intensive: a stone beaver sits on top of the entrance to Parliament and appears on Canadian nickels.

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  • Before the door is a columnar porch with octagonal columns, in one bay of which is a broad stele a monolithic carved stone with a peaked top like a gable.

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  • The duo whose real names are Thomas Bangalter and Guy De Homem-Christo, told Rolling Stone magazine they hired "top-notch session players" to perform on the album.

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  • But the cultural relics police were not so amused when Carey laid down on top of an ancient stone carving.

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  • Spotify users will now be able to look up song lyrics, find out about gigs as they listen to their favourite artists, or share the experience through apps made by top brands like Rolling Stone.

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  • When his tower was high enough that he could touch his upraised elbow to the ceiling, he went all the way down to the bottom and climbed all the way back up to the top carrying a long stone roughly the size of his leg.

    NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

  • The bottom line here is that our standard of living is sinking like a stone and the income gap from top to bottom is at a all time high and the percentage of rate vs. actual dollars in revenues paid is far in favor of the higher income brackets than the average wage earner.

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  • Baghdad (CNN) -- At least five people were injured when bodyguards for a top Iraqi official opened fire on stone-throwing Sunni demonstrators Sunday, the country's interior ministry said.

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  • APART, perhaps, from tablets of stone dictated by the Almighty on a mountain top, no better way has yet been found to convey a simple message to a vast multitude than broadcast television.

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  • Obama has demanded his top military brass "leave no stone overturned" in their quest to prevent abuse, and members of Congress have introduced legislation that would make it easier for victims to get justice.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The possible outcomes of a win by the plaintiffs in the O'Bannon case have been cast in doomsday extremes: If the NCAA loses, some say, the governing body will be immolated as athletes turn into cash-addled mercenaries and top-level conferences are bombed into the stone ages.

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  • Also creditable are staples like lasagna, an overwhelming paving-stone slab of meat and ricotta with micro-greens on top.

    NEWYORKER: Joanne Trattoria

  • Shumlin's house sits back from the road, at the top of a sloping lawn, with a low stone wall in front of it and what appears to be a newly constructed two-car garage nearby.

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  • What at first glance appears to be a jumble of boulders was probably a workshop where expert stonecutters practiced their trade. (One chunk of granite has been carved into almost-finished steps.) Another large stone, known as Serpent Rock, has snakes etched into its top surface.

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  • The site of the ancient city, which is carved into rose-red stone, dates back 2, 000 years and is Jordan's top tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year.

    BBC: Obama ends Middle East trip with visit to Petra ruins

  • The memo is one sent anonymously in May to the American top brass, soon after Osama bin Laden had been located and killed a stone's-throw from an elite military academy in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

  • To Scott Sanford, senior client director at Davie Brown Talent, a top provider of celebrity talent and music licensing for companies and ad agencies, Stone's heavily reported gaffe is evidence of the risk that comes with signing celebrity endorsers.

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