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Though he travelled widely, he kept returning to the slate-and-stone town of Launceston in Cornwall, where he was born.
ECONOMIST: Charles Causley
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The Director-General also went on a tour of the Stone Town, and visited the Museum as well as other historic places.
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He and his fellow members of the masons' guild had a monopoly of stone work in the town.
ECONOMIST: Declining professions
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Picture the beautiful village of Ipstones with its dry stone walls and weathered houses perched high above the market town of Leek, way up in the Staffordshire Moorlands.
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Today this low-rise town is a modest spread of boxy cream-coloured stone, but its prosperous heyday was in the 6th Century and remnants of Byzantine finery remain behind its unassuming facades.
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This is a cyberspace equivalent of the fairytale about stone soup, in which two men set up a big pot full of water over a fire in a town square, drop in a stone, and start stirring.
ECONOMIST: Electronic commerce
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We parked just below the summit of the mountain and walked into the town through a gap in the low stone wall that surrounded it.
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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
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Some of my favorite parts of the trip so far have been the time we spent in Mombasa and Stone Town in Zanzibar.
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He said the Local Plan includes the provision of new retail outlets in Stone, but as there was "no room" in the town centre, the park was under threat.
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