Marble slab.

Big shots, oil dealers.

The stone floors are icy.

It's plaster and just zinc.

Gravel, stone, marble, and straight lines marked out rigid spaces, areas devoid of mystery.

When it comes time to sheetrock, if you use EcoRock it's about a quarter of the embodied energy of standard sheetrock.

Here is a ceremonial slate palette, found in Egypt, dated before 3,000 BC.

There are a number of reasons to doubt that the human mind is a blank slate, and some of them just come from common sense.

The plaintiff, an Italian seller, sold marble slabs labelled Giallo Veneziano to the Austrian defendant.

The blank slate was an influential idea in the 20th century.

The book is called The Blank Slate, based on the popular idea that the human mind is a blank slate, and that all of its structure comes from socialization, culture, parenting, experience.

We used the stone plates as a grid for our little piece.

Africa is in many ways a touchstone for and an example of an effective multilateral system.

It was made of two panels of six planks of oak held in frames of the same thickness.

You don't need reasons to kick me, Boss.

The defendant alleged that the marble slabs delivered did not conform to the contract and refused to pay the purchase price (article 35 CISG).

Guess my father thinks nobody's good enough for his daughter... except maybe the guy that owns Standard Oil.

Since entrepreneurs are more at liberty to organise their own time and are their own boss', there is no glass ceiling' to contend

It's two panels 13 ft. high.

Everything that's in it and on it is run by me.

From freeflying I went on to skysurfing.

It's not the basis of the rule of law, it's not the basis of a free society.

No, there was no mortise and tenon joint cut into the oak planks themselves.

Well no, not pieces of plastic, but stone seals, copper tablets, pottery and, surprisingly, one large sign board, which was found buried near the gate of a city.

And he's standing on the deck of his ship, he's talking to his first mate, and he's saying, Tomorrow, we will sail past those rocks, and on those rocks sit some beautiful women called Sirens.

My boss is paying for this trip and, well, it's 90 business.

The target specimen was made of three aluminum alloy plates 3.5 mm thick which were set up with about 60 mm of space between each plate.

There is no free market for oil.

They were consistently dug as limestone quarries and by the 18th century, the caving in of some of these quarries posed safety threats, so the government ordered reinforcing of the existing quarries and dug new observation tunnels in order to monitor and map the whole place.

The one over Tunguska was probably made of rock, and that's much more crumbly, so it blew up in the air.

The high price of oil was governed by the market and was beyond the control of energy exporting countries.

Aboard a carriage headed from Takaoka to Isurugi,

You wouldn't build a building out of this stuff, and you wouldn't try to give a lecture and write on the chalkboard with this.

The Whipple bumper, the simplest shield configuration, consists of a single plate of material (typically aluminium), called the bumper, spaced some distance from the underlying module wall (often called a catcher).

It's not very good diamond, but believe it or not,

The diamond structure is a three dimensional crystal while the graphite form consists of stacks of two dimensional sheets.

The rectangular tablets record the payments in cattle, shipments of cattle to shepherds for fattening, and gifts of cattle as an offering.

Dated to aroung 3100 BC, it contains some of the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found.

As most power is generated from fossil fuels, this is not a solution.

Revenues from diamond exports have continued to increase as the Government has increased its control over the diamond mining sector.

He's stiffer than a plank.

What it is, it's a lamination of two different metals together.

In Meteor Crater it was made of metal, and metal is much tougher, so it made it to the ground.

They didn't know that what a seashell is, it's templated by proteins, and then ions from the seawater crystallize in place to create a shell.

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