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"The Black Stone" is a horror short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, first published in the November 1931 issue of Weird Tales. The story introduces the character of Justin Geoffrey , a mad poet, and the fictitious book Unaussprechlichen Kulten by Friedrich von Junzt .
Blackstone was founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman with US$400,000 (equivalent to $1.2 million in 2024) in seed capital. [2]: 45–56 [3] The founders derived their firm's name from their names: "Schwarz" is German for "black"; "Peter", "petros" (πέτρος, masculine), or "petra" (πετρα, feminine) means "stone" or "rock" in Greek.
The Black Stone is seen through a portal in the Kaaba. The Black Stone (Arabic: ٱلْحَجَرُ ٱلْأَسْوَد, romanized: al-Ḥajar al-Aswad) is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Black Stone, a Muslim object of reverence; Blackstone Avenue, a major roadway in Fresno, California, USA; Blackstone Hall, a dormitory at the University of Chicago; The Blackstone Hotel, a Chicago hotel; Blackstone Hotel (Omaha, Nebraska), a 1915 Omaha landmark currently known as the Blackstone Center; Blackstone Library, Chicago's first public ...
Stephen Allen Schwarzman (born February 14, 1947) is an American businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of the Blackstone Group, a global private equity firm he established in 1985 with Peter G. Peterson.
Blackstone is a Canadian television series which aired on APTN and Showcase.Written, created, directed, and produced by Canadian producer Ron E. Scott, the series began filming its first season in 2010 in and around Edmonton, Alberta.
The hotel and the adjacent Blackstone Theatre were built on the former site of railroad millionaire Timothy Blackstone's mansion in 1908. The owners were brothers John and Tracy Drake, sons of Blackstone's former business partner, the hotel magnate John Drake. [4]
Blackstone lived in Redlands, California. [10] [11] He died on May 14, 1997, in Loma Linda, California at the age of 62 due to pancreatic cancer.[1]After his death, much of his performance equipment was sold off in two highly publicized auctions held by Sotheby's and Darien Julian.