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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: Magic & Steel, known in Japan as Ex-Chaser (エクスチェイサー, Ekusu-Cheisā), is a role-playing video game developed by XPEC Entertainment and published by Xicat Interactive for the Xbox. The theme song is "be with you" by Chihiro Yonekura.
The black stone is "octagonal in shape, some sixteen feet in height and about a foot and a half thick." A week after arriving the narrator realizes that it is Midsummer Night and makes his way to the stone. He falls asleep an hour before midnight but wakes to find the chanting and dancing people around the stone.
The Lapis Niger (Latin, "Black Stone") is an ancient shrine in the Roman Forum. Together with the associated Vulcanal (a sanctuary to Vulcan ) it constitutes the only surviving remnants of the old Comitium , an early assembly area that preceded the Forum and is thought to derive from an archaic cult site of the 7th or 8th century BC.
The earliest recorded game to feature the Stonewall Attack would appear to have been Howard Staunton vs John Cochrane, London, 1842.The first player to use the opening regularly, however, was the Boston master Preston Ware, who frequently opened 1.d4 2.f4 from 1876 to 1882.
The HP-32S (codenamed "Leonardo") was a programmable RPN scientific calculator introduced by Hewlett-Packard in 1988. [1] It was succeeded by the HP-32SII scientific calculator. [ 2 ]
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold (also known as Blake Stone 3-D) [2] is a first-person shooter for DOS created by JAM Productions and published by Apogee Software on December 5, 1993. [1] The following year, a sequel called Blake Stone: Planet Strike was released, which continues where Aliens of Gold leaves off.
K D = around 3 for natural quarry rock; K D = around 10 for artificial interlocking concrete blocks; S r = (ρ r / ρ w is the relative density of rock, i.e. (ρ r / ρ w - 1) = around 1.58 for granite in sea water; ρ r and ρ w are the densities of rock and (sea)water (-) θ is the angle of revetment with the horizontal