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2. Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde

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   Carvings of various zoomorphic creatures, including in particular, a horse Paleolithic rock engravings breaking the natural rock formation Various zoomorphic and anthropomorphic designs on granite slabs. The earliest drawings appearing in the Côa Valley date between 22 and 20 thousand years B.C., consisting of zoomorphic imagery of nature. [4]

3. Verd antique - Wikipedia

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   Verd antique is used like marble especially in interior decoration and occasionally as outdoor trim, although the masses are frequently jointed and often only small slabs can be secured. The ancient Romans quarried it especially at Casambala, near Larissa, Thessaly, in Greece. [8] This variety was known as marmor thessalicum or Thessalian marble.

4. Australian War Memorial, London - Wikipedia

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   The memorial comprises a semicircular curved wall of grey-green granite slabs from Western Australia (Verde Laguna granite from Jerramungup), cut in Australia before being shipped to London. The granite stones are inscribed with the names of 23,844 towns in which the Australian soldiers were born, in Australia, the UK and elsewhere.

5. List of decorative stones - Wikipedia

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   The granite of the dimension-stone industry along with truly granitic rock also includes gneiss, gabbro, anorthosite and even some sedimentary rocks. Natural stone is used as architectural stone (construction, flooring, cladding, counter tops, curbing, etc.) and as raw block and monument stone for the funerary trade.

6. Stone flaming - Wikipedia

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   Manually flaming the surface of a stone slab Stone flaming or thermaling is the application of high temperature to the surface of stone to make it look like natural weathering. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The sudden application of a torch to the surface of stone causes the surface layer to expand and flake off, exposing rough stone.

7. N.Y.C. Woman, 71, Fights Off 4 Attackers Who Tried to Rob Her ...

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   "I [thought to myself], ‘Oh, no, this is not going to happen today,’ ” Linda Rosa recalled of the incident