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The rabbit, too small to battle the current, nimbly hopped across stones and logs to come in fourth.
One day, one of our team members went to a school and saw a teacher pick up sticks and stones from the garden outside and take them into the classroom and give them to the students.
We worked with these masons to cut these stones and form them into the walls of the hospital.
And when they began on this corner and wrapped around the entire hospital, they were so good at putting these stones together, they asked us if they could take down the original wall and rebuild it.
And the beauty, to me, comes from the fact that I know that hands cut these stones, and they formed them into this thick wall, made only in this place with rocks from this soil.
They use these limestone discs called Rai stones.
Now, the Yap don't actually move these Rai stones around or exchange them the way we do with our coins, because Rai stones can get to be pretty massive.
But things like this happen in the Western world as well, and the Yap actually still use a form of these stones.
It's just like those Rai stones.
The news coverage at the time made it seem like stones, Molotov cocktails and burning tires were the only activities taking place in the Intifada.
To speak more clearly despite a lisp, he went through his speeches with stones in his mouth.
What characterizes sentient beings in contrast to robots, to stones, to whatever, is that sentient beings suffer, can suffer, and what they should focus on is not finding their place in some mysterious cosmic drama.
And when the Chinese Pritzker Prize winner Wang Shu was building a history museum in Ningbo, he didn't just create a wrapper for the past, he built memory right into the walls by using brick and stones and shingles salvaged from villages that had been demolished.
Mud walls need speed breakers so that the rainwater cannot run down the wall fast, and these speed breakers could be lines of bamboo or stones or straw mixed into the mud, just like a hill needs trees or rocks in order to prevent erosion.
The outside shape is woven bamboo, and the inside core is stones and rammed earth.
And we have alternatives, such as mud, stones, timber, bamboo, earth, that are totally effective options for all sorts of purposes.
Could they move stones with their mind like Jedi Master Yoda? (Yoda voice): Hm, a Jedi mouse must feel the force flow, hm.
Now, instead of crude tools made of sticks and stones, Israel now had iron plows, and sickles, and hoes and military weapons.
He was very able to use stones effectively as tools.
From very primitive beginnings, with a very crude tool kit of stones, we now have a very advanced tool kit, and our tool use has really reached unprecedented levels: we've got buggies to Mars; we've mapped the human genome; and recently even created synthetic life, thanks to Craig Venter.
Those houses were made from sunbaked stones and blocks.
Horizontal glaciers are formed when farmers redirect glacier meltwater into channels and pipes, then carefully siphon it off into a series of basins made from stones and earth.
They really knew it'd last forever, because they'd build it out of absolutely huge stones.
Now, they're all pretty different from what we're doing today, with those massive stones, assembled in complex but seemingly illogical ways, and all traces of their construction erased, shrouding them in mystery.
And I've been collaborating with these monsters to learn their secrets for moving those massive stones.
This is similar to the process that our Stone Age ancestors used to make tools and other implements from the sticks and stones that we found in the world around us.
Blood, in either liquid or powdered form, was used to treat epilepsy, while human liver, gall stones, oil distilled from human brains, and pulverized hearts were popular medical concoctions.
Fortunately, the floating stacks of stones nearby are bridge components— invented by Octavia herself— called hover-blocks.
In the town of Jelling in Denmark, two standing stones from the 10th century memorialize different generations of a royal family.
The stones announce the power of this Viking Age dynasty, and they are among the earliest historical documents of Denmark.
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