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Encyclopedia > Stone
Look up stone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Stone may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

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In construction and building

  • Masonry, the building of structures from stone
  • Coade stone, a special form of vitreous stoneware, used for monumental work and architectural decoration
  • Standing stone, a solitary stone set vertically into the ground
See also: list of stone, the types of stone used in building, sculpture, and masonry work

This article refers to the building structure component; for the fraternal organization, see Freemasonry. ... Coade stone was a type of artificial stone first created by Mrs Eleanor Coade (Elinor Coade, 1733-1821), and sold commercially from 1769 to 1833. ... Standing stones, orthostats, liths or more commonly, megaliths because of their large and cumbersome size, are solitary stones set vertically in the ground. ... This is intended as a list of, or links to, stone currently or historically produced in various countries (not generic types of stone). ...

In geology

  • Rock (geology), a naturally occurring aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids, or an individual piece of rock
  • Marble, a metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone
See also: list of rock types, a list of naturally-occurring rock types

“Rock” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Marble (disambiguation). ... This page is intended as a list of all rock types. ...

In print and literature

  • Stone trilogy, novels by Graham Edwards
  • Stone (novel), a science fiction novel by Adam Roberts
  • Stone (Marvel Comics), a martial artist first featured in the Daredevil series

Stone and Sky is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards. ... Stone, published in 2002, is a science fiction novel by the British writer Adam Roberts. ... Stone was the favoured pupil of Stick, the blind former mentor of costumed crime-fighter Daredevil and Elektra Natchios. ...

In media

Stone is a 1974 Australian film, produced and directed by Sandy Harbutt. ... The Stones was a short lived sitcom television series that starred Robert Klein, Judith Light, Lindsay Sloane and Jay Baruchel as The Stone family that are divorced but still live under the same house. ... Piedras, also known as Stones is a 2002 Spanish film directed by Ramón Salazar. ... Ramon Salazar is a fictional character in the video game, Resident Evil 4. ... Stone Stockton Phillips (born December 2, 1954) was the co-anchor of Dateline NBC, a newsmagazine TV show, from the shows start until June 2007, when NBC did not renew his contract. ...

In music

Rolling Stones redirects here. ... Stone were a heavy metal band who formed in Helsinki, Finland in the mid-80s. ... The Stones - named cheekily after The Rolling Stones - were a band from Dunedin in New Zealand. ... 12 Stones is a rock band from Mandeville, Louisiana. ... Stones is a song composed by David R. Watson (Iolo FitzOwen) and lyrics by his late wife Kathleen Jones (Gwenllian Gwalchgaeaf) for the computer role-playing game series, Ultima. ... Stones was an album by Neil Diamond. ... The Stone Roses were an influential English rock band from Manchester formed in 1984. ...

Other uses

  • Stone (surname)
  • Stone, Kent in England
  • Stone, Staffordshire in England
  • Stoning, a method of execution carried out by throwing rocks at the victim
  • Gemstone, a type of visually attractive stone used in jewelry
  • Stone (weight), a unit of weight equal to fourteen pounds avoirdupois
  • Stone (Chinese weight), a Chinese unit of weight equal to 120 piculs or 160 pounds avoirdupois
  • Calculus (medicine), a painful concretion of materials in organs or ducts, commonly known as e.g. gallstones
  • Stoneware, a clay or ceramic material
  • Stone Brewing Company, a brewery in Escondido, California
  • Stones Bitter, a bitter beer from Yorkshire
  • The NATO reporting code name for the Russian SS-26 Iskander
  • A physical token used in a board game
  • The hard covering enclosing the seed of a drupe such as a peach
See also: Stoned
See also: Kamień Pomorski (Pomerania Stone)

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Stoning to Death in Iran: A Crime Against Humanity Carried Out By the Mullahs' Regime (1865 words)
Married offenders may be punished by stoning regardless of their gender, but the method laid down for a man involves his burial up to his waist, and for a woman up to her neck (article 102).
The regime's authorities usually force the victim's family members, including children, to watch the stoning to death of their loved one, and in some instances, when the woman miraculously managed to escape, contrary to the regime's own law, she was recaptured and either stoned again or killed on the spot.
In the middle of the stoning, although her eyes had been gouged out, the victim was able to escape from the ditch and started running away, but the regime's guards recaptured her and shot her to death.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Stoning in Scripture (252 words)
Stone throwing might be merely a mark of hatred and contempt (2 Samuel 16:6-13), or the means of carrying out
Stoning to death which was at first an expression of popular fury analogous to "lynching", later came to be a natural and legally recognized method of execution.
stoning is prescribed in the Pentateuch as the penalty for eighteen different crimes including Sabbath-breaking, but for one crime only -- murder -- is it the penalty prescribed in all the codes.
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