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    The stone ship or ship setting was an early burial custom in Scandinavia, Northern Germany, and the Baltic states. The grave or cremation burial was surrounded...
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    stone ship is a stone ship, the longest known to have existed, remains of which lie under the two royal barrows at Jelling, Denmark. The Jelling ship...
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    Ale's Stones (Swedish: Ales stenar or Ale stenar) is a megalithic monument in Scania in southern Sweden. It is a stone ship, oval in outline, with the...
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  • The Lake Mjösjön stone ship measures 16 x 4 m and is from the late Bronze Age. It is located immediately south east of Lake Mjösjön on a small hill about...
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    Menhir (redirect from Standing stone)
    Standing stone carved into a human shape Stone circle – Ring of standing stones Stone row – Linear row of standing stones. Also stone alignment. Stone ship –...
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    a ship and an afterlife location in Fólkvangr. 'A ship in a field' is a somewhat unexpected idea, but it is strongly reminiscent of the stone ships in...
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    Norse funeral (category Viking ship burials)
    Denmark. A prominent tradition is that of the ship burial, where the deceased was laid in a boat, or a stone ship, and given grave offerings in accordance...
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    coast of the island of Gotland, Sweden. Gnisvärd is mostly known for its stone ships and harbor. Gnisvärd is a small fishing village in the Tofta socken on...
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    The Stone Fleet consisted of a fleet of aging ships (mostly whaleships) purchased in New Bedford and other New England ports, loaded with stone, and sailed...
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  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (also known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States) is a 2001 fantasy film directed by...
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    designed by Burnam Hoyt within the area between two massive slabs of Red stone (Ship Rock and Creation Rock). Denver Mayor Ben Stapleton resisted developing...
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  • the title "Tramp Space Ship". It was published in hardcover that year by Scribner's as part of the Heinlein juveniles. The Stones, a family of "Loonies"...
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    megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. There are over...
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    Gorm's runestone Boris stones — similar landmarks in Belarus Curmsun Disc Bornholm amulet Haraldskær Woman Jelling stone ship — a ship setting that lay between...
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  • A ship burial or boat grave is a burial in which a ship or boat is used either as the tomb for the dead and the grave goods, or as a part of the grave...
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    A picture stone, image stone or figure stone is an ornate slab of stone, usually limestone, which was raised in Germanic Iron Age or Viking Age Scandinavia...
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    from ruling over land, so the land was commissioned as a ship. The command of this first stone frigate was given to Commodore Hood's first lieutenant,...
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  • HMS Good Hope (category Royal Navy ship names)
    sunk in 1914 at the Battle of Coronel. The fourth HMS Good Hope was a "stone ship", or land-based naval officer training base, located at Sea View, a few...
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  • collect all six Stones by decimating Xandar to obtain the Power Stone. He then tracks down the Space Stone and intercepts the Asgardian ship on its way to...
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    a large stone ship from around the end of the 9th century. Between the two mounds stand two rune stones, the Jelling stones. Near the stones, Gorm's son...
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  • any stone-built receptacle) Recumbent effigy Rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel Stone ship Church monuments English church monuments Ledger stone Monumental...
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    the Nordic Bronze Age depict ships, and the large stone burial monuments known as stone ships. Those sites suggest that ships and seafaring played an important...
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  • and also the former crew from Fire and Stone – Prometheus, the pair eventually lure the Engineer onto the ship they arrived in and detonate it. Without...
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    SS Californian (category Merchant ships of the United Kingdom)
    She is thought to have been the only ship in sight of the Titanic, or at least her rockets, during that ship's sinking. The crew took no action to assist...
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    Skíðblaðnir (category Ships in Norse mythology)
    Skiðblaðnir was given the ability to fly and to fold itself when not in use. Stone ship, a Germanic burial custom Simek (2007:289). Thorpe (1866:25). Bellows...
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  • Elephant Stone released their fourth album, Ship of Fools. In 2017 they released an EP, Live at the Verge, and set out on a tour of Europe. Elephant Stone released...
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    monuments from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. Among other things, there are some of Sweden's largest stone circles and stone ships in the area. Unlike...
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    related to the house of Wuffingas. Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern Ship burial Stone ship Harrison (2009), p. 68 Harrison (2009), pp. 21-23 Västhögen. "Västhögen"...
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  • Dave Stone (born 12 June 1964) is a British science fiction writer. Stone has written many spin off novels based on the BBC science fiction television...
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  • sternwheel steamer. Any ship that was a member of the stone fleet during the American Civil War. The old sunken ships were loaded with stone, and used by the...
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