John Stone Stone (September 24, 1869 – May 20, 1943) was an American mathematician, physicist and inventor. He initially worked in telephone research,...
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Emily Jean "Emma" Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress and producer. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film...
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Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California in 1967...
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vocalist Ian Brown, guitarist John Squire, bassist Mani, and drummer Reni. The Stone Roses released their debut album, The Stone Roses, in 1989. The album...
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The philosopher's stone is a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver; it was also known as "the...
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William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American filmmaker. Stone is known as a controversial but acclaimed director, tackling subjects ranging...
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The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf...
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The Stone of Scone (/ˈskuːn/; Scottish Gaelic: An Lia Fàil, meaning Stone of Destiny, also called clach-na-cinneamhuinn; Scots: Stane o Scone) is an oblong...
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Roger Jason Stone (born Roger Joseph Stone Jr.; August 27, 1952) is an American libertarian conservative political consultant and lobbyist. He is most...
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John Stones (born 28 May 1994) is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or defensive midfielder for Premier League club Manchester...
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Hands of Stone is a 2016 American biographical sports film about the career of Panamanian former professional boxer Roberto Durán. It is directed and...
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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...
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Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress, painter and former model. Known for primarily playing femme fatales and women of mystery...
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Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the Western series Gunsmoke. Stone was...
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kiss the stone and tour the castle and its gardens. The word blarney has come to mean "clever, flattering, or coaxing talk". Irish politician John O'Connor...
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Sly and the Family Stone was an American funk band formed in San Francisco, California in 1966 and active until 1983. They are considered to be pivotal...
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The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The...
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Cutting for Stone (2009) is a novel written by Ethiopian-born Indian-American medical doctor and author Abraham Verghese. It is a saga of twin brothers...
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Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment where a group throws stones at a person until the subject dies from blunt trauma. It has been...
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John Stone may refer to: John Stone (Parliamentarian) (before 1632 – after 1659), English politician John Stone (MP for Wallingford) (before 1679 – after...
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John Stone (born John Hailstone; 26 May 1924 – 2007) was a Welsh actor. Born in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, Stone was educated at Brighton College. He served...
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Queens of the Stone Age (commonly abbreviated as QOTSA) is an American rock band formed in 1996 in Seattle, Washington. The band was founded by vocalist...
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Stone Cold is a 2005 American made-for-television crime drama film directed by Robert Harmon and starring Tom Selleck, Jane Adams and Reg Rogers. Based...
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Romancing the Stone is a 1984 romantic comedy-adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Diane Thomas and produced by Michael Douglas, who...
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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for over six decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands...
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Petoskey stone is a rock and a fossil, often pebble-shaped, that is composed of a fossilized rugose coral, Hexagonaria percarinata. Such stones were formed...
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Stone Age. Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or knapped stone, the latter fashioned by a craftsman called a flintknapper. Stone has been used...
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was described by the London historian John Stow in his Survey of London (1598) as "a great stone called London stone", "pitched upright... fixed in the ground...
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Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock and the site of Stone Mountain Park, 15 miles (24 km) east of Atlanta, Georgia. Outside the park is...
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Boyd Stone (February 26, 1926 – December 25, 1988) was an American actress. Born in Peoria, Illinois, Stone was the daughter of banker John Boyd Stone. She...
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