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A strong decline in the Chinese stone sector’s foreign trade in 2016: According to figures by the General Administration of Customs
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Stone-Ideas.com will be sending out a Special Newsletter to its 5,500 addresses in the stone branch in the run-up to this year’s Marmomac
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Wallpaper reminiscent of natural stone, but not imitating the appearance is the work of Italian manufacturer Londonart. The collection by the name of Modernity comprises a number of examples
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The famous Aztec Sun Stone, a 24 t basalt rock disk, was to predict the end of the world. That is the conclusion of scientist Susan Milbrath from Florida Museum of Natural History
Online Exhibiton by the Getty Research Institute: „The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra“
Exhibition shows drawings by 18th-century architect Louis-François Cassas and largely unseen photographs by 19th-century photographer Louis Vignes
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The title „A spectacular place“ best describes the Darvaz Crater in Turkmenistan, also known as „door to hell“
Stone conservation field school at the Sainte-Marie among the Hurons National Historic Site, Canada
Willowbank offers a three-weeks course in June 2017 with focus on the conservation of a 1639 stone fireplace remains, the earliest European masonry located in Ontario
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„How can these tombstones be repurposed that were blown over and cracked in a major storm?“ is a question someone from an insurance company has raised on the webpage of Repurposed Materials Inc.
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„Vaseguy“ (pun intended!) is the nickname a Canadian artist was given by visitors to a local West Coast handicrafts market where he was selling his natural stone vases
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The famous „Azure Window“ on the Mediterranean island of Gozo has been destroyed in a storm on March 08, 2017
Hundreds of ancient earthworks built in the Amazon rain forest
Pre-columbian indigenous people created Geoglyphs nowadays made visible by deforestation
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„PAR JUPITER“!!“ (By Jupiter): A monument has been erected in the French city of Angoulème commemorating the famous cartoon artist René Goscinny, intellectual father of Asterix and Obelix
Planet Earth has one more continent: Zealandia
The plate around New Zealand and New Caledonia once broke away from Gondwana / Its mountains are nowadays covered by water except NZ and NC
Drilling core with a length of 1,6 km coming from a depth of nearly 5 km under sea level
An international team of scientists is making steps to understand the process of subduction of one continental plate under another
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„Blue Hole“ is the name marine scientists have given to giant craters in the ocean near the water’s surface, e.g. in the limestone structure of a coral reef