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Piccadilly Circus was created in 1819, at the junction with Regent Street, which was then being built under the planning of John Nash on the site of a house and garden belonging to a Lady Hutton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nash_(architect)Cronkhill
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In 1781 Nash instigated action against Jane for separation on grounds of adultery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdulteryAnne Boleyn was found guilty of adultery and treason and executed in 1536. There is controversy among historians as to whether she had actually committed adultery.
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Furthermore, Deuteronomic code prescribes stoning not only for female extramarital sex, but also for female premarital sex in the case where the woman lies about her virginity:If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, … and say, / I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid. / … But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: / Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StoningDu'a Khalil Aswad was stoned to death in Iraq
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The organisation was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its "campaign against torture," and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 1978. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_PrizeThe 14th Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureates
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From 1901 to 1904, the ceremony took place in the Storting (Parliament) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storting_buildingThe proposal by Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno that won the 1856 competition, but was finally rejected by the Storting.
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The building is built in yellow brick with details and basement in light gray granite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraniteThe Cheesewring, a granite tor on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall
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Fractional crystallisation serves to reduce a melt in iron, magnesium, titanium, calcium and sodium, and enrich the melt in potassium and silicon – alkali feldspar (rich in potassium) and quartz (SiO2), are two of the defining constituents of granite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiliconSpectral lines of silicon
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Silica is often deposited in plant tissues, such as in the bark and wood of Chrysobalanaceae and the silica cells and silicified trichomes of Cannabis sativa, horsetails and many grasses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativaThe flower of a hybrid Cannabis indica plant
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Granitoids are a ubiquitous component of the crust. They have crystallized from magmas that have compositions at or near a eutectic point (or a temperature minimum on a cotectic curve). Magmas will evolve to the eutectic because of igneous differentiation, or because they represent low degrees of partial melting. Fractional crystallisation serves to reduce a melt in iron, magnesium, titanium, calcium and sodium, and enrich the melt in potassium and silicon – alkali feldspar (rich in potassium) and quartz (SiO2), are two of the defining constituents of granite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiliconSpectral lines of siliconSilicon is an essential element in biology, although only tiny traces of it appear to be required by animals. However, various sea sponges as well as microorganisms like diatoms and radiolaria secrete skeletal structures made of silica. Silica is often deposited in plant tissues, such as in the bark and wood of Chrysobalanaceae and the silica cells and silicified trichomes of Cannabis sativa, horsetails and many grasses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_sativaThe flower of a hybrid Cannabis indica plantWith the exception of quoting more than one sentencing, thanks for the otherwise excellent contributions, notbatman. Nice leapfrogging as well: Granite --> Weed. Cannabis strains with relatively high CBD:THC ratios are less likely to induce anxiety than vice versa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnxietyA marble bust of the Roman Emperor Decius from the Capitoline Museum. This portrait "conveys an impression of anxiety and weariness, as of a man shouldering heavy [state] responsibilities".
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The theologian Paul Tillich characterized existential anxiety as "the state in which a being is aware of its possible nonbeing" and he listed three categories for the nonbeing and resulting anxiety: ontic (fate and death), moral (guilt and condemnation), and spiritual (emptiness and meaninglessness). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheologyAugustine of Hippo (354–430), Latin theologian. His writing on free will and original sin remains influential in Western Christendom.
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Frederick the Great (1712–86), the king of Prussia 1740–1786, saw himself as a leader of the Enlightenment and patronized philosophers and scientists at his court in Berlin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrussiaPrussian King's Crown (Hohenzollern Castle Collection)
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The main coat of arms of Prussia, as well as the flag of Prussia, depicted a black eagle on a white background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_eaglePurple-faced leaf monkey juvenile attacked by a Black eagle and dead
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The underparts and the front legs are usually cream colored, the head can be brown or beige, however there is a distinctive white spot between the ears. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeigeA "beige" AT&T telephone.
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Cosmic latte is a name assigned in 2002 to the average color of the universe (derived from a sampling of the electromagnetic radiation from 200,000 galaxies), given by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstronomerThe Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer (c. 1668)<nobatman in 5...4...3... >
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An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as black holes, moons, planets, stars, asteroids, comets, nebulae and galaxies, as well as Gamma-ray bursts and cosmic microwave background radiation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burstArtist's illustration of a bright gamma-ray burst occurring in a star-forming region. Energy from the explosion is beamed into two narrow, oppositely directed jets.
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It can survive cold, dehydration, vacuum, and acid, and is therefore known as a polyextremophile and has been listed as the world's toughest bacterium in The Guinness Book Of World Records. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_RecordsLucky Diamond Rich is "the world's most tattooed person", and has tattoos covering his entire body. He holds the Guinness world record as of 2006, being 100 percent tattooed.
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