Philosopher's stone

African sculpture is most often figurative, representing the human form. It is primarily fashioned from wood. The African sculpture can be described as monumental, meaning that the figure or form is not separated from the wood in which it is carved, which gives is a feel of heavy permanence. These aspects are visible in the African sculpture, Figure of Bena, Mboi, Yunger people in Nigeria 14th-16th century, Nigeria, Eastern Gongola Valley, and Figure of the Jukan people 19th-early 20th century,…

intricate guitar solos, and screaming vocals. People don’t usually think of slow, smooth, bluesy guitar playing when they think of rock music, but what most people don’t realize is that without the blues, musicians such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and even AC/DC would not exist. Blues music has had a dramatic influence the way rock music has, and is currently played, heard, and thought of in today's scope of music. For instance, when listening to rock music…

According to Historic UK, the stone is a simple oblong block of red sandstone with chisel marks apparent on its flat top. The stone was removed from Scone in 1226 by the English King Edward I and placed inside the Coronation Chair of Westminster Abbey. The stone remained in England until the 1950s when it was kidnapped by Scottish nationalists but returned to Westminster Abbey in April 1951. On November 30, 1996, the British Conservative Government agreed to return the Stone over to Edinburgh…

Rock Time frame history Nowadays, rock is a very popular music. It have a short history about it. It is from the USA and the UK in early 1950s. It derives from rock and roll in 1940s and 1950s. The style attracts many African-American genres of blues and rhythm and blues. Its development is in the UK and the USB in1960s and later. In 1960s and later, different styles of rock music appear. Like blues rock, folk rock, country rock and raga rock. Between 1960s and 1970s, rock became a trend. And it…

Rebecca McKenney History and Sociology of Rock Music Mrs. Trimble 1 October 2016 Critical Thinking #2 (13) “Frank Zappa once criticized singer songwriters for being too personal and too quick to dump their problems and feelings on their listeners who were already burdened with their own problems.” (Charlton) The widespread popularity of this style proved him wrong. For many people, it can be a comfort to hear someone sing a song that expresses how they feel about life and relationships. The…

with their tasks. They were smart with making and using tools and weapons. They were the first people in the world to use stone tools to grind seeds, and also to introduce ground edges on cutting tools. The traditional tools included scrapers, digging sticks, knives and axes. And the traditional weapons were spears, shields, clubs and boomerangs. Knives were made of bones or stones they were very sharp, and they were also used as tools when killing animals. Shields were used to protect…

Gout is a sort of metabolic arthritis which is an extremely painful disease. The disease is caused by the congenital disorder of the uric acid metabolism. Our body produces the uric acid but the body gets rid of the uric acid through the system. However, some problems in the kidneys or the accumulation of too much uric acid in the body cannot be flashed out of the body through the system and they start to form the uric acid crystals in the body. The crystals start to be deposited in the joints,…

Prehistoric times have been a mystery for modern humans for centuries. These times span from the formation of the Earth, about 4.5 billion years ago, all the way to the Iron Age, which ended about 3,200 years ago. This paper will be discussing the Precambrian times first, due to it being the oldest period in Earth's history. The next paragraph will talk about the Phanerozoic eon, which contained the first forms of life on Earth. The last paragraph will be about the most recent period, which has…

In prehistoric times there was a three-age system and the Bronze Age was the second period of the system, before the Iron Age and after the Stone Age. It began in 4000 BCE and lasted until 1500 BCE. It was distinguished by the use of bronze. The Bronze Age was a period of time after the Neolithic Age when ancient humans upgraded from making tools out of stone and hunting and gathering their food to mining and smelting copper and tin in order to make bronze tools, weapons, and farm equipment and…

12,3000 BP. These people were very mobile, covering large areas of land in migration towards America. These people later on also moved even more southbound towards South America. The Clovis people were most well known for their incredible new age stone technology, primarily being the Clovis point. This is the most notorious weapons during this time era in early American history. The first Clovis point was drawn up 14,000 years ago in the Americas where these people lived. These people really…