Stone of Scone

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 Castle, where it is housed when not used in British coronations. It was rightly returned, it should be on permanent display in Scotland because of its location of origin, its symbolism as the independence of Scotland, and its historical importance. The stone was quarried in Scone making its home Scotland. In Edinburg Castle, the Stone is now on display for tourists and locals alike to…

being more dominant. Onyx Properties Onyx comes in a variety of colors like red, yellow or blue. It falls under the category of quartz stones, and has a hardness of between 6 and 7 on the Mohs scale. Most of the black onyx seen in jewelry doesn't have the white stripe, so some people are not even aware that black onyx has another color to it unless it's been used for a cameo. Jewelry Choices and History of Black Onyx Throughout…

The Ruthwell cross is a stone, Anglo-Saxon monument which breaks down and disrupts several different societal and culturally defined binaries and is an example of how one object can exist as multiple things/ideas at once. This essay will focus on the disruption of the narrative of past and present, human and non-human, male and female, and wood and stone. Many different aspects and elements of the cross come into play when doing a diffractive reading of the Ruthwell cross. The cross was created…

The Control of Tradition Embedded in Culture It is an obvious fact that modern America is the superior culture. But in this short story by Shirley Jackson, written in 1948, will provoke a common patriot of this nation to think twice. At first glance the short story “The Lottery” can be read as a brute tale of a barbaric tradition, one that sacrifices a member of the community once a year by stoning them to a slow death. The sacrifice is chosen through two rounds of picking a slip of paper…

Chapter One They'd always maintained the Balance. The proof was there, in black and white, in tomes long forgotten and archived and further back, etched onto steel discs and chiseled into stone. The Balance and the Blood went hand in hand. A multitude of worlds whirled in their own cosmos, each different from the last like sparks from a fire. There were constants, though - Nod, for one. That ancient land, that other place, was the lynchpin. All souls came to Nod, in one way or another. Mr. Black…

Describe the role the arts, crafts and material play in the Indian Summer, in Van der Nüll's essay and in the excerpt from The Stones of the Abby. The Stones of the Abbey: With its physicality expressed through clay, the site of the St. Clotilda monastery, reflects the inner anxiety and instability of the humans populating the abbey. The monk, and narrator, journaling the Stones of the Abbey, describes how the materials – their imperfection and irregularity – serve a challenge to be overcome,…

Chapter Thirteen A Girl Named Mischief My eyes darted around the dark, my heart racing. Were Bane and his henchmen on the other side searching for someone small enough to slip between the stones. An ice-cold cable wrapped its way down my spine. Or were they waiting for me outside, sitting on the edge of the cliff casting pebbles into the canyon? I backed out from between the rocks and flew through the muddled mineshafts, using the footprints I had scribbled on the stones to negotiate the…

I watched these men scheme. For three months I felt sharpened spoons digging through me. There were crude papier-mâché heads made of soap, paper, and remnants of haircuts from the barber shop hidden on top of the cellblock. Raincoats and rubber cement were stowed away in a dark corner covered in spider webs. Stolen raincoats were stockpiled with thread to build a makeshift raft. The entire stratagem was so meticulously planned, but I wondered how they would ever survive. It was June 11, 1962.…

The memorial drawn is one that is dedicated to myself and myself alone as it does not have any family or heritage ties related to it. It is a a memorial that is designed in accordance to Stonehenge, but it has been tweaked slightly and a few things added to it such as an ascending stairway. I chose to use Stonehenge as the base design due to the beauty I find from the actual Stonehenge structure and the amazing nature of its formation. I find it extradoinary that people were able to move and…

Once in some days, unknown as past, present, nor future, a Moonflower Ivy grew to the sky. In the dark air, winged creatures with blood red skin and some creatures that were bare, with nothing but black feathers flew about. The red beings flew in one direction and the black beings in the other. The Gods above cried with grey tears that turned the blue moon to stone. During the lunar cycle on only one night, the two races battled fiercely with great force. The red, bat-like creatures followed one…