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  2. Joseph Aspdin - Wikipedia

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    The limestone he used was the Pennines Carboniferous limestone of the area, which was used for paving in the towns and on the turnpike roads. The characteristic practise of the patent (and of his lime patent) is the use of "road sweepings" as a raw material. He says that if the sweepings are not available he obtains 'the limestone itself".

  3. Lithopedion - Wikipedia

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    A review of 128 cases by T.S.P. Tien found that the mean age of women with lithopedia was 55 years at the time of diagnosis, with the oldest being 100 years old. The lithopedion was carried for an average of 22 years, and in several cases, the women became pregnant a second time and gave birth to children without incident.

  4. Lime kiln - Wikipedia

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    With exhaust gas temperatures as low as 120 °C and lime temperature at kiln outlet in 80 °C range the heat loss of the regenerative kiln is minimal, fuel consumption is as low as 3.6 MJ/kg. Due to these features the regenerative kilns are today mainstream technology under conditions of substantial fuel costs.

  5. Charles S. L. Baker - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] Mr. Baker claims that the particular mode of power used in creating the friction is not essential. It may be wind, water, gasoline, or any other source of energy. The most difficult part of the inventor's assertions to prove is that his system will light or heat a house at about half the cost of methods now in use. [5]

  6. Woman reunites with child she thought at birth died 30 years ...

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    A California woman who believed she lost her child at birth is now reuniting with her long-lost son — nearly 30 years later. Tina Bejarano was only 17 years old when she gave birth to her first ...

  7. Skara Brae - Wikipedia

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    The 1968 children's novel The Boy with the Bronze Axe by Kathleen Fidler is set during the last days of Skara Brae. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] This theme is also adopted by Rosemary Sutcliff in her 1977 novel Shifting Sands , in which the evacuation of the site is portrayed as unhurried, with most of the inhabitants surviving.

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  9. Hamstone - Wikipedia

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    Hamstone wall from Tithe Barn, Haselbury Mill, Haselbury, Somerset, England Hamstone is a honey-coloured building stone from Ham Hill, Somerset, England.It is a well-cemented medium to coarse grained limestone characterised by marked bedding planes of clay inclusions and less well-cemented material which weather differentially to give exposed blocks a characteristic furrowed appearance.