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Echoing the supposed power of the stone, an Irish bard of the early 19th century, Francis Sylvester Mahony, added a number of (humorous) lines to Richard Alfred Millikin's "The Groves of Blarney" (right). According to tradition at Texas Tech University, a stone fragment displayed on its campus since 1939 is a missing piece of the Blarney Stone ...
Blarney Stone in Shamrock. A kissable chunk of Ireland's Blarney Stone is located in Shamrock. [23] In 1959, a local organization sent away for the stone to preserve the town's Irish image. [24] Irish resistance to the stone leaving its homeland led to the stone being escorted by guards and an armored truck.
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On Saint Patrick's Day in 1939, Texas Tech President Clifford B. Jones and Engineering Society President Dosh McCreary unveiled the Blarney Stone monument which sits in front of the old Electrical Engineering Building. The stone on the monument was said to have been discovered on March 7, 1939, by a group of petroleum engineers on a field trip.
A highly respected Islamic stone set in the Kaaba's corner. Blarney Stone: Blarney Castle, Blarney, Ireland: A stone that is part of the battlement of Blarney Castle. According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with great eloquence/flattery. Blowing Stone: Kingston Lisle, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom: A sarsen. Boston Stone
Shaded relief map of the Llano Estacado. Texas contains a wide variety of geologic settings. The state's stratigraphy has been largely influenced by marine transgressive-regressive cycles during the Phanerozoic, with a lesser but still significant contribution from late Cenozoic tectonic activity, as well as the remnants of a Paleozoic mountain range.
Alibates Flint Quarries was the only national monument in the state of Texas until the Military Working Dog Teams National Monument was created in 2013, and is adjacent to and managed together with Lake Meredith National Recreation Area.
Henry Gault, from whom the site takes its name, put together a 250-acre farm in the Buttermilk Creek Valley, starting in 1904. At some point in the early 20th century he found extra income as an informant for early archaeological explorations in Central Texas working with the first professional archaeologist in Texas, J.E. Pearce, as well as avocational archaeologists (Alex Dienst, Kenneth ...