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Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, [1] [2] categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start fires. Flint occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones.
1695 – Nine Years' War: At the Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas, Catalan miquelets attacked a column of French regular infantry and caused them to surrender. 1959 – An anti-Chinese uprising began as thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace in Lhasa to prevent the Dalai Lama from leaving or being removed by the Chinese army.
Flint was where rock band Grand Funk Railroad was formed in 1969. Kansas City rapper Tech N9ne mentioned its water problems in his song "Poisoning the well" Flint is likely the subject of "Near DT, MI" by the English rock band Black Midi. Flint is the hometown of the award-winning Pop/RnB group Ready For The World.
Col de Pierre Pertuis (el. 827 m.) is a mountain pass in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Berne in Switzerland. It connects Sonceboz and Tavannes . The name of the pass comes from the Latin : Petra pertusa , meaning broken rock .
The online publication eCommerceTimes, in 2009, described "Ernesto" as the pseudonym of Lennart Renkema, owner of TorrentFreak. [7] TorrentFreak's text is free content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial version 3.0 license. [2] Their lead researcher and community manager was the Pirate Party activist Andrew Norton, from 2007 to ...
Flint, the protagonist in the Cluster series, by Piers Anthony; Flint, the immortal antagonist in the episode "Requiem for Methuselah" of the original Star Trek series; Flint, Ruth and Kate Galloway's cat in Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway novel series; Derek Flint, protagonist of the spy movie Our Man Flint and its sequels
Ernest Ebenezer Samuel Flint (c.1854 – 17 July 1887) was an employee of the Overland Telegraph Line who spend much of his life working in the Northern Territory. [1]
Flint mining is the process of extracting flint from underground. Flint mines can be as simple as a pit on the surface or an area of quarrying, or it may refer to a series of shafts and tunnels used to extract flint. Flint has been mined since the Palaeolithic, but was most common during the Neolithic.