Jasper

An opaque, impure type of massive fine-grained quartz that typically has a tile-red, dark-brownish-red, brown, or brownish-yellow color. The color of the reddish varieties of ...

jasper

Mining; General mining; Mineral mining

A red variety of chalcedony.

jasperization

Mining; General mining; Mineral mining

The conversion or alteration of igneous or sedimentary rocks into banded rocks like jaspilite by metasomatic introduction of iron oxides and cryptocrystalline silica.

jasper

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An opaque quartz found in all colors, and spotted, striped, and clouded; is valued in ornamental lapidary work because of the polish it takes.

Gauls

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Gauls were a Celtic people living in Gaul, the region roughly corresponding to what is now France, Belgium, Switzerland and Northern Italy, from the Iron Age through to the ...

Picts

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval Celtic people living in ancient eastern and northern Scotland. They are recorded from before the Roman conquest of ...

Celts

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Celts were an Indo-European and etho-linguistically diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Roman-era Europe who spoke Celtic languages. By the first millennium AD ...

Cherokee

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, North and South Carolina and East Tennessee). Historians and ...

Iceni

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Iceni (or Eceni) were a British tribe who inhabited an read of East Anglia corresponding roughly to present day Norfolk between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. The ...

pecking and grinding

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The process of manufacturing heavy-duty stone tools (bowls, mauls etc. ) From granular rocks by prolonged hammering with a hammerstone. Abrasive techniques might be used to finish ...

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Secret Service prostitution scandal

A scandal involving 12 U.S. secret service men and Colombian prostitutes before a recent presidential trip to Colombia. After the scandal broke, the ...