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...You might start by thinking about where you want the fire and what it would sit on — a heat-resistant concrete, stone or masonry base will be required. What about the fireplace itself?...
...At its simplest, a sundial can be a stick shoved in a hole in a wall, its shadow arcing past radial scratches in the masonry....
...A joint press release said the deal has been endorsed unanimously by USG’s management board. Alex Mulder, USG’s founder and chief shareholder with a 19.8 per cent stake, has also agreed to the deal....
...The masonry and the vaulted roof echo features of St Pancras station over the road....
...Tam-tams toll like church bells; the wind and brass choirs create static blocks of sound like imposing, ageless masonry. Insofar as there is any movement at all, it is a slow, methodical tread....
...Last year it raised $500m by selling half of its gypsum business to joint-venture partner, US-listed USG....
...Among the 10 potential targets identified by the broker were Go Sport in France, USG in the Netherlands, Exisport in Slovakia and Sportisimo in the Czech Republic....
...Plaster and masonry fell from the ceiling of the Shaftesbury Avenue theatre, built in 1901, during a performance of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , injuring 76 people, seven seriously...
...A Bangladeshi soldier at the scene of the disaster said a dire shortage of equipment was hampering the relief efforts, but local residents could be seen passing chunks of masonry out with their bare hands...
...A makeshift barricade of masonry was quickly overrun by police brandishing batons and riot shields....
...But it could never go back home to St Michael’s, for when it was hit by firebombs, the centre of the church crumbled, bringing down the masonry of the clerestory....
...(Wall Street Journal) - A rise in unusual US earthquakes has been linked to shale gas fracking, says a USGS study....
...local time, with a depth of 15.9 miles (25.6 km), 41 miles (66 km) off the east coast of Sendai and 207 miles (333km) from Tokyo, in the same region as the deadly earthquake on March 11, according to the USGS...
...Late last week, speculation was rife that Adecco, the market leader, was stalking USG People of the Netherlands....
...But I found the staff glad to usher me through to a courtyard where a colonnade of corn yellow masonry stood against the cerulean sky. Roughly textured circular stones stacked up to make the columns....
...Jason Harris, senior claims manager, said the majority of calls were reporting structural damage from falling trees and flying masonry....
...Meanwhile, Simon Smith at Citigroup said the initial public offering of VDO and the acquisition of USG were exactly the type of transactions he had been hoping for....
...One recalls Thomas Hardy’s Jude Fawley, obscurely chipping away at the masonry of Biblioll College - forever excluded by Professor Tetuphenay....
...Similarly every day people die suddenly, be it in car crashes, struck by lightning or hit by falling masonry....
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