The Natural Stone Network


	The Natural Stone Network

realstonecouk

9-21-2009 11:12 PM

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natural stone, natural stone network, famous architectures, angkor wat, great wall of china, sphinx of egypt

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The Earth is greatly blessed with architectures carefully made of working hands and creative human mind. These are mainly made of natural stones. The Natural Stone network tells about how natural stones are utilized from the ancient times and as of today.

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Some of the most enduring and well-honored works are the architecture in Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Great Sphinx of Egypt, and the Great Wall of China.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://natural-stone.weebly.com/index.html"><SPAN>Angkor Wat</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://natural-stone.weebly.com/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/natural-stone.weebly.com/img/D843425F-949D-4879-9F64-62ADF0AB777A" alt="Picture" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://natural-stone.weebly.com/index.html"><DIV> 	 <FONT color="#000000">Angkor Wat is alternatively known as “City Temple”.  Angkor comes from the word <EM>nagara </EM><SPAN>meaning capital and Wat which comes from the word </SPAN><EM>Khmer</EM><SPAN>meaning temple.  Angkor Wat was built in the first half of 12</SPAN><SPAN>th</SPAN><SPAN> century.  It represents Mount Meru a temple mountain called the home of gods.  It is a prime example of classical style of Khmer architecture.  The skilled and confident architects uses </SPAN><A href="http://www.realstone.co.uk/" target="_blank"><SPAN><STRONG>natural stones</STRONG></SPAN></A><SPAN> mainly </SPAN><SPAN><STRONG>sandstone</STRONG></SPAN><SPAN> as the main building material.  The visible areas of this architecture and the monument  was mainly made of blocks of sandstones while the hidden and outer wall parts are made of laterite.  </SPAN></FONT> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://natural-stone.weebly.com/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/natural-stone.weebly.com/img/BA2C136B-65FB-4864-B4EB-F346E258DA40" alt="Picture" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://natural-stone.weebly.com/index.html"><DIV>Great Sphinx of Egypt</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://natural-stone.weebly.com/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/natural-stone.weebly.com/img/07D03958-9A6C-4D3D-AFF0-EE9B439051EF" alt="Picture" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/46529746-286E-4B4B-A9CE-D07C0DB3C139/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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