Her uncle, Walter Davenport, moved to Stone Mountain, the place of his father's birth, in 1998.
Playing in 102 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity at Stone Mountain, Agassi made light of the conditions to dispatch the Spaniard -- a two-time French Open champion -- in straight sets.
The Seed Savers Exchange is a 850-acre farm that saves and shares heirloom seeds like Strawberry Crown Squash, Lemon Drop Tomato, Stone Mountain Watermelon and Champion of England Pea for future generations.
The Great Pyramid, a 146-metre-high mountain of stone, was created by arranging 2.3 million limestone blocks, each about 2.5 tonnes, with astonishing accuracy.
Moonlight Lodge is the development's centerpiece, with a spa, the Timbers restaurant and a three-story stone fireplace on which three stuffed mountain goats cavort.
Treasure hunters discovered the archaeological site in the early 1970s when they climbed the 1, 263 stone steps from the riverbank to find an isolated site consisting of more than 150 terraces, plazas and stone paths that cascade down the mountain.
On one side, it reads, "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope, " from Dr. King's speech, "I Have a Dream, " presented at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963.
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Six of the recycled stone pillars marking the main paths up the mountain - Llanberis Path, Rhyd-Ddu Path, Snowdon Ranger Path, Miners Track and the Pyg Track - are being erected over the next few weeks.
Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world.
The Mussner family rebuilt the mountain lodge in 2010, using local Dolomite stone and larch wood and the affect is one of calm modernity, all clean lines and soft colours.
The log cabin-style main home features a stone wood-burning fireplace, hardwood floors and extensive water and mountain views.
These days, if Moses came down from the mountain -- Capitol Hill -- with his etched stone tablets someone would show up with hammer and chisel to amend his commandments.
At 11am on 13 July 1375, dignitaries and eminent farmers from both valleys met atop the 6, 500ft Col de la Pierre St-Martin mountain pass, laid their hands together on the boundary stone and declared their peaceful intent.
The firewood detail placed Shin and Park within a stone's throw of the fence that ran along the spine of the mountain.
We parked just below the summit of the mountain and walked into the town through a gap in the low stone wall that surrounded it.
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They were all in the simple stone bunker, which could possibly fit 40, wedged in a slight recess below the mountain's upper half.
They range from grandfathers with traditional flowing sarongs hanging over their bare feet to teenagers clad in polo shirts and trainers, all climbing the 5, 000-odd stone steps that are illuminated by electric lights throughout the night, a glowing white line spiralling up the mountain and marking the way to the top.
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