Dante
Thunderstone @justeanapay, replying to @MangNards5 @itsMeComedia, said
Similarly, data management vendors Google, GoPubmed, Exalead,
Thunderstone, Greenstone, and dSpace were compared for cost, relevance, user interface, methodology, location of corporate headquarters, and willingness to customize software.
McGuire Brothers Construction is the general contractor with Holloway, Updike and Bellen engineers and Nebraska-based
Thunderstone Construction as the driller.
(42) Thus Statius's smaragdi could allude to the Pythagorean/Egyptian/Orphic
thunderstone. (43) Indeed the reference to the stones as "flowering ...
There are many other examples that seem to refer to the quartz' special meaning, for example the description of Pliny the Elder of quartz as a unique and most precious "
thunderstone" (cited in Myhre 1988, 321).
Just as her story nears its most morally and factually ambiguous moment, then, this flight with Caponsacchi, Pompilia appeals directly to the cultural power of virgin-martyr hagiography: An old rhyme came into my head and rang Of how a virgin, for the faith of God, Hid herself, from the Paynims that pursued, In a cave's heart; until a
thunderstone, Wrapped in a flame, revealed the couch and prey: And they laughed--'Thanks to lightning, ours at last!' And she cried 'Wrath of God, assert His love!