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Jacob's Stone of Scone. The lost tribes, say they, were captured and exiled by Sargon, King of Assyria, about 721 B.C. Assyrian records tell of a race called the "Khumri." These, according to the theory, were the Ten Tribes, who became the Greeks' Cimmerioi and the Romans' Cimbri, gave their name to such places as the Crimea, Cumberland and Cambria, and were also the Cymry (pronounced Kum-ree), who originally settled in Wales. Other branches are supposed to have become the Scythians, or Scuthae, who populated Scotland, and the Sacae, or Saxons (i.e., Isaac...
...Scone in Westminster Abbey, upon which all British monarchs are crowned...
...British monarchs had sat for coronation. Edward I had brought the Stone to London in 1296 to celebrate his 21-day campaign against Scotland, had the coronation chair built around it and crowned himself King of England and Scotland. Edward had swiped the Stone from the Perthshire Abbey of Scone (rhymes in Scotland with boon, in England with lone), where it had formed the base of another chair in which the Kings of Scotland had been crowned for the previous 453 years. Before that, the Stone had rested at Dunstaffnage, Argyllshire, headquarters of even earlier Scots chieftains. Tradition says that...
Only a few officers knew of the plans before the first alarm at 2:16 p.m. The fire trucks reached the scone in a minute and a half, but a Central Square policemen said it took their unit almost 20 minutes...
...vehicles deported from the Harvard scone may be recovered at the Ellery Street Garage upon payment of towing charges. Offenders will also receive summonses, police explained...