More than 100,000 people, mainly Muslims, are crammed into relief camps throughout the state, petrified to return to their neighborhoods for fear of fresh attacks, relief workers say.
Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park (with numerous species of agatized wood and, at 7,469 acres [3,023 hectares], one of the world's largest petrified forests) is 28 miles (45 km) east.
The Sunni states "were petrified of a Shiite resurgence, and there was growing resentment with our gambling on the moderate Shiites in Iraq," he said.
Back on board, the boat speeds down the estuary until it reaches the biosphere's border with Campeche state, for a short stop at a petrified island.
If you reside in California or New York, you'd have to be petrified of defaults not to buy municipal bonds issued by your state.
Quite a few states have official dinosaurs or other official fossils--the earliest ones were petrified wood in North Dakota and the Nebraska mammoth, designated in 1967.
In a national park, Professor Cialdini's team tried to stop people from stealing petrified wood by posting: "Many past visitors have removed the petrified wood from the park, changing the state of the Petrified Forest". Even with this warning, theft rates stood at 5percentt.
First, they dramatize the fallen state of painting since the nineteen-sixties, when Andy Warhol merged it with mechanical reproduction, and Minimalism petrified it with a basilisk stare.
I was petrified, absolutely petrified, that day.
