• Old Slab (Chinese: 舊長型) is a design of residential blocks used in Hong Kong public housing estates. The buildings of this type consist of one or more elongated...
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    Slab City, also called The Slabs, is an unincorporated, off-the-grid alternative lifestyle community consisting largely of snowbirds in the Salton Trough...
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    new slab grows and slides onto the old slab. The old slab breaks off and the orogenic wedge collapses. The new slab stops the lateral motion and subducts...
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    New Slab (Chinese: 新長型大廈) is a design of residential block of public housing estate in Hong Kong, and the successor to the Old Slab design. It is a modification...
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    In typography, a slab serif (also called mechanistic, square serif, antique or Egyptian) typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like...
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  • Serif (redirect from Old style serif)
    into one of four subgroups: § old style, § transitional, § Didone and § Slab Serif, in order of first appearance. Some Old-style typefaces can be classified...
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    lined their huts with grass or instead used animal pelts. A 13,800 year old slab from Molí del Salt, Spain, has 7 dome-shaped figures engraved onto it,...
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    A slab hut is a kind of dwelling or shed made from slabs of split or sawn timber. It was a common form of construction used by settlers in Australia and...
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  • (Monotype's imitation of Palatino) Berkeley Old Style Candida Cartier Century Old Style Charis SIL Cholla Slab Clearface Concrete Roman Corona Doves Type...
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  • Slab (sometimes in all capital letters) is an acronym for "slow, loud, and bangin'" or for "hitting the slab," as in driving on concrete roads. It is a...
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    The Saint-Bélec slab is a stone artefact from western Brittany thought to be a map of an early Bronze Age principality. It was discovered by Paul du Châtellier...
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    enter the Japan Hot 100, but peaked at number 16 on the Hot Overseas chart. "Old Man" did not enter the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart, but peaked at...
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  • Murphy (Irish: Tomás Mac Murchaidh: born 26 August 1949), also known as Slab, is an Irish republican, believed to be a former Chief of Staff of the Provisional...
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    Tuen Mun, located near Castle Peak and Tsing Shan Monastery. Formerly the old site of Leung Tin Village (Chinese: 良田村), the estate consists of six residential...
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  • In geology, the slab gap hypothesis is one of the explanations put forward to explain several instances of crustal extension that occur inland near former...
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    1950 to run alongside the hill Slab City is situated upon, rather than over it. The old road, which is to say Slab City's original main road, still...
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    including: Old Slab (Mark VII, Seven-Storey Block, Standard Type A, 23 sq meters Design, 27 sq meters Design, 54 sq meters Design, Special Edition), New Slab Single...
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    Ballastless track (redirect from Slab track)
    A ballastless track or slab track is a type of railway track infrastructure in which the traditional elastic combination of sleepers and ballast is replaced...
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    ten blocks in the estate consist of three building types: Linear 1, New Slab and Trident 3. They are: Cheung Wang Estate (長宏邨) is situated in Liu To on...
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    Tower Slab Cruciform (Tai Hing Estate and Shun On Estate) I/H-shaped block Ziggurat (Butterfly Estate) Second Generation (1986-1992): New Slabs Trident...
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    old slab, which declares that Hippolytos dedicated twenty horses to the god. The Arikians tell a tale that agrees with the inscription on this slab,...
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  • The Slab Boys Trilogy is a set of three plays by the Scottish playwright John Byrne. The trilogy was originally known as Paisley Patterns. The three plays...
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    million-year-old fossil that had come from Liaoning Province of China. Chinese palaeontologist Xu Xing came into possession of the counter slab through a...
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    The Bridgeness Slab is a Roman distance slab created around 142 CE marking a portion of the Antonine Wall built by the Second Legion. It is regarded as...
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    Farallon plate (redirect from Farallon slab)
    North American plate caused the slab to flatten, resulting in slab rollback. Another cause of flat slab subduction may be slab buoyancy, a characteristic influenced...
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  • with seven-storeys blocks. The estate comprises 11 blocks of buildings of Old Slab type built from 1962 to 1966. It was developed into 2 phases. Phase 1 included...
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    The Old Market Square (Slab Square) is an open, pedestrianised city square in Nottingham, England, forming the heart of the city, and covering an area...
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    Tilt up (redirect from Tilt up slab)
    in older buildings. With the tilt-up method, concrete elements (walls, columns, structural supports, etc.) are formed horizontally on a concrete slab; this...
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    Chai Wan station. The estate comprises 10 residential buildings. The 7 "Old Slab" blocks belong to Hing Wah (I) Estate (Chinese: 興華(一)邨) completed in 1976...
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    Clarendon is the name of a slab serif typeface that was released in 1845 by Thorowgood and Co. (or Thorowgood and Besley) of London, a letter foundry often...
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