White Chalk is the seventh studio album by the English singer-songwriter and musician PJ Harvey, released on 24 September 2007 on Island Records. Work...
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The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure, 110 m (360 ft) long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk. The figure is situated...
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Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under...
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of 350 feet (110 m), owes its striking appearance to its composition of chalk accented by streaks of black flint, deposited during the Late Cretaceous...
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album White Chalk in November, together with Flood, John Parish and Eric Drew Feldman and drummer Jim White in a studio in West London. White Chalk was...
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European chalk 'province'. It is characterised by thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment. Chalk is a limestone...
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Downland (redirect from Chalk downland)
Downland, chalkland, chalk downs or just downs are areas of open chalk hills, such as the North Downs. This term is used to describe the characteristic...
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vintage. When applying chalk paint, an item's surface should be clean, and priming is only advised when working with a white chalk paint. It is also advised...
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Farafra Oasis (New Valley Governorate). The park is the site of large white chalk rock formations, created through erosion by wind and sand. It is also...
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Blackboard (redirect from Chalk board)
of a stick of chalk and then that chalk brushed off as normal to prepare it for use.[citation needed] Chalk sticks are produced in white and in various...
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[citation needed] It has been popular for centuries for drawing (where white chalk only works on colored paper).[citation needed] The word comes via French...
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removing topsoil to expose that underlying rock, and covering it with white chalk chips. It was created in November 1857, and some accounts state that...
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Rügen chalk (German: Rügener Kreide or Rügener Schreibkreide) is the common name for a fine-grained, white, crumbly and highly porous chalk. It forms...
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Chalk Formation New Pit Chalk Formation Holywell Nodular Chalk Formation Melbourn Rock Member Plenus Marl Member The White Chalk is generally a more pure...
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is painted on a predominantly white chalk ground, bound with animal glue size, and then primed with lead white and chalk bound with oil. Most of the painting...
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Hill figure (redirect from Chalk figures in England)
them. The new material is often chalk, a soft and white form of limestone, leading to the alternative name of chalk figure for this form of art.[citation...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Whiting is the name of powdered and washed white chalk (calcium carbonate) Merlangius merlangus, the original fish species to...
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allowing the gymnast to transition from bar to bar. A gymnast usually adds white chalk to the hands so that they can grip the bar better. Uneven bars used in...
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means "white", and is derived from the name of the Greek island sometimes referred to by the same name which was the source of much of the white chalk used...
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an American entrepreneur and inventor, who created the first dustless white chalk, and along with his cousin C. Harold Smith (born London, 1860 - died...
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Trois crayons (redirect from Three chalks)
red chalk along with limited natural chalks. As drawing techniques evolved, artists combined red chalk with other chalks, including white chalk. The...
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The White Chalk Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in southern England. Pterosaur fossils have been recovered from the formation. Earth sciences...
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/ 50.788106°N 0.142031°E / 50.788106; 0.142031 The Litlington White Horse is a chalk hill figure depicting a horse, situated on Hindover Hill (locally...
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peaking at number 29 in the Billboard 200. In 2007, her seventh album, White Chalk, was released and in 2009, Parish and Harvey released their second collaborative...
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According to one source, it "has been said to mean everything from 'white chalk' to 'shale rock' to 'shoal people' to 'land of plenty'". Most anthropologists...
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hamlet, whose name is first found in the form White Cliff in the eighteenth century, referring to the white chalk cliff. The cliff is probably a natural formation...
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Baran, have been engaged in preserving and conserving the traditional white chalk on red background Mandana drawings. Devi has painted over 100 designs...
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weathered-white Austin Chalk which lines its bed and banks, thus revealing its place geologically within the Balcones Escarpment. In some places, this chalk becomes...
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built around a number of wicker partitions using alternate layers of white chalk and darker earth. This material was probably excavated from flanking...
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produced via calcination of green vitriol (a.k.a. copperas) mixed with white chalk. The pigment contains up to 50% of the ferric oxide. Historically, Venetian...
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