White Chalk is the seventh studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician PJ Harvey, released on 24 September 2007 on Island Records. Work on...
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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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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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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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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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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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chalk (German: Rügener Kreide or Rügener Schreibkreide) is the common name for a very pure, very fine-grained, white, crumbly and highly porous chalk...
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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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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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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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of dried blood. It has been popular for centuries for drawing (where white chalk only works on colored paper). The word comes via French from the Italian...
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Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk (Japanese: 羽衣フルタッチチョーク, Korean: 하고로모 풀터치 탄산) is a brand of chalk for blackboards originally produced by Japanese company Hagoromo...
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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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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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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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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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Elodina parthia (redirect from Chalk White)
Elodina parthia, the chalk white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland. The wingspan...
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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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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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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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drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. The drawing is in charcoal and black and white chalk, on eight sheets of paper that are glued together. Because of its large...
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1944: "On the black, charred walls of an abandoned barn, scrawled in white chalk, was the legend of Gen. Anthony McAuliffe's soldiers: KILROY WAS STUCK...
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a chalk headland on the Dorset coast in southern England. It is located between Swyre Head and Durdle Door to the east, and Chaldon Hill and White Nothe...
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popular culture. Classically, white or bright yellow chalk is used, or sometimes paint or white tape. In the case of a body, a chalk outline might be drawn immediately...
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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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defining characteristic of this type of face paint is a small patch of white chalk around the nose. This can represent either a mean and secretive nature...
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white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness. White is the lightest possible color. Chalk white #FBFFFF Chalk white is a tint of white resembling...
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