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  2. Caulk boots - Wikipedia

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    Caulk boots or calk boots [1] (also called cork boots, timber boots, logger boots, logging boots, or corks) [2] are a form of rugged spike-soled footwear that are most often associated with the timber industry. [3] They are worn for traction in the woods and were especially useful in timber rafting. [4]

  3. Wedge (footwear) - Wikipedia

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    In the high fashion world, Ferragamo invented the cork wedge shoe in the 1940s due to the economic sanctions against Italy. Ferragamo could no longer afford to purchase steel for traditional heels. He experimented with pieces of Sardinian cork. It was glued and trimmed until the entire space between the sole and heel was solid.

  4. Goodyear welt - Wikipedia

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    The components of a Goodyear welted shoe. A Goodyear welt is a strip of leather, rubber, or plastic that runs along the perimeter of a shoe outsole. [1] The basic principle behind the Goodyear welt machine was invented in 1862 by August Destouy, who designed a machine with a curved needle to stitch turned shoes.

  5. Birkenstock - Wikipedia

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    A pair of Birkenstocks near the ocean. The history of the Birkenstock "shoemaking dynasty" can be traced back to the first documented mention of Johannes Birkenstock (1749–1812), registered on March 25, 1774, as a "vassal and shoemaker" in local church archives in the small Hessian village of Langen-Bergheim. [3]

  6. Shoemaking - Wikipedia

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    Shoemaking is the process of making footwear. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cordwainers (sometimes misidentified as cobblers, who repair shoes rather than make them [ citation needed ] ).

  7. Cork (material) - Wikipedia

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    Harvesting of cork from the forests of Algeria, 1930. Cork is a natural material used by humans for over 5,000 years. It is a material whose applications have been known since antiquity, especially in floating devices and as stopper for beverages, mainly wine, whose market, from the early twentieth century, had a massive expansion, particularly due to the development of several cork-based ...

  8. Hundreds of California prisoners are fighting the LA fires ...

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    Hundreds of prisoners are helping to battle the wildfires in the Los Angeles area.. Incarcerated firefighters earn $26.90 to $34 for each 24-hour shift. It's far below California's minimum wage of ...

  9. Quercus suber - Wikipedia

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    The cork is mainly used for the production of stoppers and corks, as well as for heat and sound insulation, cork paper, badminton shuttlecocks, cricket balls, handles of fishing rods and hand tools, special devices for the space industry [20] and for other technical applications (including composite materials, shoe soles, floor coverings).

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