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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes we are the student. Sometimes we are the master. And sometimes we are merely the lesson – Jacalyn Smith; Spare the rod and spoil the child; Speak as you find; Speak of the devil and he shall/is sure/will appear; Speak softly and carry a big stick; Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

  3. List of mottos - Wikipedia

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    Banning: Proud History, Prosperous Tomorrow; Berkeley: Westward the course of empire takes its way; / The first four Acts already past, / A fifth shall close the Drama with the day; / Time's noblest offspring is the last. Carson: Future Unlimited; Ceres: Together We Achieve; Del Mar: Multum in parvis (Much in little) [35] Downey: Future Unlimited

  4. Mason's mark - Wikipedia

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    This system was employed only when the stone was paid for by measure, rather than by time worked. For example, the 1306 contract between Richard of Stow, mason, and the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral, specified that the plain walling would be paid for by measure, and indeed banker marks are found on the blocks of walling in this cathedral.

  5. 130 Graduation Quotes to Inspire and Motivate the Class of 2024

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    3. “You cannot dream of becoming something you do not know about. You have to learn to dream big. Education exposes you to what the world has to offer, to the possibilities open to you.”

  6. National Council of Educational Research and Training

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    [26] [27] Again in 2022, a new controversy started when both CBSE and NCERT removed topics regarding Islamic Empires in the class 12 history textbook and chapters like “Challenges to Democracy” in the class 10 political science subject and many others, saying it is necessary to reduce syllabus to reduce examination pressure on students by ...

  7. Opus spicatum - Wikipedia

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    The herringbone method was used by Filippo Brunelleschi in constructing the dome of the Cathedral of Florence (Santa Maria del Fiore). [2]Examples in France exist in the churches at Querqueville in Normandy and St Christophe at Suèvres, both dating from the 10th century, and in England herring-bone masonry is found in the walls of castles, such as at Guildford, Colchester and Tamworth, [1] as ...

  8. Sticks and Stones - Wikipedia

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    Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In a speech given by E.H. Heywood in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 16, 1862, published in The Liberator on January 2, 1863, the speaker quotes a "little Irish girl" who "dissolved the quarrel" of a group of children who were about to come to blows by saying:

  9. Staffordshire blue brick - Wikipedia

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    Brick made by H Doulton & Co. of Rowley Regis, displayed in the Black Country Living Museum The brick is made from the local red clay, Etruria marl , which when fired at a high temperature in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere takes on a deep blue colour and attains a very hard surface with high crushing strength and low water absorption.