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  2. Polterabend - Wikipedia

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    The actual high point of the custom is the throwing onto the ground of porcelain that has been brought by guests. However, stoneware, flowerpots or ceramics such as tiles, sinks and toilet bowls are also happily thrown items. Metal objects such as tin cans and bottle tops are brought along to the festivities.

  3. Robin Hopper - Wikipedia

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    In 1994, he produced a second series of five videos on design and aesthetics was produced, titled “Form and Function”, based on his second book “Functional Pottery”. He has subsequently produced: “Beginning to Throw on the Potter's Wheel”, “Advanced Throwing”.

  4. Potter's wheel - Wikipedia

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    Classic potter's kick-wheel in Erfurt, Germany An electric potter's wheel, with bat (green disk) and throwing bucket. Not shown is a foot pedal used to control the speed of the wheel, similar to a sewing machine. In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware.

  5. Man smashes Ai Weiwei sculpture at Italy art show opening - AOL

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    ROME (Reuters) -A man shattered a sculpture by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei on Friday during the opening of his exhibition at Palazzo Fava in the Italian city of Bologna, a spokesperson ...

  6. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    The potter's wheel: In a process called "throwing" (coming from the Old English word thrawan which means to twist or turn, [20]) a ball of clay is placed in the centre of a turntable, called the wheel-head, which the potter rotates with a stick, with foot power or with a variable-speed electric motor. During the process of throwing, the wheel ...

  7. Moon jar - Wikipedia

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    Moon jar is a type of traditional Korean white porcelain which was made during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). [1] The Joseon white porcelain was adopted as imperial ware in the fifteenth century. Moon jars first appeared in the late seventeenth century and remained popular until the mid-eighteenth century.

  8. Appeals court scraps Nasdaq boardroom diversity rules in ...

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    A federal appeals court blocked Nasdaq rules to increase boardroom diversity, saying that the Securities and Exchange Commission did not have the authority to approve them.. Wednesday’s ruling ...

  9. Michael Vick Throw Video Going Viral: NFL World Reacts - AOL

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    The post Michael Vick Throw Video Going Viral: NFL World Reacts appeared first on The Spun. Several years ago, a commercial showed Vick throwing a football way out of a stadium.