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  2. Pencil - Wikipedia

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    A pencil (/ ˈ p ɛ n s ə l / ⓘ) is a writing or drawing implement with a solid pigment core in a protective casing that reduces the risk of core breakage and keeps it from marking the user's hand. Pencils create marks by physical abrasion, leaving a trail of solid core material that adheres to a sheet of paper or other surface.

  3. List of English translations of the Divine Comedy - Wikipedia

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    A complete listing and criticism of all English translations of at least one of the three cantiche (parts) was made by Cunningham in 1966. [12] The table below summarises Cunningham's data with additions between 1966 and the present, many of which are taken from the Dante Society of America's yearly North American bibliography [13] and Società Dantesca Italiana [] 's international ...

  4. Strange Happenings: Weird Tales of Science Fiction and the ...

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    Some Pencils are Smarter than People by Erwin A. Steinkamp - A young man purchases a pencil from a street vendor, and discovers, to his delight, that when he takes tests with the pencil, it always writes down the correct answers. The New Friend by D.J. Gregoirio - A young man discovers his classmate is an Extraterrestrial.

  5. Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Wikipedia

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    Self-portrait, 1847 Original manuscript of Autumn Song by Rossetti, 1848, Ashley Library Portrait of Frances Gabriele Rossetti the Artist's Mother (1877). The son of émigré Italian scholar Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti and his wife Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti was born in London, on 12 May 1828.

  6. Caran d'Ache (company) - Wikipedia

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    The company was established as "Fabrique Genevoise de Crayons Ecridor" in Geneva in 1915. [2] When Arnold Schweitzer took over the company in 1924, he renamed it after Caran d'Ache, the pseudonym of the Russian-French satiric political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré – who in turn took his pseudonym from карандаш (karandash), the Russian word for 'pencil', itself of Turkic origin.

  7. 5 Things to Avoid When You Have Alopecia Areata - AOL

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    Here are some things to avoid when you have alopecia areata. 1. Certain Foods. Alopecia areata is an immune response, meaning it’s caused by how your body defends itself against viruses ...

  8. Stationery - Wikipedia

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    In some cases, stationers' shops became the preferred choice for scholars to find books, instead of university libraries due to stationers' shops' wider collection of books. [3] The Stationers' Company formerly held a monopoly over the publishing industry in England and was responsible for copyright regulations.

  9. Trump gives allies Devin Nunes, Richard Grenell key roles

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named his social media platform CEO Devin Nunes to lead an intelligence advisory panel and said his former intelligence chief ...