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  2. Block by Block (program) - Wikipedia

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    Block by Block is a charitable initiative founded as a partnership between Minecraft developer Mojang and the United Nations which aims to encourage young people to get involved in urban regeneration. [1] The scheme uses Minecraft to allow children to rebuild and reimagine their hometowns. [2]

  3. Slate - Wikipedia

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    Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism.

  4. Limestone - Wikipedia

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    Limestone can be processed into many various forms such as brick, cement, powdered/crushed, or as a filler. [102] Limestone is readily available and relatively easy to cut into blocks or more elaborate carving. [101] Ancient American sculptors valued limestone because it was easy to work and good for fine detail.

  5. The Most Addictive Foods, According to Science - AOL

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    1. Pizza. Why, of course, it would be pizza, and not steamed broccoli, because apparently, everything that tastes good comes with a catch. Pizza, one of — if not the — most universally loved ...

  6. Laterite - Wikipedia

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    [4]: 65 He named it laterite from the Latin word later, which means a brick; this highly compacted and cemented soil can easily be cut into brick-shaped blocks for building. [4]: 65 The word laterite has been used for variably cemented, sesquioxide-rich soil horizons. [5] A sesquioxide is an oxide with three atoms of oxygen and two metal atoms ...

  7. Ceramic building material - Wikipedia

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    A typical brick wall. Adobe – Building material of earth and organic materials; Antefix – Terminal block for the covering tiles of a roof; Architectural terracotta – Fired clay construction material; BrickBlock or a single unit of a ceramic material used in masonry construction; Brickwork – Masonry made of bricks and mortar

  8. Volcanic block - Wikipedia

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    Blocks are formed from material from previous eruptions or from country rock and are therefore mostly accessory or accidental in origin. Blocks also occur due to the impact and breakage of volcanic bombs (a bomb is a block with streamlined appearance, often expelled in a molten state). Blocks can also occur due to the disruption of the crust of ...

  9. Slate industry - Wikipedia

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    Slate has been quarried in north Wales for almost two millennia with the Segontium Roman fort at Caernarfon being roofed by local slate in the late second century. Export of slate has been carried out for several centuries, which was recently confirmed by the discovery in the Menai Strait of the wreck of a 16th-century wooden ship carrying finished slates.