There are the objects in the "Ancient Africa" made of fired clay, bronze, gold, or other very durable materials that have survived the centuries. ... Women usually make pots. Though cheap and functional, African pots combine utility with great beauty. Pots can also have spiritual symbolism and may contain the spirits of ancestors, deities or even diseases. Marriage often involves making new pots, while old ones are smashed when someone dies. ...

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The street names for marijuana are pot, grass, weed, Mary Jane, Acapulco gold and reefer. ... Other teens smoke pot because they are curious or because of peer pressure. ... With a hotline or a club meeting every so often Teens will be able to express the real reasons for why they smoke pot, or any drug for that matter. ...

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I believe happy memories can be as valuable as silver and gold. ... Granddaddy would wink at us and give us a little crooked smile, and we would keep right on chewing our gum while Granny would just shake her head and keep on stirring pots of food. ... I never really knew why it was fake, but the heat for the house came from a pot belly stove that burned wood. ... We loved spending the night because we would get to watch Granddaddy pop popcorn on the pot belly heating stove. ... So much food has been cooked and served in that kitchen and the aroma of fried chicken or pot roast, fresh vegetable...

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Ruskin had been offended by Whistlers painting called, "Nocturne in Black and Gold: the Falling Rocket", Ruskin wrote in the newspaper: "For Mr Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen much of cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face" (Ruskin 1877, Letter 79). ... The...

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He wishes to see Itzhak Stern; a Jew who is good at accounting and used to own a pot-making factory. ... The Jews begin their work in the factory and learn how to make pots and pans. ... The first is a gold ring that one of the Jews agreed to having his gold tooth pulled to make. ...

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Richer people can also use gold as a substitute for the silver layer. ... At train stations it is often served in small clay pots, which you then smash on the ground when empty (Food). ... Unless otherwise specified, tea is mixed tea' or milk tea', which means it has been made by putting cold water, milk, sugar and tea into one pot and bringing the whole mixture to a boil, then letting it stew for a long time. ...

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The man himself looks well-accomplished if you look at his mask alone, with its bright colors and with brightly painted gold and silver eagles swooping down from the top of the man's head. ... His pots and pans, along with his cooking utensils, become a massive wall of gadgets with unlimited possibilities and purpose. ... His tools, the pots and pans, are scattered along the wall to his right. ...

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Since breakfast was not served until between 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM, they had a few hours to fulfill their other chores while the stews or soups bubbled in the iron pots. Once the lord and his lady were out of bed, chambermaids ventured into their apartments, swept, emptied chamber pots and washed basins, and the laundresses also began the day's wash. ... It was assumed that if you could afford such fabric as silk, cloth of gold, and velvet, then you were more likely to be of noble birth (LaBarthe). ...

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The United States is a melting pot. ... Basically, go into the temples and see all the gold. They were getting rid of Aztecs gold statues and melt the gold; replacing them with nail crosses into the temples. ...

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Psychologically, it can be said that individuals who were based in those settlements were defined by their ability to participate in the sugar production process and therefore gave sugar the weight of gold because it was something that could make or break a settlement. ... Again, labor needs were met by individuals from different cultures with different backgrounds which created a melting pot of identification for eventual nationals of these British colonies. ...

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MY IRISH HERITAGE Five generations ago my ancestors, John and Mary Coin, journeyed to America, leaving behind their homeland of Knockbraugh, Ireland. A few years later, my Great, Great Grandparents, Patrick and Maryanne O"Toole, made their way to America and joined their parents in North Braddoc...

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Emigrating families took with them their domestic utensils and once the colony was established pots and jars were used for storage and trade. ... Products from the forests, mines and land of the colonies, such as gold, silver, iron, timber, wool, wheat and dried fish were exchanged for finished articles from the mother-city. ...

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For years now schools have been teaching students that Columbus was this amazing man that found all this gold and discovered new lands. ... When he arrived at what is now Haiti along with his crew for their second voyage, they demanded gold, food as well as sex from the woman and anything else they wanted from the Indians. ... History books constantly speak about a "melting pot " of various races as well as ethnicities but fail to talk about all races, as they should. ...

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That's gold dust. If you're ignoring it, you're missing an opportunity to electronically mine that gold," (Bingham & Galagan, 2012). ... Many of the company's television, outdoor, in-store, and print ads feature animals including pot-bellied pigs, rabbits, a tree frog, a monkey, a lizard, a duck, fish, a hedgehog, a meerkat, an owl, and lately have been focusing on pygmy goats. ...

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What Is Development? 'Development is the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes more advanced.' In the case of a country, it means to have a highly developed economy and be technologically advanced. The criteria to assess a country's development is by looking at it...

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They will continually ride into every etched pot hole, sending the crazy driver soaring through the air. ... The gold key always sits in the ignition next to a thin, black steering wheel in front of the driver's seat. ...

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We all have entered this world not knowing our purpose in life. However, most of us are blessed with the opportunity to choose what we will like to do with our lives. We are brought up in different environments, exposed to different situations and are accustomed to different styles of living. In a w...

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Roy is a school principal and he and Coral can afford a luxurious holiday on the Gold Coast, Jim is an office worker and he and Gwen are off on a caravanning holiday while Harry and Vic both work in factories and can only afford a tenting holiday. ... The characters use expressions such as "dunny", "slogged me guts out", "I could've throttled them", "pot luck", "the nuddy" and "got the huff". ...

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Pot, another name for marijuana, is a drug made from the dried leaves and flowering tops of hemp plants. ... Ross Rebagliati, from Whistler, British Columbia, won the men's giant slalom snowboarding gold medal, with a time of two minutes and 3.96 seconds. ...

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One of the most effective and innovative forms of non-violent resistance came when local women occupied the local news outlets in part of the pots and pans march (Stephen, 2007). ... These soon became the only forms of media telling the truth about what was happening in Oaxaca (Gold & Renique, 2008). ...

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INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA STRINGS The family of instruments which makes up the string section has survived three centuries in its role as the foundation of the orchestra. It comprises violins, usually divided into "Firsts" and "Seconds", violas, violincellos, normally called cellos, and d...

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-like, or October, with the forest floor a nubby carpet of reds and golds and greens (Pollan, 11). ... Around that time a man sailed down the Ohio River in a strange canoe with a sidecar: In one of the dugouts lounged the figure of a skinny man of about thirty, who may or may not have been wearing a burlap coffee sack for a shirt and a tin pot for a hat. ...

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We must be able to stop taking the little things for granted so we may find that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and failure to do so can earn you a life that wasn't lived to the potential that it could have been lived. ...

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