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2. Bulletin board - Wikipedia

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   Cork, a common bulletin board material Bulletin boards can also be made of felt. A bulletin board ( pinboard , pin board , noticeboard , or notice board in British English) is a surface intended for the posting of public messages, for example, to advertise items wanted or for sale, announce events, or provide information.

3. Whiteboard - Wikipedia

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   A combination between a whiteboard and a cork bulletin board Original early 1960s ad for "Plasti-slate", the first whiteboard/dry erase board invented by Martin Heit. It has been widely reported that Korean War veteran and photographer Martin Heit and Albert Stallion, an employee at Alliance, a leading flat rolled steel sheet supplier should be credited with the invention of the whiteboard in ...

4. Cork (material) - Wikipedia

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   Harvesting of cork from the forests of Algeria, 1930. Cork is a natural material used by humans for over 5,000 years. It is a material whose applications have been known since antiquity, especially in floating devices and as stopper for beverages, mainly wine, whose market, from the early twentieth century, had a massive expansion, particularly due to the development of several cork-based ...

5. Cork thermal insulation - Wikipedia

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   The findings clearly demonstrated that moisture absorption during the rainy season is confined to the surface layers and has no effect on the cork's thermal insulation performance. Other research has focused on cork-based composites. The insulation used in the studies by Cherki et al. [12] and Monir et al., [13] is a cork-gypsum composite ...

6. Flat Stanley - Wikipedia

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   Flat Stanley is an American children's book series written by author Jeff Brown (January 1, 1926 – December 3, 2003). [1] The idea for the book began as a bedtime story for Brown’s sons, which Brown turned into the first Flat Stanley book.

7. The Borrowers - Wikipedia

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   The Borrowers is a children's fantasy novel by the English author Mary Norton, published by Dent in 1952.It features a family of tiny people who live secretly in the walls and floors of an English house and "borrow" from the big people in order to survive.