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  2. Adhesive bandage - Wikipedia

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    An adhesive bandage, also called a sticking plaster, sticky plaster, medical plaster, or simply plaster in British English, is a small medical dressing used for injuries not serious enough to require a full-size bandage.

  3. Elastoplast - Wikipedia

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    In the 1970s Elastoplast marketed its Airstrip product as "the fresh air plaster". The plasters were sold in small flat tin. [4] On 4 July 2005 Elastoplast launched a £1.1 million advertising campaign which introduced brand heroes called "the Plastermen", which had helped advertise the newly launched SilverHealing plasters. [5]

  4. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    The earliest pipes were made of clay, and are found at the Temple of Bel at Nippur in Babylonia. [127] [b] 4000 BC: Oldest evidence of locks, the earliest example discovered in the ruins of Nineveh, the capital of ancient Assyria. [130] 4000 BC – 3400 BC: Oldest evidence of wheels, found in the countries of Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. [131 ...

  5. "Most people my age just kind of scribble." Signatures were a ...

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    In California, voters younger than 25 made up 10% of the November electorate, but had nearly 3 in 10 of the ballots set aside for signature problems, a new survey shows. "Most people my age just ...

  6. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Puritans, almost immediately after arriving in America in 1630, set up schools. Children who did not attend school were taught at home. As a result, Americans were the most literate people in the world. As John Adams put it, a native-born American "who cannot read and write is as rare ... as a comet or an earthquake."

  7. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet made its first acquisition in March 2021, with the purchase of Slader, which offered detailed explanations of textbook concepts and practice problems, and eventually incorporated it into its paid platform, Quizlet Plus. [20] [21] [22] In November 2022, Quizlet announced a new CEO, Lex Bayer, the former CEO of Starship Technologies. [23]

  8. Blu Tack - Wikipedia

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    Blu Tack White Blu Tack out of the box. Blu Tack is a reusable putty-like pressure-sensitive adhesive produced by Bostik, commonly used to attach lightweight objects (such as posters or sheets of paper) to walls, doors or other dry surfaces.

  9. Fact-check: Are some books being banned from Texas schools ...

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    In Texas, the process for challenging and removing books from schools differs from place to place. A state effort is scrutinizing nearly 850 titles.