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PEN America (formerly PEN American Center), founded in 1922, [3] and headquartered in New York City, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization [4] whose goal is to raise awareness for the protection of free expression in the United States and worldwide through the advancement of literature and human rights.
The container known as the pen originated in Neolithic China in the Yangshao culture as an earthenware shallow dish with a foot. It was later one of the vessels manufactured in bronze for use in court ceremonies and religious rituals during the Shang dynasty and Zhou dynasty.
PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) [1] is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 [2] to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere.
The Penkovka culture (Ukrainian: Пеньківська культура, romanized: Penkivska kultura; also called Pen'kivka culture) is an archaeological culture in Ukraine, Moldova and reaching into Romania. Its western boundary is usually taken to at the middle Prut and Dniester rivers, where contact with the Korchak culture occurs.
The Varsity is a disposable fountain pen that is pre-loaded with ink, while the Prera is a smaller pocket pen. Other offerings include the Pilot Falcon, which has a semi-flexible gold nib. The Kakuno, is a beginner fountain pen meant for children, that is often sold in fun colors, and has a smiley face on the fountain pen's nib.
Corel Presentations, often referred to simply as Presentations, is a presentation program akin to Microsoft PowerPoint and LibreOffice Impress. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The current release, version 2021 (Release 21 internally), is available only as part of Corel's WordPerfect Office productivity suite .
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (c. 1485) Accademia, Venice. Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface. The instruments used to make a drawing are pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern times, computer styluses with graphics tablets or gamepads in VR drawing software.
The Four Treasures is expressed in a four-word couplet: "The four treasures of the study: Brush, Ink, Paper, Inkstone." (Chinese: 文房四寶：筆、墨、紙、硯; pinyin: Wén fáng sì bǎo: bǐ, mò, zhǐ, yàn) [4] [5] In the couplet mentioned, each of the Treasures is referred to by a single epithet; however, each of these are usually known by a compound name (i.e.