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  2. List of Illinois area codes - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after in 1996, area code 773 was created for the residential parts of the city of Chicago, while downtown kept area code 312. Area code 847 exhausted its numbers quickly, so that an overlay area code, 224, was implemented in 1996 for relief. However, mandatory ten-digit dialing was not in effect until 2002. In March 2007, an overlay ...

  3. Area code 312 - Wikipedia

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    The numbering plan area is completely surrounded by area code 773, which serves the rest of Chicago. Both area codes form an overlay complex with area code 872. 312 is an enclave area code, and is roughly bounded by North Avenue on the north, Western Avenue on the west, and 35th Street on the south, with Lake Michigan to the east. In terms of ...

  4. Conservation and restoration of ivory objects - Wikipedia

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    The cross-sections of the teeth are rounded or oval. A characteristic feature is that the dentin forms in layers that alternate directions giving it a banded appearance. Their teeth are second in hardness to hippopotamus ivory. Sperm whale teeth may grow up to 20 cm (8 inches) in length while the killer whale teeth are slightly smaller.

  5. 'Antiques Roadshow:' See a whale tooth worth more than $150K

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    If you thought teeth were only worth a couple bucks from the tooth fairy, think again. On a brand-new episode of "Antiques Roadshow" Monday, a Fred Myrick scrimshaw tooth got a price tag that ...

  6. Gomphothere - Wikipedia

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    They are thought to have chewed differently from modern elephants, using an oblique movement (combining back to front and side to side motion) over the teeth rather than the proal movement (a forwards stroke from the back to the front of the lower jaws) used by modern elephants and stegodontids, [2] with this oblique movement being combined ...

  7. List of neighborhoods in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    There are 178 official neighborhoods in Chicago. [1] Neighborhood names and identities have evolved due to real estate development and changing demographics. [2] Chicago is also divided into 77 community areas which were drawn by University of Chicago researchers in the late 1920s. [3]

  8. Ivory - Wikipedia

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    11th-century Italian carved elephant tusk, Louvre. Cylindrical ivory casket, Siculo-Arabic, Hunt Museum. Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks.

  9. Showmen's Rest - Wikipedia

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    A few other Showmen's Rests can be found, including one at Mount Olivet Cemetery, in Hugo, Oklahoma, where a winter circus home calls itself Circus City, USA.In Miami, Florida, the largest Showmen's Rest is at Southern Memorial Park, where large elephant and lion statues flank hundreds of markers commemorating circus greats and not-so-greats.