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A Corduroy road or log road is a type of road made by placing sand-covered logs perpendicular to the direction of the road over a low or swampy area. The result is an improvement over impassable mud or dirt roads, yet is a bumpy ride in the best of conditions and a hazard to horses due to loose logs that can roll and shift. This type of road was already constructed in Roman times. Compare puncheon or plank road, which uses hewn boards instead of logs, ...

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The Shroud of Turin (or Turin Shroud) is a linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have been physically traumatized in a manner consistent with crucifixion. It is presently kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. Some believe it is the cloth that covered Jesus of Nazareth when he was placed in his tomb and that his image was somehow recorded on its fibers at or near the time of his imputed resurrection. Skeptics contend the shroud is a medieval hoax or forgery - or even ...

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• Shroud of Turin - Possible history before the 14th century: The Image of Edessa
• Shroud of Turin - 14th century
• Shroud of Turin - 15th century
• Shroud of Turin - 16th century to present
• Shroud of Turin - The controversy
• Shroud of Turin - Theories of image formation
• Shroud of Turin - Second Image on back of cloth
• Shroud of Turin - Analyses of the Shroud
• Shroud of Turin - Textual criticism
• Shroud of Turin - Analysis of artistic style
• Shroud of Turin - Analysis of optical perspective
• Shroud of Turin - The Shroud in the Catholic Church
• Shroud of Turin - Conclusions

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Corduroy is a fabric comprised of twisted fibers that when woven lay parallel (similar to twill) to one another to form the cloth's distinct pattern, a "cord." Modern corduroy is most commonly composed of tufted cords, sometimes exhibiting a channel (bare to the base fabric) between the tufts. (The word corduroy can be used as a noun, a transitive verb or an adjective.) As a fabric, corduroy is considered a durable cloth. Socially, the clothes made from corduroy are considered casual, and are usually favored in colder climates ...

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Twill tape is a flat twill-woven ribbon of cotton, linen, polyester, or wool. Twill tape is available in various widths, generally up to 1 inch (25 cm.), and a wide range of colors. Twill tape is used in sewing and tailoring to reinforce seams, make casings, bind edges, and make study ties for closing garments (for example, on hospital gowns. Categories: Sewing | Textiles ...

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Worsted is the name of a yarn and cloth usually made from wool. The name derives from the village of Worstead in the English county of Norfolk. The village became, along with North Walsham and Aylsham, a centre for the manufacture of yarn and cloth, after weavers from Flanders arrived in Norfolk in the 12th century.[1] The yarn is well twisted and spun of long staple wool (though nowadays also medium and short fibres are used). The wool is c ...

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A hat is an item of clothing which is worn on the head – a kind of headgear. Hats are differentiated from caps by being more elaborate; hats have a high crown, a brim, or both and are larger than caps. A hat may be either placed on the head or, in the case of some women's hats, secured with hat-pins (which are pushed through the hat and the hair). Many hats are intended only for men or for women, while other hats are fashionable on both sexes. Purveyors of men's hats are called hatters and purveyors of ladies' hats are called millin ...

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• Hat - Major hat styles
• Hat - Types of hats

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The origin of the relic is hotly disputed. Those who believe it to have been used in Christ's burial have coined the term sindonology to describe its study (from Greek σινδων—sindon, the word used in the Gospel of Mark to describe the cloth that Joseph of Arimathea bought to use as Jesus' burial cloth). The term is generally not used by skeptics of the mystical origins of the relic. It may be impossible to ever fully resolve the controversy over the cloth because some believers are willing to accept supernatural explana ...

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Shroud of Turin, Shroud of Turin - General observations, Shroud of Turin - History, Shroud of Turin - Possible history before the 14th century: The Image of Edessa, Shroud of Turin - 14th century, Shroud of Turin - 15th century, Shroud of Turin - 16th century to present, Shroud of Turin - The controversy, Shroud of Turin - Theories of image formation, Shroud of Turin - Second Image on back of cloth, Shroud of Turin - Analyses of the Shroud, Shroud of Turin - Textual criticism, Shroud of Turin - Analysis of artistic style, Shroud of Turin - Analysis of optical perspective, Shroud of Turin - The Shroud in the Catholic Church, Shroud of Turin - Conclusions

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Textiles can be made from a variety of materials. The following is a partial list of the materials that can be used to make textiles. Textile - Animal origin. Alpaca Thread Angora rabbit hair Camel hair Cashmere Mohair Silk Vicuña hair Wool: divided into woollen and worsted Textile - Vegetable. Bark cloth has various uses, and is used in sheets. Coir: the fibre from cocon ...

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Textile, Textile - Sources and types, Textile - Animal origin, Textile - Vegetable, Textile - Derived from plant products, Textile - Mineral, Textile - Synthetic, Textile - Production methods, Textile - Processes, Textile - Uses, Textile - Reference

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Hats are made from a variety of materials, including wool and fur felt, twill, canvas, leather and straw. Fabric, leather and straw hats are specially constructed to be a certain shape. Most felt, straw, and some fabric hats differ only by cosmetics, determined by how the hat is blocked, or shaped by a mold or by hand. Blocking the hat shapes the crown by applying steam to the material to soften the fabric and, once finished and dried, fix the shape of the hat. If the hat's material is strong enough, it often can be reblocked to anoth ...

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Hat, Hat - Physical attributes, Hat - Parts of a hat, Hat - Maintenance, Hat - Major hat styles, Hat - Types of hats

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The Tarim mummies suggest that precursors of these easternmost speakers of an Indo-European language may have lived in the region of the Tarim Basin from around 1800 BCE until finally they were assimilated by Uighur Turks in the 8th century CE. There is evidence both from the mummies and Chinese writings that many of them had blonde or red hair and blue eyes, characteristics also found in present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Central Asia, due to the populations' high genetic diversity. This suggests the possibility that t ...

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Tocharians, Tocharians - Archaeology, Tocharians - Language, Tocharians - Historic role, Tocharians - Naming

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The name is derived from French serge, itself from Latin serica, from Greek σηρικος (serikos), meaning "silken". The early association of silk serge, Greece, and France is shown by the discovery in Charlemagne's tomb of a piece of silk serge dyed with Byzantine motifs, evidently a gift from the Byzantine Imperial Court in the 8th or 9th century AD. From early Saxon times, most English wool ("staples") was exported. In the early sixteenth century it went mainly to a Royal monopoly at Calais (then an English ...

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Serge, Serge - Etymology and History

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Founded in 1946 with just 344 students and six acres of land by Alan Lake Chidsey, former Headmaster of Arizona Desert School and the post-war Assistant Dean of Students at University of Chicago. The school was originally affiliated with St. John the Divine nursery school, however today the school has no affiliation with the church although it does provide non-denominational Christian Chapel services at the church. In recent years, the Chapel program has branched out to offer more multicultural services, occasionally hosting speakers fr ...

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St. John's School, St. John's School - History, St. John's School - Mascot change, St. John's School - Academics, St. John's School - Student life, St. John's School - Sports, St. John's School - The arts, St. John's School - Student organizations, St. John's School - School uniform, St. John's School - Notable alumni

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Textile analysis of the Tarim Mummies has shown some similarities to the Iron Age civilizations of Europe dating from 800 BC, including woven twill and tartan patterns strikingly similar to Celtic tartans from Northwest Europe. One of the unusual finds with one of the mummies was a distinctively pointed hat: Yet another female - her skeleton found beside the remains of a man - still wore a terrifically tall, conical hat just like those we depict on witches riding broomsticks at Halloween or on medieval wizards intent at their magic ...

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Pointy hat, Pointy hat - Bronze Age, Pointy hat - Iron Age, Pointy hat - Middle Ages, Pointy hat - Early modern times, Pointy hat - Folklore and fiction

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The shell or steel pot of the M1 changed very little during its time in service. The bulk of the helmet shell is constructed from a single piece of pressed steel. The rim edge of the shell has a crimped metal band running around it, which provides a clean edge. This is usually known as the "rim". The metal band of the rim material has a seam where the ends of the strip meet. On the earliest shells the seam meets at the front. This was moved to the back of the rim in 1944. On each side of the helmet shell there are rectangular, metal chinstra ...

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M1 Helmet, M1 Helmet - The shell, M1 Helmet - The liner, M1 Helmet - The net, M1 Helmet - The cover

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The term Tocharians has a somewhat complicated history. It is based on the ethnonym Tokharoi (Greek Τόχαροι) used by Greek historians (e.g. Ptolemy VI, 11, 6). The first mention of the Tocharians appeared in the 1st century BCE, when Strabo presented them as a Scythian tribe, and explained that the Tokharians — together with the Assianis, Passianis and Sakaraulis — took part in the destruction of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom in the second half of the 2nd century BCE: "Most of the Scythians, beginning fr ...

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Tocharians, Tocharians - Archaeology, Tocharians - Language, Tocharians - Historic role, Tocharians - Naming

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St. John's School - Sports. The Maverick football team plays its biggest rival, The Kinkaid School, each year for homecoming at Rice Stadium. St. John's School - The arts. St. John's School - Student organizations. The Review, an award winning publication, is the Official Student Newspaper of St. John's School. ...

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St. John's students graduate having completed at least three courses in mathematics, three courses in a foreign language, four courses in English and writing, two courses in science, three courses in history, two years in physical education and a year in the arts (music, fine arts, theater, or dance). The school's students tend to matriculate at highly competitive colleges. The school reports that the median SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score for juni ...

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The Tocharians, living along the Silk Road, had contacts with the Chinese and Persians, and Turkic, Indian and Iranian tribes. They may have been the same as, or were related to, the Indo-European Yuezhi who fled from their settlements in the eastern Tarim Basin under attacks from the Xiongnu in the 2nd century BCE (Shiji Chinese historical Chronicals, Chap. 123) and expanded south to Bactria and northern India to form the Kushan Empire. The Tocharians who remained in the Tarim Bassin adopted Buddhism, which, like their alphabet, came ...

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The shroud is rectangular, measuring approximately 4.4 x 1.1 m (14.4 x 3.6 ft). The cloth is woven in a herringbone twill and is composed of flax fibrils entwined with cotton fibrils. It bears the image of a front and dorsal view of a naked man with his hands folded across his groin. The two views are aligned along the midplane of the body and pointing in opposite directions. The front and back views of the head nearly meet at the middle of the cloth. The views are consistent with an orthographic projec ...

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Shroud of Turin, Shroud of Turin - General observations, Shroud of Turin - History, Shroud of Turin - Possible history before the 14th century: The Image of Edessa, Shroud of Turin - 14th century, Shroud of Turin - 15th century, Shroud of Turin - 16th century to present, Shroud of Turin - The controversy, Shroud of Turin - Theories of image formation, Shroud of Turin - Second Image on back of cloth, Shroud of Turin - Analyses of the Shroud, Shroud of Turin - Textual criticism, Shroud of Turin - Analysis of artistic style, Shroud of Turin - Analysis of optical perspective, Shroud of Turin - The Shroud in the Catholic Church, Shroud of Turin - Conclusions

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During the 16th and 17th centuries, commoners in England and Wales often wore pointed hats. The Quakers took the custom to the New World. Likewise, the Spitzhut is a traditional headgear in Bavaria. Pointy hoods were used by various secret orders and Catholic lay confraternities for processions, e.g. the Semana Santa of Sevilla, and eventually also adopted by the Ku Klux Klan. ...

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Pointy hat, Pointy hat - Bronze Age, Pointy hat - Iron Age, Pointy hat - Middle Ages, Pointy hat - Early modern times, Pointy hat - Folklore and fiction

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