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  2. Specific Area Message Encoding - Wikipedia

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    Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) is a protocol used for framing and classification of broadcasting emergency warning messages. It was developed by the United States National Weather Service for use on its NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) network, and was later adopted by the Federal Communications Commission for the Emergency Alert System, then subsequently by Environment Canada for use on its ...

  3. Blackboard - Wikipedia

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    Uses. Reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made. A blackboard or a chalkboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulphate or calcium carbonate, known, when used for this purpose, as chalk. Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone.

  4. Chalkboard scraping - Wikipedia

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    Chalkboard scraping. Scraping a chalkboard (also known as a blackboard) with one's fingernails produces a sound and feeling which most people find extremely irritating. The basis of the innate reaction to the sound has been studied in the field of psychoacoustics (the branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its ...

  5. Chalkboard art - Wikipedia

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    Chalkboard art. Children's drawing on a chalkboard. Chalkboard art or chalk art is the use of chalk on a blackboard as a visual art. [1] It is similar to art using pastels and related to sidewalk art that often uses chalk. Chalkboard art is often used in restaurants, shops or walls. [2]

  6. Writing lines - Wikipedia

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    Writing lines is a long-standing form of school discipline, having survived even as other old punishments such as school corporal punishment and dunce hats fell out of favour in the 20th century. [2] In a 1985 study, over half of respondent teachers in an English-speaking country indicated awareness of the use of writing to discipline students. [5]

  7. Chalkboard (typeface) - Wikipedia

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    Chalkboard is a font released by Apple in 2003. It was released as part of Mac OS X v10.3 [1] and the 10.2.8 update . It is regularly compared to Microsoft's Comic Sans font, which has shipped with Mac OS since Mac OS 8.6 in 1999, although it is not a perfect substitute font since the two are not metrically compatible.

  8. Strat-O-Matic - Wikipedia

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    Strat-O-Matic is a game company based in Glen Head, New York, that develops and publishes sports simulation games. It produces tabletop baseball, American football, basketball, and ice hockey simulations, as well as personal computer adaptations of each, but it is primarily known for its baseball game.

  9. File:Chalkboard font sample.svg - Wikipedia

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    File:Chalkboard font sample.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 355 × 54 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 49 pixels | 640 × 97 pixels | 1,024 × 156 pixels | 1,280 × 195 pixels | 2,560 × 389 pixels. Original file ‎ (SVG file, nominally 355 × 54 pixels, file size: 18 KB) Wikimedia Commons Commons is a freely licensed media ...