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Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under...

Chalk KC (born 8 August 1976) is a British politician and barrister serving as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice since April 2023. A...

up of chalk and marl. The putative galloanseran bird Austinornis lentus has been found in the Austin Chalk. The general absence of dinosaurs is a reflection...

The South Downs are a range of chalk hills in the south-eastern coastal counties of England that extends for about 260 sq mi (670 km2) across the south-eastern...

The Ver is a 28 km (17 mi) long chalk stream in Hertfordshire, England. It is a tributary of the River Colne. The source is in the grounds of Lynch Lodge...

chalk. Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone. A blackboard can simply be a board painted with a dark...

Chalk is a British television sitcom set in a comprehensive school named Galfast High. Two series, both written by Steven Moffat, were broadcast on BBC1...

A chalk line or chalk box is a tool for marking long, straight lines on relatively flat surfaces, much farther than is practical by hand or with a straightedge...

European chalk 'province'. It is characterised by thick deposits of chalk, a soft porous white limestone, deposited in a marine environment. Chalk is a limestone...

Chalk Farm is a small urban district of north west London, lying immediately north of Camden Town, in the London Borough of Camden. Chalk Farm was originally...

Portsdown Hill is a long chalk ridge in Hampshire, England. The highest point of the hill lies within Fort Southwick at 131 m above sea level. The ridge...

Stationery') was a Japanese office supply and chalk company. It is best known for having produced the Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, a brand of blackboard chalk. Though...

said – "Maximum isn’t a washout – not by a long chalk. It is well crafted and superbly acted. Sonu Sood in particular leaves a lasting impression as the...

by far the most common method of hill figure construction. The underlying chalk where some white horses are constructed is not near the surface, so a...

Chalk n Duster is a 2016 Indian drama film about commercialization of the Indian private education system, starring Shabana Azmi, Juhi Chawla, Zarina...

cliff face, which reaches a height of 350 feet (110 m), owes its striking appearance to its composition of chalk accented by streaks of black flint, deposited...

carved from the underlying chalk; but the modern figure is formed from white-painted breeze blocks and lime mortar. The Long Man is one of two major extant...

The portrait of a man in red chalk (c. 1510) in the Royal Library of Turin is widely, though not universally, accepted as a self-portrait of Leonardo...

The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent. Much of the...

The Chalk Garden is a play by Enid Bagnold that premiered in the USA in 1955 and was produced in Britain the following year. It tells the story of the...