Grit-blasting usually takes off original texture and detail as well as grime which often, funnily enough, protects the stone underneath.

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About a week ago one of the commenters challenged me to do a post that looked at Russian health in more depth: not simply to look at the overall number of people being born or dying, as I have done repeatedly, but to look in more detail at how often people were getting sick and what they were being stricken with.

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While transformations into homes are rare, the architectural preservation groups that often act as brokers favor anyone (including home buyers and residential developers) willing to preserve historical detail.

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