"Stoke Park is a chalk-based site so the water tends to run off, " said spokesman Ade Goldsmith.
The noise blasts were a mixture of several sounds that most people hate, like fingernails on a chalk board, dentist drills, and sirens.
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The soil consists of a chalk subsoil, topped by a covering of rubble that is made up of sand, lignite, marl, loam and clay.
You can see from this picture of the 1903 World Series that there are no outfield fences, although there was likely a chalk line or a rope marking how close spectators could come to the field.
Inside, he found a pile of notebooks, a box of chalk, a few throat lozenges, and an empty sunglasses case.
If you ask most people, they'd tell you there's nothing wrong with the standard classroom set-up of a blackboard and chalk, or a whiteboard and dry-erase markers.
Top of the burglary league by a long chalk, with 5.5 break-ins per 100 households, was the smallish city of Nottingham.
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An hour before dark I stood on the summit of a small chalk bluff, from which I looked down onto Cuckmere Haven, the point at which the river reaches the English Channel.
Clad in a gray chalk-striped suit and open-necked shirt, the 45-year-old metals mogul and New Jersey Nets owner camped out at the foot of the entry staircase and greeted his guests, a stylish swirl of art collectors, writers and Russian expats.
"This line, " said the policeman, and he proceeded to draw a line with a piece of chalk.
Late in the day, achy in the legs, I reached Cradle Hill, into whose eastern slope a great white chalk horse has been cut.
Mr Gall said residents had been "concerned" for years about the dilapidated wall, which is up against a clay and chalk bank.
Somebody must have been sitting here that afternoon, using a piece of chalk from the cliffs to draw those figures onto the flints.
On the sidewalk during the long vacation months we played a new game called "I Declare War, " using a cheap rubber ball and a piece of chalk.
When CNN visited a Mathabisana primary school in Umguza, in the southwest of Zimbabwe, headmaster Nonkululeko Ndlovu said that at one point teachers used charcoal as a substitute for chalk.
Further east more dramatic cliffs beckon: the day walk (12km) from Alfriston to Eastbourne rollercoasters over the Seven Sisters, a series of chalk-white, up-down cliffs that would make Dame Vera Lynn burst into song.
His only equipment, apart from rubber-soled boots, was a bag of chalk slung at the back of his belt, into which he dipped his hands to dry the sweat and improve his grip.
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Finally, Mr. Berman stood up, took a fresh stick of chalk, climbed onto his chair, and reached above the blackboard to draw a horizontal line on the paint.
She noticed that most kids signed their names in pastel colors so on our last trip she whipped out a stick of fluorescent pink chalk and wrote her name in big block letters and drew a self-portrait.
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His six-man chalk was a quarter of a row, separated off by the gray vinyl screens.
They typically start the same way: with a shape drawn in chalk on the floor.
Unless bad schools are indeed closed, his scheme will be as much good as a blackboard with no chalk.
In his old-fashioned smock and full white beard, taking up a stub of sanguine chalk, Keating was as much in character as his model.
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Chalk took a high ball on the sixth tackle on the Salford 25-yard line and raced over in the corner to start the fight back.
It will also have the opportunity to chalk up a lot of its acquisition price to "goodwill" rather than to recording label contracts and movie deals.
School choice opponents will now chalk up a win in Florida, but the bigger fear is that they will be emboldened to challenge alternative authorizers in other states.
In the foot-well and the wheel arches, scientists found traces of a distinctive mix of chalk, brick dust and concrete used to cover the road leading to the ditch.
And by using a few simple tools like chalkboard paint and chalk, this project shows you don't need a big budget to make a big impact.
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