pottery
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Only when we stopped in a pottery shop at the end of the day and heard the radio did we learn the news.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Archaeologists have found pieces of Greek pottery, as well as rooms and large jars for storing goods from the harbour, discoveries that Karam said showed the ancient city's "lively commercial activity".
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Even pottery that enters the ground whole often cracks over the centuries as soil pressure, farming, construction, and other disturbances shift the earth around it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Asian hornets spread through Europe after arriving in southern France in 2004, having reportedly hitched a ride in a consignment of pottery from Asia.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
If Agulen could have seen him, another pottery sculpture would have been born.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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Stoneware potteries, coal mines, and steel mills mostly died off to be replaced by refineries, hazardous waste incinerators, unconventional gas wells, and petrochemical facilities.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2023
A range of jubilee teacups, mugs, plates and pillboxes is being produced in Stoke-on-Trent, England, where potteries have been making royal commemorative ware for generations.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2022
The area that is now Aiken County had some valuable assets such as textile mills, a railroad, the Savannah River port town of Hamburg and potteries.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 13, 2021
"Take the Tower from London, the RSC from Stratford and the potteries from Stoke, but leave our mustard in the Fine City. A sad day. A sad day."
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2018
He commenced a lecturing tour in support of the Charter, visiting, among other places, the Staffordshire potteries.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
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