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flint
flint
flint (silex) Variety of
chert, which occurs commonly as nodules and bands in
chalk. It is deposited in the porous, permeable structures of
sponge,
diatom, and
echinoid skeletons and also in burrows.
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Flint Ridge site in Ohio strikes a historical chord.
Newspaper article from: Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH); 9/27/2004; 700+ words
; ...Downing BROWNSVILLE, Ohio _Little-known Flint Ridge may be the most important historical...place that's unfamiliar to most people. Flint Ridge State Memorial in southeast Licking...ancient Indians quarried brightly colored flint, starting 11,000 or more years ago...
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Prehistoric Flint procurement strategies at Flint Ridge, Licking County, Ohio
Magazine article from: Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, MCJA; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT The Flint Ridge flint quarry was utilized for over 10,000 years. Recent investigations offer new views on how flint procurement changed over time. Archaic foragers obtained Flint Ridge...
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Flint Ridge site in Ohio strikes a historical chord.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 9/28/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Downing BROWNSVILLE, Ohio _Little-known Flint Ridge may be the most important historical...place that's unfamiliar to most people. Flint Ridge State Memorial in southeast Licking...ancient Indians quarried brightly colored flint, starting 11,000 or more years ago...
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Flint's Bishop International Airport Announces 68 Increase in Midwest Connect's Capacity Due to Addition of Jets and Saturday Flight.
PR Newswire; 4/2/2007; 700+ words
; FLINT, Mich., April 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall...anticipated upgrade to half of their equipment in Flint. Beginning on April 1st, two of their four...Fairchild 32-seat 328JET regional jets. Flint also received new Saturday service on the...
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Flint to remain at UMass; Meeting brings positive result.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 3/20/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...anxiety came to a merciful end for Bruiser Flint last night, when the UMass administration...in a job he has held for four seasons. Flint, who has two years left on a contract...the academic and on-court successes of Flint's athletes to be at least as important...
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Flint Ink merger deal ends family control, boosts global presence.(XSYS Print Solutions)(Flint Ink Corp)
Magazine article from: Crain's Detroit Business; 7/25/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...family ownership will come to an end at Flint Ink Corp. this fall - a move the company...its global presence. Ann Arbor-based Flint Ink announced Wednesday that it will merge...company will be nearly double the size of Flint Ink, which had 2004 sales of $1.47...
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Flint Promotes Regional Poverty Reduction Strategies.(Flint, Michigan)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Nation's Cities Weekly; 6/28/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...providing technical assistance to the City of Flint, Michigan over the next two years to build...conference on June 24, 1999. The City of Flint is one of five cities chosen by the National...and education leaders to serve on the Flint leadership team for poverty reduction...
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Flint's super mayor
Newspaper article from: Michigan Chronicle; 4/18/2000; ; 614 words
; ...Velma R. Michigan Chronicle 04-18-2000 Flint's super mayor By Velma R. Dortch CHRONICLE...unprecedented third term as mayor of the city of Flint. The mayor's political tenure for Flint began in 1983 when he was appointed councilman...
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Flint.(history in your hometown)(Flint, Michigan)(City overview)
Magazine article from: Michigan History Magazine; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Flint had its beginnings in 1819 when fur trader...French where the Saginaw Trail crossed the Flint River. Located midway on the military road...names, received tracts of land north of the Flint River within the current city limits of Flint...
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Flint Energy Services Ltd. announces retirement of Chairman and appointment of new Chairman.
Newspaper article from: Energy Weekly News; 11/27/2009; 700+ words
; Mr. John Geddes, Chairman of the Board of Flint Energy Services Ltd. (Flint, the Company), announced his retirement from...1, 2010. Mr. O'Connor has been a member of Flint's Board of Directors since 1998 and is currently...
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Flint Ink Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...During this time, leadership of Flint Ink was gradually ceded to the second generation of Flints; Robert Flint was named secretary/treasurer...third generation of managerial Flints. That same year Flint Ink was a majority participant...
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Flint, Leslie (ca. 1911-1994)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Flint, Leslie (ca. 1911-1994) Noted British...In some 35 years of mediumship, Leslie Flint was tested by a number of psychical researchers...at Columbia University, New York, tested Flint in 1970 and stated, "My experience with...
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flint
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
flint variety of quartz that commonly occurs in rounded nodules...whose crystal structure is not visible to the naked eye. Flint is dark gray, smoky brown, or black in color; pale gray flint is called chert. When found in chalk or in other rocks...
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Flint
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Flint city (1990 pop. 140,761), seat of Genesee co., SE Mich., on the Flint River; inc. 1855. Since 1902 it has been an automobile...General Motors Corp. had its beginnings (1908) in Flint, where many major automobile makers (Chrysler...
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Sit‐down Strike, Flint
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Sit‐down Strike, Flint. The sit‐down strike of 1936...occupied the two Fisher Body plants in Flint, Michigan, heart of the GM empire. Eventually...x2010;downers to evacuate the two Flint plants. The union ignored the injunction...
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