When was the last time you used a manual pencil sharpener?
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Last Sunday I sharpened a pencil but there wasn't any batteries in the thing so I just manually twisted my pencil around in it.  As for the type in your picture, I haven't used one of those since I was in school back in 1983.
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there is a nice one for $99 on www.sharperimage.com  \n\nbut you can get them much cheaper  on ebay or amazon or any number of other websites. not sure about where to look as far as stores go.
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click the pencil in the tool bar
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A paper one? Jeez....that was nearly 10 years ago.
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For a while it was this one, but not anymore. :-D
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http://www.archive.org/details/PracticalOrganicChemistry\n\n For homeschooling why would you want an out of date book?  A site like this might be more useful.  \n\nhttp://www.cem.msu.edu/~reusch/VirtTxtJml/intro1.htm
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In Rome, scribes wrote on papyrus (an early form of paper) with a thin metal rod called a stylus, which left a light but readable mark. Other early styluses were made of lead. Today we still call the core of a pencil the "lead" even though it is made from nontoxic graphite.  (Lead is toxic and leaches right through your skin, so it's not a great choice for a writing implement!)\n\nGraphite came into widespread use following the discovery of a large graphite deposit in Borrowdale, England in 1564. Graphite left a darker mark than lead, but was so soft and brittle that it required a holder. At first, sticks of graphite were wrapped in string. Later, the graphite was inserted into wooden sticks that had been hollowed-out by hand! The wood-cased pencil was born.
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Mr Clean Magic eraser
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I got stabbed by a pencil over 30 yrs ago and it is still dark.. won't ever go away... sorry
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Someone stabbed a pencil deep into the back of my hand in high school.  I still have the blue mark where the lead broke off.  I think the doctor cutting open my hand to get out the broken pencil pieces hurt more than the stabbing.\n\nI just have to wonder how bored you are to stab YOURSELF.
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In Britain the "No. 2" pencil is HB (Hard Black). Harder pencils (for physicists, mathematicians and removing ear wax) are H1, H2, H3 etc.  Softer, blacker pencils (for artists) are B1, B2, B3 etc. People who make mistakes should get H2 or harder because you can erase them without trace. Did you know there used to be a pencil museum in Kendal?
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Not now, but i used to.
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only if you're planning a diabolical plot to steal all the pens in the world and send them back to pen island so we alll have to use pencils agian like the 1400s BCE\nactually. the pen came first. so you'd actually be modernizing us. :)
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When was the pencil invented?\n\nSome time prior to about 1560, graphite was discovered near Borrowdale, England, supposedly when a large tree was uprooted in a storm, exposing a black substance beneath its roots. The usefulness of graphite as a marking substance was quickly realized. Though the exact date is not known for certain, the year 1565 marks the first record of a pencil consisting of a piece of graphite inserted into a wood shaft, making the first ancestor of today's pencil.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nWhere was the pencil invented?\n\nSince graphite was discovered in England, it is most likely that the first pencils were made in England, though this is not known for certain. The pencil was further developed by European craftsmen.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nWho invented the first pencil?\n\nIt is not known who invented the first pencil. The pencil was first documented in 1565 by Conrad Gesner, and its invention is sometimes attributed to him, though this is unlikely. European craftsman (woodworkers) were the first known pencil manufacturers, and it wasn't until the late 1700's that manufacturing techniques similar to those practiced today were developed.
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If you don't wish to type it, I'd suggest using a ball-point pen. Pencils are so tacky...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil\n\nfind the answer in there ...
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give an example of a past time when you had done problem solving