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  • How Pens Work
    By: Kim Medeiros | - Pens are ranked high among the most often and widely used writing instruments. In the United States alone, about 2 billion pens are manufactured annually. There are many different kinds of pens but the most common ones are 1) ballpoint pens, (2) fountain pens, (3) soft-tip pens, (4) roller ball pens, and (5) specialty pens.

    Ballpoint pens have a tiny brass, steel or tungsten carbide ball as the writing tip. The ink reservoir is the compartment in the pen that holds the ink and a nar ...

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  • Fountain Pens
    By: smithanderson | - Some things are meant to be everlasting. Fountain pens are one of them. While time and technology might give us better alternatives, they can never replace the class of the fountain pen. The original fountain pens were writing instruments that could carry their own ink.

    It was these pens that replaced the quills which were used for writing in those days. However, it took researchers several years to convert the fountain pen into the smooth writing instrument that we are all aware ...

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  • The Right Fountain Pen: 5 Tips To Consider Before Buying
    By: Manseo | - Are you interested in classic elegance and artistic, well-designed pens that can seduce and intimidate you at the same time? As forbidden fruit, had the idea to have a fountain pen left you feeling as if you were on your league? Fascinated by the art of writing pens, the type of pencil or a pen, you made a huge impact on your penmanship. For more than a thousand years, the writing instrument that dominated the longest in history has been written. Estimation of the introduction of around 700 AD, ...
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  • Systems Of Filling Fountain Pen
    By: Manseo | - The writing instrument that dominated for the longest period of history has been written. Quill pens made from the wing feathers of geese lasted only a week before they need to be replaced. When writing became a form of art, the inventors have begun to improve the writing instrument with newer technologies.

    Fountain Pen innovators created filling systems that gave optimum performance in their reservoir models. The first fountain pens were filled through the use of a pipette. A dr ...

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  • Attractive And Useful Fountain Pens
    By: Manseo | - There were many ordinary pens around the house, but I was fascinated by the appearance and characteristics that my grandmother from the pen provided. As I learned to write, it has allowed me to use his pen and bought one for me as a gift. I was very happy then and still remember this gift with taste.

    The pleasures I had as a young boy stays with me today when I write with a fountain pen. The reasons are related to both visual and functional aspects of its use. Follow along as I h ...

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  • Cheap Wedding Invitation Can Help You Make Your Budget Plan
    By: stefan pongratz | - Wedding invitations are very important and thus need special care. Invitations cannot be prepared so quickly. First of all date, time and venue of the wedding ceremony must be decided. Each and every word written on the invitation must be checked thoroughly. All the errors must be blotted out before placing the information on the paper. People in the world have separate origin and they posses different cultures.

    Different customs and rules are followed by them to celebrate the we ...

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  • How You Plan Your Wedding Invitation
    By: stefan pongratz | - Wedding ceremony is the most vital and glamorous aspect of one's life. It is the most critical decision that one has to take in his or her life before entering into wedding ceremony. One's settled from either side the couple enters in to the world of eternal love. At this state of mind they want to make the occasion memorable one for life long.

    They organize the wedding ceremony as a un forgettable one by making it beautiful in every sphere. To make the ceremony a grand success, ...

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  • Homemade Wedding Invitations Can Boost Your Creativity
    By: stefan pongratz | - Wedding invitations are very important and thus need special care. Invitations cannot be prepared so quickly. First of all date, time and venue of the wedding ceremony must be decided. Then all the words written on the invitation must be checked very carefully. To make the process much easier, the errors must be blotted out before placing the information on the paper.

    Different styles and formats are available readily. But the point to be noted that people in the world have separ ...

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  • Start A Writing Revolution With Colour Envelopes And Rainbow Pens
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - We are currently residing in an age where technology is taking over every aspect of our life. Seriously, if we were to have a robotic uprising, the human race would be rendered incapacitated as nothing would work. Even the most humble of tools, simply pen and paper is in danger of becoming obsolete thanks to the digital onslaught. We write to people on mobile phones and laptops; shopping lists are on PDA's and the gadgets such as the Blackberry and Nintendo DS offer up a stylus to operate tou ...
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  • The Beauty Of Writing With The Calligraphy Pen
    By: Patrick Omari | - The term calligraphy comes from the Greek words kallos and graphe, literally translating as beauty and writing respectively. Although many people will still believe that calligraphy epitomises the beauty of writing, the more contemporary interpretation would be of artistic, skillful writing.

    Giving an attractive, designed look to the modern alphabet, calligraphy is used for hand-written inscriptions as well as being an art form itself. Calligraphy differs from other forms of typog ...

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  • Deciding On A Calligraphy Pen
    By: Damieng | - It's a good idea to start off your calligraphy career with an inexpensive calligraphy pen. After some intense work at the newly acquired calligraphy skills and the basic pen techniques are mastered the next phase is to think about stepping up to the next level. It's going to cost you a little bit more and you may have to learn one or two new skills but it will eventually become time to buy a new calligraphy pen.

    There will be some choices to make over whether you buy a calli ...

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  • Coming Up With The Right Christmas Card Ideas
    By: Dirky47 | - When it comes to creating a Christmas greeting card, many things have to be considered. For example the material used for the cards needs to be taken into consideration, the color scheme needs to be thought out, the items for the project need to be planned and purchased and most importantly, a list of your intended recipients needs to be created.

    Sounds like a lot, right? With a little planning and some Christmas card ideas, you can be on your way to making that list and checking ...

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  • An Introduction To Urdu Poetry
    By: Basit Habib | - Many of you may never have heard of Urdu Poetry before, and even fewer of you may know what Urdu Poetry actually is. This article is a humble attempt to give you some basic knowledge about Urdu Poetry.

    An appropriate place to start at would be the Urdu language. Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language that is spoken by an estimated 250 million people in India, Pakistan and neighbouring South Asian countries. Urdu is the official language of Pakistan and is the major language in some India ...

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  • Items That Could Be Included In The Personalized Stationary Category
    By: Muna Wanjiru | - Personalized stationary has always been a great opportunity for home and school projects; there are people who would rather decorate their own cards than to have them custom-made. Models and designs are incredibly varied: from the use of pressed flat flower blossoms to imprints and hand painting, one has a wide choice range in terms of personalized stationary. A simple way to create some nice handmade cards is to apply a design item to a blank surface, and match it with a special type of envelop ...
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  • An Introduction To Typefaces
    By: frankwoodford | - This article has been designed to give the layman or beginner an easy to read introduction to typefaces, sometimes referred to as fonts and the different attributes they hold. Effective use of a typeface is incredibly important in all forms of design and especially so in web design where text is one of the most important forms of communication.

    Knowing what you are looking for when choosing a font is incredibly important. The fonts are mainly grouped by their physical appearance. ...

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  • Stocking Stuffer Ideas
    By: cdmohatta | - Every household has its own traditions, of course, but in our house growing up we were allowed to go into our stockings before our parents got up. The idea behind this, Im sure, was to allow mommy and daddy to sleep in past four a.m., which is of course when we would have woken them up if wed had to wait until they were up to enjoy any Christmas! With this in mind, gifts in our stockings were intended to occupy us until everyone had slept in as long as they wished and we could get on with ...
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  • Learn Chinese: It's Easy To Learn Chinese Characters!
    By: Lee J Avery.. | - The Chinese language is illusive to English speaking world, almost seems to be a complex mystery intimidating to unravel and to understand. If you wish to learn Chinese, then approach it delicately and thoroughly as a bridge to not only communication with this beautiful culture, but learn Chinese to harvest the history and ways of their world as well.

    There are many resources available to learn Chinese characters. The Chinese language has become a popular study area for more and ...

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  • No More Apples! Find A Creative Gift For The Teacher
    By: Karen Fusco | - You know they must get tired of all those coffee mugs, right? Of course they're appreciated, but how many can you have? And although everyone loves candy, if you get 25 chocolate-themed gift baskets, you're going to have to trash some or risk putting on 50 pounds.

    If you're ready to really give a gift that will wow' your child's teacher and really show her what her efforts have meant to your child, it's time to start thinking outside the box. There are plenty of wonderful choice ...

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  • How To Start A Home Based Calligraphy Business
    By: David Gass | - Calligraphy is beautiful writing. It is a delightful art. In some religions, the name of God is written in various forms of calligraphy as a means to convey prayers. Calligraphy can be a fun hobby, a creative art, and even a great home based business. All you will need is a pen and paper and some space to start with. Writing is the basic prerequisite for the calligraphic artist.

    You need not be an artist or a painter either. Attention to detail and some patience is all you need. ...

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  • Calligraphy The Beautiful Art
    By: Lucy Bartlett | - The art of making beautiful and elegant handwriting is called Calligraphy which requires skilled penmanship.

    The literal meaning of the word calligraphy is beautiful writing. Books were written in calligraphy up until the invention of printing machines. Using quill and ink the handwriting was written onto materials like parchment or vellum. There are three main styles of calligraphy which are prevailing now. Arabic, Chinese known as oriental style and Western or Roman are most po ...

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