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'''The Waking of the Slate''' is a tradition in the Welsh slate mining industry. | [[File:Waking the Slate.jpg|thumb|300px|The traditional Waking of the Slate.]]'''The Waking of the Slate''' is a tradition in the Welsh [[slate (nonfiction)|slate]] mining industry. | ||
The [[slate (nonfiction)|slate]] is traditionally woken with reveille call on bugle. | |||
== In the News == | |||
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File:Slate.jpg|link=Slate (nonfiction)|[[Slate (nonfiction)|Slate]] is awake, ready for the chisel. | |||
</gallery> | |||
== Fiction cross-reference == | |||
* [[Death By Flint]] | |||
* [[How Uncanny Was My Valley]] - film (2020) which tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family on Mars, from the point of view of the youngest child [[Philip K. Dick (nonfiction)|Pkd]], who lives with his affectionate and kind parents, and his five brothers, in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valles_Marineris Valles Marineris] during the early modern era. The story chronicles life in the Martian colonies, the widening gaps between the "Cannies" (human colonists) and the "Uncannies" (android-Martian hybrids), and its effects on the family. | |||
== | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Slate (nonfiction)]] | |||
== | == External links == | ||
[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]] | ||
Latest revision as of 12:34, 16 June 2020
The Waking of the Slate is a tradition in the Welsh slate mining industry.
The slate is traditionally woken with reveille call on bugle.
In the News
Slate is awake, ready for the chisel.
Fiction cross-reference
- Death By Flint
- How Uncanny Was My Valley - film (2020) which tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family on Mars, from the point of view of the youngest child Pkd, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents, and his five brothers, in the Valles Marineris during the early modern era. The story chronicles life in the Martian colonies, the widening gaps between the "Cannies" (human colonists) and the "Uncannies" (android-Martian hybrids), and its effects on the family.