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In which city does a special poet read poems at the funeral of lonely people?

Every year in Amsterdam, about 20 people die all alone. Their burial is organized by the municipality, which, among other things, employs a poet who composes poems in honor of the deceased and reads them at the funeral ceremony.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What is a slate?

Millions of years ago, particles of fine-grained clay settled to the bottom of lakes and inland seas, forming soft silt. Then it hardened, turning into shale. At that time, constant movements took place in the earth's crust, as a result of which folds appeared on the layers of shale, covered with other rocks.

The pressure of the upper layers on those layers was so significant that it compressed them into a material known to us as slate. Clay particles settled to the bottom of lakes and seas in uniform layers, which continued to be preserved even after the shale had turned into slate. Thanks to this, today we can divide it into thin wide plates.

As a rule, slate has a dark gray and black color, although it can be red, green or light gray. The predominantly black color is explained by the fact that the living organisms that existed in the original silt, dying, decomposed, forming inclusions in the clay layers in the form of fine crumbs of coal dust.

Slate can only be found in those areas of the globe where rock-forming pressure and shifts in the earth's crust have had an active impact on ancient shale layers.

Slate is widely used by man. Its main area of application is construction, where it serves as a roofing material for the roofs of houses and buildings of all kinds.

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