Slab

Slab or SLAB may refer to:

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SLAB!

SLAB! are an industrial music/alternative rock band initially active between the mid-1980s and early 1990s. They reformed in 2009.

History

The band's first release was the "Mars on Ice" 12-inch single in 1986 on Dave Kitson's Ink Records (an offshoot of his Red Flame label). This received airplay from John Peel who invited them to record a session for his BBC Radio 1 show the same year. They followed this with "Parallax Avenue" in 1987 which saw them in the lower reaches of the UK Independent Chart, and in May that year their debut mini-LP Music From The Iron Lung was issued, reaching number 21 on the Independent Albums chart. "Smoke Rings" gave them their highest charting single, reaching number 31 on the indie chart in July 1987, and towards the end of the year the band's first long-playing album, Descension was issued. Second full-length LP album Sanity Allergy was issued in 1988, and that year they recorded their third and final Peel session. The band split up in 1991, with a 'best of' compilation, Ship of Fools, released the same year.

Slab (geology)

In geology, a slab is the portion of a tectonic plate that is being subducted.

Slabs constitute an important part of the global plate tectonic system. They drive plate tectonics both by pulling along the lithosphere to which they are attached in a processes known as slab pull and by inciting currents in the mantle (slab suction). They cause volcanism due to flux melting of the mantle wedge, and they affect the flow and thermal evolution of the Earth's mantle. Their motion can cause dynamic uplift and subsidence of the Earth's surface, forming shallow seaways and potentially rearranging drainage patterns.

Slabs have been imaged down to the seismic discontinuities between the upper and lower mantle and to the core–mantle boundary. Slab subduction is the mechanism by which lithospheric material is mixed back into the Earth's mantle.

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Dolores

Dolores, Spanish for 'sorrows', is short for La Virgen María de los Dolores, Our Lady of Sorrows, and may refer to:

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Dolores (Ziegfeld girl)

Dolores or Rose Dolores (born Kathleen Rose; 1893 or 1894 – 7 November 1975) was the first celebrity clothes model and has been credited with inventing the "blank hauteur" of the modern fashion model.Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. called her "The loveliest showgirl in the world". She was known for her commanding stage presence and became the star of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1917 until her retirement in 1923. She lived the rest of her life in Paris and during the Second World War helped Allied airmen escape the German occupation.

Early life

Kathleen Rose was born in Wimbledon, near London, in 1893 or 1894. Her father was Harry Rose (born Northleigh, Oxfordshire), a former police officer, and her mother was Helen or Ellen ("Nellie") Rose (born Vauxhall, London), a dressmaker. Kathleen had a sister, Eva A. Rose, born around 1890. Newspaper reports say that Kathleen was born into poverty and in the 1901 British census, Harry is shown without occupation. In the 1911 return he is marked as "Paralized 20 years". The family had two boarders and a visitor living with them at the time of the 1901 census when they were at 61 Russell Road, Wimbledon. Kathleen was not living with her parents at the time of the 1911 census.

Dolores (album)

Dolores is the sixth album by the jazz/ambient band Bohren & der Club of Gore. This album ranked first in the top 50 albums of 2008 compiled by music reviews site The Silent Ballet.

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All songs written and composed by Christoph Clöser and Morten Gass. 

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