| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - When I was a cadet, all plebes were required to memorize the definition of leather, which, if time has not dulled my memory, ran thus, ???If the fresh skin of an animal be divested of hair and other extraneous matter and be immersed in a saturated solution of tannic acid, chemical combinations occur which transform the hide into a fibrous tissue insoluble in and impervious to water; this is leathe
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