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A hair clipper, often individually called the apparent plurale tantum hair clippers (in a similar way to scissors), is a specialised tool used to cut human hair. Hair clippers work on the same principle as scissors , but are distinct from scissors themselves and razors .
Some electric clippers such as the Wahl clipper, or the Andis clipper had a lever that could be moved back and forth to change the closeness from "000"which left the hair stubble length, or "1" which left the hair about one eighth of an inch. External attachments called "Guards" are attached to the clipper to make it cut from "1" to "4".
Extreme clipper, 2594 tons OM, 266 ft, built for James Baines & Co., last extreme clipper ship built by Donald McKay. Golden Fleece: 1855 United States (Boston, MA) Wrecked in 1877 222 ft (68 m) Mary Whitridge [1] — 1855 United States (Baltimore, MD) Unknown 168 ft (51 m) Built in Baltimore, owned by Thomas Whitridge & Co.
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The golden oyster mushroom, like other species of oyster mushroom, is a wood-decay fungus.In the wild, P. citrinopileatus most commonly decays hardwoods such as elm. [2] [3] The first recorded observation of naturalized golden oysters in the United States occurred in 2012 on Mushroom Observer, perhaps a decade after the cultivation of the species began in North America, and they have been ...
Golden Fleece was an 1855 medium clipper in the California trade, built by Paul Curtis. She was known for arriving with cargoes in good condition, for making passages in consistently good time, and for catching fire with a load of ice .
Golden West was an 1852 extreme clipper built by Paul Curtis. The ship had a very active career in the California trade, the guano trade, the coolie trade, the Far East , and Australia . She made a record passage between Japan and San Francisco in 1856.
Golden State was an extreme [2] [3] clipper ship built by Jacob Aaron Westervelt in 1852 [4] in New York City and launched on January 10, 1853. [1] In 1883 she was renamed Anne C. Maguire . History