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2. Hills Hoist - Wikipedia

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   A Hills Hoist is a height-adjustable rotary clothes line, designed to permit the compact hanging of wet clothes so that their maximum area can be exposed for wind drying by rotation. They are considered one of Australia's most recognisable icons , and are used frequently by artists as a metaphor for Australian suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s.

3. Clothes line - Wikipedia

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   Longer washing lines often have props holding up the mid-section so the weight of the clothing does not pull the clothesline down to the ground. More elaborate rotary washing lines save space and are typically retractable and square or triangular in shape, with multiple lines being used (such as the Hills Hoist from Australia). Some can be ...

4. Argos (retailer) - Wikipedia

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   Argos was launched with thousands of staff, taking £1 million during a week in November. [10] Argos was purchased by BAT Industries in 1979 for £32 million. In 1980, Argos opened its Elizabeth Duke jewellery counter (named after a director's wife) and by 1982, was the United Kingdom's fourth-biggest jewellery retailer.

5. The Range (retailer) - Wikipedia

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   The Range, Andover (2006) The Range, Tulip Retail Park, Leeds (2007) CDS (Superstores International) Limited, trading as The Range, is a British home improvement, leisure and garden centre retailer, originally founded as Chris Dawson Superstores in 1989.

6. Argos (satellite system) - Wikipedia

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   Argos is a global satellite-based system that collects, processes, and disseminates (spreads, distributes) environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms around the world. [1] The worldwide tracking and environmental monitoring system is the results from Franco-American cooperation.

7. Maginot Line - Wikipedia

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   The Maginot Line (/ ˈ m æ ʒ ɪ n oʊ /; French: Ligne Maginot [liɲ maʒino]), [a] [1] named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, is a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Nazi Germany and force them to move around the fortifications.