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  2. Fire piston - Wikipedia

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    YouTube Instructions on Making Fire Piston; University of Bristol, School of Chemistry: The Fire Piston; A collection of antique fire syringes; An equation describing the change in temperature during compression; Photographs of a fire syringe; The Naked Scientists - How a fire piston works

  3. Metal lathe - Wikipedia

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    A Swiss-style lathe holds the workpiece with both a collet and a guide bushing. The collet sits behind the guide bushing, and the tools sit in front of the guide bushing, holding stationary on the Z axis. To cut lengthwise along the part, the tools will move in and the material itself will move back and forth along the Z axis.

  4. Sod - Wikipedia

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    Sod is grown on specialist farms. For 2009, the United States Department of Agriculture reported 1,412 farms had 368,188 acres (149,000.4 ha) of sod in production. [9]It is usually grown locally (within 100 miles of the target market) [10] to minimize both the cost of transport and also the risk of damage to the product.

  5. Sod house - Wikipedia

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    A sod farm structure in Iceland Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900 Unusually well appointed interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937. The sod house or soddy [1] was a common alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. [2]

  6. 1925 serum run to Nome - Wikipedia

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    Map of the historical and current Iditarod trails; the route taken during the 1925 serum run is shown in green.. The 1925 serum run to Nome, also known as the Great Race of Mercy and The Serum Run, was a transport of diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled relay across the US territory of Alaska by 20 mushers and about 150 sled dogs across 674 miles (1,085 km) in 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 days, saving the small ...

  7. Shamanism - Wikipedia

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    The shaman can treat sickness caused by malevolent spirits; The shaman can employ trances inducing techniques to incite visionary ecstasy and go on vision quests; The shaman's spirit can leave the body to enter the supernatural world to search for answers; The shaman evokes animal images as spirit guides, omens, and message-bearers

  8. Emoji - Wikipedia

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    An emoji (/ ɪ ˈ m oʊ dʒ iː / ih-MOH-jee; plural emoji or emojis; [1] Japanese: 絵文字, Japanese pronunciation:) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages.

  9. iPod Shuffle - Wikipedia

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    On August 27, 2010, Apple won a patent for a "Very small form factor consumer electronic product", [21] which describes the parts and processes that go into making the ultra-portable music player, the iPod shuffle. [22] On September 1, 2010, the fourth and final generation was released [23] as part of the new iPod lineup. The fourth generation ...