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  2. The Dangerous Book for Boys - Wikipedia

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    The Dangerous Book for Boys, by Conn and Hal Iggulden is a guidebook published by HarperCollins, aimed at boys "from eight to eighty."It covers around eighty topics, including how to build a treehouse, grow a crystal, or tell direction with a watch.

  3. Zoetrope - Wikipedia

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    On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the cuts at the pictures across. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together, and the user sees a rapid succession of images, producing the illusion of motion.

  4. Direction determination - Wikipedia

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    Direction determination refers to the ways in which a cardinal direction or compass point can be determined in navigation and wayfinding.The most direct method is using a compass (magnetic compass or gyrocompass), but indirect methods exist, based on the Sun path (unaided or by using a watch or sundial), the stars, and satellite navigation.

  5. Cardinal direction - Wikipedia

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    Direction determination refers to the ways in which a cardinal direction or compass point can be determined in navigation and wayfinding.The most direct method is using a compass (magnetic compass or gyrocompass), but indirect methods exist, based on the Sun path (unaided or by using a watch or sundial), the stars, and satellite navigation.

  6. 'Top Chef' holiday ham is sweet and spicy: Here's the recipe ...

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    Prepare the ham. 1. Preheat your oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. 2. Place the ham cut-side down in a roasting pan. Bake the ham. 3. Insert cloves into the ham, spacing them 1 inch apart.

  7. Consumer protection agency closes the Biden era taking big ...

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    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director Rohit Chopra has said he does not believe his agency should be a “dead fish” in the final weeks of the Biden administration.

  8. Clock position - Wikipedia

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    If the watch is set to uncorrected solar time, both hands point to the sun. In a 12-hour watch, the sun and the hour hand both advance, but not at the same rate; the sun covers 15 degrees per hour, and watch 30. To keep the hour hand on the sun, 12:00 must recede from the zenith at the same rate the hour hand advances.

  9. Steve Kerr 'angry' and 'mad' about missed timeout call in ...

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    Steve Kerr believes the referees should have called a technical foul on Christian Braun after he appeared to call for a timeout his team didn't have.