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  2. Phineas Gage - Wikipedia

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    The tamping iron bears the following inscription, commissioned by Bigelow in conjunction with the iron's original deposit in the Museum [36] (though the date given for the accident is one day off): This is the bar that was shot through the head of Mr Phinehas P. Gage at Cavendish Vermont Sept 14, 1848. He fully recovered from the injury ...

  3. Glossary of coal mining terminology - Wikipedia

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    A miner's name for a working partner (South Wales) or for their opposite number on another shift (N. England) but also in earlier times an alternative name for a charter master. The "butty system" was the contracting system used by charter masters.

  4. Riegel mine 43 - Wikipedia

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    The Riegel mine 43 or (Sprengriegel/R.Mi. 43) is a German steel cased anti-tank bar mine used during the Second World War. The mine is a long thin rectangle . It consists of a lower and upper metal tray, and an internal metal-cased explosive block.

  5. Penzance - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall was founded in the town in 1814 [49] and about 1817 was responsible for introducing a miner's safety tamping bar, which attracted the Prince Regent to become its patron. [50]

  6. Gandy dancer - Wikipedia

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    Some sources even list the goods manufactured by the company, i.e., "tamping bars, claw bars, picks, and shovels." [6] [7] But others have cast doubt on the existence of such a company. The Chicago Historical Society has been asked for information on the company so many times that they have said, "It's like a legend," but they have never been ...

  7. Inflation, China’s stumbling economy, and apocalyptic fear ...

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    In the U.S., average Joes are getting into the market, too: The bigbox chain Costco made waves when it began selling one-ounce gold bars at select stores, and it’s now selling up to $200 million ...

  8. L9 bar mine - Wikipedia

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    The L9 bar mine is a large rectangular British anti-tank landmine.The bar mine's principal advantage is its long length, and therefore its trigger length. A typical anti-tank landmine is circular, and a vehicle's wheels or tracks, which make up only a small proportion of its total width, must actually press on the mine to activate it.

  9. Mining and metallurgy in medieval Europe - Wikipedia

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    During the first medieval centuries, the output of metal was in a steady decline with constraints in small-scale activities. Miners adopted methods much less efficient than those of Roman times. Ores were extracted only from shallow depths or from remnants of formerly abandoned mines.