Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Image of a guillotine-style mousetrap seller in the mid-19th century. In February 1855, Emerson wrote in his journal, under the heading "Common Fame": If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
Unsprung vehicles, meaning without any springs, were simple sturdy two-wheeled vehicle used by roadmen, farmers and tradesmen. They would be used at slower speeds or carrying heavier loads, such as farm carts, those carrying coal or peat, and some heavy delivery vehicles.
Fred Sturdy (1908–1972), American pole vaulter; Guy Sturdy (1899–1965), professional baseball player; John Henry Sturdy (1893–1966), Canadian educator and political figure; John V. M. Sturdy (1933–1996), English clergyman, academic and Dean of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Jordan Sturdy (born 1962 or 1963), Canadian politician
In order to get the most distance out of your car, you must make the lever arm long. This allows the car to get more rotation out of the wheels because of the longer string that will come along with a longer lever arm. Then make the drive wheels larger because the higher the diameter of the wheel the more ground it covers.
Katko v. Briney, 183 N.W.2d 657 (Iowa 1971), is a court case decided by the Iowa Supreme Court, in which homeowners Edward and Bertha Briney were held liable for battery for injuries caused to trespasser Marvin Katko, who set off a spring gun set as a mantrap in an uninhabited house on their property. [1]
In domestic applications, traps are typically U, S, Q, or J-shaped pipe located below or within a plumbing fixture.An S-shaped trap is also known as an S-bend.It was invented by Alexander Cumming in 1775 but became known as the U-bend following the introduction of the U-shaped trap by Thomas Crapper in 1880.
In historical English law, a sturdy beggar was a person who was fit and able to work, but begged or wandered for a living instead. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Statute of Cambridge 1388 was an early law which differentiated between sturdy beggars and the infirm ( handicapped or elderly) poor.
The Temper Trap received mixed reviews from critics. [14] According to the website Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average review score of 56/100, based on 13 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".