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  2. Skinner knife - Wikipedia

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    The skinner knife or skinning knife is a professional tool for a skinner. Typically a skinner knife has wide, short, curved blade. Skinning knives are more a tool than a weapon. Their curved shape was developed to minimize the risk of puncturing hides during the skinning process, and to allow for maximal use of the heel region of the blade.

  3. Skinning - Wikipedia

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    A Kalanga man skinning a goat at the annual Domboshaba cultural festival 2017 in Botswana. Skinning is the act of skin removal. The process is done by humans to animals, mainly as a means to prepare the meat beneath for cooking and consumption, or to harvest the skin for making fur clothing or tanning it to make leather.

  4. Skinning (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Skinning is the act of skin removal, usually from a dead animal. Skinning may also refer to: Skinning, a 2010 Serbian film; The process of applying a computer skin that changes the look, feel, and navigation interface of application software; In skeletal animation, defining an influence that bones have over the mesh; Uphill skiing using ski skins

  5. Goatskin (material) - Wikipedia

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  6. Methylethyl ketone oxime - Wikipedia

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    Methylethyl ketone oxime is the organic compound with the formula C 2 H 5 C(NOH)CH 3.This colourless liquid is the oxime derivative of methyl ethyl ketone. MEKO, as it is called in the paint industry, is used to suppress "skinning" of paints: the formation of a skin on paint before it is used.

  7. Four occupations - Wikipedia

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    A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1] [2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the ...

  8. Women in chess - Wikipedia

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    1926: Vera Menchik's 1926 victory at the Hastings Major Reserve, a tier below the highest master level, is regarded as the first high-level tournament victory by a woman. 1927: Vera Menchik won the first Women's World Chess Championship. [1] Vera Menchik in 1933; she became the first Women's World Chess Champion in 1927.

  9. Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    By the spring of 1832, Offutt's business had failed and Lincoln was out of work. Around this time, the Black Hawk War erupted and Lincoln joined a group of volunteers from New Salem to repel Black Hawk, who was leading a group of 450 warriors along with 1,500 women and children to reclaim traditional tribal lands in Illinois. Lincoln was ...