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In colonial New England, it was common for the colonial meeting house to have box pews. Families would typically sit together in a box pew, and it is theorized that the concept of the box pew resulted from the fact that the early meeting houses were not heated, and the walls of the box pews would minimize drafts, thus keeping the occupants relatively warmer in the winter.
Traditional solid oak church pews. A pew (/ ˈ p juː /) is a long bench seat or enclosed box, used for seating members of a congregation or choir in a church, funeral home or sometimes a courtroom. Occasionally, they are also found in live performance venues (such as the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, which was formerly a church).
Misericord from the Charterhouse of Florence (Tuscany, Italy), depicting a mascaron With the seat lifted (as at left), the misericord provides a ledge to support the user. A misericord (sometimes named mercy seat, like the biblical object) is a small wooden structure formed on the underside of a folding seat in a church which, when the seat is folded up, is intended to act as a shelf to ...
Color chips or color samples from a plastic pellet manufacturer that enables customers to evaluate the color range as molded objects to see final effects. A color chart or color reference card is a flat, physical object that has many different color samples present. They can be available as a single-page chart, or in the form of swatchbooks or ...
A toilet seat is a hinged unit consisting of a round or oval open seat, and usually a lid, which is bolted onto the bowl of a toilet used in a sitting position (as opposed to a squat toilet). The seat can be either for a flush toilet or a dry toilet .
An assisted-squatting position can be achieved by placing a wrap-around foot stool or box under the feet while using a sitting toilet. [1] This raises the legs and allows for some degree of widening of the anorectal angle. [1] The anorectal angle can be further increased by leaning forwards in this semi-squatting position. [1]
The Bible has many rituals of purification in areas ranging from the mundane private rituals of personal hygiene and toilet etiquette to the complex public rituals of social etiquette. [3] Certain Christian rules of purity have implications for bodily hygiene and observing cleanliness, [4] including sexual hygiene, [5] menstruation and toilet ...
A pissoir was featured in the first scene of the 1967 James Bond spoof film Casino Royale. [1]A pissoir was also featured in a few episodes of the British WWII comedy series 'Allo 'Allo!, as a meeting place for René Artois (Nighthawk) and other members of the Resistance, and is accidentally blown up a few times, twice while Officer Crabtree is inside, and once with the Italian Captain Alberto ...