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The Dixie Cup was first called "Health Kup", but from 1919 it was named after a line of dolls made by Alfred Schindler's Dixie Doll Company in New York. Success led the company, which had existed under a variety of names, to call itself the Dixie Cup Corporation and move to a factory in Wilson, Pennsylvania. Atop the factory was a large water ...
Faucet is the most common term in the US, similar in use to "tap" in British English, e.g. "water faucet" (although the term "tap" is also used in the US). Spigot is used by professionals in the trade (such as plumbers), and typically refers to an outdoor fixture.
Bottled water dispensers can be top-mounted or bottom-loaded, depending on the design of the model. Bottled water dispensers typically use 5-gallon (18.9 litres) bottles commonly located on top of the unit. Pressure coolers are a subcategory of water dispensers encompassing drinking water fountains and direct-piping water dispensers.
Dixie cups may refer to: Dixie Cup, a brand of paper cups; The Dixie Cups, a 1960s American pop music girl group; The round visorless sailor cap worn in the U.S. Navy
Dixie Longate is the drag persona of American actor, writer, comedian, and drag performer Kris Andersson who, since 2007 has been performing a solo act called Dixie's Tupperware Party in five countries while engaging with her audience to sell actual Tupperware products.
Hot water dispenser at Lanzhou Bus Station, China, providing free boiling water to make a cup of tea or a bowl of instant noodles. An instant hot water dispenser or boiling water tap is an appliance that dispenses water at about 94 °C (201 °F) (near-boiling). There are hot-only and hot and cool water models, and the water may be filtered as ...
A bidet shower in a hotel bathroom in Helsinki, Finland. A bidet shower—also known as a handheld bidet, commode shower, toilet shower, health faucet, bum shower, jet spray, hand shower, shatafa (from the Arabic: شَطَّافَة [ʃɑtˤˈtˤɑːfɑ], "hand shower rinser") or bum gun—is a hand-held triggered nozzle that is placed near the toilet and delivers a spray of water used for ...
The world's largest "paper" cup in front of what was once the Lily-Tulip manufacturing company in Riverside, California, later Sweetheart Cup Company. [1] Actually made of poured concrete, the cup stands about 68.1 feet (20.8 m) tall. Sweetheart Cup Company was a North American company that made paper cups, plastic cups and related