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Williams Sonoma store - Portland, Oregon Williams-Sonoma in Calgary. In 1947, Chuck Williams settled in Sonoma, California, and opened his first shop as a hardware store.In 1953, Williams took his first trip to France, where he quickly fell in love with French kitchenware such as copper cookware, and is quoted as saying, "I knew this was something that wasn't found in America, but thought ...
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The Swiss Army Knife was not the first multi-use pocket knife. In 1851, in Moby-Dick (chapter 107), Herman Melville mentions the "Sheffield contrivances, assuming the exterior – though a little swelled – of a common pocket knife; but containing, not only blades of various sizes, but also screwdrivers, cork-screws, tweezers, bradawls, pens, rulers, nail files and countersinkers."
“The ‘knife’ and the ‘times’ in the title may well be seen as metaphors…In certain instances the ‘knife’ is a cutting tongue of verbal insults and abuses; in other instances it is the looming threat of insanity and nervous breakdown, of losing control of one’s life, one’s job, one’s mental as well as physical health.
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One “knife” in the story is the knife of long-repressed sexual desire and desire to be free of society’s expectations and conventions. “Why not” as Maura announces it, is at once a cry of liberation and a leveling of self-restraint in the face of larger instincts.” [ 7 ]
Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. (born October 10, 1974) is an American professional stock car racing driver, team owner, and broadcaster. A third-generation driver, he is the son of the late 7-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt and relative to many former and current drivers in the NASCAR ranks.