Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Japanese puzzle box, closed Japanese puzzle box, open. A puzzle box (also called a secret box or trick box) is a box that can be opened only by solving a puzzle. Some require only a simple move and others a series of discoveries. Modern puzzle boxes developed from furniture and jewelry boxes with secret compartments and hidden openings, known ...
This was one of the normal working boats carried by a ship in the age of sail. In local usage, the term yawl was sometimes applied to working craft which did not fit any of the definitions given above. An example of this is the Whitstable yawl, a decked gaff-cutter-rigged fishing smack that dredged for oysters. [4]
Find answers to the latest online sudoku and crossword puzzles that were published in USA TODAY Network's local newspapers. Puzzle solutions for Monday, Sept. 2 Skip to main content
The web series Caledonia and associated novel is a supernatural police drama that takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. [12] [13] Ptolemy's account in his Geography also referred to the Caledonia Silva, an idea still recalled in the modern expression "Caledonian Forest", although the woods are much reduced in size since Roman times. [14] [note 1]
A sliding puzzle, sliding block puzzle, or sliding tile puzzle is a combination puzzle that challenges a player to slide (frequently flat) pieces along certain routes (usually on a board) to establish a certain end-configuration. The pieces to be moved may consist of simple shapes, or they may be imprinted with colours, patterns, sections of a ...
Olin James Stephens II (April 13, 1908 – September 13, 2008) was an American yacht designer. Stephens was born in New York City , but spent his summers with his brother Rod, learning to sail on the New England coast.
A number of different types of wood are used in the creation of yosegi.Both the spindle tree (Euonymus spp.) and Ilex macropoda are used for the colour white; aged wood from the Katsura tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) is used for black; Picrasma quassioides, mulberry and the Chinese lacquer tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum) are used for yellow; the camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora) and ...
Gladiator II has debuted to an estimated $87m at the international box office, making it the biggest overseas opening for any Ridley Scott film.. Out in theaters now, the director’s long-awaited ...