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  2. Fifth wheel (Brooks Walker) - Wikipedia

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    In the 1930s, Walker invented a device which added a fifth wheel to cars to aid parallel parking. The extra wheel was mounted on the rear of the vehicle, at right angles to the rest of the wheels. When in use, the fifth wheel lifted the back of the car off its normal rear wheels, allowing the rear of the car to swing laterally. [2] [3]

  3. Character race - Wikipedia

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    Character race is a descriptor used to describe the various sapient species and beings that make up the setting in modern fantasy and science fiction.In many tabletop role-playing games and video games, players may choose to be one of these creatures when creating their player character (PC) or encounter them as a non-player character (NPC).

  4. Fifth-wheel coupling - Wikipedia

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    A wheel would be placed on the rear frame section of the truck, which at the time had only four wheels, making the additional wheel the "fifth wheel". The trailer needed to be raised so that the trailer's pin would be able to drop into the central hole of the fifth wheel.

  5. Category:Wheels - Wikipedia

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    A wheel is a circular device that is capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.

  6. Mascot race - Wikipedia

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    The Atlanta Braves race involves (Atlanta-based) Home Depot's hammer, saw (later replaced by a bucket after suffering a serious injury), paint brush, and power drill racing against each other. Before the 2009 season, the race was seen only on the scoreboard, but it now features live runners dressed in costumed versions of these tools; the race ...

  7. Editions of Dungeons & Dragons - Wikipedia

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    Jackson Haime, for Screen Rant in 2020, compared the large number of rulebooks released for the 3rd/3.5 editions (12 different core rulebooks and over 50 supplements published in seven years) to the number for 5th edition and wrote, "Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition has been released for almost as long as 3 and 3.5 now, and only has 3 core ...

  8. Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings - Wikipedia

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    The flexibility of the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game rules means that Dungeon Masters (DM) are free to create their own fantasy campaign settings.For those who wanted a pre-packaged setting in which to play, TSR, Wizards of the Coast (WotC), and other publishers have created many settings in which D&D games can be based; of these, the Forgotten Realms, an epic fantasy world, has been one of ...

  9. Plane (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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    The 'Great Wheel' model of the planes, as described in the 5th edition Player's Handbook The cosmology outlined in the Great Wheel model contains sixteen Outer Planes which are arranged in a ring of sixteen planes with the Good -aligned planes (or Upper Planes ) at the top, and the Evil -aligned planes (or Lower Planes ) at the bottom.