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  2. The Temper Trap (album) - Wikipedia

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    The Temper Trap received mixed reviews from critics. [14] According to the website Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average review score of 56/100, based on 13 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".

  3. Sprung cart - Wikipedia

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    Unsprung vehicles, meaning without any springs, were simple sturdy two-wheeled vehicle used by roadmen, farmers and tradesmen. They would be used at slower speeds or carrying heavier loads, such as farm carts, those carrying coal or peat, and some heavy delivery vehicles.

  4. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to ...

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    Image of a guillotine-style mousetrap seller in the mid-19th century. In February 1855, Emerson wrote in his journal, under the heading "Common Fame": If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

  5. James Henry Atkinson - Wikipedia

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    James Henry Atkinson (c. 1849–1942) was a British ironmonger from Leeds, Yorkshire who is best known for his 1899 patent of the Little Nipper mousetrap. [1] He is cited by some as the inventor of the classic spring-loaded mousetrap, [2] [3] but this basic style of mousetrap was patented a few years earlier in the United States by William Chauncey Hooker in 1894.

  6. Sturdy - Wikipedia

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    Fred Sturdy (1908–1972), American pole vaulter; Guy Sturdy (1899–1965), professional baseball player; John Henry Sturdy (1893–1966), Canadian educator and political figure; John V. M. Sturdy (1933–1996), English clergyman, academic and Dean of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Jordan Sturdy (born 1962 or 1963), Canadian politician

  7. Mousetrap car - Wikipedia

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    In order to get the most distance out of your car, you must make the lever arm long. This allows the car to get more rotation out of the wheels because of the longer string that will come along with a longer lever arm. Then make the drive wheels larger because the higher the diameter of the wheel the more ground it covers.

  8. Sweet Disposition - Wikipedia

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    Despite the Temper Trap originating from Australia, "Sweet Disposition", the lead single from the debut album Conditions, proved to be more popular in the United Kingdom and Ireland, reaching No. 6 (in the week beginning 11 October 2009) and No. 8, respectively, while it only reached a peak of No. 14 in Australia.

  9. Mousetrap - Wikipedia

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    A mouth-type mousetrap. Mousetrap made of plastic with house mouse. The trap that is credited as the first patented lethal mousetrap was a set of spring-loaded, cast-iron jaws dubbed "Royal No. 1".