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A chain mortiser used in timber framing. For cutting larger mortises such as those used in timber frame construction, chain mortisers are commonly used. A chain with cutters (similar to a chainsaw chain) rotating within a frame clamped to the work is successively plunged into the workpiece to mortise out the required volume.
Egyptian stool with through tenons, c. 1991–1450 BC The mortise and tenon joint is an ancient joint. One of the earliest mortise-tenon structure examples dates back 7,000 years to the Hemudu culture in China's Zhejiang Province. [3]
Robert Whitehead (3 January 1823 – 14 November 1905) was an English engineer who was most famous for developing the first effective self-propelled naval torpedo. Early life [ edit ]
Arms of Mortimer (Mortimer of Wigmore): Barry or and azure, on a chief of the first two pallets between two base esquires of the second over all an inescutcheon argent In the Middle Ages, the Mortimers became a powerful dynasty of Marcher Lords in the Welsh Marches, first as barons of Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire and later as Earl of March from 1328 to 1425.
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Robert Renwick Mortimer (born 23 May 1959) is an English comedian, author, television presenter, writer and actor. He is best known for his work with Vic Reeves as the comedy double act Reeves and Mortimer, and more recently the Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing series with Paul Whitehouse.
Mortimer was born on 6 October 1971 [4] in Hammersmith, London, [5] to dramatist and barrister Sir John Mortimer, and his second wife, Penelope (née Gollop). [6] She has a younger sister, Rosie; [7] two older half-siblings, Sally Silverman and Jeremy, from her father's first marriage to author Penelope Fletcher; and a half-brother, Ross Bentley, from her father's relationship with actress ...
A funeral director, also known as an undertaker or mortician (American English), is a professional who has licenses in funeral arranging and embalming (or preparation of the deceased) involved in the business of funeral rites.