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  2. Spinning wheel - Wikipedia

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    The Spinning Wheel is also the title/subject of a classic Irish folk song by John Francis Waller. [51] [52] A traditional Irish folk song, Túirne Mháire, is generally sung in praise of the spinning wheel, [53] but was regarded by Mrs Costelloe, who collected it, [54] as "much corrupted", and may have had a darker narrative. It is widely ...

  3. Soap Box Derby - Wikipedia

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    Because the wheel hubs were cast rather than pressed steel plate they were discovered to be more uniform, making wheel calibration of a set much less time-consuming due to their limited variation. After the wheel was deemed safe it was released for sale for the 1992 race season, [248] and used successfully for forty-one years.

  4. Spinner's weasel - Wikipedia

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    Spinner's weasel (left) and spinning wheel (right) Spinner's weasel or clock reel is a mechanical yarn-measuring device consisting of a spoked wheel with gears attached to a pointer on a marked face (which resembles a clock) and an internal mechanism that makes a "pop" sound after the desired length of yarn is measured (usually a skein). The ...

  5. Spinner (wheel) - Wikipedia

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    Two bladed spinner on a wire wheel 1967 AMC simulated wire wheel cover with spinner. The spinner or "knock-off" originated with Rudge-Whitworth center lock wire wheels and hubs, which were first patented in 1908. [1] [2] The spinner was a threaded, winged nut designed to keep the wheel fastened to the hub. They were screwed on and "knocked on ...

  6. List of obsolete occupations - Wikipedia

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    The wider availability of publications during the late 19th century made the personal, overland delivery and sale of printed literature uneconomic. Econom: 16: 20: Computer: A (human) computer performed calculations for mathematical tables, in astronomy, in weather forecasting and other fields. [68] Some human computers transitioned to being ...

  7. Richard Osman's House of Games - Wikipedia

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    Richard Osman's House of Games is a British quiz show hosted by Richard Osman and produced by Banijay UK Productions subsidiary Remarkable Entertainment for the BBC.The show is played on a weekly basis, with four celebrities playing on five consecutive days to win daily prizes, and the weekly prize of being crowned as "House of Games" champion.

  8. Lottery wheeling - Wikipedia

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    A key number wheel (or power number wheel) is a wheel in which one or more numbers (called key numbers or power numbers) appear in every combination of the wheel. Example: Pick 5, 7 numbers wheel, with 2 key numbers (1 and 2), 2 if 2 and 3 if 4 for the full set and 4 if 5 for the filtered set:

  9. Cyr wheel - Wikipedia

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    Urbanatix performer in Nordsternpark at Ruhr's 2011 ExtraSchicht festival Street performer during Sirkusmarkkinat at Kerava in 2013 (Circus Festival). The Cyr wheel (also known as the roue Cyr, mono wheel, [1] or simple wheel) is an acrobatic apparatus that consists of a single large ring made of aluminum or steel with a diameter approximately 10 to 15 cm (4 to 6 in) taller than the performer.