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Polish horseshoes (also called Spanish horseshoes, frisbeener in the midwest, [1] French darts in Virginia, [2] frisnok in Manitoba, [3] and beersbee elsewhere in Canada [4]) is an outdoor game played between two teams of two people using a frisbee, two glass bottles or cans, and stakes, ski poles or hiking sticks hammered into the ground.
A "ball and ladder game" was patented in 2002 by Pennsylvanian Robert G. Reid, [2] a postman who had played the game with his family for decades before deciding to file for patent in November, 1999. [3]
White House horseshoe pit; Worshipful Company of Farriers This page was last edited on 22 October 2019, at 03:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
A horseshoe is a product designed to protect a horse hoof from wear. Shoes are attached on the palmar surface (ground side) of the hooves, ...
The game has many variations, and may be called washer pitching, washer toss, washers, huachas or washoes (which is based on the similarity to horseshoes). [ 1 ] The object of the game is to earn points by tossing metal washers, usually around 2 inches (51 mm) in diameter, and 1 ⁄ 8 inch (3.2 mm) thick, toward a hole, usually denoted by a can ...
Image from U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission notice In the year 1970, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classified sharp-pointed lawn darts as a "mechanical hazard," a designation which prohibited the sale of lawn darts, unless the darts satisfied three requirements: (1) Be packaged with specified warning label that advised of the potential for serious injury and cautioned ...
Quoits is a game similar to horseshoes, played by throwing steel rings at a metal spike. Several earlier "parlor quoits" patents had sought to re-create quoit gameplay in an indoor environment, [2] but De Windt's was the first to use bean bags and a slanted board with a hole as the target.
The Diamond Calk Horseshoe Company of Duluth, Minnesota, USA was founded in 1908 by blacksmith Otto Swanstrom.. Initially manufacturing horseshoes with a special type of calk to improve the animals' foothold on slippery surfaces, the company successfully adapted to the development of motorised transport for the masses and produced a range of adjustable wrenches and pliers from the 1920s.