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The backstool represents an intermediate step between the development of the stool and the chair. A simple three-legged turned stool would have its rear leg extended outwards and a crossways pad attached. [8] Backstools were always three-legged, with a central rear leg.
Frid is best known for his three-volume work, "Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking". Some editions of which are published as the first two volumes in one, the third is still separate (Frid's own classic European-style workbench is detailed, in a revised and corrected version, in the third edition of this essential series):
Apollo and Heracles struggle for the Delphic tripod; side A from an Attic red-figure stamnos, c. 480 BC.Louvre. A sacrificial tripod, whose name comes from the Greek meaning "three-footed", is a three-legged piece of religious furniture used in offerings and other ritual procedures.
The Present is a 2014 animated short film directed and co-written by Jacob Frey and co-written with Markus Kranzler. [1] [2] [3] It is based on "Perfeição", a comic strip by Fabio Coala. [4]
In his youth, Lentini used his third leg to kick a football across the stage—hence his show name, the Three-Legged Football Player. Lentini's normal legs were slightly different in length: one was 99 centimeters and the other 97 centimeters. The third leg was only 91 centimeters and ended in a clubfoot. [2]
A cuttie-stool, or cutty-stool (also -stuil), was a type of three-legged chair used in Scotland.It was a short stool, often having a round seat on the top, but the word also designates a larger piece of furniture associated with public penance in church.
'That three-legged stool sometimes looks like a pogo stick' Social Security is a prime example. The government-run program — which Fichtner described as akin to a trust fund — is facing a ...
Janet Geddes from A History of Protestantism. Janet "Jenny" Geddes (c. 1600 – c. 1660) was a Scottish market-trader in Edinburgh who is alleged to have thrown a stool at the head of the minister in St Giles' Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Church of Scotland's revised version of the Book of Common Prayer, the 1637 Scottish Prayer Book.