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2. IKEA Lack - Wikipedia

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   The IKEA Lack table in white. The Lack (stylized as LACK) is a table manufactured by IKEA since 1981. [1] Modifications.

3. Portable desk - Wikipedia

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   Ships eventually were constructed with built-in desks, making the portable desk obsolete in maritime environments. The only modern survivors of all the antique forms of the portable desk are the bed variants of the lap desk and a series of standardized forms (following NATO specifications or others) of the field desk.

4. History of coffee - Wikipedia

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   Studies of genetic diversity have been performed on Coffea arabica varieties, which were found to be of low diversity but with retention of some residual heterozygosity from ancestral materials, and closely related diploid species Coffea canephora and C. liberica; [8] however, no direct evidence has ever been found indicating where in Africa coffee grew or who among the local people might have ...

5. Toulon - Wikipedia

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   Toulon figures prominently in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. It is the location of the infamous prison, the bagne of Toulon, in which the protagonist Jean Valjean spends nineteen years in hard labour. Toulon is also the birthplace of the novel's antagonist, Javert. One portion of the wall of the old bagne, or prison, where Jean Valjean was ...

6. Siege of Toulon (1793) - Wikipedia

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   The siege of Toulon (29 August – 19 December 1793) was a military engagement that took place during the Federalist revolts and the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. It was undertaken by forces of the French Republic against Royalist rebels supported by Anglo-Spanish forces in the southern French city of Toulon .

7. 18-pounder long gun - Wikipedia

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   The gun of 9 ft appears in a diagram from about 1735, where its weight was listed as 41 hundredweight 1 quarter 8 pounds. The 1743 mensuration contains an 18-pounder of the same length and weight, with very similar dimensions. In tests in Minorca, one of the 18-pounders used was 9 ft long and weighed 39 hundredweight 1 quarter 3 pounds.