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Andersen Corporation is an international window and door manufacturing enterprise employing 12,000 people at more than thirty manufacturing facilities, logistics centers, and company owned retail locations. Andersen is a private company headquartered in Bayport, Minnesota. [1] [2]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. American multinational home improvement supplies retailing company The Home Depot, Inc. An aerial view of a Home Depot in Onalaska, Wisconsin Company type Public Traded as NYSE: HD DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component Industry Retail (home improvement) Founded February 6 ...
Sliding partitions (hiki-do, 引戸, literally "sliding door") did not come into use until the tail end of the Heian, and the beginning of the Kamakura period. [99] Early sliding doors were heavy; some were made of solid wood. [100] Initially used in expensive mansions, they eventually came to be used in more ordinary houses as well. [99]
Sliding Doors is a 1998 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Howitt and starring Gwyneth Paltrow while also featuring John Hannah, John Lynch, and Jeanne Tripplehorn. The film alternates between two storylines, showing two paths the central character's life could take depending on whether she catches a train.
Shawn Phillips's 1964 song "Little Tin Soldier" is also based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale and was covered by Donovan in 1965. The Small Faces 1967 song "Tin Soldier" opens with the lyric "I am a little tin soldier that wants to jump into your fire", and appears to have been influenced by the Andersen story.
Although the term originated from the 1998 film Sliding Doors, written and directed by Peter Howitt and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, [2] the concept was explored earlier by J. B. Priestley in his 1932 play Dangerous Corner. [clarification needed] Examples of 'sliding doors moments' being used in modern vernacular include: