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2. Curtain rod - Wikipedia

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   A curtain rod, curtain rail, curtain pole, or traverse rod is a device used to suspend curtains, usually above windows or along the edges of showers or bathtubs, though also wherever curtains might be used. When found in bathrooms, curtain rods tend to be telescopic and self-fixing, while curtain rods in other areas of the home are often ...

3. Curtain ring - Wikipedia

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   Lewis and Clark took three gross of curtain rings with them on their famous expedition to the Pacific coast in 1804, expecting to give them as presents to the natives of the North American interior. [2] In the 19th century, Mr Rees designed a curtain ring which would not catch upon the curtain rail and so would go smoothly around curves and ...

4. Glass rod - Wikipedia

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   A stirring rod is used for mixing liquids, or solids and liquids. Stir rods are used as part of proper laboratory technique when decanting supernatants because the contact helps to negate the adhesion between the side of the glassware and the supernatant that is responsible for the liquid running down the side. Using a stir rod also grants more ...

5. Clay nail - Wikipedia

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   One of the oldest diplomatic documents known, by King Entemena, c 2400 BC.. Used by Sumerians and other Mesopotamian cultures beginning in the third millennium BC, clay nails, also referred to as dedication or foundation pegs, cones, or nails, were cone-shaped nails made of clay, inscribed with cuneiform, baked, and stuck into the mudbrick walls to serve as evidence that the temple or building ...

6. List of Greek inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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   In such large juries, they rule by majority. Juries were appointed by lot. Jurists cast a ceramic disk with an axle in its middle: the axle was either hollow or solid. Thus the way they voted was kept secret because the jurists would hold their disk by the axle by thumb and forefinger, thus hiding whether its axle was hollow or solid.

7. Phil Taylor (darts player) - Wikipedia

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   He enjoyed watching boxing as a child, and he played cricket for Mill Hill Middle School in Burslem. [16] After leaving school at age 16, he worked in a variety of manual jobs, including as a sheet metal worker, [ 16 ] but his main occupation became manufacturing ceramic toilet roll holders, for which he earned £52 a week.