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  2. Aerial work platform - Wikipedia

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    Replacing an advertising poster in London using an aerial work platform. An aerial work platform (AWP), also known as an aerial device, elevating work platform (EWP), aerial lift, cherry picker, bucket truck or mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) is a mechanical device used to provide temporary access for people or equipment to inaccessible areas, usually at height.

  3. Cherry picking (basketball) - Wikipedia

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    Cherry picking is also a strategy in videogames that simulate basketball. [5] Analogs to cherry picking exist in other sports: Cherry picking in water polo is called "sea-gulling". Similar to the strategy in basketball, a swimmer of the defensive team remains on his or her offensive end and awaits a pass once teammates regain the ball.

  4. Fire engine - Wikipedia

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    After World War II, turntable ladders were supplemented by the aerial work platform (sometimes called "cherry picker"), a platform or bucket attached onto a mechanically bending arm (or "snorkel") installed onto a fire truck. While these could not reach the height of similar turntable ladders, the platforms could extend into previously ...

  5. Cherry picker (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A cherry picker is a platform for lifting someone to work at a high level. Cherry picker may also refer to: An engine crane, a cantilevered tool for installing or removing the engine block from a vehicle; Glenbuck Cherrypickers F.C., a former Scottish football club; The Cherry Picker, a 1974 British drama film

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  7. 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' Singer Brenda Lee Reveals ...

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    Last Christmas Brenda Lee set several important chart milestones when her 1958 holiday single "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time. Lee ...

  8. Johnny Coulon - Wikipedia

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    Born in Toronto to American parents Emile Eugene Coulon (1857–1911) and Sarah Loretta Waltzinger (1857–1923), Coulon grew up in turn-of-the-century Chicago, where, as a prelim fighter, he became known as "The Cherry Picker from Logan Square." In the summer of 1906, at the age of seventeen, he received a life saving medal from the U.S ...

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    Cruise was famously much shorter than the 6ft 5 character described in Lee ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in. ... Tom Cruise joked about his own height in scene cut from 'Jack ...