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Two warded lock keys and a homemade skeleton key. A skeleton key (also known as a passkey [1]) is a type of master key in which the serrated edge has been removed in such a way that it can open numerous locks, [2] most commonly the warded lock. The term derives from the fact that the key has been reduced to its essential parts. [2]
This story contains spoilers for Episode 3 of HBO’s “The Last of Us” and corresponding moments from the 2013 videogame. The third episode of “The Last of Us” takes viewers back to the ...
Keys for some types of warded locks often have a characteristic symmetrical shape. The one on the right is a skeleton key. A warded lock (also called a ward lock) is a type of lock that uses a set of obstructions, or wards, to prevent the lock from opening unless the correct key is inserted. The correct key has notches or slots corresponding to ...
Winter counts (Lakota: waníyetu wówapi or waníyetu iyáwapi) are pictorial calendars or histories in which tribal records and events were recorded by Native Americans in North America. The Blackfeet, Mandan, Kiowa, Lakota, and other Plains tribes used winter counts extensively. There are approximately one hundred winter counts in existence ...
The winter solstice is the day we have our shortest day and our longest night. Typically, it falls on December 21 or December 22 (only a few days before Christmas) in the Northern Hemisphere and ...
The Skeleton Key is a 2005 American supernatural folk horror film directed by Iain Softley and starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joy Bryant. The screenplay by Ehren Kruger follows a New Orleans hospice nurse who begins a job at a Terrebonne Parish plantation home, and becomes entangled in a mystery involving ...
For example, for a chest of drawers with a warded lock, a skeleton key for that type of warded lock can be made by filing away all but the last one or two teeth or bittings on both sides of the blade. Additionally, a series of grooves on either side of the key's blade limit the type of lock the key can slide into.
Motivation for why skeleton was put together remains unclear Archaeologists crack mystery of skeleton made of bones from people who lived 2,500 years apart Skip to main content