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For short term lettings - e.g. rooms in hotels or houses let for holidays, the "rack rent" is the maximum potential rent assuming full occupancy (less downtime for repairs). Historically, rack-rent has often been a term of protest used to denote an unjustly excessive rent (the word "rack" evoking the medieval torture device ), usually one paid ...
The company's annual giving report shows that the number of fundraisers launched this year for people raising money to cover the cost of rent, food and other basic living expenses quadrupled ...
People didn't just fill their plates this Thanksgiving weekend -- data shows they also filled their online shopping carts. Black Friday online shopping this year set a new high, reaching $10.8 ...
As 535 mm is very close to 21 inches, these racks are sometimes called 21-inch racks. The gap between the posts is 500 millimetres (19.69 in). As 19-inch equipment has a maximum width of 17 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (438.15 mm), they can easily be mounted in an ETSI rack by means of an ETSI bracket or adapter plate.
French cased duelling pistols by Nicolas Noël Boutet.Single shot, flintlock, rifled, .58 caliber, blued steel, Versailles, 1794–1797. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. A duelling pistol is a type of pistol that was manufactured in matching pairs to be used in a duel, when duels were customary.
Finland handed the defending champion United States its first loss at the 2025 world junior hockey championship as Tuomas Uronen scored in overtime for a 4-3 win on Sunday afternoon.
A demi-gaunt is a type of plate armour gauntlet that only protects the back of the hand and the wrist: demi-gaunts are worn with gloves made from chain mail or padded leather. The advantages of the demi-gaunt are that it allows better dexterity and is lighter than a full gauntlet, but the disadvantage is that the fingers are not as well protected.
For Phil Collins, decades of rock stardom have not come without a cost.. In "Phil Collins: Drummer First," a new documentary released Wednesday, the musician opened up about the health toll of ...