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Tick mattress. Ticks being filled with straw by Japanese-American internees at the Poston War Relocation Center in 1942. A tick mattress, bed tick or tick is a large bag made of strong, stiff, tightly-woven material [1] (ticking). This is then filled to make a mattress, with material such as straw, chaff, horsehair, coarse wool or down feathers ...
Crossword. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are ...
This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [1]A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".
Hints About the NYT Connections Categories on Saturday, February 24. 1. Workplaces. 2. Letters in common. 3. Related to a specific food group. 4. Related to a specific sport/activity.
Josiah Wedgwood. Josiah Wedgwood FRS (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) [1] was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist. Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed improved pottery bodies by systematic experimentation, and was the leader in the industrialisation of the manufacture of European pottery. [2]
Featherbed frame. 1950s-era Manx Norton styled replica built for the 1990s named Manxman, using a replica Featherbed frame constructed to special order by BSA [1] The featherbed frame was a motorcycle frame invented by the McCandless brothers and offered to the British Norton motorcycle company to improve the performance of their racing ...
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
The board took three contestants eight turns and 10 attempts to solve what seemed to be a simple puzzle. “Another feather _n yo_r _a_” had been revealed, with “Another feather in your cap ...