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Nimravidae is an extinct family of carnivorans, sometimes known as false saber-toothed cats, whose fossils are found in North America and Eurasia.Not considered to belong to the true cats (family Felidae), the nimravids are generally considered closely related and classified as a distinct family in the suborder Feliformia.
A tailstock, also known as a foot stock, [1] is a device often used as part of an engineering lathe, wood-turning lathe, or used in conjunction with a rotary table on a milling machine. It is usually used to apply support to the longitudinal rotary axis of a workpiece being machined.
NMTB/CAT, BT and HSK are examples of the self-releasing variety. For light loads (such as encountered by a lathe tailstock or a drill press), tools with self-holding tapers are simply slipped onto or into the spindle; the pressure of the spindle against the workpiece drives the tapered shank tightly into the tapered hole.
The cat (Felis catus), also referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species of the family Felidae . Advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the domestication of the cat occurred in the Near East around 7500 BC.
To make a cat o' nine tails, a rope is unraveled into three small ropes, each of which is unraveled again. The 19th-century British naval cat was made out of a piece of rope, thicker than a man's wrist (about 6 centimetres or 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches), 1.5 metres (5 ft) in length. The first ninety centimetres (3 ft) were stiff and solid, and the ...
From the mid-18th century onwards, there was an upsurge in the public's fear of being mistakenly buried alive [43] and much debate about the uncertainty of the signs of death. Various suggestions were made to test for signs of life before burial, ranging from pouring vinegar and pepper into the corpse's mouth to applying red hot pokers to the ...
A February 2009 installment of the comic strip Crankshaft depicted a cat named Barney who had this ability. He correctly foresees the death of character Lucy McKenzie. In 2009, the 18th episode in the 5th season of the TV show House, "Here Kitty", involved a cat that had predicted numerous deaths by curling up next to dying person's bedside.
The Cat Who Saw Stars: 0-515-12739-6 6 Qwill takes a vacation in Mooseville. 22 2000 The Cat Who Robbed a Bank: 0-515-12994-1 9 A jewelry dealer from Chicago comes to visit and is murdered. 23 2001 The Cat Who Smelled a Rat: 0-399-14665-2 2 A very dry year and concerns about wildfires have everyone praying for snow. 24 2002 The Cat Who Went Up ...