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How It's Made is a documentary television series that premiered on January 6, 2001, on the Discovery Channel in Canada and Science in the United States. The program is produced in the Canadian province of Quebec by Productions MAJ, Inc. and Productions MAJ 2.
To fulfill this obligation, both sisters work in tandem: While one does the transport, the other uses the hotel facilities (especially the bath) to relax. Vania (ヴァーニア, Vānia) Voiced by: Ari Ozawa [9] (Japanese); Allegra Clark [11] (English) A leviathan woman, Beelzebub's assistant secretary, and Fatla's younger sister.
With the growth in popularity of video gaming in the early 1980s, a new genre of video game guide book emerged that anticipated walkthroughs. Written by and for gamers, books such as The Winners' Book of Video Games (1982) [1] and How To Beat the Video Games (1982) [2] focused on revealing underlying gameplay patterns and translating that knowledge into mastering games. [3]
Knife sharpener in Kabul, Afghanistan (1961) The Knife Grinder by Massimiliano Soldani (c.1700), Albertinum, Dresden A railway camp cook sharpens a knife blade on a stone wheel, 1927 Knife sharpening is the process of making a knife or similar tool sharp by grinding against a hard , rough surface, typically a stone , [ 1 ] or a flexible surface ...
Pomegranate (also Fruit of the Dead in Greek mythology), believed to have sprung from the blood of Adonis. It was the rule of the Moirai that anyone who consumed food or drink in the underworld had to spend eternity there. Persephone ate six pomegranate seeds while in the Underworld after becoming Hades' wife, so she had to spend six months in ...
The term is based on the word "whet", which means to sharpen a blade, [3] [4] not on the word "wet". The verb nowadays to describe the process of using a sharpening stone for a knife is simply to sharpen, but the older term to whet is still sometimes used, though so rare in this sense that it is no longer mentioned in, for example, the Oxford Living Dictionaries.
A hand-held tungsten carbide knife sharpener, with a finger guard, can be used for sharpening plain and serrated edges on pocket knives and multi-tools.. Sharpening is the process of creating or refining a blade, the edge joining two non-coplanar faces into a converging apex, thereby creating an edge of appropriate shape on a tool or implement designed for cutting.
Unsharp masking (USM) is an image sharpening technique, first implemented in darkroom photography, but now commonly used in digital image processing software. Its name derives from the fact that the technique uses a blurred , or "unsharp", negative image to create a mask of the original image.