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  2. The Devil's Chair (urban legend) - Wikipedia

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    The Devil's Chair or Baird Chair as it is officially named in the Highland Park Cemetery of Kirksville, Missouri was first placed in the cemetery by Charles Grassle and David Baird when David's wife, Anna Maria (Hoye) Baird, died in 1911. It has become involved in "numerous legends of a type widely replicated across the U.S., especially in ...

  3. Stiperstones - Wikipedia

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    The Devil's Chair is the largest and best known. The Stiperstones ridge is a good place to view the upland landscape of the Shropshire Hills , particularly the Long Mynd to the east, and also gives extensive views towards the North Shropshire plain and the hills of Mid Wales .

  4. Rocking chair - Wikipedia

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    A Thonet rocking chair. A rocking chair or rocker is a type of chair with two curved bands (also known as rockers) attached to the bottom of the legs, connecting the legs on each side to each other. The rockers contact the floor at only two points, giving the occupant the ability to rock back and forth by shifting their weight or pushing ...

  5. History of the chair - Wikipedia

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    English Empire chairs were often heavier and more sombre than those of French design. [8] Though some stories attribute its invention to Benjamin Franklin, historians trace the rocking chair's origins to North America during the early 18th century. It arrived in England shortly after its development, although work continued in America.

  6. Devil's Chair (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Devil's Chair (Shropshire), a geologic formation in the Stiperstones, Shropshire, England Silla del Diablo , a geologic formation within the Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument in Patagonian Chile Devil's Chair, a destroyed geologic formation in the Interstate Parks on the Minnesota-Wisconsin border, US

  7. The 700-Year Royal History Behind King Charles III's ... - AOL

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    When King Charles III is officially crowned on May 6, 2023, at Westminster Abbey, he’ll be sitting in a wooden chair that’s a whopping 700 years old.The 6.5-foot-tall Baltic oak piece of royal ...

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  9. List of chairs - Wikipedia

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    A rocking Windsor chair Rocking chair (rocker), typically a wooden side chair or armchair with legs mounted on curved rockers, so that the chair can sway back and forth; sometimes the rocking chair is on springs or on a platform (a "platform rocker") to avoid crushing anything, particularly children's feet or pets' tails, that get under the rockers