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Casing nails – have a head that is smoothly tapered, in comparison to the "stepped" head of a finish nail. When used to install casing around windows or doors, they allow the wood to be pried off later with minimal damage when repairs are needed, and without the need to dent the face of the casing in order to grab and extract the nail. Once ...
The casing is sealed in wax and placed in a bamboo cylinder with a nail in the bottom, which is then buried in the ground so only the wax on top is showing. [5] When a person steps on the wax top the casing is pressed in to the nail which then blows scrap metal into the soldier's foot.
A pipe knife is another three-in-one tool: the reamer and pick fold into the casing in the same fashion as a pocketknife, while the blunt end is used as a tamper. A pipe nail is a nail-shaped tool with a tamper at one end and a reamer at the other. Tampers and reamers are also made as separate tools.
US Government Documents is a digital collection of documents at the Internet Archive. This collection contains digital versions of over 50,000 United States Government documents. The contributors of this collection are Kahle/Austin Foundation , MSN and Omidyar Network .
English: PDF version of the US History Wikibook. This file was created with MediaWiki to LaTeX . The LaTeX source code is attached to the PDF file (see imprint).
The first edition was issued in 1935; before the 1973/74 edition it was known as the United States Government Organization Manual. The Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.
Casing may refer to an enclosing shell, tube, or surrounding material. It may also refer to: Cartridge (firearms), shell enclosing the explosive propellant in ammunition; Casing (borehole), metal tube used during the drilling of a well; Casing (molding), decorative molding surrounding door or window openings
The United Nations Istanbul Protocol describes nail removal and the insertion of objects such as wire under the nail as forms of torture. [2]In the aftermath of Italy's republican referendum after World War II, efforts to prosecute former officials in the Fascist government for collaborationism and war crimes resulted in the legal differentiation between the concepts of normal brutality, cruel ...