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A gin pole used to install a weather vane atop the 200-foot steeple of a church Roof trusses being assembled with gin poles. The gin pole is derived from a gyn, and considered a form of derrick, called a standing derrick or pole derrick, [2] distinguished from sheers (or shear legs) by having a single boom rather than a two-legged one.
Poles, from which these buildings get their name, are natural shaped or round wooden timbers 4 to 12 inches (100 to 300 mm) in diameter. [4] The structural frame of a pole building is made of tree trunks, utility poles, engineered lumber or chemically pressure-treated squared timbers which may be buried in the ground or anchored to a concrete slab.
By the late 2000s, the gum wall had grown to 50 feet (15 m) long and included pieces as high as 20 feet (6.1 m). [2] [1] Some contributors to the gum wall arranged their pieces to create small works of art. [4] As of 2024, the gum wall is 54 feet (16 m) long and 8 feet (2.4 m) high, with an estimated density of 180 pieces of gum per brick.
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Crows, black licorice flavored gum drops, are also considered to be part of the Dots family, created in the 1890s by confectioners Ernest Von Au and Joseph Maison. There is an urban legend that Crows were supposed to be called "Black Rose", but the printer misheard the name as "Black Crows" and printed wrappers with the wrong name on them. [ 4 ]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump has tapped Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general who presented him with a plan to end the war in Ukraine, to serve as a special envoy for the conflict, the ...
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