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2. Overhead clothes airer - Wikipedia

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   Overhead clothes airers were often installed, from the late eighteenth century onwards, in the laundry room of large houses and estates in Europe. Originally made by the estate handyman, by the middle of the 19th century they almost always benefited from a rope and pulley system to raise and lower the rack, and such systems began to be ...

3. Hamper - Wikipedia

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   In North America, the term generally refers to a household receptacle, often a basket, for clean (out of the dryer or off the line) or dirty clothing, regardless of its composition, i.e. "a laundry hamper". Typically a laundry hamper is used for storage and will be sturdier, taller and have a lid while a laundry basket is open and used mainly ...

4. Mangle (machine) - Wikipedia

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   A Norrahammars Bruk, model 3005-2, mangle from 1934. A mangle [1] is a mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers in a sturdy frame, connected by cogs and (in its home version) powered by a hand crank or by electricity.

5. Harvard Classics - Wikipedia

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   The set carries an inscription "This is the first set of Harvard Classics published by P.F. Collier & Son Company to be bound in DuPont Fabrikoid...". [18] The set was named after the birthplace of one of the founders of Harvard College, John Harvard, who was born in London Borough of Southwark. The set is often referred to as the "Veritas ...

6. Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia

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   A storage tank burst and flooded the streets of Boston with a 25-foot (7.6 m) high wave of molasses. Mango cult: It takes quite the cult of personality to have a fruit you gave as a gift be venerated. Masabumi Hosono: The only Japanese survivor of the Titanic sinking, and someone who wasn't welcomed in his home country after the disaster ...