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Nest of tables ("quartetto", early 1800s) Nest of tables (also known as nested tables, nesting tables) is a set of few tables with progressively smaller heights and frames, so that they can be stacked when not in use. [1] A smaller table slides inside the frame of a larger one until it engages the edge of the back frame. [2] Typically a set ...
Crystal glass (sometimes called flint glass) is a high-quality clear glass that needs an additive known as red lead. In the British colonies that would become the United States, crystal began being produced right before 1770 by a works led by Henry William Stiegel in the Province of Pennsylvania . [ 23 ]
Window glass was produced throughout the period on a small scale, in the form of crown glass and broad glass. [ 3 ] [ 11 ] This was predominantly made from green glass throughout the 16th century. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] While rare in the early 16th century, glass windows soon became a symbol of increasing wealth and status.
Many tables are made of wood or wood-based products; some are made of other materials including metal and glass. Most tables are composed of a flat surface and one or more supports (legs). A table with a single, central foot is a pedestal table. Long tables often have extra legs for support. Dinner table and chairs
A Missouri couple has been charged with child abuse after police claim they performed a circumcision on a child at their home despite not having the medical training to do so.
A video on YouTube from the German premiere of Water for Elephants days after that Today interview shows the actor admit he "actually made the whole thing up" when an interviewer asked him about ...
In beekeeping, a Langstroth hive is any vertically modular beehive that has the key features of vertically hung frames, a bottom board with entrance for the bees, boxes containing frames for brood and honey (the lowest box for the queen to lay eggs, and boxes above where honey may be stored) and an inner cover and top cap to provide weather protection. [1]
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Defense has not won any kind of championship for No. 3 Texas this season, but it lifted the Longhorns one step closer to the SEC title game during a hard-fought 20-10 win ...