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  2. Latch - Wikipedia

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    A deadlocking latch bolt (deadlatch) is an elaboration on the latch bolt which includes a guardbolt to prevent "shimming" or "jimmying" of the latch bolt. When the door is closed, the latch bolt and guardbolt are retracted together, and the door closes normally, with the latch bolt entering the strike plate.

  3. Thomas Gainsborough - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ n z b ər ə /; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds , [ 1 ] he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. [ 2 ]

  4. Gainsborough, Lincolnshire - Wikipedia

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    The Domesday Book (1086) records that Gainsborough was a community of farmers, villeins and sokemen, tenants of Geoffrey de Guerche.. The Lindsey Survey of 1115–1118 records that Gainsborough was held by Nigel d'Aubigny, the forebear of the Mowbray family, whose interest in Gainsborough continued until at least the end of the 14th century.

  5. Thomas Gainsborough's Cottage Door works - Wikipedia

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    Hilly landscape with peasant family at a Cottage Door, Children playing and Woodcutter returning The Woodcutters Return. Thomas Gainsborough was the first British artist to employ cottages as a major subject, [1] [2] in what has become known as his "Cottage Door" paintings, painted during the final decades of his life; and was in the vanguard of a late 18th century fad of interest in them.

  6. Gainsborough's House - Wikipedia

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    Gainsborough's House is the birthplace of the leading English painter Thomas Gainsborough. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is now a museum and gallery, located at 46 Gainsborough Street in Sudbury , Suffolk, England. [ 3 ]

  7. Gainsborough chair - Wikipedia

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    A Gainsborough chair (also known as a Martha Washington chair in the United States) [1] is a type of armchair made in England during the eighteenth century. The chair was wide, with a high back, open sides and short arms, and was normally upholstered in leather .

  8. Three-point locking - Wikipedia

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    Three point lock are also commonly used in wardrobes, like from Hettich [6] [7] Single-point locking may provide adequate security for some situations on tiered lockers, as the doors are shorter, and therefore more difficult to force open; however, the taller doors of full length lockers and cabinets are more susceptible to the application of leverage.

  9. Positive locking device - Wikipedia

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    A wheel hub with a castellated nut secured in the center using a cotter pin to prevent it from unscrewing. A positive locking device is a device used in conjunction with a fastener in order to positively lock the fastener. This means that the fastener cannot work loose from vibrations. The following is a list of positive locking devices: [1]