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Obsolete cannons were often used as wheel guards in the Netherlands, such as for the Catherine's gate in Dordrecht. A guard stone, jostle stone or chasse-roue (French lit. "wheel chaser"), is a projecting metal, concrete, or stone exterior architectural element located at the corner and/or foot of gates, portes-cochères, garage entries, and walls to prevent damage from vehicle tires and wheels.
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming and associated activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built above ground (as a freestanding construction or as part of a building or other larger structure), and may be found as a ...
The stone blocks saw little popularity until 1880, when Friedrich Adolf Richter, a wealthy businessman who had built a small empire in Rudolstadt, purchased the rights to the process for 1,000 marks, plus about 4800 marks (including 800 marks still owing) for the tooling and machines being used to produce them. He developed a series of sets of ...
The British Aerospace ATP (Advanced Turbo-Prop) is an airliner designed and produced by British Aerospace. It was an evolution of the Hawker Siddeley HS 748 , a fairly successful feederliner of the 1960s.
America’s Swimming Pool Company (ASP) is a franchised swimming pool service chain, specializing in swimming pool maintenance, repair, and renovation. Stewart Vernon founded America's Swimming Pool Company in 2001 [ 1 ] in Macon , Georgia , where the franchise headquarters resides.
Treehouse Masters, The Pool Master Insane Pools: Off the Deep End [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is a home improvement show airing on Animal Planet [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and DIY Network [ 6 ] that follows pool designer Lucas Congdon [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and his team from Lucas Lagoons.
Stone was laid down on 14 September 2018, launched on 4 October 2019 by Huntington Ingalls Industries and christened on 29 February 2020. She will be expected to be commissioned in February 2021. Her sea trials took place on 15 September in the Gulf of Mexico and was successfully delivered to the Coast Guard on 10 November 2020. [8]
Early Bronze Age stone wrist-guards are found across Europe from around 2400-1900 BC and are closely associated with the Beaker culture and Únětice culture. In the past they have been variously known as stone bracers , stone arm-guards and armlets , although "stone wrist-guard" is currently the favoured terminology; [ 1 ] and it is no longer ...