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  2. Ain't I a Woman? (book) - Wikipedia

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    The work which Black women have been forced to perform, either in slavery or in a discriminatory workplace, that would be non-gender conforming for white women has been used against Black women as a proof of their emasculating behavior. hooks argues that Black nationalism was largely a patriarchal and misogynist movement, seeking to overcome ...

  3. 3D-printed firearm - Wikipedia

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    Although it is possible to create fully-printed plastic firearms and silencers, these tend to have short working lives. [2] 3D-printed gun culture is built around the printing of open-source firearm frames and receivers, the use of standard, metal commercial components (like an action and barrel), and other parts that can be made or purchased ...

  4. Talk:Words per minute - Wikipedia

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    The article reads: "Policy debaters often speak 350 to 400 words per minute, while Conversations are maintained at around 200 wpm, and although research by Ronald Carver has demonstrated that adults can listen with full comprehension at 300 wpm, even auctioneers can only speak at about 250 wpm." So policy debaters speak faster than auctioneers?

  5. Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free

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    Both Daniel and his brother are major gun enthusiasts that meet Wilson with rifles slung over shoulder. Daniel introduces his brother named Eric. Eric works at a security company that is working on a "biometric scanner." [2] Eric has what looks like a short barrel rifle (SBR), but it turns out the seeming rifle is actually a AR-style pistol.

  6. High rising terminal - Wikipedia

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    Because HRT has been popularized as "Valley Girl Speak", it has acquired an almost exclusively feminine gender connotation. Studies confirm that more women use HRT than men. [ 20 ] Linguist Thomas J. Linneman contends, "The more successful a man is, the less likely he is to use HRT; the more successful a woman is, the more likely she is to use ...

  7. Monolingualism - Wikipedia

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    Monoglottism (Greek μόνος monos, "alone, solitary", + γλῶττα glotta, "tongue, language") or, more commonly, monolingualism or unilingualism, is the condition of being able to speak only a single language, as opposed to multilingualism.

  8. Stenomask - Wikipedia

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    Court reporter tests his stenomask. [1]A stenomask is a hand-held microphone built into a padded, soundproof enclosure that fits over the speaker's mouth or nose and mouth. . Some lightweight versions may be fitted with an elastic neck strap to hold them in place while freeing the user's hands for other tas

  9. Improvised firearm - Wikipedia

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    A zip gun constructed from a toy cap gun. The gun is capable of shooting a .22 caliber round. More advanced improvised guns can use parts from other gun-like products. One example is the cap gun. A cap gun can be disassembled, and a barrel added, turning the toy gun into a real one.