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A retrieval lanyard is a nylon webbing lanyard used to raise and lower workers into confined spaces, such as storage tanks. An activation lanyard is a lanyard used to fire an artillery piece or arm the fuze on a bomb leaving an aircraft. [5] A deactivation lanyard is a dead man's switch, where pulling a lanyard free will disable a dangerous device.
The Lansdowne portrait likely (and fancifully) depicts President Washington's December 7, 1795 annual address to the Fourth U.S. Congress. [1]: 172 The highly unpopular Jay Treaty, settling claims between the United States and Great Britain left over from the Revolutionary War, had been presented to the U.S. Senate for approval earlier in the year.