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2. Official Table of Drops - Wikipedia

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   The Official Table of Drops, formerly issued by the British Home Office, is a manual which is used to calculate the appropriate length of rope for long drop hangings. Following a series of failed hangings, including those of John Babbacombe Lee , a committee chaired by Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare was formed in 1886 to discover and report on ...

3. Shimenawa - Wikipedia

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   Hemp fiber is the basic material used in the production of shimenawa, and has been used since ancient times. [10] In Shinto, hemp is regarded as a sacred food with a meaning of purity and fertility. [10] After the Cannabis Control Act of 1948, when the growing of hemp was banned, [10] straw began to be used instead as the raw material of ...

4. Eupatorium cannabinum - Wikipedia

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   Eupatorium cannabinum, commonly known as hemp-agrimony, [2] or holy rope, [3] is a herbaceous plant in the family Asteraceae.It is a robust perennial native to Europe, NW. . Africa, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, the Caucasus and Centra

5. Rope (rhythmic gymnastics) - Wikipedia

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   The rope may be made of hemp or a similar synthetic material. Its length is in proportion to the size of the gymnast. [5] The rope should, when held down by the feet, reach both of the gymnasts' armpits. [6]

6. Abacá - Wikipedia

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   Manila rope will rot after a period of time when exposed to saltwater. Manila hemp rope was previously the favoured variety of rope used for executions by hanging, both in the U.K. and USA. Usually 3/4 to 1 inch diameter, boiled prior to use to take out any overelasticity. It was also used in the 19th century as whaling line. [48]

7. Hemp - Wikipedia

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   Hemp has been grown for millennia in Asia and the Middle East for its fiber. Commercial production of hemp in the West took off in the eighteenth century, but was grown in the sixteenth century in eastern England. [188] Because of colonial and naval expansion of the era, economies needed large quantities of hemp for rope and oakum. In the early ...