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Snap-on Tools Corp
Snap-on Tools Corporation 2801 80th StreetKenosha, Wisconsin 53141-1410U.S.A.(414) 656-5200Fax: (414) 656-5577 Public Company Incorporated: 1920 as Snap-on Wrench CompanyEmployees: 6,800Sales: $983.8 millionStock Exchanges: New YorkSICs: 3423 Hand & Edge Tools Nee; 3546 Power-Driven... Read more |
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snapping turtle
snapping turtle large, aggressive New World freshwater turtle . The two snapping turtle species are the sole members of the family Chelydridae. Snapping turtles prefer quiet, muddy water. They spend most of their time submerged, surfacing periodically to breathe. They feed on fish and other... Read more |
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castanets
castanets , percussion instruments known to the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, possibly of Middle Eastern origin, now used primarily in Spanish dance music or imitations of it. There are many kinds, the most common consisting of two small matching pieces of hard wood or ivory, joined at the inner... Read more |
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click beetle
click beetle common name for members of the widespread beetle family Elateridae. Also called elater beetle, the click beetle has a hinge across the front of the body that allows it to flex, and a spine-and-groove arrangement on the underside of the body that provides a snapping mechanism. When a... Read more |
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skeg
skeg, the short length of keel, normally tapered or cut to a step, which in the days of sail used to project aft beyond a ship's sternpost. Its purpose was to protect the rudder if a ship went aground and attempts were made to get it off stern first. The skeg did not last long as a shipbuilding... Read more |
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Women in Science
WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Marion Donovan In 1951 Marion Donovan had a problem. The diapers of the day were made of cloth. As a young mother, she had to wash her baby's diapers by hand in hot water, then bleach and boil them. The only alternative was an expensive diaper... Read more |
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Antirrhinum
Antirrhinum (family Scrophulariaceae) A genus of herbs in which the lower leaves are opposite, the upper leaves alternate, and all are simple. The flowers are borne in racemes and have strongly 2-lipped corollas, the lower 3-lobed lip having a projecting bulge or ‘palate’ which closes... Read more |
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Otway Burns
Otway Burns c.1775-1850, American privateer, b. Onslow co., N.C. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, he outfitted the Baltimore clipper Snap-Dragon as a privateer and began one of the most spectacular privateering careers in American history. He destroyed and captured millions of dollars worth of... Read more |
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cookie
...cookie bar biscotti biscuit black & white cookie blondie brandy snap brownie butter cookie chew chocolate chip cookie crescent cookie...Newton™ florentine fortune cookie Garibaldi (biscuit bar) ginger cookie gingersnap Girl Scout cookie graham cracker hamantashen... |
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vegetable
...fava bean fennel fenugreek fiddlehead frisée galangal gherkin ginger root gourd green bean green pea Habanero pepper haricot vert...gourdsnow pea sorrel spaghetti squash spinach spring onion sugar snap pea summer squash sweet potato Swiss chard taro Thai chili pepper... |
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Ginger Snaps.(Review)
...teen angst onto a werewolf tale, Ginger Snaps shows off plenty of mood, spirit...destructive teens, Brigitte and Ginger (vividly incarnated by Emily Perkins...Carrie's voluptuous lyricism. Ginger Snaps does not push the tired diatribe... |
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Film: Sugar and spice and all things nice... Ginger Snaps is a...
The film Ginger Snaps gives new meaning to the term period...everything he was told not to do. Might Ginger Snaps be his latest attempt to shock the...the Sight and Sound critic who called Ginger Snaps "radical", have been duped. Fawcett... |
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SWEET & SOUR, BUT NOT ALWAYS SNAPPY; HOME COOKS OFTEN ADD GINGER SNAPS TO...
...for the sour part): Check. Ginger snaps? Ketchup? Let's back up a minute...specifically seek recipes using ginger snaps (crushed to add something...it seems home cooks often use ginger snaps and/or ketchup in their sauerbraten... |
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"The Hair that Wasn't There Before": Demystifying Monstrosity and...
...variations on the known. And yet, the Ginger Snaps trilogy1, a cycle of werewolf films...pubescence and feminist folklore that is Ginger Snaps" (2001:36). Like many horror movies before them, Ginger Snaps (2001) and Ginger Snaps... |
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Ginger Snaps.(Review) (movie review)
...group wants to know about. Enter Ginger Snaps. A whip-smart, darkly funny teen...story of the Fitzgerald sisters, Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte...darkness of the woods, attacking Ginger and almost carrying her away. After... |
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"Welcome to Civilization": Colonialism, the Gothic, and Canada's...
...author takes a closer look at the Ginger Snaps werewolf trilogy, examining the films...la trilogie sur les loups-garous Ginger Snaps, étudiant la construction de l'histoire coloniale...observes that with the advent of the Ginger Snaps trilogy (2000-2004) "The... |
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Review: Ginger Snaps: Twisted sisters
Ginger Snaps (18) **** Director: John Fawcett Starring...Katharine Isabelle WRITTEN by Karen Walton, Ginger Snaps continues one of the finest subgenres...heroines are sisters Brigitte (Perkins) and Ginger (Isabelle), 15 and 16 respectively... |
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Reviews: The DEMONS within; Mike Davies goes on the prowl with Canadian...
...Fawcett's Canadian werewolf movie Ginger Snaps comes as a welcome shot in the arm...what is generally male territory. Ginger Snaps is a horror movie for girls...woods, almost-16-year-old Ginger finds herself infected by something... |
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twisted sisters; Puberty is hard enough without turning into a werewolf as...
...director of Canadian horror flick Ginger Snaps, certainly isn't that. "I jokingly...of 1999's Columbine shootings. Ginger Snaps wasn't the only high school...roles two death-obsessed sisters, Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald. And yes... |
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The teen sister who turns out a real little horror; GINGER SNAPS (18).(Features)
...but she's all right nowooooh. Ginger Snaps gives us the ultimate troublesome...Scotland? The difference is that Ginger Fitzgerald (Katherine Isabelle...s anything wrong. After all, Ginger has always been a little weird... |
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