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stabilizers
stabilizers are used to minimize the rolling of a ship. They are normally fitted to cruise ships and ferries, where passenger comfort is essential, and to large container ships, where it is necessary to minimize the rolling forces on the containers stacked on deck. They should not be confused with... Read more |
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Rolling Pin
Rolling Pin Background A rolling pin is a simple tool used to flatten dough. History The first civilization known to have used the rolling pin was the Etruscans. These people may have migrated from Asia Minor to Northern Italy or may have originated in Italy. They established a... Read more |
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master of the rolls
master of the rolls. The office developed out of the earlier office of keeper of the rolls of chancery, whose holder bore responsibility for safe custody of chancery records and was the most senior of the clerks of chancery. The new title was first used in the late 15th century and was in regular... Read more |
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Pat Boone
Pat BooneSinger One of the undisputed icons of the 1950s, Pat Boone is one of rock 'n' roll's least appreciated founding fathers. Like Elvis Presley, Boone was a humble country boy aspiring to croon his way to pop chart fame; both made their entrée through the budding R&B-based rock 'n' roll... Read more |
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Samuel Rolles Driver
Samuel Rolles Driver 1846-1914, English clergyman and biblical scholar. He was regius professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and from 1876 to 1884 was a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee. His chief work is his Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament ... Read more |
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Esther Rolle
Esther Rolle 1920family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">–1998 Actress Found Success as Maid Florida Evans Rebelled Against Cartoonish Stereotype Moved into Filmwork Sources Esther Rolle is best remembered for her portrayal of the sympathetic but strict mother of three on the 1970s CBS sitcom Good... Read more |
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rock and roll
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Richard Rolle of Hampole
Richard Rolle of Hampole , c.1300-c.1349, English religious writer, a Yorkshire hermit. He wrote mainly in Latin, but his English works are important for the history of the language. Some of Rolle's Latin works were translated after his death into English, thus becoming disseminated and influential... Read more |
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Charles Stewart Rolls
Rolls, Charles Stewart (1877–1910). Rolls was the third son of a wealthy Monmouthshire landowner, who served as Conservative MP for Monmouth 1880–5 and was created Lord Llangattock in 1892. He studied mechanical engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a bicycling... Read more |
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Ho Ho Ho, and a bottle of glue.(Column)
...ticks over towards the hour of doom. For openers, count up your Christmas cards. Yes...bit young for it, isn't he? Go and swop it for snakes and ladders. Yes, you were...Tube station who sells the stuff by the roll. It may be cheap and nasty and tears as... |