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bowling indoor sport, also called tenpins, played by rolling a ball down an alley at ten pins; for lawn bowling, see bowls . Bowling is one of the most popular participatory sports in the United States, where there are thousands of recreational leagues. A regulation bowling alley is made of... Read more
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Lock Background Locks have been used to fasten doors against thieves since earliest times. The Old Testament contains several references to locks, and the first archaeological evidence of locks are about 4,000 years old. These are Egyptian locks depicted in the pyramids.... Read more
Pins and Needles Pins and Needles
Pins and Needles (1937), a musical revue with sketches by various authors, Harold Rome (music, lyrics). [Labor Stage, 1,108 perf.] Originally mounted by the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union as a pleasant entertainment on weekends, with a cast recruited entirely from union members, this... Read more
Safety Pin Safety Pin
Safety Pin Background A coiled piece of steel wire, sharpened at one end with a catch plate at the other, the modern safety pin is a device that can be traced back to New York City in about 1825. An indebted inventor named Walter Hunt sought a way to repay a $15 debt. He... Read more
Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas 1948-, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1991-), b. Pin Point (Savannah), Ga. Raised in a poor family, he graduated (1974) from the Yale Law School and became a prominent black conservative active in Republican causes. He chaired the Equal Employment Opportunity... Read more
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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
Peter Phillips Peter Phillips
Phillips, Peter (1939– ). British painter, born in Birmingham. He studied at the Birmingham College of Art, 1955–9, and at the Royal College of Art, 1959–62, and with a number of fellow RCA students— Derek Boshier, David Hockney, Allen Jones, R. B. Kitaj—he... Read more
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Caps Small white caps made of linen or cotton and edged with lace were quite popular among women and young girls during the early eighteenth century. Two fashionable styles were a mobcap, which covered the head with a puffed white crown bordered by a lace edge, and a round-eared cap, which... Read more
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pin One of the earliest human artifacts, pins were at first made of thorns, bone, or wood and were used as clothing fasteners, hairpins, and meat skewers. These long, single-shaft pins were early imitated in metal and were often tipped with ornamental knobs. The fibulae, prototype of the safety pin... Read more

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