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a given piece of land by making use of resources or ecological processes that would otherwise not be utilized by a single crop. The degree of spatial...

parks and gardens of Barcelona cover an area of 2,784 hectares. Its management depends on the Municipal Institute of Parks and Gardens of Barcelona (in Catalan:...

craftsmanship painstaking and refined. The emphasis is on even stitching, delicate coloration, and local flavor. Sichuan embroidery is used to decorate quilt...

or buckling while under stress. The upper and lower blades are the piece of machinery that actually do the cutting, while the gauging device is used to...

in her history from the Great Exhibition of 1851, argues that it was the development of domestic machinery that led to women's liberation. The mangle...

propeller shaft, built by the Mersey Iron Works, was the largest single piece of machinery. 68 ft (21 m) long and 28 inches (71 cm) in diameter, the shaft was...

consist of rolled-up rawhide, are used for leatherwork, jewellery, and assembling electric motors and delicate machinery. Plastic mallets, made of nylon...

Chateau was a Channel 4 reality television series, which followed the story of couple Dick Strawbridge and Angela ("Angel") Adoree and their family as they...

plywood and as a cosmetic surface veneer on some grades of chipboard. Watchmakers lathes are delicate but precise metalworking lathes, usually without provision...

name of the game cryptanalyst Alan Turing proposed for answering the question "Can machines think?", in his 1950 seminal paper "Computing Machinery and...

movement in World War II. In the first pages of the script, Sarah Connor is described as "19, small and delicate features. Pretty in a flawed, accessible...

gold dollar or gold one-dollar piece is a gold coin that was struck as a regular issue by the United States Bureau of the Mint from 1849 to 1889. The...

blast wheel was built around the 1950s, Qinggong Machinery is one of the earliest manufacturers of blast wheel. Micro-abrasive blasting is dry abrasive...

range of frequencies. This is defined as a device that reflects and absorbs waves of oscillatory energy, extending from a piece of working machinery or electrical...

made using starch (in the form of flour, cornflour, arrowroot, or potato flour), the flavor of the dish is much more delicate if eggs are used as the thickening...

and functioned until the end of the 17th century. It needed constant repair due to the action of the water on its delicate mechanism, and by the 19th century...

For this task they may select a point chisel, which is a long, hefty piece of steel with a point at one end and a broad striking surface at the other...

convert lines of force into a delicate lattice. The subtext of the building, to borrow Kenneth Clark's terms, is the transformation of the merely naked...

retained when loading and exposing the plate and served both to protect the delicate emulsion and to inhibit halation. The 1906 U.S. patent describes the process...

and delicate machinery, adjusted and arranged upon philosophical principles and prepared by the highest mechanical skill." 56 U.S. at 117, Text of Rubber-Tip...