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  • minute. It was invented between 1775 and 1779 by Samuel Crompton. The self-acting (automatic) mule was patented by Richard Roberts in 1825. At its peak...
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  • Late-acting self-incompatibility (LSI) is the occurrence of self-incompatibility (SI) in flowering plants where pollen tubes from self-pollen successfully...
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    method acting developed in the United States, that offer themselves as "a natural kind of acting that can do without conventions and be received as self-evident...
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  • railroad" is sometimes applied to gravity railroads that used special self-acting (momentum-driven) Y-shaped switches known as switchbacks to automatically...
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  • self-control, acting out is the performance of an action considered bad or anti-social. In general usage, the action performed is destructive to self...
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    the Lancashire Loom. It is a semiautomatic power loom. Although it is self-acting, it has to be stopped to recharge empty shuttles. It was the mainstay...
    47 KB (5,978 words) - 00:44, 11 December 2023
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    humans in 1783, carrying Jacques-Étienne. Joseph-Michel also invented the self-acting hydraulic ram (1796) and Jacques-Étienne founded the first paper-making...
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    britannica.com. Archived from the original on 2006-02-18. "History of the Self Playing piano and its influence on life". www.thepianoworld.com. Archived...
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    word αὐτόματος, which means "self-acting, self-willed, self-moving". An automaton (automata in plural) is an abstract self-propelled computing device which...
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  • "Acting in" is a psychological term which has been given various meanings over the years, but which is most generally used in opposition to acting out...
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    2역으로 '셀프 연기배틀'('꼭두의 계절')" [Kim Jung-hyun, Kokdu vs Do Jin-woo in a 'self-acting battle' ('Kokdu Season')] (in Korean). Osen. Archived from the original...
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    made the Lancashire Loom, a semiautomatic power loom: although it is self-acting, it has to be stopped to recharge empty shuttles. It was the mainstay...
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    Medical Services. In some countries, such as the US, there may also be self-acting groups of voluntary first responders who have been trained in first aid...
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    details are obscure, but it is known to have had an air vessel. The first self-acting ram pump was invented by the Frenchman Joseph Michel Montgolfier (best...
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    took the ring-name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world's first self-acting machine gun, based on his ability to rapidly throw a large number of...
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    writing in Close-up: Great Cinematic Performances that Isaac's character—a self-acting businessman replacing the usual "barbarous, short-fused ethnic gangster"—broke...
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    cutting, self-injury, and self-mutilation have been used for any self-harming behavior regardless of suicidal intent. Common forms of self-harm include...
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    of the power-loom is necessary, and it is a remarkable fact that the self-acting ribbon loom was known and extensively used more than a century before...
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  • brand of freeze-dried coffee, made by General Foods Maxim gun, the first self-acting machine gun Maxim Cup, South Korean Go competition Maxim DL, software...
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  • Acting Up may refer to: Acting Up (1978) Marlena Shaw Acting Up, episode of Make Me a Supermodel (season 1) Acting Up, episode of Trapped (Australian TV...
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