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2. Table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   A further development in this direction was the "birdcage" table, the top of which could both revolve and tilt. Chess table; Pembroke tables, first introduced during the 18th century, were popular throughout the 19th century. Their main characteristic was a rectangular or oval top with folding or drop leaves on each side. Most examples have one ...

3. Knife game - Wikipedia

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   Knife game being played, with white line representing the motion of the game. The knife game, pinfinger, nerve, bishop, knife fingies, five finger fillet (FFF), or chicken [citation needed] is a game wherein, placing the palm of one's hand down on a table with fingers apart, using a knife (such as a pocket or pen knife), or other sharp object, one attempt to stab back and forth between one's ...

4. Arc diagram - Wikipedia

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   Arc diagram. An arc diagram is a style of graph drawing, in which the vertices of a graph are placed along a line in the Euclidean plane, with edges being drawn as semicircles in one or both of the two halfplanes bounded by the line, or as smooth curves formed by sequences of semicircles. In some cases, line segments of the line itself are also ...

5. Pride of Baltimore - Wikipedia

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   Pride of Baltimore. Coordinates: 23°00′N 67°00′W. Pride of Baltimore in October 1981. The Pride of Baltimore was a reproduction of a typical early 19th-century "Baltimore clipper" topsail schooner, commissioned to represent Baltimore, Maryland. This was a style of vessel made famous by its success as a privateer commerce raider, a small ...

6. Credence table - Wikipedia

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   Credence table. An elaborate Rococo credence table with marble top. A credence table is a small side table in the sanctuary of a Christian church which is used in the celebration of the Eucharist. ( Latin credens, -entis, believer ). The credence table is usually placed near the wall on the epistle (south) side of the sanctuary, and may be ...

7. Slab pull - Wikipedia

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   Slab pull. Slab pull is a geophysical mechanism whereby the cooling and subsequent densifying of a subducting tectonic plate produces a downward force along the rest of the plate. In 1975 Forsyth and Uyeda used the inverse theory method to show that, of the many forces likely to be driving plate motion, slab pull was the strongest. [1]