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Mount Greylock (Gray-lock) is mentioned in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 short story "Ethan Brand" (From The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-told Tales, 1850, 1852) as well as his posthumous "American Notebooks." Mount Greylock is the dedicatee of Herman Melville's 1852 novel Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, written at his home in Pittsfield, MA.
Illustration of a simple three-axis gimbal set; the center ring can be vertically fixed. A gimbal is a pivoted support that permits rotation of an object about an axis. A set of three gimbals, one mounted on the other with orthogonal pivot axes, may be used to allow an object mounted on the innermost gimbal to remain independent of the rotation of its support (e.g. vertical in the first ...
As good picture frames can be expensive, [1] some people find previously used frames, remove the pictures within, and reuse the frames. Block mounting is a cheap alternative to framing. The technique (also known as display mounting, photo mounting or art mounting) involves sealing high quality photographic prints onto a wooden MDF board. The ...
The Temple Warning inscription, also known as the Temple Balustrade inscription or the Soreg inscription, [ 2] is an inscription that hung along the balustrade outside the Sanctuary of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Two of these tablets have been found. [ 3] The inscription was a warning to pagan visitors to the temple not to proceed further.
The height of a rack can vary from a few inches, such as in a broadcast console, to a floor-mounted rack whose interior is 45 rack units (200.2 centimetres or 78.82 inches) high. 42U is a common configuration. Many wall-mounted enclosures for industrial equipment use 19-inch racks.
A tubular lock and key. A tubular pin tumbler lock, also known as a circle pin tumbler lock, radial lock, or the trademark Ace lock popularized by manufacturer Chicago Lock Company since 1933, is a variety of pin tumbler lock in which a number of pins are arranged in a circular pattern, and the corresponding key is tubular or cylindrical in ...
Contents. House of the Greek Epigrams. The House of the Greek Epigrams ( Casa degli Epigrammi Greci, V 1,18) is a Roman residence in the ancient town of Pompeii that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. It is named after wall paintings with inscriptions from Greek epigrams in a small room (y) next to the peristyle .
Shrine. Style. Umayyad (with later Ottoman decoration) Date established. c. 685–692[ a] Dome (s) 1. The Dome of the Rock ( Arabic: قبة الصخرة, romanized : Qubbat aṣ-Ṣaḵra) is an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.