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Barn doors, or occasionally a set of barn doors, are an attachment fitted to the front of a Fresnel lantern, a type of lantern used in films, television, and theatres. The attachment has the appearance of a large set of barn doors, but in fact there are four leaves, two larger and widening on the outside, two smaller and getting narrower towards the outside.
Ormolu. A garniture of an ormolu clock and candelabra at the Palace of Versailles in France. Ormolu ( / ˈɔːrməˌluː /; from French or moulu 'ground/pounded gold') is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold – mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way. The mercury is driven off in a ...
Recreation of the bronze laver at Brigham Young University. The instructions given to Moses in the Book of Exodus included the creation of a bronze laver (Hebrew: כיור נחשת kîyōr nəḥōšeṯ), to be sited outside the Tabernacle of Meeting, between the Tabernacle door and the Altar of Burnt Offering, for Aaron, his sons and their successors as priests to wash their hands and their ...
Even Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager who later started an anti-hacking nonprofit, has offered to help clean-up Trump’s dodgy IT security in the name of fair elections. This time around ...
August 1, 2024 at 10:36 AM. A 54-year-old convicted sex offender is facing new charges after prosecutors say he sexually assaulted a woman on Milwaukee's east side who defended herself by stabbing ...
Bronze. Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon. These additions produce a range of alloys that may be harder than ...
Texas' governor is requiring hospitals track the cost of care for people who are undocumented, requiring hospitals to collect immigration status for people seeking care.
Mortise lock. The two main parts of a mortise lock. Left: the lock body, installed in the thickness of a door. This example has two bolts: a sprung latch at the top, and a locking bolt at the bottom. Right: the box keep, installed in the doorjamb. A mortise lock (also spelled mortice lock in British English) is a lock that requires a pocket ...