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  2. Dibber - Wikipedia

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    A dibber or dibble or dibbler is a pointed wooden stick for making holes in the ground so that seeds, seedlings or small bulbs can be planted. Dibbers come in a variety of designs including the straight dibber, T-handled dibber, trowel dibber, and L-shaped dibber.

  3. Tender Buttons (book) - Wikipedia

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    Its first poem, "A Carafe, That Is a Blind Glass", is arguably its most famous, and is often cited as one of the quintessential works of Cubist literature. The book has also been, however, criticized as "a modernist triumph, a spectacular failure, a collection of confusing gibberish, and an intentional hoax".

  4. Dibbler - Wikipedia

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    The dibbler is the only member of its genus, Parantechinus, which indicates that it is an "antechinus-like (animal)". [3] The specific epithet, apicalis, means "pointed".". This genus formerly included the sandstone dibbler, now placed in the genus Pseudantech

  5. Bulb (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Bulb Energy, a British-based energy supplier (2013–2023) The Better Use of Light Bulbs Act (BULB Act), an unenacted U.S. federal legislative proposal; Bulbs, a slang term for testicles. Bulbus glandis

  6. A 230-volt incandescent light bulb. Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb. [ 419 ] The team of inventors Edison employed at his laboratories in Menlo Park, New Jersey did, however, develop the first practical light bulb in 1880 (employing a carbonized bamboo filament), shortly prior to Joseph Swan , who invented an even more efficient ...

  7. ABC of Reading - Wikipedia

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    ABC of Reading [1] is a book by the 20th-century Imagist poet Ezra Pound published in 1934. In it, Pound sets out an approach by which one may come to appreciate and understand literature (focusing primarily on poetry).

  8. Thomson's lamp - Wikipedia

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    The thought experiment concerns a lamp that is toggled on and off with increasing frequency. Thomson's lamp is a philosophical puzzle based on infinites. It was devised in 1954 by British philosopher James F. Thomson, who used it to analyze the possibility of a supertask, which is the completion of an infinite number of tasks.

  9. Boophone disticha - Wikipedia

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    Boophone disticha is a bulbous tropical and subtropical flowering plant, endemic to Africa.Commonly called the century plant [4] or tumbleweed, [3] Boophone disticha was first collected in 1781 from South Africa by Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg and described by Carl Linnaeus as Amaryllis disticha. [2]