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David Flint Wood Wesley Flint Wood (b. 1996) (adopted) Felix Flint Wood (b. 1997) Amory Flint Wood (b. 1999) Conrad Flint Wood (b. 2003) Domino Flint Wood (b. 2007) The heir apparent to the earldom is the present holder's son, Nicholas Knatchbull, Lord Brabourne (born 1981).
Knapping is the shaping of flint, chert, obsidian, or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools, strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or facing walls, and flushwork decoration.
Sheet Iron tinderboxes. English, 18th and early 19th C. Pocket tinderbox with firesteel and flint. This type was used during the Boer War due to a scarcity of matches. A tinderbox, or patch box, is a container made of wood or metal containing flint, firesteel, and tinder (typically charcloth, but possibly a small quantity of dry, finely divided fibrous matter such as hemp), used together to ...
When flint and steel were used, the fire steel was often kept in a metal tinderbox together with flint and tinder. In Tibet and Mongolia, they were instead carried in a leather pouch called a chuckmuck. In Japan, percussion fire making was performed using agate or even quartz. It was also used as a ritual to bring good luck or ward off evil.
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Gulf and Western Industries, Inc. (stylized as Gulf+Western) was an American conglomerate.The company originally focused on manufacturing and resource extraction, but it began purchasing a number of entertainment companies beginning in 1966 and continuing through the 1970s.
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The Battle of the Crater cost the 29th USCI two officers and 38 enlisted men killed, four officers and 53 enlisted men wounded, and 33 enlisted men captured according to the Official Army Register. Bross and Captain William H. Flint died on 30 July, while Captain Hector H. Aiken died of his wounds on 1 August. [23]