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1910 – "The Black & Decker Manufacturing Company" was founded by S. Duncan Black (1883–1951) and Alonzo G. Decker (1884–1956) as a small machine shop in Baltimore in September. Decker, who had only a seventh grade education, had met Black in 1906, when they were both 23-year-old workers at the Rowland Telegraph Company.
A string trimmer, also known by the portmanteau strimmer and the trademarks Weedwacker, Weed Eater and Whipper Snipper, [1] [a] is a garden power tool for cutting grass, small weeds, and groundcover. It uses a whirling monofilament line instead of a blade, which protrudes from a rotating spindle at the end of a long shaft topped by a gasoline ...
Black+Decker "Power Tools" Black+Decker power tools are used to build a skyscraper. Black+Decker "Shurb and Hedge" Promotes a special offer from Better Homes and Gardens by offering the consumer a pair of books, through a certificate from a purchase of either a hedge trimmer or a two-speed drill assortment. Black+Decker "Weekend Chores" Another ...
In 1860 a manual vacuum cleaner was invented by Daniel Hess of West Union, Iowa. Called a "carpet sweeper", it gathered dust with a rotating brush and had a bellows for generating suction. [4] [5] Another early model (1869) was the "Whirlwind", invented in Chicago in 1868 by Ives W. McGaffey. The bulky device worked with a belt driven fan ...
[48] [63] [64] This division caused problems with the first episode; Lucas had to use the ending of Return of the Jedi for Star Wars, which resulted in a Death Star being included in both films. [65] [66] [e] In 1975, Lucas envisioned a trilogy which would end with the destruction of the Empire, and possibly a prequel about Obi-Wan as a young man.
A native of Boston, Pearl attended Sharon High School in Sharon, Massachusetts.He is one of the few Division I basketball coaches who never played high school basketball, even at the junior varsity level (being the only head coach in the 2022 NCAA tournament with that distinction [a]); a shoulder injury while playing football in his first year of high school prevented him from further pursuing ...
24 instructions about that: 25 You know, until a few years ago -- I - PLEDGER, et al. -vs- JANSSEN, et al. - Page 18 1 guess the country, we've been what, 250 2 years, or whatever we are, right? We never 3 had notes. It wasn't our custom to have 4 juries take notes in jury trials. Again, I 5 don't really know the reason for that. I
Alexander Claud Cockburn (/ ˈ k oʊ b ər n / KOH-bərn; 6 June 1941 – 21 July 2012) was a Scottish-born Irish-American political journalist and writer.Cockburn was brought up by British parents in Ireland, but lived and worked in the United States from 1972.