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  2. NYT Mini Crossword Answers, Hints for Today, January 14, 2025

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    Answers to NYT's The Mini Crossword for Tuesday, January 14, 2025 Don't go any further unless you want to know exactly what the correct words are in today's Mini Crossword. NYT Mini Across Answers

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    Get ready for all of today's NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #517 on Saturday, November 9, 2024. Today's NYT Connections puzzle for Saturday, November 9, 2024 The New York Times

  4. Baton (law enforcement) - Wikipedia

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    A baton (also truncheon, nightstick, billy club, billystick, cosh, lathi, or simply stick) is a roughly cylindrical club made of wood, rubber, plastic, or metal. It is carried as a compliance tool and defensive weapon [ 1 ] by law-enforcement officers , correctional staff , security guards and military personnel .

  5. Concealment device - Wikipedia

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    The furniture can be made of different materials, but the most popular ones are wood, plastic, and metal. The first concealment furniture was invented in 1939 by John Browning Jr., who was a well-known gun designer. [7] He invented a gun cabinet that could be used as a desk or armoire.

  6. Human magnetism - Wikipedia

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    Many of the people who can adhere objects to their body can do so not only with metal but also other materials. That would suggest that the phenomenon cannot be explained by magnetism and uses a different kind of physical effect. Skeptic Benjamin Radford has used a compass to check the magnetic field of a person that claimed to be a human ...

  7. Ball and chain - Wikipedia

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    Ball and chains for both legs, Sagalunds museum, Finland. A ball and chain (also known as leg irons [1]) is a physical restraint device historically used to bind prisoners of both adolescent and adult ages. [2]

  8. Physical restraint - Wikipedia

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    Modern prison restraints including steel handcuffs and belly chains A full Medical Restraint System. Physical restraints are used: primarily by police and prison authorities to obstruct delinquents and prisoners from escaping or resisting [1] British Police officers are authorised to use leg and arm restraints, if they have been instructed in their use.

  9. Lead shielding - Wikipedia

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    Lead's high density is caused by the combination of its high atomic number and the relatively short bond lengths and atomic radius. The high atomic number means that more electrons are needed to maintain a neutral charge and the short bond length and a small atomic radius means that many atoms can be packed into a particular lead structure.