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  2. Curtain rod - Wikipedia

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    Curtain rods can be made of many materials including wood, metal and plastic. They are available in a variety of styles and designs. While many curtain rods are simple straight poles, there are also curved and hinged options. These designs facilitate installation in bay windows, around curved walls, and in corners. [1]

  3. Fly system - Wikipedia

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    Fly loft of the Theater Bielefeld in Germany. A fly system, or theatrical rigging system, is a system of ropes, pulleys, counterweights and related devices within a theater that enables a stage crew to fly (hoist) quickly, quietly and safely components such as curtains, lights, scenery, stage effects and, sometimes, people.

  4. Corbel - Wikipedia

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    In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, [1] a type of bracket. [2] A corbel is a solid piece of material in the wall, whereas a console is a piece applied to the structure. A piece of timber projecting in the same way was called a "tassel" or a "bragger" in ...

  5. Bottom bracket - Wikipedia

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    The plug is machined to accept a typical bottom bracket, but offset from the center of the plug, so that by rotating the plug, the location of the bottom bracket (and hence the chain tension) may be adjusted (fore and aft to tension the chain, the upper or lower eccentric position for a given chain length can be chosen to fine tune bottom ...

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    The House rejected a Republican bill to avoid a government shutdown after President-elect Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk and the far-right blew up an earlier, bipartisan deal.

  7. Glossary of firefighting equipment - Wikipedia

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    Short hook with a pointed tip is a pike pole; longer hook on a San Francisco hook; two offset hooks on either side of tip is a universal hook; long p-shaped hook is a Boston rake for pulling plaster and lath; short hook with claw on opposite side of tip is either a gypsum hook or the narrower ceiling hook; pike pole with a short handle is a ...

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    Against the library’s floor-to-ceiling windows, I devour a memoir of a young woman who leaves New York City for a life with a reindeer herder in the Arctic and a passionate work of armchair ...

  9. Window blind - Wikipedia

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    Various window blind styles. A window blind is a type of window covering. [1] There are many different kinds of window blinds which use a variety of control systems. A typical window blind is made up of several long horizontal or vertical slats of various types of hard material, including wood, plastic or metal which are held together by cords that run through the blind slats.