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  2. Evaporative cooler - Wikipedia

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    An evaporative cooler (also known as evaporative air conditioner, swamp cooler, swamp box, desert cooler and wet air cooler) is a device that cools air through the evaporation of water. Evaporative cooling differs from other air conditioning systems, which use vapor-compression or absorption refrigeration cycles.

  3. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    The imperial gallon was originally defined as 10 pounds (4.5359 kg) of water in 1824, and refined as exactly 4.54609 litres in 1985. Traditionally, when describing volumes, recipes commonly give measurements in the following units: Tumbler (10 fluid ounces; [29] [30] named after a typical drinknig glass)

  4. Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 - Wikipedia

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    The Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 is a United States federal law that establishes the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public works projects for laborers and mechanics. It applies to "contractors and subcontractors performing on federally funded or assisted contracts in excess of $2,000 for the construction, alteration, or ...

  5. Francis Bacon - Wikipedia

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    Francis Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 [13] at York House near Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper of the Great Seal) by his second wife, Anne (Cooke) Bacon, the daughter of the noted Renaissance humanist Anthony Cooke. His mother's sister was married to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, making Burghley Bacon's ...

  6. Refrigerator car - Wikipedia

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    The compound was readily available and seemed like an ideal replacement for frozen water. Dry ice melts at −109 °F or −78.33 °C (versus 32 °F or 0 °C for conventional ice) and was twice as effective thermodynamically. Overall weight was reduced as the need for brine and water was eliminated.

  7. Cattle slaughter in India - Wikipedia

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    Beef as the traditional food of impoverished Dalits is a reconstruction of history and Indian beef dishes are a Mughal era innovation and more recently invented tradition. It is the nineteenth century politics that has associated beef and cattle slaughter with Muslim and Dalit identity, states Sebastia. [151]

  8. Wikipedia:Requested articles/Arts and entertainment

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    Also one of only a few companies that sell Scottish style back bacon, Scottish style meat pies, smoked haddock and other Scottish specialty items in the U.S. Recently in the news for haggis sales, relocation to N.C. from N.J. and for sales related to Scottish holidays like St. Andrew's Day, Burns Night and Tartan Day.