Not only that, the mice with HCN2 cut out were still able to feel acute pain – the necessary, protective jolt that tells us to remove our finger from a drawing pin.
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Campbell's prose has a powerful sense of clarity, particularly her visual descriptions, in which vivid details punctuate the text: our attention is drawn to a scientific presenter's bright red gloves, or the tiny puncture-mark made by a drawing pin in a painting.
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The drawing pin was invented in name and as a mass- produced item in what is now the United States in the mid/late 1750s. It was first mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1759. It was said that the use of the newly invented drawing pin to attach notices to school house doors was making significant contribution to the whittling away of their gothic doors. Modern drawing pins were also found as standard in architects’ drawing boxes in the late 18th century.
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Design with pin formed from a cutout from the head A drawing pin has two basic components: the head, often made of plastic, metal or wood, and the body, usually made of steel or brass. The head is wide to distribute the force of pushing the pin in, allowing only the hands to be used. Many head designs exist: flat, domed, spherical, cylindrical and a variety of novelty heads such as hearts or stars. Drawing pin heads also come in a variety of colours.
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Drawing pin A drawing pin (British English) or thumb tack (North American English) is a short nail or pin used to fasten items to a wall or board for display and intended to be inserted by hand, usually using the thumb. A variety of names are used to refer to different designs intended for various purposes. Push-pin or map pin Thumb tacks made of brass, tin or iron may be referred to as brass tacks, brass pins, tin tacks or iron tacks, respectively. These terms are particularly used in the idiomatic expression to come (or get) down to brass (or otherwise) tacks, meaning to consider basic facts of a situation.
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The push pin was invented in 1900 by Edwin Moore and quickly became a success. These pins are also called "map pins" and are distinguished by having an easy to grip head. There is also a new push pin called a "paper cricket". See also drawing pin or thumb tack.
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Geradts studied electronics at the Delft Technical University where he received his master's degree in 1977. He then became a professor on measurement and control systems as well as navigation and communication equipment from 1977–1987. He published hundreds of articles and several technical books. In the late 1980s, just before moving to the south of France, he began drawing pin ups.
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Pålsboda is a locality situated in Hallsberg Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 1,552 inhabitants in 2010. Pålsboda has one school, Folkasboskolan, one care centre, a couple of kindergartens, one ICA convenience store and two pizzerias. Pålsboda is also known for its Volkswagen museum with a full collection of VW Beetles, from the first ever produced to the last ever produced. It has the only drawing pin factory in northern Europe, supplying almost all the Scandinavian countries.
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These can be particularly useful to mark different locations on a map. Some drawing pin designs have a portion cut out of the head and bent downward to produce a pin. FEMA Logistics specialists use a map of Tennessee and coloured pins to create a visual reference of the location and status of Disaster Recovery Centers Domed or gripped heads are sometimes preferred over flat heads as dropped flat-headed pins may easily point upward, posing a hazard. Drawing pins also pose a hazard of ingestion and choking, where they may do serious harm.
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In Belgian Dutch, there are also fewer vowels pronounced as diphthongs. When it comes to spelling, Belgian Dutch language purists historically avoided writing words using a French spelling, or searched for specific translations of words derived from French, while the Dutch prefer to stick with French spelling, as it differentiates Dutch more from the neighbouring German. For example, the Dutch word "punaise" (English: Drawing pin) is derived directly from the French language. Belgian Dutch language purists have lobbied to accept the word "duimspijker" (literally: thumb spike) as official Dutch, though the Dutch Language Union never accepted it as standard Dutch.
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He always seemed interested in drawings, so as practice he would mock pictures of newspapers and later started drawing pin up girls. Manuel Acosta served in the United States Air Force during World War II, during which time he continued practicing his artwork, and became an American citizen shortly after discharge. In the fall of 1946 he attended the College of Mines and Metallurgy (now the University of Texas at El Paso), where he studied drawing and sculpture under sculptor Urbici Soler. He started to sketch people and views from El Paso's barrios in a realistic style.
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After returning from Sydney, Australia where Archie had spent much of World War II, he purchased a house in Acacia Gardens in West Wickham, Kent and worked in a purpose built studio in the grounds. Archie spent much of the early post war years drawing pin-ups but in the 1960s and 1970s turned his artistic talents to greeting cards which could be seen in the greeting card shops across the UK at the time - having adopted the signature 'Gluckli' as the increasingly well- known identifying mark to Dickens' obvious Archie style. In March 2002 Tony Blair, the then British Prime Minister, wore a Paul Smith designer shirt that displayed one of Dickens' paintings on the cuff.
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The following morning, Bean wakes up excited that it's Christmas morning, and proceeds to check the stockings – his is a sock that has the other sock of the pair inside; Teddy's contains a tin that holds a pair of drawing pin eyes within; the mouse's contains a piece of cheese, which Bean immediately places onto a mousetrap. Bean soon gets to work in the kitchen on preparing the large turkey he won at the market, but while stuffing it, his watch comes off and gets lost inside. Unable to find it, Bean sticks his head into the turkey, whereupon he finds himself unable to pull it off just as his girlfriend, Irma arrives. After attempting to cover up his predicament, Irma eventually helps him to remove it, allowing Bean to recover his watch but at the cost of the turkey as it is lost out of the window in the process.
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