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"jackstraw" Definitions
  1. one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
  2. jackstraws,
  3. a game in which players compete in picking up, one by one, as many jackstraws as possible without disturbing the heap.
  4. Obsolete
  5. a straw-stuffed figure of a man; scarecrow; straw man.
  6. an insignificant person.

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Jackstraw Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U. S. state of Montana. Jackstraw Lake is south of Bearhead Mountain.
The forest, swept as by a giant broom, became a jackstraw tangle of destruction.
What a jackstraw world this had proved itself to him in this last week!
He risks being stripped of his unpaid job as Parliamentary aide to Foreign Secretary JackStraw.
Floods have caused severe damage to homes on Warren Street when Jackstraw Brook, which runs under the road, overflows during rainstorms.
Jackstraws is a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw off of a pile without moving any of the others.
Walter Wolfgang, 84, famously ejected from the 2005 Labour Party conference for heckling JackStraw, was among the organisers of the first Aldermaston rally.
His life was made to play out at high levels of government-a jackstraw caught up in the winds of the law and the land.
He threw himself down on the far side and saw a white, hellishly misshapen creature pulling itself from beneath a jackstraw tumble of atlases and travel volumes.
Footnotes for the Spring was primarily recorded and arranged by Jason Webley in his studio in Everett, Washington, though much of the piano material was recorded at The Jackstraw Cultural Center in Seattle. Footnotes for the Spring – Bandcamp. Accessed 08-10-2017 The album was officially released on October 20, 2015.
The pieces in a jackstraw set are often thematically related to farmyard tools, such as ladders, rakes, shovels, and hoes. There are typically around 45 pieces in a set and made of wood, plastic, bone, or ivory. In addition to the Jack Sticks themselves, there is typically a helper piece with a hooked end for use in snagging and manipulating pieces. Each piece has a point value, with more challenging pieces being worth more points.
Soon large farms were carved out, mills built along the Assabet River and Jackstraw Brook, and taverns flourished. Westborough's first minister, Reverend Ebenezer Parkman, shepherded the growing town of colonists through the years toward independence from Great Britain. Forty-six minutemen from Westborough fought under Captain Edmund Brigham in the Revolutionary War. In 1775, Northborough split off as the "north borough" of Westborough, much as Westborough split off from Marlborough some 58 years before.
Mason orders another scientist, Joss, to stay behind and try to repair the radio so that a field expedition can be contacted. The dead passenger is determined to be a military courier; soon after that the wreck goes up in flames. Mason leaves with the group along with the other scientist, Jackstraw, while remaining in touch with their station by means of a short range radio. Meanwhile, the field expedition returns to the station and contacts Mason.
He keeps this new development to himself and Jackstraw. Hillcrest sets out after the group but soon finds that the petrol he picked up at the station has been tampered with. Sugar has been added to the petrol disabling the engine and leading him to get bogged down. A solution is found when one of the passengers, a chemist, suggests that the petrol be mixed with water and the top layer of the resultant mixture be siphoned off.
Much of the history written about Sherman Bell has to do with his characteristics, his attitude, and his affectations. William MacLeod Raine spent some time interviewing Bell in 1904, and concluded that Bell, filled with "cocksureness", > ...sums up [any situation], largely regardless of the evidence, and comes to > an immediate decision. He is one of the most unfettered of men. It is a safe > guess that deep down in his heart he does not care one jackstraw for > abstract law.
The band began when The Decemberists' Chris Funk (dobro) and Nate Query (bass) had some time off from touring and decided to put together a side project. Other members of the band include The Decemberists' accordion player Jenny Conlee and drummer John Moen, singer and violinist Annalisa Tornfelt of Bearfoot and The Woolwines, and guitarist Jon Neufeld of Dolorean and Jackstraw. The band performed at the South by Southwest festival in March 2010, Oregon's Pickathon Festival in August 2010, and toured in October 2010.
Groovefest Music & Art Festival - formerly Groovefest American Music Festival is a multi-day music festival held in Cedar City, Utah, United States. The festival is held each year during the final week of June. It is a seven-day festival that is dedicated to American music, with genres including blues and folk, bluegrass, country, Americana, and jazz. Past notable artists have included Trampled by Turtles, Pert Near Sandstone, Richmond Fontaine, Great American Taxi, 56 Hope Road, Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Cee Cee James, Stranger, Harper & Midwest Kind, Wayne "The Train" Hancock, Jackstraw.
This chill zone may represent a chill zone which infers an intrusive origin for the ultramafic, or it may represent a zone of metasomatism and/or contamination. The orebody itself is composed of 2 to 6 metres of massive nickeliferous sulfides, usually banded and foliated pentlandite-pyrrhotite-pyrite. Dodecahedral pyrite crystals to 20 cm are formed within the massive sulfide zones. The massive zone is overlain by a matrix ore zone composed of the above sulfide assemblage and coarse jackstraw textured bladed olivine, now retrogressed to black serpentinite.
In 1974, his first glass Harmonic Lyre made with PMMA altuglas cast was designed. He had the opportunity to play this instrument at the tenth Biennial event of Paris in 1977 at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. This electroacoustic lyre consists of 18 strings and at least two micro-sensors for each of the strings. By 2010, he had successfully designed four harmonic lyres, 3 glass guitars of PMMA and carbon fiber neck, "water drums" for John Cage's creation with the " percussions of Strasbourg" (1989), as well as various other original instruments which include musical wind mills, wind chimes, kalimbé, musical jackstraw in bamboo for children, musical boomerangs, an acoustic game of bowls, and so on.

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