Then she takes kitchen sheers and cut them into squares.
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The unknown killer used sheers, a hammer and a sword.
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The author in question turned out to be Owen Sheers.
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Thick knits fused with fine sheers; tessellating quilts with performance parkas.
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Whatever you do, don't use a pair of kitchen or office sheers.
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"Sheers with graphic neon accents are trending this season for sure," Ladd adds.
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In a dark barn, ghosts in flowing, glowing sheers oscillated like tower fans.
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Only this time, celebs are putting down the sheers and picking up the razor.
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After the ice sheers off, the sharp vertical walls left behind have little support.
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Using sheers and secateurs, Hughes created the massive bird in just 30 minutes to surprise his wife.
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On Saturday, the sun changes costumes, trading Aquarius' funky denim for Pisces' floaty sheers and publicly-approved PJs.
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She also added a video to her Instagram story showing her sheers gliding through Kendall's now-signature messy lob.
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And when it is displayed, its size and dark palette make it easy to miss, Ms. Sheers Seidenstein said.
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As I grab a pair of Batali orange-colored garden sheers and a tote bag, we're ready to explore.
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"The owners could lower their solar blinds," he said, or they could "install net curtains," the British term for sheers.
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It's a chance for dog and cat groomers to get together and check out the latest sheers and shampoos and such.
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They refused, and the pitcher had no choice but to grab his pinking sheers and do what his manager would not: take a stand!
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Clauss Hot Forged Carbon Steel Sheers, $18.33It's one of the smaller appliances in your home, but it's easy enough to find scissors made from metal.
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It films itself spitting out POTUS's groundless accusations and whimpering loser bullshit onto what looks like receipt paper, sheers them off with scissors, sets them aflame, and gingerly drops the burning embers into an ashtray.
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"The show explores how, as an artist, you represent a confrontation between the earthly and the divine, the immaterial and material," said Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, a curatorial fellow at the Frick who organized the exhibition.
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When it's frozen, Weidner says all you have to do is cut the block of peanut butter into squares the size of bread slices with kitchen sheers, and voila peanut butter slices that are sandwich-ready.
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In the bottom: Shangela, with gold records stuck on her torso and draped in gold tinsel I have definitely walked through to have my fortune told; and Aja, whose pearl-draped sheers weren't disco, Visage said.
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The exhibition is organized by Susan Grace Galassi, senior curator at the Frick; Turner scholar Ian Warrell; and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, curatorial fellow at the Frick; and draws largely on two collections, the Frick's and the Tate's.
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Her tartly sexy looks, like a varsity jacket slashed to ribbons and an airy frock with outsize holes and wafty boudoir sheers, are "just another way of being dressed and undressed at the same time," she said.
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Smith was the only correctional officer supervising more than 30 inmates in the prison&aposs sewing plant, ground zero for the attack, where inmates worked with cutting sheers and screwdrivers, State Employees Association of North Carolina President Stanley Drewery said.
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For a landlubber, the nomenclature is dizzying: We learn about strakes and sheers, the keel and the hog, the centerline and the stem knee, the sternpost and the deadwood, the gunwale (not to be confused with the inwale) and the rib.
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The man, 68-year-old James Steele Reid of Anthony, Florida, allegedly used garden sheers to amputate the tails off the five-month-old kittens following a fight with his 78-year-old neighbor, James Garemore, whose wife warned him to stay away from their pets.
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Between the two paintings, the show's organizers — the Frick's senior curator Susan Grace Galassi and curatorial fellow Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, with the independent curator and Turner specialist Ian Warrell — have installed an unfinished canvas, "The Harbor of Brest: The Quayside and Chateau," from the same series of ports.
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BeBe prowled in a surprisingly low-key dress with leopard print swirls and a leopard headpiece, complete with bared teeth; Kennedy wore a rainbow-ruffled mermaid dress with a flaming-red wig; Trixie was wrapped flatteringly in black sheers, with a poodle wig; and Shangela looked incredible in a glittering charcoal-grey gown, jewels and Hollywood-blonde curls.
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Frederik V's Masting Sheers at Holmen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Built 1746 A masting sheer, sheers, shears or masting crane is a specialised shipyard crane, intended for placing tall masts onto large sailing ships. "Sheers" is an old name for a fixed crane formed by one or two wooden beams, fixed at the base and supported by ropes. 18th century French masting sheer, with treadwheel crane Ancient sailing ships did not require sheers to erect their masts, as they could be lifted into place by ropes and allowed to pivot around their feet.
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The Dust Diaries is an award-winning book by Owen Sheers, published in 2004. In this work, Sheers traces the travels of his great-great-uncle, Arthur Shearly Cripps. The book was named "Welsh Book of the Year 2005".
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The heels of the spars are secured by splay and heel tackles. The point at the top of the sheers where the spars cross and are lashed together is the "crutch", to which a block and tackle is attached. Unlike derricks, sheers need no lateral support, and only require either a foreguy and an aftguy or a martingale and a topping lift. Being made of two spars rather than one, sheers are stronger than a derrick of the same size and made of equivalent materials.
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A one-man play about Douglas and his work, entitled Unicorns, almost, written by Owen Sheers, premiered at the Hay Festival in May 2018.
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The new library at Hereford Cathedral (right) where the map is now housed The map is prominently featured in the 2007 novel Resistance by Owen Sheers.
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As ships became larger, their larger and heavier masts were no longer able to be handled in this way. A crane was needed, tall enough to lift the entire mast vertically and then lower it into the ship. By the 18th century, such sheers were a necessity in any large shipyard. As sheers are not required to move, they were often constructed as masonry towers, with wooden jib structures atop them.
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On July 13, 1859, Juan Cortina saw Brownsville city Marshal Robert Sheers arrest and beat an elderly man who had been a ranch hand at his mother's ranch. Cortina approached the marshal, questioning his motives, before shooting him twice after he refused to release the man. The first shot reportedly missed Sheers, but the second struck his shoulder causing him to fall to the ground. Cortina and the elderly man rode off on a horse.
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By 1807 the Royal Navy had standardised sheer hulk crew numbers to comprise a boatswain, mate and six seamen, with larger numbers coming aboard only when the sheers were in use.
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He also took the lead role as history teacher Mr Sheers in supernatural British teen film Coven. In 2016 Fletcher played the role of 'Paul' in the cult British crime comedy, Smoking Guns.
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The Green Hollow (or Aberfan: The Green Hollow) is a "film-poem", which was broadcast by the BBC on 21 October 2016 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Aberfan disaster of 1966. Owen Sheers wrote the script of the screenplay using the words of survivors of the disaster whom he interviewed over a period. Sheers described The Green Hollow as “a film poem in the voice of Aberfan, both then and now”. The work falls into three sections: “Children”, “Rescuers” and “Survivors”.
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1600 ton maximum lift capacity sheerleg Taklift 7 of Smit Internationale Fixed shear legs are most commonly found on floating cranes known as floating sheerlegs. These have heavy A-frame booms and vary in lifting capacity between 50 and 4,000 tons, and are used principally in shipbuilding, other large scale fabrication, cargo management, and salvage operations. Temporary sheers comprise two upright spars, lashed together at their heads and their feet splayed apart. Unlike in a gyn, which has three legs and is thus stable without support, stability in sheers (derricks, and single-legged gin poles) is provided by a guy.
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Coyle played Keats in the game Folklore and has also narrated the following audio books: At The Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft, Resistance by Owen Sheers, and the H.I.V.E. series of novels by Mark Walden.
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A ropeway is a form of naval lifting device used to transport light stores and equipment across rivers or ravines. It comprises a jackstay, slung between two sheers or gyns, one at either end, from which is suspended a block and tackle, that is free to travel along the rope and hauled back and forth by inhauls (ropes attached to the pulley from which the block and tackle are suspended). It is a useful method of transportation for a very short distance. Because they are more stable, in particular in the direction along the ropeway, and because they require less guying, gyns are better than sheers for supporting a ropeway.
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The organisation's President is Brian Dodsworth. The Patrons of Stamma are: Ed Balls, Dame Margaret Drabble DBE, John McAllion, David Mitchell, author of Black Swan Green, Scroobius Pip, Arwel Richards, Owen Sheers, Jon Smith and Baroness Whitaker. Previous Patrons have included Nicholas Parsons CBE and Jonathan Miller.
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It was as a consequence of this development that the Masting Crane on Nyholm was erected in 1748–51. In the late 19th century, the increasing size and capacity of general harbour cranes began to overlap with the lofty but lightweight masting sheers and so their specialisation was no longer required.
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She played the role of Wallis Simpson in W.E., a film directed by Madonna. She stars alongside Michael Sheen and Iwan Rheon in Resistance, an adaptation of an Owen Sheers novel. The film was released on 25 November 2011. She writes with her creative partner, actor Tom Burke, and with Mike Leigh.
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A gyn is an improvised three legged lifting device used on sailing ships. It provides more stability than a derrick or sheers, and requires no rigging for support. Without additional support, however, it can only be used for lifting things directly up and down. Gyns may also be used to support either end of a ropeway.
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Rather later than was wise, the anchor was raised; it was slack water and the George Smeed did not get the advantage of the ebb tide to pull her to windward so she was put on a starboard tack to get onto the Maplins to get away from the full tide in the main channel. She went over the Middle Deep, to within a couple of cables length from the Barrow [beacon at ]. Round she came, as jib, jib topsail, and foresail were let fly; the moment is used to trim the jib topsail sheet and she set off south-westerly to the Sheers, (the point on the Maplin [Bank] where the Sheers lighthouse had stood [near ]). She tacked three times by the Blacktail Spit [] before joining the [Yantlet] channel.
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For example, there are claims that a white man who wanted to assault him for associating with Africans was crippled the moment he raised his hand. They claim that the man was only healed when Father Cripps prayed for him. His great-great-nephew is the Welsh poet, Owen Sheers, who has written about him in the award-winning Dust Diaries (2004).
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Unlike the apex of a gyn, which is fixed, the crutch of a sheers can be topped up or lowered, via the topping lift, through a limited angle. In the era of sailing vessels, it was common for dockyards to employ a sheer hulk, an old floating ship's hull fitted with sheer legs, and used to install masts in other ships.
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Cobbett 1813, p. 482ff; White 2009, pp. 90–91. Bliss was left in the strong room for three weeks wearing a skullcap (a heavy vice for the head), thumb screws, iron collar, leg irons, and irons round his ankles called sheers. One witness said the swelling in his legs was so bad that the irons on one side could no longer be seen for overflowing flesh.
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The cap was by in plan, and in height above the curb. The mill was high from the ground floor to the cap ridge, thus from ground level to roof externally. The main cap frame consisted of two sheers, each square in section and , set apart. The main cross members were the breast beam, the sprattle beam and the tail beam, in order from head to tail.
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2010: Submarine is set in Swansea and starred Welsh actor Craig Roberts. 2010: Risen is a biopic of Welsh champion boxer Howard Winstone. 2011: Resistance is a film based in an alternative reality in which Nazi Germany invades the United Kingdom during the Second World War; based on the novel by Owen Sheers. 2014: Set Fire to the Stars is a film about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.
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The Dreams of Max and Ronnie take in the story of The Dream of Rhonabwy, while other books in the series featured the authors Owen Sheers, Gwyneth Lewis and Russell Celyn Jones. 2013 saw Griffiths release his seventh novel A Great Big Shining Star, his aggressive take on celebrity culture and fame. Two years later Griffiths released his first collection of poetry, Red Roar: 20 Years of Words.
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Sheerwater played their home games at Woking Athletic Ground, Sheerwater Recreation Ground, Blackmore Crescent, Sheerwater, Woking, Surrey, GU21 5QJ until the end of the 2017/18 season. From August 2018 until April 2020, The Sheers will play their home games at the Kingfield Stadium, home to National League club Woking while their new leisure facility is being built in the grounds of Bishop David Brown School in Sheerwater.
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Printings of his work in the vernacular remained few in number — seven in French, five in English,(John Dryden provided an enthusiastic preface to Sir Henry Sheers' edition of 1693) and five in Italian. Polybius' political analysis has influenced republican thinkers from Cicero to Charles de Montesquieu to the Founding Fathers of the United States.Marshall Davies Lloyd, Polybius and the Founding Fathers: the separation of powers, Sept. 22, 1998.
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It has since branched into fiction, drama, literary criticism, biography and non-fiction. Seren currently publishes 20–25 titles annually with the aid of financial support from the Welsh Books Council. The press was founded in 1981 by Cary Archard and is based in Bridgend. Seren's list includes the well-known poets Sheenagh Pugh and Pascale Petit, as well as younger, award-winning Welsh poets Owen Sheers and Kathryn Gray.
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One performance was given in Craiglockhart Hospital, the site of the actual meeting of the two poets. Sassoon was played by Oliver Bisset, and Owen by Matthew Burgess. The play was directed by John Haswell and produced by Judy Steel. Notable productions of Not About Heroes in recent years have included a version mounted for the 2002 Hay-on-Wye literary festival, starring Roger Moss and Owen Sheers.
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The worshipers were dragged out and put into labour commandos. The Radom Synagogue was desecrated by the Nazis and its furnishings destroyed. To instill fear, the Jewish city councilor Jojna (Yona) Zylberberg was marched with a stone over his head and beaten by the SS soldiers. His wife died in an accident at home only months earlier by falling out of a window when she tried to hang sheers, leaving her two children behind.
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The cross members extended each side of the sheers to form a base for the nine pairs of roof rafters. There was no ridge board to the roof. The cap was winded by a hand wheel of diameter housed just inside the rear of the cap. The worm wheel that engaged with the cogs set into the top of the tower was latterly a cast-iron one, replacing an earlier wooden one.
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In the alternative reality depicted in John Wyndham's short story Random Quest, where the Second World War did not happen, Butler is the prime minister. The story was written in 1954, when Butler acceding to the premiership was a serious possibility. Butler becomes World War II prime minister in the 2007 alternative history novel Resistance by Owen Sheers. However, he leads a collaborationist puppet government after Germany has largely conquered the British Isles.
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There was even a proposal for a high crane, to replace masting sheers at Woolwich. A more typical size for most of these later cranes though would be able to lift 35 tons at a radius of . They were powered by self-contained steam engines, with both boiler and engine mounted on board the crane. William Fairbairn & Sons of Manchester built a number of these cranes and also licensed the design to other makers.
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Eventually it was decided to move the guns by barge and use special sheers and holdfasts as anchors. The guns were lifted by manpower with a capstan instead of by machinery, permission being granted for this by the Board of Trade on condition that it all be removed as soon as possible after the guns were landed. An overhead traveller was constructed to move the guns across to the top of the turret and then lower them onto their carriages. The sheers weighed 100 tons and the traveller weighed 22 tons. They were tested in 1881 and the No.1 gun arrived on 4 December 1881. It was in place by 6 January 1882. The No.2 gun followed on 12 May 1882. The turret machinery was ready for testing at the beginning of 1883 and the testing was arranged for July. The first shot was fired using a 250-pound charge. A second shot followed using a 337-pound charge and finally three shots were fired using a full battering charge of four hundred and fifty pounds of powder.
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Ariosto continued to write more material for the poem and in the 1520s he produced five more cantos, marking a further development of his poetry, which he decided not to include in the final edition. They were published after his death by his illegitimate son Virginio under the title Cinque canti and are highly regarded by some modern critics.Ludovico Ariosto,"Cinque Canti/Five Cantos" Translated by Alexander Sheers and David Quint, 1996, California Press (). The page also contains excerpts from various reviews.
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He lays out the type of men that the secretary and the lawyer were: nervous, jumpy men; the type to scare suddenly and cut themselves on garden sheers when a girl screams, as well as the type that dogs would instinctively distrust. Dogs are very straightforward, he says. They bark at people they do not like and people are afraid of dogs that do not like them. However, the murderer would have no fear of a witness who could not talk.
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The Gospel of Us is a 2012 Welsh drama based on the Owen Sheers novel of the same name and the three-day Passion play that Michael Sheen acted in at his home town of Port Talbot in April 2011. Directed by Dave McKean, the film stars Sheen as The Teacher, a man who has lost all memory of who he is and of the danger his town is facing from a company, ICU. It world premiered at Dawn Breakers International Film Festival.
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They realize that all they can do is to try and learn everything they can about Evelyn and find out if she has committed any actual crimes. Blackshear goes to Terola’s studio and finds him dead in his office with a pair of garden sheers stuck in his neck. Blackshear suspects that Verna is the murderer but she maintains that she changed her mind about going to see him. In the bathroom of the public library Evelyn washes blood off her clothes.
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However, the last one is said to be visible only to the sheers and the intellectuals. The presence of this at Panauti has added and remarkably enhanced its religious sanctity and popularity as well. On account of this, every festive occasion, a great number of devotees from all across the country pour here for a holy ablution and to pay homage to the nearby Indreshwor Mahadev Temple and other holy sites located here. The site is also regarded as Prayagtirtha of Nepal.
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Contributors include some of the greatest Welsh and international writers and thinkers: Dannie Abse, Paul Muldoon, P. D. James, Emyr Humphreys, Leslie Norris, Gwyneth Lewis, Les Murray, Rachel Trezise, Niall Griffiths, Owen Sheers, Terry Eagleton, Edna Longley, Byron Rogers, Gillian Clarke and Paul Groves.New Welsh Review entry at Llenyddiaeth Cymru {Literature Wales} The magazine is published quarterly in Aberystwyth with core financial support from the Welsh Books Council. In addition, it receives sponsorship from Aberystwyth University, the University of Glamorgan, and Cardiff University.
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A stuff gag is very similar to, and works in the same way as, the ball gag. The person's mouth is stuffed with handkerchiefs, scarves, socks, hosiery, panties, day sheers, bandanas or any item rolled into a ball, acting as a stopper. To reduce the chances of choking, the stuff gag is never pushed all the way into the person's mouth. Instead, a large part of it hangs out of the mouth, allowing the top to pull it out easily when he/she has to.
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Just east of the guardhouse stands the Masting Sheer which was also designed by Lange and completed in 1751. Earlier the building of sailing ships had not required sheers to erect their mast, as it could be lifted into place by ropes and allowed to pivot around its foot. As ships became larger, it was no longer possible to mount their masts, taller and heavier, in this fashion. A crane was needed, tall enough to lift the entire mast vertically and then lower it into the ship.
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A woman in fine Bengali muslin; Dhaka, 18th-century Muslin () () is a cotton fabric of plain weave. It is made in a wide range of weights from delicate sheers to coarse sheeting. It gets its name from the city of Mosul, Iraq which the Europeans believed to be its place of origin, however, its origins have now proved to have been farther east — in particular Dhaka in Bangladesh. Early muslin was handwoven of uncommonly delicate handspun yarn, especially in the region of what today is Bangladesh.
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Spanx Shaping Pantyhose Super Control Sheers The brand produces lines with names such as "Bod-a-Bing!" and "Hide & Sleek". In 2009, Spanx launched a deluxe collection called "Haute Contour" that included items such as a lace thong with waist reinforcements and color options like pink. Following the release, Blakely explained: "I said, 'Let's make it beautiful ... like shapewear in disguise.'" Spanx started manufacturing body-shaping undergarments for men ("Spanx for MenMANX") in 2010, and then introduced denim to an expanding Spanx product line for the brand's "Fall" range in March 2014.
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Under the reign of Frederick III, Holmen was established through a series of land reclamations to replace the naval base and shipyard at Bremerholm. The first ship to be set to sea from Nyholm was Dannebrog in 1692 and in the following years the construction of all major vessels gradually moved there. The facilities at Holmen were constantly expanded over the next centuries. Earlier the building of sailing ships had not required sheers to erect their mast, as it could be lifted into place by ropes and allowed to pivot around its foot.
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As ships became larger, it was no longer possible to mount their masts, taller and heavier, in this fashion. A crane was needed, tall enough to lift the entire mast vertically and then lower it into the ship. It was as a consequence of this development that the Masting Crane on Nyholm was erected in 1748–51. In the late 19th century, the increasing size and capacity of general harbour cranes began to overlap with the lofty but lightweight masting sheers and so their specialisation was no longer required.
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The 2012 festival included writers Martin Amis, Jung Chang, Louis de Bernières, Mark Haddon, Mario Vargas Llosa, Hilary Mantel, Ian McEwan, Michael Morpurgo, Ben Okri, Ian Rankin, Salman Rushdie, Owen Sheers, Jeanette Winterson, comedians Bill Bailey, Rob Brydon, Julian Clary, Jack Dee, Tim Minchin, politicians Peter Hain and Boris Johnson, scientists John D. Barrow, Martin Rees, Simon Singh, and general speakers Harry Belafonte, William Dalrymple, Stephen Fry, A. C. Grayling, Germaine Greer, Michael Ignatieff, and David Starkey. In 2020 the festival was held digitally online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sheerlegs mounted on an M32 tank recovery vehicle Shear legs, also known as sheers, shears, or sheer legs, are a form of two-legged lifting device. Shear legs may be permanent, formed of a solid A-frame and supports, as commonly seen on land and the floating sheerleg, or temporary, as aboard a vessel lacking a fixed crane or derrick. When fixed, they are often used for very heavy lifting, as in tank recovery, shipbuilding, and offshore salvage operations. At dockyards they hoist masts and other substantial rigging parts on board.
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Resistance is an alternative history novel by Welsh poet and author Owen Sheers. The plot centres on the inhabitants of a valley near Abergavenny in Wales in 1944–45, shortly after the failure of Operation Overlord and a successful German counterinvasion of Great Britain. A group of German Wehrmacht soldiers stay there after men leave to serve in the covert British Resistance. The novel follows abandoned farmer's wife Sarah Lewis and German commanding officer Albrecht Wolfram, as they form an unlikely relationship in spite of their backgrounds and political standings.
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An Auxiliary Unit arms cache features in the 1985 BBC TV series, Blott on the Landscape. British partisans feature in two UK films that imagine what would have happened if Germany had successfully invaded Britain: the 1966 film It Happened Here (which simply refers to 'partisans') and the 2011 film Resistance based on Owen Sheers' first novel, Resistance. The partisans in the latter are loosely based upon Auxiliary Units, albeit with considerable artistic licence. The Auxiliary Units feature in the BBC programme Wartime Farm although there is some confusion between the roles of the Operational Patrols and the Special Duties Branch.
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Dr Rowan Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury 2002–2012), Sir Daniel Day-Lewis and Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie are Patrons. The Association presents a biennial Poetry Award to honour a poet for a sustained body of work that includes memorable war poems; previous recipients include Sir Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate 1999–2009), Dannie Abse, Christopher Logue, Gillian Clarke and Seamus Heaney. Owen Sheers was awarded the prize in September 2018. In November 2015, actor Jason Isaacs unveiled a tribute to Owen at the former Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh where Owen was treated for shell shock during WWI.
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Lamido blamed this on his enemies.My prison experience, Sule Lamido, August 2015, VanguardNGR, Retrieved 10 February 2016 In October 2017, Lamido wrote his political associates and senior members of his party (PDP) declaring interest to run for president in the 2019 presidential election. In February 2018, Lamido formally declared his candidacy in the run for PDP's presidential nomination for the 2019 presidential election at a rally he organised in his native Birni Kudu Local Government in Jigawa State. Lamido at the rally declared that he shall be Nigerian president in 2019 to the sheers of his supporters.
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HM Dockyard, Malta, 1865: new iron sheers in use When Malta became a British protectorate in 1800, these facilities were inherited, and gradually consolidated, by the Royal Navy. With the loss of Menorca, Malta swiftly became the Navy's principal Mediterranean base. The Royal Navy Dockyard was initially located around Dockyard Creek, and occupied several of the dockyard buildings formerly used by the Knights of Malta. By 1850 the facilities included storehouses, a ropery, a small steam factory, victualling facilities, houses for the officers of the Yard, and most notably a dry dock – the first to be provided for a Royal Dockyard outside Britain.
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The Glencoe Woolshed has been preserved in its original state The Glencoe Woolshed is a heritage listed, 36 stand, sheep sheering shed built in 1863 by brothers Edward and Robert Leake. Constructed from local limestone and hand-hewn hardwood timber, it has been maintained in its original condition and now serves as a museum. The shed was not converted to mechanical sheers, and remains operational as a blade shearing shed, now hosting shearing exhibitions and guided tours. It is located in the centre of the town, and forms a part of the larger Glencoe Station settlement, including the former homestead, Frontier House, and the Glencoe Station stables and coach-house.
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Nixon's career began in autumn 2007, when she starred as the motherless Sophy Hutton in the BBC One costume drama series Cranford, opposite Dame Judi Dench. In 2008, she had supporting roles in the films Wild Child and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Nixon appeared in Easy Virtue and played one of the leads in Cherrybomb opposite Rupert Grint and Robert Sheehan, before starring in Black Death. In 2011, Nixon played Josie in the Channel 4 TV comedy-drama series Fresh Meat, and starred alongside Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough and Iwan Rheon in Resistance, an adaptation of an Owen Sheers novel, which was released in the UK in November 2011.
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The series, starring Eve Myles and released on S4C and BBC Wales, became the best- performing non-network series for twenty years and the most successful non- network programme on BBC iPlayer of all time. A second series is currently in production and Broughton has co-written the series with Matthew Hall. In 2018, Vox Pictures released To Provide All People, a film poem written by Owen Sheers to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service. The programme started Michael Sheen, Eve Myles, Martin Freeman, Jonathan Pryce, Sian Phillips, George MacKay, Michelle Fairley and Tamsin Grieg and was directed by Broughton.
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This installation features images of West Africans projected onto the walls of the great dining room of the Aiken Rhett estate in Charleston, South Carolina. Deep blood red velvet drapes were fabricated in the Victorian-style to symbolize the excessive lifestyle slaveholders maintained on the backs of their Negro servants. The golden rope drape ties can be seen as they lay loosened and cast aside. The blue silk sheers hung in the window are embroidered with the Ursa Major constellation which is the commonly used point of reference slaves would employ for their escape. This installation was dismantled after 3 days because of complaints from the plantation staff describing the installation as, “disturbing.
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A sheer hulk (or shear hulk) was used in shipbuilding and repair as a floating crane in the days of sailing ships, primarily to place the lower masts of a ship under construction or repair. Booms known as sheers were attached to the base of a hulk's lower masts or beam, supported from the top of those masts. Blocks and tackle were then used in such tasks as placing or removing the lower masts of the vessel under construction or repair. These lower masts were the largest and most massive single timbers aboard a ship, and erecting them without the assistance of either a sheer hulk or land-based masting sheer was extremely difficult.
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A veteran of several poetry festivals, and former poet-in-residence at the Poetry Café in London, he has performed poetry in the United Kingdom, Europe, Ghana and the United States and was a 2005 Associate Artist-In-Residence with BBC Radio 3. In 2007 he was British Council writer-in-residence at California State University, Los Angeles and became one of the youngest living writers (along with Owen Sheers and Choman Hardi) featured in the Poems on the Underground programme in London with his poem "Tin Roof". Parkes runs regular workshops in the UK and set up a Writer's Fund in Ghana to promote writing among the country's youth."Nii Ayikwei Parkes: Poets must learn editing and performing", Start: Journal of Arts and Culture, , Issue 023, 4 August 2012.
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Another event in the same year was the presentation of a compilation of letters written in the 19th century about Mexico by Scotswoman Fanny Calderón de la Barca. This was a joint event between the Foundation and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes . In 2011, cultural offering include readings by Welsh writer Owen Sheers and recitals by pianist Ann Martin-Davis and mezzo-soprano Susan Legg. In collaboration with the Museo Nacional de Arte, the Foundation presents the documentary “No Distance Left to Run” by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern. With theatre magazine “Paso de Gato,” the Foundation sponsored an event dedicated to English theatre inviting critics such as Aleks Sierz of In-yer- face theatre, Scottish critic Mark Fisher and Michael Billington, a critic based in London.
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Shiel wrote and directed In Search of David Jones: Artist, Soldier, Poet (2008),“In Search of David Jones: Artist, Soldier, Poet,” Internet Movie Database a well-received documentary“Events Listings,” Worcester Newsde Wall, Edmund Book & film reviews pages 12, 13, Art and Christianity journal, Summer 2009. focussing on the painter and poet's experiences in the First World War, and its impact upon his most famous poetic work In Parenthesis. The film includes interviews with art critic Richard Cork, Welsh poets Gillian Clarke, Owen Sheers, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams. It was by followed by David Jones Between The Wars: The Years of Achievement (2012), which he co-directed with Adam Alive.“Derek Shiel listing at IMDb,” The trilogy was completed with David Jones: Innovation and Consolidation (2014) for which Shiel was the sole writer and director.
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A gin pole being used to install a weather vane atop the 200 foot steeple of a church Roof trusses being erected with gin poles The gin pole is derived from a gyn, and considered a form of derrick, called a standing derrick or pole derrick, distinguished from sheers (or shear legs) by having a single boom rather than a two-legged one. Gin poles are also used to raise loads above structures too tall to reach with a crane, such as placing an antenna on top of a tower/steeple, and to lift segments of a tower on top of one-another during erection. When used to create a segmented tower, the gin pole can be detached, raised, and re-attached to the just-completed segment in order to lift the next. This process of jumping is repeated until the topmost portion of the tower is completed.
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The poem is in part a memorial to his father, John Brown, a postman, and describes the postman's round in Stromness and the people he meets on his way. Brown, who never read his work in public, chose this to be recorded as one of five poems representative of his work, now held by the Poetry Archive. In 2005, a memorial plaque to George Mackay Brown was unveiled in the Writers' Museum, on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh. It is engraved with a quotation from "Hamnavoe": ::In the fire of images ::Gladly I put my hand Extracts from the poem are inscribed on windows at the Stromness Ferry Terminal, and quotations can also be seen on board the ferry MV Hamnavoe. In 2009, the poem was selected by the BBC as representative of George Mackay Brown and his relationship with "place", and became the subject of a documentary introduced by Owen Sheers in the series A Poet’s Guide to Britain.
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