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The infamous passenger liner that sank after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, United Kingdom to New York City in April 1912. The largest passenger steamship in the world at the time, the Titanic was built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland and officially launched on ...
San Francisco Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf has been an international tourist destination for half a century. In 2010, Shanghai World Expo in China, the Wax Museum's dynamic duo of "President Obama"and Chinese basketball superstar "Yao Ming" were featured as part of San Francisco Weak at the world's fair, visited by ...
The Victoria Falls Hotel, popularly known as "the grand old lady of the Falls", is situated in the Victoria Falls National Park, a world heritage site, and is a member of the exclusive Leading Hotels of the World group. It is one of only three 1S0-accredited hotels in Zimbabwe. The Edwardian-style five-star hotel, ...
A chisel grind is a bevel style where only one side of the material is bevelled, leaving the opposite side's blade edge in line with the spine and tang. It is a technique used to make serrated portions of blades sharp. It is also relatively easy to apply to a knife, as there is no concern about the two halves of the ...
Electrical materials are those which some how response to the electrical properties.Electrical materials may referred to metals,conductors,semiconductors,dielectrics,paramagnetic and insulators.
Hoist (device) A hoist is a device used for lifting or lowering a load by means of a drum or lift-wheel around which rope or chain wraps. It may be manually operated, electrically or pneumatically driven and may use chain, fiber or wire rope as its lifting medium. The load is attached to the hoist by means of a ...
The guest will be provided a customized experience with the help of Internet of Things. Consider the scenario that a guest provides information such as their personal preference through a connected device to the hotel management system. This information would be relayed to various other devices connected to the guest ...
A new start-up that uses a complex algorithm to predict the outcomes of matches. The system takes into account the basic statistics from the team's past performances as well as factors that can affect players' motivation, such as weather, life events, and birthdays. Betegy currently provides predictions for soccer ...
Transgooglation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by using Google Translate to achieve the equivalent target-language text. Ex.: That transgooglation is so good it hardly needs any post editing.
A rigger assembles, installs, positions and secures working platforms, alluminium trussing, electric chain hoists, pulleys and winches used to undertake heavy lifting for concert staging purposes. In entertainment industry a riggir is usually positioned, by means of a climbing harness, on already set up metal frame of ...
A shackle is a U-shaped piece of metal secured with a clevis pin or bolt across the opening, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism. In concert stage rigging a shackle is widely used to anchor motor hoists and to join steel wires.
An oblong metal ring with one spring-hinged side that is used in rigging as a connector and to hold a freely running rope. They are made from both steel and aluminum. They can have spring loaded gates, straight gates, can be auto-lockers and screw-lockers.