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2 unusual facts about Locking


Locking Castle

Locking Castle was a castle that once stood on Carberry Hill near the site of RAF Locking in Locking in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England.

Peter Hersh

His clinical interests are devoted to LASIK treatment, femtosecond laser uses in LASIK and other corneal surgeries, LASEK/Photorefractive keratectomy, and CK (conductive keratoplasty), and corneal inlays (Intacs) for keratoconus.


2PL

Two-phase locking, a concurrency control locking protocol in databases and transaction processing

Blish lock

The Blish Lock is a breech locking mechanism designed by John Bell Blish based upon his observation that under extreme pressures, certain dissimilar metals will resist movement with a force greater than normal friction laws would predict.

Charvel

Most of the guitars at the time were equipped with Schaller hardware, including a licensed Floyd Rose locking tremolo.

The instrument featured bound headstock and neck, neck-through construction, Schaller locking tremolo system, two Jackson J200 single coil pickups (neck and middle), one Jackson JC50BC humbucker at the bridge, JE-1200 mid-boost, "Toothpaste Logo" headstock, and sharkfin inlaid position markers.

Decompiler

For example, in Sega v. Accolade, the court held that Accolade could lawfully engage in decompilation in order to circumvent the software locking mechanism used by Sega's game consoles.

Elite Stratocaster

This guitar model featured an alder body, a maple neck featuring a rosewood or maple fingerboard with 21 jumbo frets, 12" radius, Schaller die-cast tuners with pearloid buttons, BiFlex truss-rod system with MicroTilt neck adjuster, Schaller Straplock Ready locking strap buttons, two hardened steel EasyGlider string trees, side-mount jack socket and a Freeflyte vibrato system, as well as three serrated "rubber insert"-style control knobs.

Extravehicular Mobility Unit

The EMU hardware and accessories (PLSS, helmet, communications cap, and locking rings for the helmet and gloves), is manufactured by the Hamilton Sundstrand division of United Technologies out of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, while the suit's soft components (the arms of the HUT and the entire LTU) are produced by ILC Dover out of Frederica, Delaware.

Girls of Many Lands

When most of the royal family falls ill, Cécile cannot bear for them all to die in the hands of misguided court physicians, and locking herself and some maids in a room with the young Duke d'Anjou away from the doctors, saving his life.

Innovative interlocking nail

The Innovative interlocking nail is a veterinary surgical system of tools and surgical techniques for using an intramedullary nail, inter-locking nail or Küntscher nail for the repair of fractured bones.

Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra

John III responded by locking up João de Lencastre in the Castle of São Jorge for some years (an episode later dramatized by Camilo Castelo Branco in his play O Marquez de Torres-Novas).

Koenigsegg CC8S

The CC8S uses magnesium alloy wheels with center-locking hubs, which 225/40ZR 18" front and 335/40ZR 20" rear Michelin Pilot Sport 2 tires are mounted.

Leader-1

He rushes to the restroom and talks to Johnny 5 before locking himself in a toilet stall to cry over his insults.

Locking differential

An example of this is the Eaton Automatic Locking Differential (ALD), or Eaton Automatic Differential Lock (ADL), developed by the Eaton Corporation and introduced in 1973 for GM's Rounded-Line C/K Series pickups and utilities.

Matt Heafy Signature Dean Guitar

And to help ensure the sound that Matt Heafy wanted he had his custom USA Dean Matt Heafy “MKH86” installed in the bridge pickup position and a USA “Nostalgia” in the neck pickup position (Matt Heafy and Dean designed the custom USA Dean Matt Heafy “MKH86” when they were making the guitar) The bridge consists of an Original Locking Floyd Rose Tremolo System, and to help with keeping the strings in tune when the tremolo or whammy bar is used he had Grover tuners and a locking nut installed.

Ostomy pouching system

The method of attachment to the wafer varies between manufactures and includes permanent (one-piece), press-on/click ("Tupperware" type), turning locking rings and "sticky" adhesive mounts.

Pajama Club

Neil commented that "We found ourselves locking into these grooves which were incredibly fun to play...We naturally gravitated towards being 'funky'," drawing influence from South Bronx band ESG.

PowerCon

The main advantages of the PowerCon are high current capacity in a small space (smaller than an IEC connector and double the current-carrying capacity) and locking action.

Queequeg

As part of his religion, he practices a prolonged period of fasting and silence (which Ishmael calls his "Ramadan"), at one time locking himself in his room in Nantucket.

Race – The Official WTCC Game

Moreover, the game does demand players to drive as real world race drivers will do, like the usage of braking to prevent wheels from locking up, and braking the car to an appropriate speed before turning into a corner.

Remington Model 30

The action was a modified Mauser design with dual front locking lugs and a rear safety lug where the base of the bolt handle fitted into a recess in the receiver.

SIG Sauer P220

Instead of the locking lugs and recesses milled into the barrel and slide of other Browning-type weapons as the Colt M1911A1, Browning Hi-Power and CZ 75, the P220 variants (and many other modern pistols) lock the barrel and slide together using an enlarged breech section on the barrel locking into the ejection port.

STI Knives

The Tai Sabaki is marketed as their best knife, unlike the combat weapon looking P001, this tactical folding knife is shaped like a sleek utility folding knife, and it features 6 locking positions with 13 grip positions, designed for EDC (Every Day Carry), self-defense on the street.

Tarbat Ness

Further down the peninsula near the village of Portmahomack, in the 1480s the Clan Ross slaughtered a raiding party from the Clan Mackay by locking them in the Tarbat Old Church and setting fire to it.

Tarbat Ness Lighthouse

Further down the peninsula at Portmahomack, in the 1480s the Clan Ross slaughtered a raiding party from the Clan Mackay by locking them in the Tarbat Old Church and setting fire to it.

The Web of Fear

Chorley, who has been attempting to find a way out of the underground, is told of the TARDIS by Victoria and he rushes off to Covent Garden tube station to find it, locking Victoria and The Doctor in the common room.

Videodance

That’s when Toni Basil paired four of The Lockers (including Don Campbell, father of locking) with four ballet dancers...in the Four Little Swans variation from Swan Lake.

VoltDB

Stored procedures are executed serially and to completion in a single threaded without any locking or latching, similar to the LMAX architecture.

Willie Johnston

The Port Brae Bar pub in Kirkcaldy was run by his son Dean until a dispute with the Belhaven Brewery led to the pub being boarded up, locking Johnston's collection of memorabilia inside.


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