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3 unusual facts about laundry


HM Prison Acklington

Education and vocational courses at the prison include: Woodwork; Tailoring and Textiles; Industrial workshops; Engineering workshops; Painting and Decorating; Bricklaying; Amenity Gardening; Market Gardening; Laundry; Physical Education; Waste Management and Catering, all of which include accredited qualifications.

HM Prison Guys Marsh

Guys Marsh offers workshops to prisoners including Farms and Estates Management, Laundry, Industrial Cleaning, Bricklaying and a number of contract production workshops.

Long Grass Plantation

Several outbuildings or dependencies have been preserved: the Ice House, Smoke House, Kitchen/Laundry, School House, Pack House, two Tobacco Barns, and a Double Tennant (former slave) Dwelling.


2 Marsham Street

Prior to the ugly sisters epoch, from about 1818, the site housed the Chartered Gas Works of the Westminster Gas Light and Coke Company, as well as a laundry yard.

Ala Gertner

On October 28, 1940 she was ordered to report to the train station in nearby Sosnowiec, where she was taken to a Nazi labor camp in Geppersdorf (now Rzedziwojowice), a construction site where hundreds of Jewish men were forced laborers on the Reichsautobahn (now the E22 highway) and women worked in the kitchen and laundry.

Alliance Laundry Systems

In January 2005, Teachers' Private Capital, the private equity affiliate of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan acquired the majority of the equity interests of Alliance Laundry.

In February 1998, private equity firm Bain Capital agreed to acquire the commercial laundry business from Raytheon for $358 million.

Bastard Operator From Hell

The BOFH stories are alluded to in the Laundry Series by Charles Stross, featuring main character Bob Oliver Francis Howard (a system administrator) and, in "Pimpf" in The Jennifer Morgue, his intern Peter-Fred Young.

Blenda

Blenda is also the name of a Norwegian laundry soap manufactured by Lilleborg, as well as a Japanese women's fashion magazine.

Cartoon Wars Part II

For example, "Laundry" + "Date" + "Winning" + "Mexico" + "Gary Coleman" becomes a clip of Lois asking Peter to do the laundry, after which Peter recalls winning a date in Mexico with Gary Coleman.

Coin Laundry

Mitchell said that the concept of the song was developed when she was waiting for the spin cycle to finish in a coin laundry in South Melbourne, Australia.

Denazification

These statements earned the nickname of Persilscheine, after advertisements for the laundry and whitening detergent Persil.

Dirty Laundry Live

Dirty Laundry Live is an Australian comedic television quiz show hosted by Lawrence Mooney.

Douglas Leigh

The Coca-Cola sign at Bryant Park gave an ever-changing weather forecast (featuring a house and pictures of sun, rain, snow, etc.) along with the slogan "Thirst knows no season" (Leigh paid a tenant's weekly laundry bills to stop her from hanging her laundry on her clothesline in front of the sign).

Fort Harney

In addition to the Army troops, the post had four civilian clerks, two masons, one saddlemaker, a shoemaker, a painter, a baker, and four laundry maids.

Freightliner Trucks

1995 – Oshkosh Custom Chassis in Gaffney, South Carolina became Freightliner Custom Chassis, producing the underpinnings for walk-in vans used by companies such as UPS to deliver parcels and Cintas for uniform laundry services; diesel recreational vehicles; conventional school buses; and shuttle buses.

Ghat

In both Penang and Singapore, there are areas named Dhoby Ghaut (dhobi meaning "launderer" or "laundry", depending on whether it refers to a person or a business).

Giannini sextuplets

The task was not easy; Rosanna Giannini estimated that she washed five loads of laundry every day, and that train travel for the entire family cost 250,000 lira a month (€195 in 2009).

Handcrafting Justice

These employment projects often have a local market focus, such as a cooperative laundry run in Davao, Philippines, a jam-making enterprise in Baguio, Philippines, a leather goods site in Bangalore, India, a small bakery in Peru, and a welding project in El Obeid, Sudan.

Helen DeWitt

She held a variety of jobs while struggling to finish a book, including a dictionary text tagger, a copytaker, and Dunkin' Donuts employee, she also worked in a laundry service.

Hesketh Motorcycles

Mick Broom was the development engineer/ test rider as part of the original development team of the Hesketh marque, and was based with the team in the old laundry at Easton Neston.

Kate Mullany

Kate Mullany (1845-1906) was an early female labor leader who started the all-women Collar Laundry Union in Troy, New York in February 1864.

Kimball Laundry Co. v. United States

In this case, the United States filed a petition in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska to condemn the plant of the Kimball Laundry Company in Omaha, Nebraska, for use by the Army.

Life Laundry

The pattern for the Life Laundry series was repeated in shows made in USA and elsewhere, such as Clean Sweep, Neat, Mission: Organization, Clean House and NeatTV.

Magallu

The village is surrounded by fertile paddy, maize fields and apart from Agriculture being the predominant occupation of the people staying here, Magallu also drew upon the services of blacksmiths, laundryworkers, goldsmiths and people from other working classes making it a complete mixture, thus strengthening the distinctive spirit of our culture and our era- "Unity in diversity".

Mangle

Box mangle, an earlier laundry mangle using rollers and a heavy weight

Massachusetts Avenue Parking Shops

Among the first stores in the small complex were a Sanitary Food Store and an A & P Grocery, a pharmacy, Homewood Hardware, Knife & Fork Delicatessen, Pat-a-Cake Bake Shop, Homewood Beauty Shop, Palace Laundry and a Gulf Oil filling station.

Meadowlands, Minnesota

During its heyday, Meadowlands was home to a number of businesses including a Ford dealership (which also carried New Holland farm machinery), a bank, a farmer's cooperative store, a grocery store, a commercial laundry, a cheese factory, various restaurants, a movie theater and the Toivola–Meadowlands School, a K–12 institution.

Murder of John Alan West

West was a 53-year-old van driver for a laundry when he was killed by Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen who had gone to rob him at his home in Seaton, Cumberland.

Nantucket Nectars

After graduation they headed to Nantucket where they started Allserve, a floating convenience store servicing boats in Nantucket Harbor, delivering everything from newspapers to laundry.

Operation Green Sweep

On August 3, local residents threatened a military laundry unit with a pistol and another group fired shots at a UH-60 helicopter.

Oxford Hustlers

In their short time they made a marked impact on the Australian dance music scene, and have produced remixes for artists such as Christina Aguilera, The Saturdays, Wynter Gordon, Inaya Day, The Fierce Collective, and Dirty Laundry.

Porrhothele antipodiana

When found inside, they are typically near a source of moisture such as a bathroom or laundry because they desiccate easily.

Ravenhead

There is also a laundry and a 'Fives Football Centre', opened by BBC television pundit and former England footballer Alan Shearer.

Research and development in Ohio

The company is responsible for the first synthetic detergent used on delicate clothing, Dreft, the first shampoo and conditioner combination product, Pert Plus, and the first concentrated tablet laundry detergent, Salvo.

Retr0bright

#Approximately 1/4 teaspoonful (4.9 ml) per gallon (3.8 l) (1/3072) of Tetraacetylethylenediamine (TAED)-based laundry booster (concentrations of TAED vary).

Robert A. McDonald

In 1989 he transferred to Toronto to lead P&G's Canadian Laundry business, and moved to the Philippines as General Manager in 1991.

SA8

SA8 is also the brand name for the laundry detergent sold by Amway

Swastika Laundry

The Swastika Laundry was a laundry founded in 1912, located on Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, a district of Dublin, Ireland.

Following the closure of the laundry, at least until the early 1987 the laundry chimney was emblazoned with a large white swastika that could be seen from many places in the surrounding area including the Merrion Road, a main road south from Dublin.

The French Laundry

Notable alumni of the French Laundry's kitchen staff include Grant Achatz of Alinea, Eric Ziebold of CityZen, Jonathan Benno of Lincoln Ristorante, René Redzepi of Noma in Copenhagen, Clay Miller of Trummer's on Main, Ron Siegel of The Dining Room at the Ritz Carlton, and Duff Goldman.

Turkey Swamp Park

A significant section of the park is dedicated as a seasonal campground, complete with laundry facilities, hot-water bathrooms, and RV electric & water hook-ups.

Zofia Chądzyńska

From 1949 until 1959 she lived in Buenos Aires, where she led the white linen laundry and befriended Witold Gombrowicz, who later became one of the most famous Polish writers.


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