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unusual facts about mains


Olrig

Boundaries were mostly disregarded and lost during the 19th century but many townland names remain identifiable in farmstead names ending with Mains.


AC power plugs and sockets

So that manufacturers need not build, distribute and maintain many similar appliances differing only in the type of plug fitted, a common strategy is to provide an IEC 60320 inlet on the appliance and a detachable power cord (mains flex lead) to allow connection of the appliance to the socket.

Brownie Brittle

Brownie Brittle was invented by Sheila G. Mains in Palm Beach, Florida, as a part of Sheila G Brands.

Classiebawn Castle

It was inherited by Edwina, Lady Mountbatten (when she was still officially styled as Lady Louis Mountbatten), in 1939 who, with her husband Admiral of the Fleet The 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, made a number of improvements, installing electricity and a mains water supply.

Claude Royet-Journoud

He was also co-founder & co-editor (with Anne-Marie Albiach and Michel Couturier) of the journal Siècle à mains (1963–1970).

Denis Jenkinson

He spent his summers touring Europe and his winters in a succession of 'digs' in England; Jenks eventually settled near Crondall in Hampshire in a tiny run-down house with no mains electricity or water, largely full of his archives and of parts of vehicles he was 'fettling'.

Douglas of Mains

Margaret, Duchess of Douglas, was daughter of James Douglas of Mains (12th) and obtained her title by marriage to Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas (part of the Red Douglas family, and a distant relation).

Echologics

United Water New Jersey (UWNJ), a subsidiary of United Water, selected Echologics for a pilot survey to detect leaks in five miles of water mains composed of cast iron pipe, pre-stressed cylinder concrete, and reinforced concrete pipe.

Edwin Butterworth Mains

Edwin Butterworth Mains (1890 - 1968) was an American mycologist.

Faraday's ice pail experiment

Stray static electric charges on the experimenter's body, clothes, or nearby apparatus, as well as AC electric fields from mains-powered equipment, can induce additional charges on parts of the container or charged object C, giving a false reading.

Flora Garry

She was brought up at Mains of Auchmunziel, near to New Deer, Buchan in Abderdeenshire.

Johnny Mains

Mains has also edited the first Obverse Quarterly book 'Bite Sized Horror' and 'The Screaming Book of Horror' - which contained unpublished stories by John Brunner and John Burke.

Line voltage

Mains electricity by country (list of countries with mains voltage and frequency)

Loudoun Kirk

With no mains gas or electricity supply, the residents were moved into the new houses in Galston and the village was abandoned.

Mains d'Oeuvres

Mains d'Oeuvres has held several exhibitions showcasing artists such as Wim Delvoye, Thomas Hirschhorn, Sophie Calle, Jon Bernad, Neil Beloufa, Pauline Bastard, Ivan Argote, Dominique Blais, Etienne Jaumet, Herman Dune, and Marie Hendriks.

Pripyat River

Meshechko, A.A.Gorbatsky (2005) Belarusian Polesye: Tourist Transeuropean Water Mains, Minsk, Four Quarters,

Technothlon

:# Mains: To be held at IIT Guwahati during Techniche 2014


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