Always Carry a trash bag and whistle:A trash bag is easy to carry in your pocket and easy to make into a jacket. It will provide you protection from water and cold. A whistle is easy to carry and can be heard from a longer distance than yelling. Your family will not be angry with ...
I need to make my mark! Gobber: Oh, you've made plenty of marks. All in the wrong places! Hiccup: Please, two minutes. I'll kill a dragon. My life will get infinitely better. I might even get a date. Gobber: You can't lift a hammer, you can't swing an axe, you can'...
It's important to note that train tracks already existed in the 1770s in various industrial areas of England. Iron-enforced wooden rails called tramways had been built for horses to pull carts of coal. In 1804, Trevithick unveiled a steam-powered engine capable of hauling 10 tons of iron ...
Prepare for bad weather conditions on the road by (1) taking your car to a mechanic before a trip, (2) building an emergency kit, and (3) mapping out the route ahead of time.
If you heat a can of soup in afire, the liquid contents will vaporize and eventually expand to the point where the can will explode to release the pressure inside. When this pressure is used to perform a particular task — like turning a turbine or causing a kettle to whistle — steam ...
Aunt Mary took a kitchen chair downstairs and sat in the middle of that postage stamp of a yard and tried to get a tan. I can still see her in her plaid Bermuda shorts and sleeveless shirt, sitting in that straight-backed wooden chair, her head tilted back, holding a glass of iced ...
LOVETT Maybe she wants to make peace with the past. LIZZY What past? She has never once, not once, ever said a word about being on the Titanic until two days ago. LOVETT Then we're all meeting your grandmother for the first time. LIZZY (looks at him hard) You think she was ...
Many modern batteries have some circuitry on board to, for instance, cut the battery off before it runs dead flat, or protect against short-circuits. But in normal use, they all deliver DC electricity that's clean as a whistle. However. ...
Those carrying out surveillance may try to place a strip of reflectorised tape on the rear of the subject’s vehicle or break a tail-light to make it easier to spot it at night. Or they may place an electronic tailing device on S’s car, called a Bumper Bleeper. This is a small ...
to play with friends. When I got there no one was home and I heard the train whistle blowing as the train came through town. I rode my bike to the end of the block crossed the street and saw the train going by down over the hill. I thought to myself I need a closer ...