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Cartwheel

A nickname of a silver U.S. dollar coin. The term is most common in numismatics. It derives its name from the reflection of an unblemished coin for collectors, which is said to look like the spokes of a wagon wheel.

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approaching the size of a cart wheel. (10) In his analysis of wheel construction in China and Europe, Wegener Sleeswyk has convincingly argued that the precondition for the housed-wheel barrow was the ability to build large yet extraordinarily strong wheels.

Single-wheeled mobility: the housed-wheel barrow on the plains of preindustrial China

For an epigraph Edward uses this verse from an 1836 version of the song "Yankee Doodle": "Corn cobs twist your hair, / Cart wheels run round you, / Fiery dragons take you off, / And mortal pestel pound you." The epigraph suggests that history--personal and national--is twisted, crooked, and fiery; history is a dragon of pain.

Yankee Doodle

One such example is shopping cart wheels and castors where abrasion resistance is important.

TPU: the performance elastomer

WASTE NOT: Flowers can be planted in an old metal bucket or even a boot old boot SITTING COMFORTABLY: A garden bench made of old wood and cart wheels

green Gardening goes; As the recycling message hits home at the countr y's top hor ticultural show, Hannah Stephenson discovers one man's junk is another man's jewel

NEW USES: Eye-catching flower containers can be made out of old things you may otherwise throw out NEW LEASE OF LIFE: This garden bench, right is made from old wood and cart wheels while the old metal bucket, above, looks good with flowers in