A billet is a living-quarters to which a soldier is assigned to sleep. Historically, a billet was a private dwelling that was required to accept the soldier...
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Billeter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hans Billeter (1880–1930), Swiss footballer Jean François Billeter (born 1939), Swiss sinologist...
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Look up billet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A billet is the place where a person is assigned to sleep. Billet may also refer to: Billet (semi-finished...
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Billet reading, or the envelope trick, is a mentalist effect in which a performer pretends to use clairvoyance to read messages on folded papers or inside...
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Semi-finished casting products (redirect from Billet (semi-finished product))
processing before being finished goods. There are four types: ingots, blooms, billets, and slabs. Ingots are large rough castings designed for storage and transportation...
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Love letter (redirect from Billet doux)
A love letter is an expression of love in written form. However delivered, the letter may be anything from a short and simple message of love to a lengthy...
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A billet was a specific and standardised form of wood fuel of significant importance in the traditional pre–fossil fuel economy. The term could also be...
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Manuel Billeter is a Swiss-born, New York-based cinematographer. Billeter studied film at Freie Universität Berlin, and taught at the New York Film Academy...
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Guerric Billet (born 30 April 1996) is a French kickboxer, currently competing in the lightweight division of Glory. He is a former ISKA World welterweight...
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Billeting Order (French: Le billet de logement) is a 1932 French comedy film directed by Charles-Félix Tavano and starring André Berley, Jeanne Helbling...
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of Crooked Billet was a battle in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought on May 1, 1778 near the Crooked Billet Tavern (present-day...
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Jean François Billeter Chinese name : 毕来德 / 畢來德 Bì Láidé, born 1939 in Basel, Switzerland; is a Swiss sinologist and honorary professor of the University...
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Billeting (Hungarian: Beszállásolás) is a 1938 Hungarian musical film directed by Sándor Szlatinay and starring Antal Páger, Zita Szeleczky and Gyula...
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Grille (architecture) (redirect from Billet Grilles)
A grille or grill (French word from Latin craticula, small grill) is an opening of several slits side-by-side in a wall, metal sheet or another barrier...
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Aluminium (redirect from Billeted aluminum)
and is tapped off, and usually cast into large blocks called aluminium billets for further processing. Anodes of the electrolysis cell are made of carbon—the...
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The Crooked Billet is a pub at 14–15 Crooked Billet, facing onto Wimbledon Common, Wimbledon, London. The building dates from the early 18th century and...
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The Crooked Billet is a public house at 99 High Street, Penge, London SE20 7DT. It was built in 1827 and is the oldest pub in Penge. It is part of the...
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Crooked Billet, also known as Shepherd's Hatch Gate, is a hamlet which forms part of Wimbledon Common and incorporates its own commons. The district encompasses...
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Mentalism (section Written "billet")
paper (referred to by mentalists as a "billet"). She is told to write the thought in the centre of the billet, and sometimes a circle or a line will be...
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Girth (tack) (redirect from Billet (tack))
attached to the saddle on both sides by two or three leather straps called billets. Girths are used on Australian and English saddles, while western saddles...
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process and slowly decreases as the billet is used up. At the end of the billet the force greatly increases because the billet is thin and the material must...
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Julia Billet (1962, Paris) is a French writer, novelist, author of short stories and poetry. Julia Billet published novels, children's books, collections...
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The Bear and Billet is a public house at 94 Lower Bridge Street, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as...
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Hare and Billet is a public house located in Blackheath, London, overlooking parts of Greenwich Park. In the 18th century, the Hare and Billet was a coaching...
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The Crooked Billet is a 1929 British sound part-talkie drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Madeleine Carroll, Carlyle Blackwell and Miles...
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The Lottery Ticket (redirect from Un billet de loterie)
a short story called The Lottery Ticket. The Lottery Ticket (French: Un Billet de loterie, 1886) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne. It was also...
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Jacqueline Billet (born January 23, 1974) is an American former soccer player who played as a midfielder, making one appearance for the United States women's...
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Tom Billeter (born February 12, 1961) is an American college basketball coach at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. He previously has been the...
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Penge (section Pensgreene and the Crooked Billet)
southeast by the Crooked Billet. On a modern map that is a very small area, but the modern-day Penge Lane and Crooked Billet are not in their original...
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Bar stock (redirect from Billet (bar stock))
Bar stock, also (colloquially) known as blank, slug or billet, is a common form of raw purified metal, used by industry to manufacture metal parts and...
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