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    Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel published in 1912 by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914), a convert to Catholicism...
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  • sculpture by Marcel Duchamp Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912), historical novel by English priest and writer R. H. Benson Curly on the Rack (1958) play by Australian...
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    writing the notable dystopian novel Lord of the World, as well as Come Rack! Come Rope!. His output encompassed historical, horror and science fiction,...
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  • master villain in the latter half of Robert Hugh Benson's 1912 novel, Come Rack! Come Rope!, in which the Topcliffe character pursues and ultimately executes...
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  • Anti-Catholicism in the United Kingdom English and Irish Penal Laws Come Rack! Come Rope! Soulton Hall Bramall Hall Tue Brook House Hailsham "Elizabeth I...
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    is portrayed, as a minor character, in Robert Hugh Benson's novel Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912), where he is named "Hugh Owen". One of his priest holes plays...
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    Reformation—indeed, Benson would later write a historical novel, Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912), set during that time. Franklin's suspicion that Francis...
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  • Council of Trent, The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ four volume set, Come Rack, Come Rope, Dark Night of the Soul, Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena, Way...
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  • In mathematics, racks and quandles are sets with binary operations satisfying axioms analogous to the Reidemeister moves used to manipulate knot diagrams...
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    pro, gear or the rack), provide the means to place temporary anchor points on the rock to which a lead climber can clip their rope (via a quickdraw)...
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  • (English Renaissance theatre/Elizabethan Cumberland and London) Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson (Elizabethan persecution of Catholics) Woodstock...
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    the rope travels through it quickly in a specific direction. See auto belay. abseiling A technique by which a climber descends via a fixed rope that...
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  • a rack in the track bed, and especially in longer systems also by draining water from the wagon going down the valley. Some lifts have a lower rope to...
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    Hoist (device) (redirect from Come a long)
    around which rope or chain wraps. It may be manually operated, electrically or pneumatically driven and may use chain, fiber or wire rope as its lifting...
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  • and clotheslined him over the top rope. Luger then gave Hall a reverse atomic drop, then put him in the Torture Rack and forced him to submit to even the...
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    Rope splicing in ropework is the forming of a semi-permanent joint between two ropes or two parts of the same rope by partly untwisting and then interweaving...
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    self-belay while jumaring the rope as one half of the ascender pair. The manufacturer holds uses outside of those validated come with considerable risks, and...
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    improvised etrier or aider they are also very useful in clean rope management Slings come both sewn to length and assembled from loose webbing knotted...
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    bends, loop knots, and splices: a hitch fastens a rope to another object; a bend fastens two ends of a rope to each another; a loop knot is any knot creating...
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    A shank is a type of knot that is used to shorten a rope or take up slack, such as the sheepshank. The sheepshank knot is not stable. It will fall apart...
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    Chevalier also being the first to use nylon rope in a cave as opposed to natural fibre rope. Single rope technique (SRT) began to be developed in the...
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    widely used in rope-intensive activities such as climbing, fall arrest systems, arboriculture, caving, sailing, hot-air ballooning, rope rescue, construction...
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    the appearance of slack rope; whether they were intended to be that is debatable. Slack rope lifts nothing; moreover, a rope around the neck of the pithos...
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    responsibility for understanding and communicating risks. Combines aspects of SSC and RACK to address criticisms of each. ProDom: Male professional dominant who exchanges...
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  • they are having fun playing jump rope, a lot of eggs end up smashed on the floor as a result of an overfilled rack which is left unmoved. In the office...
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  • down future plans for child abductions and constructing a homemade torture rack for his next victim. On November 13, 1989, Dodd drove to Camas, Washington...
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  • by Antonino Rocca, this submission hold, also known as a Torture Rack or simply a rack, sees the attacking wrestler carrying the opponent face-up across...
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    individual figures. The French word for manger is crèche, and cattle feed racks are still known as cratches. In Japan it is called “ayatori.” In Korea it...
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    Train (section Rack railway)
    Funiculars are also used to climb steep slopes, but instead of a rack use a rope, which is attached to two cars and a pulley. The two funicular cars...
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    working end of the rope as a rabbit. 1,2 – a loop is made into the standing part which will act as the rabbit's hole 3 – the "rabbit" comes up the hole, 4...
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