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| | Chair Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com |
 | | Actual chair dimensions are determined by measurements of the human body or anthropometric measurements. | | | The chest, the bench and the stool were until then the ordinary seats of everyday life, and the number of chairs which have survived from an earlier date is exceedingly limited; most of such examples are of ecclesiastical or seigneurial origin. | | | A kneeling chair adds an additional body part, the knees, to support the weight of the body. |
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| | BIGpedia - Electric chair - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | Further, regardless of how well the execution was performed, some skin is always burned and it is unpleasant for the guard charged with separating the burned, oozing skin from the seat belts. | | | The electric chair has come under criticism because of several instances in which victims were not instantly killed, but had to be subjected to multiple electric shocks, leading to a call for ending of the practice because many see it as cruel and unusual punishment. | | | The experiments apparently had their intended effects, and the AC electric chair was adopted by the committee in 1889. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Chair of Peter |
| | It follows also that this is the cathedra referred to in the oldest testimonia which speak of the chair from which Peter taught at Rome. | | | If the original chair of the Apostle had still been there at that time, would it have been saved from destruction in the pillage that did not spare the sarcophagi in the catacombs? | | | Tertullian, in the above quoted passage, refers to the value placed by the Apostolic Churches on the possession of the chairs of their founders (apud quas ipsæ adhuc cathedræ apostolorum suis locis præsident), and in enumerating them he puts Rome first. |
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| | Hitchcock chair - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Hitchcock chair |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | It is a factory product, typically not carved or upholstered, and is painted black over red, often with designs stenciled in colors or bronze. | | | Hitchcock chair: see Hitchcock, Lambert Hitchcock chair is characteristic of its time and has come to be sought by collectors. |
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| | yacht chair - definition of yacht chair in Encyclopedia |
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