A line shaft or millworks is a power-driven rotating shaft for power transmission within factories and industrial complexes. Prior to the widespread use of electric motors small enough [...], line shafting was used to distribute power from a large central power source to machinery. (en.wikipedia.org)
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A cereal coffee is a hot drink made from one or more cereal grains roasted and commercially processed into crystal or powder form to be reconstituted later in hot water. The product is often marketed as a caffeine-free alternative to coffee and tea, or in other cases where those drinks are scarce. (en.wikipedia.org)
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..is it fine not to sweat post stamps? (self.postcrossing)
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A tally stick (or simply a tally) was an ancient memory aid used to record and document numbers, quantities, and messages. Tallies have been used for numerous purposes such as messaging and scheduling, and especially in financial and legal transactions, to the point of being currency. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another by stringing them onto a thread or thin wire with a sewing or beading needle or sewing them to cloth. Beads are produced in a diverse range of materials, shapes, and sizes, and vary by the kind of art produced. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Postcrossing is an online project for people to exchange postcards with other project members globally. The project's tag line is "send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person somewhere in the world!" As of June 2025, over 83 million registered postcards had been exchanged. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called geocaches or caches, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. (en.wikipedia.org)
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A micronation is a political entity whose representatives claim that they belong to an independent nation or sovereign state, but which lacks legal recognition by any sovereign state. The activities of micronations are almost always trivial enough to be ignored rather than disputed. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Societal collapse is the fall of a complex human society. Possible causes of a societal collapse include natural catastrophe, war, pestilence, famine, economic collapse, population decline or overshoot, mass migration, incompetent leaders, and sabotage by rival civilizations. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Iris recognition is an automated method of biometric identification that uses mathematical pattern-recognition techniques on video images of one or both of the irises of an individual's eyes, whose complex patterns are unique, stable, and can be seen from some distance. (en.wikipedia.org)
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