mechanical+contrivances
71Busking — is the practice of performing in public places for tips and gratuities. People engaging in this practice are called buskers. Busking performances can be just about anything that people find entertaining. Buskers may do: acrobatics, animal tricks …
72Academic art — is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities.Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des beaux arts, which practiced under the …
73Curtain (novel) — Curtain: Poirot s Last Case   …
74Richard Hall Gower — Captain Richard Hall Gower (1768 1833) was an English mariner, empirical philosopher, nautical inventor, entrepreneur, and humanitarian.MarinerRichard was the youngest son of Rev. Reginald Foote Gower, physician and antiquarian. He won a… …
75Daniel von Blumenthal — is an Arthurian romance composed around 1220 by the Middle High German poet Stricker, who claimed he had received the story from a French troubadour. It tells how Sir Daniel, heir to the kingdom of Blumenthal, becomes a Knight of the Round Table… …
76gadgetry — /gaj i tree/, n. mechanical or electronic contrivances; gadgets: the gadgetry of the well equipped modern kitchen. [1915 20; GADGET + RY] * * * …
77machinery — /meuh shee neuh ree/, n., pl. machineries. 1. an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory. 2. the parts of a machine, collectively: the machinery of a watch. 3. a group of people or a system by which action is… …
78mask — masklike, adj. /mask, mahsk/, n. 1. a covering for all or part of the face, worn to conceal one s identity. 2. a grotesque or humorous false face worn at a carnival, masquerade, etc.: Halloween masks. 3. Also called swim mask. a device consisting …
79tool — tooler, n. toolless, adj. /toohl/, n. 1. an implement, esp. one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations. 2. any instrument of manual operation. 3. the cutting or machining part of a lathe …
80ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …
