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A 2011 UK court decisions considered the Stormtrooper armor to be industrial design, which is only protected for 15 years, and thus the armor is now in the public domain, but only in the UK. In the US it has been ruled to be under copyright. [Wikipedia]
Hydrotherapy is a part of medicine, in particular of occupational therapy and physiotherapy, that involves the use of water for pain relief and treatment. [wikipedia]
The art of surfing, called he'enalu in the Hawaiian language, was first described in 1769. [Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_surfing ]
The exercise ball was developed in 1963 by Aquilino Cosani, the first ones were much smaller and used in treatments for infants and newborns. [wikipedia]
Rod type rolling pins (left) are popular in Eastern Asia and France while roller type pins (right) are more popular in the rest of Western Europe and the U.S.A. [Wikipedia]
The didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia potentially within the last 1,500 years and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world [Wikipedia]
American Apparel designs, creates and prints its own advertisements. The company is known for its provocative and controversial advertising campaigns, which is largely the inspiration of the company CEO Dov Charney. [Wikipedia]
Although modern corsets follow the Victorian style, giving the wearer an hourglass figure, through much of European history corsets focused less on making the waist small and more on forcing the breasts higher. [wikipedia]
The first jungle gym was invented in 1920 and patented by lawyer Sebastian Hinton in Chicago. It was sold under the trademarked name Junglegym. The term "monkey bars", was first documented in 1955 [wikipedia]
A half and half cookie or half moon, is a soft, sponge-cake-like shortbread which is iced on one half with vanilla fondant, and on the other half by chocolate fondant. Notably, this style cookie is often seen as a particularly "New York" snack. [Wikipedia
Although they were first allowed on the force in 1888 women in the NYPD had to wait until 1958 to train at the police academy with the men. [Wikipedia]
Courgette (/kʊərˈʒɛt/) or Zucchini (/zuːˈkiːniː/) is a summer squash which can reach nearly a meter in length, but which is usually harvested at half that size or less. [wikipedia]
An explosion is a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases. [wikipedia] :)
Thermographic cameras detect radiation in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum (roughly 9,000–14,000 nanometers or 9–14 µm) and produce images of that radiation, called thermograms. [wikipedia]
In his mid 30s, Marquis Mills Converse, who was previously a respected manager at a footwear manufacturing firm, opened the Converse Rubber Shoe Company in February 1908. [Wikipedia]
Handsaws fall into two main categories, rip saws are designed for cutting along the grain of the wood, and crosscut saws are designed to cut across the grain of the wood [Wikipedia]
After initial injection, pigment is dispersed throughout a damaged layer down through the epidermis and upper dermis, in both of which the presence of foreign material activates the immune system's phagocytes to engulf the pigment particles. [wikipedia]
Spanish colonists noted the use of the hammock by Native Americans, particularly in the West Indies, at the time of the Spanish conquest.[1] The word comes from a Taíno culture Arawakan word (Haiti) meaning "fish net". [wikipedia]
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are a milk chocolate cup confection made of chocolate-coated peanut butter marketed by The Hershey Company. They were created in 1928 by H. B. Reese, a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton S. Hershey. [Wikipedia]
Hanson Gregory claimed to have invented the ring-shaped doughnut in 1847 aboard a lime-trading ship when he was 16 years old. He claimed to have punched a hole in the center of dough with the ship's tin pepper box. [Wikipedia]
Elizabeth Semmelhack, curator for the Bata Shoe Museum, traces the high heel to male horse-riding warriors in the Middle East who used high heels for functionality, because they help hold the rider's foot in stirrups. [wikipedia]
According to a 2004 United States survey, 55% of women wear pajamas or nightgowns for sleeping, whereas 2% wear underwear and another 14% sleep nude. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwear ]
Barbara Meier (born 25 July 1986) is a German fashion model and actress. She is best known as the winner of the second cycle of Germany's Next Topmodel. [wikipedia]
