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A balisong, also known as a butterfly knife, fan knife or Batangas knife, is a type of folding pocketknife that originated in the Philippines. Its distinct features are two handles counter-rotating around the tang such that, when closed, the blade is concealed within grooves in the handles. A latch sometimes holds the handles together ...
The butterfly effect or sensitive dependence on initial conditions is the property of a dynamical system that, starting from any of various arbitrarily close alternative initial conditions on the attractor, the iterated points will become arbitrarily spread out from each other. Experimental demonstration of the butterfly effect with six ...
Pantographic knife. A pantographic knife or paratrooper knife is a folding knife whose blade is opened by a unique scissors method. The blade has a slightly longer tang than a folding knife heel. The handle is symmetrically segmented and articulated to fold away on both sides to grip the longer tang. The manner is similar to a butterfly knife ...
The office of Alabama’s attorney general has settled a federal lawsuit filed by death row inmate Alan Miller over the state’s plan for him to become the second known person in the nation to be ...
Possibly the original butter-fly. [6] A male brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) in flight.The Oxford English Dictionary derives the word straightforwardly from Old English butorflēoge, butter-fly; similar names in Old Dutch and Old High German show that the name is ancient, but modern Dutch and German use different words (vlinder and Schmetterling) and the common name often varies substantially ...
Mock, 33, who works at Fox 23 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, typically brushes off such comments. But this one was jab at the wig she recently started wearing because she's undergoing chemotherapy. The ...
King Charles III was stressed out as he watched his country's soccer team compete in the UEFA European Championship, with England beating the Netherlands in the last few minutes of the game in a ...
Winged infusion set. A winged infusion set —also known as "butterfly" or "scalp vein" set—is a device specialized for venipuncture: i.e. for accessing a superficial vein or artery for either intravenous injection or phlebotomy. It consists, from front to rear, of a hypodermic needle, two bilateral flexible "wings", flexible small-bore ...