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Pluto Water was a trademark for a strongly laxative natural water product which was marketed in the United States in the early 20th century. The water's laxative properties were from its high native content of mineral salts, with the active ingredient listed as sodium and magnesium sulfate , which are known as natural laxatives.
Woman with a Water Jug, also known as Young Woman with a Water Pitcher [8] 1660–62 or c. 1662 [8] Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 40.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Woman Holding a Balance, also known as Woman with a Balance [8] 1662–63 or c. 1663–64 [8] Oil on canvas, 42.5 × 38 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington: A Lady Writing a ...
Unusually ambitious Samian ware flask from Southern Gaul around 100 AD. Heracles is killing Laomedon. Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes. It is found all over the former Roman Empire and beyond. Monte Testaccio is a huge waste mound in Rome made almost entirely of broken amphorae used ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Woman with a Water Jug (Dutch: Vrouw met waterkan ), also known as Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, is a painting finished between 1660–1662 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in the Baroque style. It is oil on canvas, 45.7cm × 40.6 cm, and is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York .
The Broken Jug (German: Der zerbrochne Krug, pronounced [deːɐ̯ t͡sɛɐ̯.ˈbʁɔx.nə kʁuːk] ⓘ, also sometimes translated The Broken Pitcher) is a comedy written by the German playwright Heinrich von Kleist. [1] Kleist first conceived the idea for the play in 1801 after looking at a copper engraving in Heinrich Zschokke 's house ...
Water pouring puzzle. Starting state of the standard puzzle; a jug filled with 8 units of water, and two empty jugs of sizes 5 and 3. The solver must pour the water so that the first and second jugs both contain 4 units, and the third is empty. Water pouring puzzles (also called water jug problems, decanting problems, [1] [2] measuring puzzles ...
A Cegléd jug is a 7–9 liter metal jug for water, with a handle and a lid. It is a relatively modern invention. They were first manufactured by a János Rónay in Cegléd in the 1910s. Before the wide distribution of water pipelines, Cegléd jugs were popular for delivery of water to farmers during harvest, construction and other workers away ...
Relief with 3- and 4-jug hieroglyphs. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vases with support (hieroglyph). The ancient Egyptian Water-jugs-in-stand hieroglyph, is Gardiner sign listed no. W17, W18, within the Gardiner signs for vessels of stone and earthenware. The hieroglyph is used as an ideogram in (kh)nt - (ḫnt), for 'a stand (for vases)'.