THE AESTHETICS OF WIRE FORMING

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Fastest Wire Bending in the World. Unedited Footage. For more info got to: http://www.aimmachines.com/afe2d.htm

FORMING CENTER MAKING SPRINGS The video show a double torsion spring with legs inside bodies inside General specifications: - wire range size between 1,5 and 4,0 mm. - the RX-A has 2 sets of three dimensionally controlled servo slides with rotary tool changers.

Vasily Vereschagin

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Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Вереща́гин, October 26, 1842 – April 13, 1904) was one of the most famous Russian battle painters and one of the first Russian artiststs to be widely recognized abroad. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led many of them to never be printed or exhibited.

Tropic of Chaos

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Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence

By Christian Parenti 

Nation Books, 304 pages 

From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In 

Tropic of Chaos

, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency.  Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism"--a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.

DemocracyNow.org - Extreme weather from Texas to Somalia may indicate that a new era of climate war is upon us. Just this month, massive floods have shut down two nuclear power facilities in Nebraska. In New Mexico, the nation's top nuclear weapons lab in Los Alamos is being threatened by an uncontrolled wildfire.

DemocracyNow.org - Extreme weather from Texas to Somalia may indicate that a new era of climate war is upon us. Just this month, massive floods have shut down two nuclear power facilities in Nebraska. In New Mexico, the nation's top nuclear weapons lab in Los Alamos is being threatened by an uncontrolled wildfire.

Automaton Aviary

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http://www.automatomania.com A mechanical singing bird by Bontems of Paris dating from 1870. The clockwork motor drives a bellows and whistle to make the sound.

Lot 601 in the O'Gallerie Auction February 21-23, 2011. FRENCH SINGING BIRD AUTOMATON in brass and mahogany faux finish with "jeweled" top. Side lever activates full bodied bird to emerge, begins singing, beak, wings and head move. After the performance, the bird pops down into the footed box.

Take a special look at one of MIM's mechanical bird music boxes, a rare piece of musical art work. Hear the synthetic chirping of the bird as you take a look inside this intricate mechanical instrument.

BHUTANESE PHONOGRAPHIC STAMPS

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Bhutan issued these phonographic stamps in 1973.  The first of their kind, the records contained recordings of folk songs, facts about the country and the Bhutanese national anthem.  They have adhesive backs for use as postage.  In 2008, Bhutan issued a CD-ROM stamp as an update to this design.

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