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Plot summary. "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket" takes place on a narrow ledge eleven storeys above Lexington Avenue. Tom Benecke is an ambitious young advertiser working for Wholesale Groceries who lives with his wife Clare in an eleventh-floor apartment above Lexington Avenue in New York City. One autumn night, Tom declines an invitation ...
The FAA states "The height–velocity diagram or H/V curve is a graph charting the safe/unsafe flight profiles relevant to a specific helicopter. As operation outside the safe area of the chart can be fatal in the event of a power or transmission failure it is sometimes referred to as the dead man's curve ." [1]
Dead man's switch. A pedal acting as a dead man's switch in a bucket lift truck. A dead man's switch is a switch that is designed to be activated or deactivated if the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death, loss of consciousness, or being bodily removed from control. Originally applied to switches on a vehicle or machine ...
On-board diagnostics. Various views of a "MaxScan OE509" – a fairly typical onboard diagnostics (OBD) scanner, 2015. On-board diagnostics ( OBD) is a term referring to a vehicle's self-diagnostic and reporting capability. In the United States, this capability is a requirement to comply with federal emissions standards to detect failures that ...
Dead Man's Folly is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October 1956 [1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 5 November of the same year. [2] The US edition retailed at $2.95 [1] and the UK edition at twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6). [2] It features Hercule Poirot ...
A dead man's statute, also known as a dead man act or dead man's rule, is a statute designed to prevent perjury in a civil case by prohibiting a witness who is an interested party from testifying about communications or transactions with a deceased person (a "decedent") against the decedent unless there is a waiver .
B+. Tracksounds. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is the soundtrack for the Disney film of the same title, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. The score was composed by Hans Zimmer in 2006. Zimmer has noted that no electric guitars were used in the score: Actually, it's not an electric guitar.
March 2, 1997. ( 1997-03-02) –. March 26, 1999. ( 1999-03-26) Dead Man's Gun was a Western anthology television series on Showtime from 1997 to 1999. The series followed the travels of a gun as it changed the lives of those who possessed it. Every episode was narrated by Kris Kristofferson.