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Facebook is a platform where you can connect with people all around the world. Whether they are your close friends and family or a stranger online. You can keep up relationships with people who are miles away from you through Facebook. Naturally, Facebook has a great number of users constantly surfing the app which is why Facebook always works on making the platform a better experience for the users. For the longest time, Facebook was made available only on a light interface....

To compete with this, Meta-owned Instagram also started a section called Instagram reels that are currently available on Facebook as well. Reels are fun to look at and their short length makes us engage in them even more. But they can also be tremendously distracting when you are on Facebook for some information and business or, don’t like looking at videos in general. Well, in those cases, you can easily hide all reels on Facebook....

Candles are considered cosmetics and also include their own set of key laws and standards for candle labeling. Labeling standards vary in various states and countries when it comes to language, fire safety, type of candle (scented and citronella candles have special rules, for instance), and more.

Before starting the game, you must choose two locations for your starting settlements. These two decisions may seem small, but they have a huge impact on your chances to win the game. Here are some things you’ll want to keep in mind when choosing where to place your initial settlements in a game of Settlers of Catan. Dots Each resource space has a number on it, in addition to a number of dots....

Game Components The game is made up of one board, containing a 10 by 10 grid of squares, with two impassable areas in the middle. There are 80 pieces, 40 for each player, including one flag, six bombs, a spy, and military pieces ranging in value from one to nine. Some newer editions of Stratego reverse the rankings, making higher numbers stronger instead of weaker, and using 10s as the Marshalls....

Gmail is a popular platform, especially in official working sectors. Obviously, people in daily life often use it for personal emails, its prominence is noticeably more in the professional field. Thus, if any mishaps happen with the emails you send, it could be a problem in your workplace. To save yourself from the regret of sending a wrong email you can immediately recall an email in Gmail. Although it is a great feature, it is also not the most ideal and reliable option for correcting your mistakes....

Instagram allows you to share posts of your own, of other accounts both public and private with your friends. But how to do can be pretty confusing. Sharing Instagram posts are a great way to send useful information to your friends and followers, share fun content, and even helps a lot to gain more followers. If you are unaware on how to share a post on Instagram, worry no more because with this article, we have you covered....

Furniture made in the Queen Anne style is often difficult to date exactly since it sometimes blends elements from the earlier William and Mary and later Chippendale styles, according to American Furniture: Tables, Chairs, Sofas and Beds by Marvin D. Schwartz. Queen Anne is lighter and less chunky in appearance in comparison to earlier furniture, exhibiting a change in taste in the early 1700s. There are some quintessential examples of Queen Anne styling, however, including highboys, lowboys, and the Hogarth chair, as mentioned by Frank Farmer Loomis IV in Antiques 101....

To start, Blaine was not wearing any special shoes and was freely walking around and performing for spectators. Anyone who was there would have been able to examine Blaine and his shoes, and they would have found nothing. The crowd could have also examined the area where Blaine performed the levitation, both before and after, and they would have found nothing. So how could Blaine have managed this trick? Was it pure magic or just an illusion?...

Paper provides an excellent flexible surface, also called support, to paint on with acrylics. It is portable, light-weight, and relatively inexpensive compared to canvas, linen, and other prepared artboards. Paper is particularly good for small to medium-sized paintings or studies and can also be used for larger paintings when a suitable heavyweight paper is chosen, or when used as part of a series, such as in a triptych (a picture in three parts)....

Correctly Describing “Royal Vienna” Wares The mark does look much more like a beehive than a shield to the average person, but correct is correct, right? Well, not if you want to sell a piece through an ad or in the online marketplace. The term that rules will always be what collectors recognize, especially when it comes to buying and selling. In this case, people associate Royal Vienna with what they reference as the beehive mark....

Basic Soap If you’re okay with a slightly off-white soap, this basic recipe, which has a little castor oil thrown in for extra lather, might serve your purpose just fine. Equal ratios of olive, palm, and coconut oils will make a wonderful, moisturizing lather that will leave you feeling clean and fresh: 35% olive oil30% palm oil30% coconut oil5% castor oil This soap will come out a nice light beige color, a little less beige than Goat’s Milk Soap, though not pristinely white....

Methods There are generally two methods of raw glazing for the single-fire process. The first being where you glaze the inside of your greenware pot when it is leather hard and then the outside when it is bone dry. The second (more common technique) for raw glazing is to glaze the whole piece when the work is leather hard. This method leaves less room for error in terms of the shock to the work during the firing process....

Seven horses are racing in this game, originally published as Royal Turf by Rio Grande Games and Alea and later republished as Winner’s Circle. Players secretly place bets on the horses at the beginning of the game (the goal is to earn the most money), evaluating each horse’s ability and its starting position to decide which has the best chance to win. Once the race begins, players roll a die and choose which horse advance based on the resulting symbol....

Working the stitch in two colors is even more fun because you get a predominant color on each side. Materials One hank each of two colors of Malabrigo Merino Worsted, or about 210 yards each of worsted/medium weight wool of your choiceSet of size 9 US (5.5 mm) circular needles; length does not matter, but go for a shorter one if you have it Gauge Gauge is not all that critical, but we got 20 stitches and 15 “rows” (counting the prominent knit stitches) per 4 inches/10 cm, or 5 stitches and 3....

Two new factories were built by U.S. Glass Co. in the late 1800s. These were located in Gas City, Indiana, and Tiffin, Ohio. The Indiana facility produced “machine-made” or pressed glass including kitchenware through the 1930s. The Tiffin plant made “blown stemware, delicately pressed dinnerware lines with light cutting or etching," or simply plain glass in crystal and a bevy of popular colors, according to Weatherman. Other factories made a variety of glass styles and types including carnival glass, stretch glass, amberina, and others....

Bachelor’s Chest Features Bachelor’s chests are English in origin and traditionally had graduated drawers. In the first models, which date from the late 17th century, the top was hinged and could fold out to become a writing surface, supported by runners or knobbed slides, called lopers. Later versions in the 18th century had a brushing slide—a pullout surface for writing or laying out of clothing—just underneath the top. The most common type of feet on early bachelor’s chests were bun feet....