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The cleaner that had to wait at the curb
In London, England, in 1901, an engineer named Hubert Cecil Booth went to the Empire Music Hall to watch a new cleaning machine. It blew air at the floor and hoped the dust would land in a bag. Booth thought the whole idea was pointed the wrong way. Pull the dirt in, he argued, and trap it in a filter, and the room would actually be clean. The inventor on stage told him suction was impossible. Booth patented his suction cleaner that same year. His petrol engine was far too big to carry indoors, so it waited at the curb while operators fed long hoses through the windows of the house.
Read & play →Curling players sweep ice to steer sliding stones, using an ordinary cleaning motion to make a heavy object travel farther or straighter.
Ancient Roman laundry workers used urine as a cleaning ingredient, drawing on its ammonia long before bottled detergents existed.
Hubert Cecil Booth patented a powered vacuum in 1901; his petrol machine was so big it stayed in the street.
Life's too short to stuff a mushroom.
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What is a word search?
A word search is a grid of letters with words hidden inside it — placed across, down, or diagonally, and sometimes backwards — among random filler letters. You find each word from a list and mark it. Word searches build vocabulary and spelling recognition, which makes them a favourite for kids, ESL and language learners, and classrooms. Every puzzle here is free to play online or print as a PDF with an answer key, in ten languages.
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