His 10 award-winning beers, like Texas Wheat and Fancy Lawnmower are sold only in Texas.

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These account for 10% of the total, including Faraday's electric motor (1821), waterproof material (1823), Aspdin's cement (1824), George Stephenson's passenger railway (1825) and the lawnmower by Edwin Beard Budding (1827).

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She was missing two fingers on her right hand from a lawnmower incident and sometimes used that hand to scare a kid silent.

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The turbines, anchored to the bay floor and shaped like rotary lawnmower blades, are expected to crank out 1.2 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 1, 200 homes.

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It's all well and good "fancying the shiny new lawnmower someone else has got" said one MP but he'd never thought it a good strategy.

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In some Caribbean countries, such as Barbados, which are overrun with the creatures, the snails' shells blow out car tyres and turn into projectiles when they encounter lawnmower blades.

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She grabbed my arm and pulled on it like it was the starter rope on a lawnmower engine.

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The lone generator, dubbed TidGen, lies in Cobscook Bay off the town of Eastport, where its lawnmower-shaped blades churn as 20-foot tides rise and fall twice a day.

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