plank

Examples of plank in the following topics:

• Pacific Coast Culture

  • For example, some tribes used hand drums made of animal hides as their instrument of choice, while others used plank or log drums, along with whistlers, wood clappers, and rattles.
  • One example of this is the use of symbols on totem poles and plank houses of the Pacific Northwest coast.
  • Tribal art included plank houses and totem poles that served as constant reminders of indigenous peoples' birth places, lineages, and nations.

• Coordinating and Promoting Party Policy

  • While the planks of platforms do not all necessarily become policies, they can lead to highly politicized debates between parties that become party policy stances.

• Norse Timber Architecture in the Early European Middle Ages

  • The wall frames are filled with vertical planks.
  • Many stave churches had or still have outer galleries running around the whole perimeter, loosely connected to the plank walls.

• The National Convention

  • Each convention produces a statement of principles known as its platform, containing goals and proposals known as planks.
  • For example, defenders of abortion lobbied heavily to remove the Human Life Amendment plank from the 1996 Republican National Convention platform, a move fiercely resisted by conservatives despite the fact that no such amendment had ever come up for debate.

• Eratosthenes' Experiment

  • To dig straight down, a worker would place a plank across the well opening and at at its center he would lower a mass attached to a string.

• Construction

  • Examples of possible materials which could be used to create a constructed sculpture include pipes, wires, tubing, plastics, metal rods, wooden planks, blocks, glass, and fabrics.

• Architecture of the Early Dynastic Period

  • It creates a union between two planks or other components by inserting a separate tenon into a cavity (mortise) of the corresponding size cut into each component.

• The Populist Party and the Election of 1896

  • Jones of the St Louis Post-Dispatch was put on the platform committee and Bryan's plank for free silver was adopted sixteen to one, and silently added to the Chicago Democratic Platform in order to avoid controversy.

• Nayak Painting

  • Thanjavur panel paintings are usually done on solid wooden planks.

• Egyptian Trade

  • Egyptians built ships as early as 3000 BCE by lashing planks of wood together and stuffing the gaps with reeds.