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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. "The Receding Princess" from The Japanese Fairy Book, 1908. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter ( Japanese: 竹取物語, Hepburn: Taketori Monogatari) is a monogatari (fictional prose narrative) containing elements of Japanese folklore. Written by an unknown author in the late 9th or early 10th century during the Heian ...
Budget. $3 million or $5 million [ 1] Box office. $1,729,274 [ 2] Cutter's Way (originally titled Cutter and Bone) is a 1981 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Ivan Passer. The film stars Jeff Bridges, John Heard, and Lisa Eichhorn. The screenplay was adapted from the 1976 novel Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg .
The United States Coast Guard wooden-hulled 83-foot patrol boats (also called cutters) were all built by Wheeler Shipyard in Brooklyn, New York during World War II.The first 136 cutters were fitted with a tapered-roof Everdur silicon bronze wheelhouse but due to a growing scarcity of that metal during the war, the later units were fitted with a flat-roofed plywood wheelhouse. [4]
Detonation of the last BLU-82. The BLU-82B/C-130 weapon system, known under program " Commando Vault " and nicknamed "Daisy Cutter" in Vietnam for its ability to flatten a section of forest into a helicopter landing zone, was an American 15,000-pound (6,800 kg) conventional bomb, delivered from either a C-130 or MC-130 transport aircraft or a ...
Tally Ho is a gaff-rigged cutter yacht designed by the artist and yacht designer Albert Strange. [ 1][ 3] The 48-foot (15 m) yacht was built at Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex in England and has previously carried the names Betty, Alciope, and Escape. By 2017 she had nearly rotted away, and was in danger of being scrapped.
175' Keeper-class coastal buoy tender (WLM) USCGC Joshua Appleby (WLM-556), a 175' USCG coastal buoy tender. USCGC Ida Lewis (WLM-551) USCGC Katherine Walker (WLM-552) USCGC Abbie Burgess (WLM-553) USCGC Marcus Hanna (WLM-554) USCGC James Rankin (WLM-555) USCGC Joshua Appleby (WLM-556) USCGC Frank Drew (WLM-557)
A gaff cutter, Kleine Freiheit, with a genoa jib set USCGC Legare, an example of a US Coast Guard cutter A cutter is a name for various types of watercraft.It can apply to the rig (sail plan) of a sailing vessel (but with regional differences in definition), to a governmental enforcement agency vessel (such as a coast guard or border force cutter), to a type of ship's boat which can be used ...
Cutter (card player), the player who cuts the pack in a card game. Leg cutter, a type of delivery in cricket. Off cutter, a type of delivery in cricket. Cutter, a participant in the equestrian sport of cutting, where the horse and rider demonstrate their ability to handle cattle. Cutters, a current Little 500 cycling team whose name was taken ...