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Recent Examples of chimney stackHedwig, blinkered by the bounty of her domestic environs, seemingly ignores the infernal light and smoke from nearby chimney stacks, and otherwise blocks out the machinery of mass death: the barking of guard dogs, the rumbling of crematoria, the crack of pistols, the screams of prisoners.—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
On its final voyage south, the ship passed Palm Beach and caused a stir among locals—shots of its iconic red, white, and blue smokestacks gliding past the shores carried a poetic weight in a town whose own origin (and very name) traces back to a coconut-laden shipwreck.
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Skye Sherman,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Apr. 2025
The playground down the block sits in the shadow of a smokestack.
Pay attention to where the kitchen and bathrooms are, too—water supply and waste pipes for the second floor are often found in walls on the first floor, below sinks, tubs, or showers.
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Kevin Cortez,
Popular Mechanics,
25 May 2023
Cathcart is referring to the plumbing that the vanity's sink and faucet connect to—the water lines and waste pipe connect to the underside of the sink via the bendy P-trap pipe.
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Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Apr. 2023
The decision comes after the property’s water infrastructure was found to be severely deteriorated, causing frequent pipe ruptures and unreliable water service.
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Dominick Williams,
Kansas City Star,
8 May 2025
The men told him some story involving necessary pipe inspections.
The smoke travels up almost 100 feet of steel and copper tubes to the chimney and the world beyond.
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Panini, water and a telescopic folding stool: how to survive the conclave
Alexander Smith
Reporting from Vatican City
For the avid smokewatcher, preparation is key.
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Katie Primm,
NBC news,
9 May 2025
Among the artifacts recovered were 23 items associated with using psychoactive plants: short snuff tubes, flat tablets, and small spoons, all made of animal bone except for one made of a marine mollusk shell.
Music is both the subject and mechanism of Sinners, which opens with a voiceover history of how some musicians, dating back to the West African griots, have been seen as conduits between this world and the one beyond.
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Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
22 Apr. 2025
Her group worked as a conduit between upset residents and the Corps, and as a result, Corps teams partnered with local arborists, reviewed marked trees, and corrected those wrongly identified.
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Francine Kiefer,
Christian Science Monitor,
10 Apr. 2025
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