Slogging refers to working hard and making strenuous efforts towards completing a task or achieving a goal, often involving repetitive or tedious work. It can also describe moving through something with difficulty, like slogging through mud or slogging through a long day at work.

Yes, it means to work hard, especially at a boring job.

Babar and the Adventures of Badou - 2010 A Bird in the Hand Slogging Through 2-9 was released on:

USA: 8 July 2012

The North had by far the bigger population.

In the end, Grant depended on this factor - simply slogging it out till the Confederates ran out of manpower.

On their trip to the South Pole, Roald Amundsen's team encountered some bad weather. They wisely chose to rest in their tents, rather than exhaust themselves and risk frostbite slogging through the howling storm.

Maybe it can be chores

assignment, attempt, commission, daily grind, drudge, drudgery, effort, elbow grease, endeavor, exertion, functioning, grind, grindstone, industry, job, moil, muscle, obligation, pains, performance, production, push, salt mines, servitude, slogging, stint, stress, striving, struggle, sweat*, task, toil, travail, trial, trouble, undertaking

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 4 words with the pattern S-OG---G. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter S and 3rd letter O and 4th letter G and 8th letter G. In alphabetical order, they are:

scogging

shogging

slogging

snogging

I can't find any specific corroboration of this, but it was fairly common for movie stars (which Cooper certainly was at the time) to receive deferments. It was the general feeling of the government that movie stars could better serve their country as, well, movie stars (by appearing in patriotic movies) than by slogging across Europe as an unremarkable soldier.

Cooper in particular appeared in 1941's "Sergeant York", a movie about highly decorated WWI hero Alvin York.

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 15 words with the pattern -L-G-I-G. That is, eight letter words with 2nd letter L and 4th letter G and 6th letter I and 8th letter G. In alphabetical order, they are:

alegging

aligning

blagging

blogging

clagging

clogging

flagging

flegging

flogging

glugging

plaguing

plugging

slagging

slogging

slugging

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 14 words with the pattern --OGG-N-. That is, eight letter words with 3rd letter O and 4th letter G and 5th letter G and 7th letter N. In alphabetical order, they are:

blogging

brogging

clogging

crogging

flogging

frogging

grogging

progging

proggins

scogging

shogging

slogging

snogging

trogging

Travel and tourism - these depend on each other as a matter of course. Without travel, tourism wouldn't be able to function atall - after all, who would want to hire a boat for a large sum of money so they can just spend two nights at some hotel which claims to be brilliant? The travel industry supplies a easy and convenient (Possibly cheaper) way of getting to their hotels. And vice versa - without the tourist industry to supply a larger more varied (And rich, in some cases) customer base, they would just be slogging through the mud with little profit to show for it.

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 23 words with the pattern S--G-IN-. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter S and 4th letter G and 6th letter I and 7th letter N. In alphabetical order, they are:

sanguine

scagging

scogging

scugging

seagoing

shagging

shogging

singeing

singling

skugging

slagging

slogging

slugging

smugging

snagging

snigging

snogging

snugging

soughing

spagging

stagging

swagging

swigging

The "American population" was involuntarily (conscription) supplying the men to fight the war.

Note: Critics will state "statistics" showing many volunteers for the US military during the war. With rare exceptions; those were "draft induced" volunteers.

Additionally: US Air Force and US Navy and US Coast Guard positions were full of "volunteers" who enlisted in those branches, rather than face conscription into a mud slogging, cold canned food ("C" rations) eating grunt. Ask any (honest) navy or air force veteran from that era, they'll tell you flat out...the navy and air force FED BETTER!

Perception refers to how a person differentiates, organizes, recognizes and understands stimuli. If you would like a very complicated definition of the word, I can refer you to slogging through Wikipedia's article. On the other hand, in short it can define as the above. Dictionary.com also includes the notion of insight, which can and cannot inform perception [ie: one can see something one does not understand. In that case, one perceives the item visually but may have no context for anything else significant, or insignificant, about it]. It's a very complicated concept once one decides upon delving into it to a great depth, at least as complicated as semantics. If you need more, you might start with the reference materials hereupon.

No criminal lawyers r not paid too much unless nd until they have created a firm position for themselves in field of law..... they have to establish themselves as intelligent nd capable lawyers then nd there they cn earn more until then slogging is required in law......

This year's taxes may have been a nightmare, but it's not too late to try a few steps to simplify the process for next year:

* Keep paper receipts and important documentation in an organized folder so that they're readily available when you need them.

* Use personal financing software to keep track of your expenses throughout the year. When tax season rolls around, this will save you the trouble of slogging through paperwork and digging up those old receipts. It can also itemize your expenses and even file your taxes for you.

* Subscribe to Tax Tips, an IRS service that delivers help topics by e-mail each business day during the tax-filing season and periodically during the rest of the year.

It depends on the level of the job. Most interviews other than entry level laborers would call for business casual in the interview (after all you won't be slogging away in a dirty job during the interview). This would be (for men) a pair of slacks (not jeans or casual pants) a plain shirt (not a tee, hoodie or similar). Shoes should be leather, in good condition (not hiking boots, track shoes or work boots)

A good option is to quietly visit the site where the interview is and observe how the un-uniformed (management) staff dress.

Women's rules are similar except for the inclusion of reasonable length skits to the option of slacks and the lack of low cut or revealing tops.

Hygiene (nails, hair, teeth, shaves, lack of odours from perfume or cologne) is of high importance.

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 56 words with the pattern S--GG---. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter S and 4th letter G and 5th letter G. In alphabetical order, they are:

scagging

scogging

scugging

shaggier

shaggily

shagging

shogging

shoggled

shoggles

shuggies

skeggers

skugging

slaggier

slagging

sloggers

slogging

sluggard

sluggers

slugging

sluggish

smoggier

smuggery

smuggest

smugging

smuggled

smuggler

smuggles

snaggier

snagging

sniggers

snigging

sniggled

sniggler

sniggles

snogging

snuggery

snuggest

snuggies

snugging

snuggled

snuggles

spagging

spuggies

staggard

staggart

staggers

staggery

staggier

staggies

stagging

stuggier

swaggers

swaggies

swagging

swiggers

swigging

No more trotting to the bank to get a cashier's check, no more slogging back to the rental office to pay the rent. No more sliding in the snow to get to the bank and back to pay the rent. No more walking across the complex to the office with a personal check. Now rent can be paid wearing pajamas and bedroom slippers or whatever is comfortable when you make the rent payment online.

Several sites online exist wherein the renter types in his name and address, links his bank account to the rent payment online account the complex uses and he's done. On the first of the month, the renter will transfer his money from his bank into the rent payment online account, click enter and he's good for another month. This is secure and fast, two facets of grave importance to everyone concerned.

Making the rent payment online can be done from people's iphones, ipads or their laptops. They can be made at work or at home. Secure, fast and convenient makes busy people happier and more organized.

Blunting of the distal phalanges is a diagnostic term referring to the "clubbing" of the fingertips as was documented by Hippocrates in conjunction with the occurrence of advanced pulmonary disease. Hence, it is also referred to as "Hippocratic fingers." It is a deformity of the fingers evident in several diseases, but perhaps most notable in the later stages of lung and heart dysfunction. Other names for this phenomena include "drumstick fingers" and "watch-glass nails." Perhaps a more practical phrasing of the question would refer to blunting of the fingertips in heart and lung conditions as opposed to an ass-raping of medical terms that an average yet intelligent person would not bother slogging through to find such an unexciting answer. "What do clubbed fingers indicate in advanced pulmonary disease?" would perhaps be a more streamlined and less pedantic phrasing of the question...unless the sole purpose was to intimidate those with a life-threatening chronic illness. Congratulations...maybe another useless specialist understood that question but the information rendered was completely ineffectual for the non-medical community.

Blunting of the distal phalanges is a diagnostic term referring to the "clubbing" of the fingertips as was documented by Hippocrates in conjunction with the occurrence of advanced pulmonary disease. Hence, it is also referred to as "Hippocratic fingers." It is a deformity of the fingers evident in several diseases, but perhaps most notable in the later stages of lung and heart dysfunction. Other names for this phenomena include "drumstick fingers" and "watch-glass nails." Perhaps a more practical phrasing of the question would refer to blunting of the fingertips in heart and lung conditions as opposed to an ass-raping of medical terms that an average yet intelligent person would not bother slogging through to find such an unexciting answer. "What do clubbed fingers indicate in advanced pulmonary disease?" would perhaps be a more streamlined and less pedantic phrasing of the question...unless the sole purpose was to intimidate those with a life-threatening chronic illness. Congratulations...maybe another useless specialist understood that question but the information rendered was completely ineffectual for the non-medical community.

Sure!....If it is registered with the MVA. Which means, you have insurance, lights (safety inspection), titled, motorcycle licence...etc. Your Rm 250? nope. Yes, but if they are public streets it has to be street legal and have all the proper lighting, it must also be licensed. It is illegal to ride a dirt bike on the road in America unless it has brake lights, a license plate, and mirrors.

You have a few options for the litterbox for your cat after his surgery. My personal preference was shredded newspaper, available free from the bank if you tell them what you need it for. It does nothing for odor control, obviously, but is gentle on tender paws. Just put a ton in the box and be prepared to change it out at least once a day, preferably more as you don't want kitty's paws slogging around in soggy paper!

There is also a pelleted paper litter available from Petco or Petsmart that is supposed to be suitable. I tried it once and did not like it. It's hard to the touch and I didn't think it would be comfortable for them to walk on.

Another thing you may want to do is make sure the litterbox is easy to get in and out of. Your kitty won't want to be jumping in and out for a few days! If necessary, get a cardboard box and cut it so that it's an easy step in/step out.

I would use this for several weeks to a month before returning to a scoopable or clay type litter. Be sure to check kitty's paws to make sure all is healed before switching back.

It was like all wars before and since, it was an adventure interlaced with hours, days months and sometimes years of boring training. It culminated in well trained desert troops being sent against alpine fortresses, ski troops who had been trained in Aspen. Colorado slogging on to beaches, troops who had spent months training for parachute assaults confronting major armour assaults at the Battle of the Bulge while "resting". It saw the Mess Seargent and the aircraft repairman and the Seabee defending and making counter attacks at Guadalcanal, it saw highy trained people doing transition time from one aircraft to another an to still another for two years and never seeing combat. It meant building ships that were obsolete and un-neededed before they left the drydock. It meant sending troops that spoke German as a first language to the Pacific and Japanes-Americans to Italy. It was boring. It was SNAFU, and most wars will follow this model.

Visual art, as worked on by an artist slogging along in work-person like fashion, is usually priced by area. In North America this is usually by the square inch. If a starting-to-show artist brings a dollar per square inch, of image size, retail, and doesn't have a meticulous, laborious, style, that's not so bad. That is rather low so it could ramp up from there depending on popularity. Well established artists (ten years), with a number of galleries and a few hundred sales under their belt cam bring two or three times that. One can move up at 10% a year from there, although in times of low inflation that could be a bit much. A balance of pragmatism and ego are essential. Academically sanctioned black paint and angst will only go so far. If you're all about that sort to expression, great, that is a perfectly valid and esential part of democratic expression, but, don't expect to make a living out of it other then on grants from institutions and such. Good, pragmatic, luck!

The swords the knights used in the medieval era are long swords, broad swords, maces, lances, battle axes, daggers, spears, flail scimitars, 2H (Two handed sword) and war hammers.

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They are far too numerous to mention. You could start with the entire populations of Stalingrad, Leningrad and Warsaw, particularly the Jews of the last. You could include every man under MacArthur in the Philippines, every man defending Wake Island and every man who jumped or stormed the beaches at Normandy. The lists could go on and on and on. Michael Montagne

All people that fought, where true heroes. Including ALLIES, AXIS and Neutrals. No one can include as heroes the allied soldiers only, that would be an insult to all the soldiers of the world that fought in every war. In war there are no Good or Bad neither soldiers of a country that go to heaven or go to hell , that is stupid propaganda. (Because genocide and fascism isn't evil...)

Heroes can be considered Fighter Aces ,tank aces, great admirals, great generals and politicians or just soldiers, all are heroes.

Western theatre:

John Fremont - hero of the frontier, not suited to high command and soon retired off, but managed to talent-spot the unknown U.S. Grant before he went, as well as building the gunboats that would liberate the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.

U.S. Grant - a modest and unassuming character, who came to overnight fame by gaining the first notable Union victories. He was a simple man who was good at simplifying problems, and once charged with liberating the Mississippi, he simply went on slogging away till the job was done.

William Rosecrans - a popular figure who took good care of his men, and captured Chattaooga at minimal casualties. His army was then taken by surprise and almost destroyed at Chickamauga, and he no longer carried credibility as an army commander.

William T. Sherman - a much-misunderstood officer whose savage looks, brusque manner and reputation for brutality concealed a well-educated man who was a genuinely creative strategist. He soon became a trusted friend of Grant, with whom he served to great effect. He was one of the few officers who predicted that it would be a long war.

Eastern theatre:

George McClellan - energetic young General-in-Chief, less than half the age of his predecessor. He inspired high morale among his troops, but his insistence on not moving till everything was ready was compounded by his reliance on vastly

exaggerated reports of enemy numbers. Lincoln said "If General McClellan does not want to use the army, perhaps I may borrow it for a while." and fired him.

Ambrose Burnside - one of the most agreeable and honourable of Generals, who suffered genuinely bad luck with everything, even the weather. He was not an insightful man, and his disastrous attack on the heights of Fredericksburg should never have been ordered.

Joseph Hooker - known previously as a basic heads-down fighter, he exceeded expectations with his successful re-organisation of the Army of the Potomac. He was badly defeated at Chancellorsville by Lee and Jackson in their last and greatest team victory.

George Gordon Meade - a grim personality, known as 'Old Snapping Turtle', he carries the credit for winning the decisive battle of Gettysburg, only days after being promoted. He was guilty of a disastrous misjudgment at the Battle of the Crater (Petersburg), missing an opportunity to end the war in one day. Some say that he, not Grant, should have taken the surrender of Robert E. Lee.

Believe it or not, all that hard work shovelling coal into a blazing furnace, those mighty towers of smoke and ash, and all those beautiful mechanical joints moving at mighty speed, is just to turn water into steam. Mind you - lots of steam.

When coal is thrown into that hole on the footplate of the train, it falls into the 'firebox' to burn at a phenomenal rate. The locomotive boiler is basically a drum filled with water. Tubes, called firetubes, run through the boiler full of hot gases generated in the firebox. It is these gases which transfer heat to the water to generate steam. The top portion of the boiler is where the steam is collected in what is called the dome. This steam runs through pipes to the front of the locomotive, and is injected into the cylinders, the incredible pressure generated pushes a piston forwards. This piston is connected to the drive wheels, and they begin to turn and move the train forwards. This process, accelerated and repeated over and over again, pushes the train onwards.

The used steam is taken out of the cylinder, and ejected out into what is known as the blastpipe located in a drum shaped space at the front of the engine called the smokebox. it is then ejected into the atmosphere through the chimney. The blast generated aids the passage of hot gases through the firetubes. The vacuum created in the smokebox was in some countries at one time, used for braking on the engine and its train.

There two ways to control the speed of the train, the first is a stopcock in the cabin called the regulator which controls the steam pressure applied to the cylinders. When the regulator is shut there no steam gets to the cylinders and the engine stops. The second is called the "cut-off" is more of a power control which uses the expansive properties of steam. The steam is "cut-off" before the piston reaches full stroke allowing the steam to expand. Early or short cut-offs are used when the engine is travelling at speed. Late or long cut-offs when the engine is moving slowly perhaps when slogging up a steep gradient.

I might add that some of the larger American-made steam locomotives were equipped with mechanical stokers. A screw elevator would feed coal into the firebox. The fireman would turn a control valve that would send steam to a motor connected directly or indirectly to the two screw augers. As the coal exited the augers it would be slung through the firebox. This allowed for even burning of the coal.

George Stevenson disccovered the effect of steam, by watching a kettle boil, as a young man. Realising that water expanded, when heating to steam, he realsied, experimented and found that steam expands with enormous power.

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 85 words with the pattern -L-G----. That is, eight letter words with 2nd letter L and 4th letter G. In alphabetical order, they are:

alegging

aligarta

alighted

aligners

aligning

alogical

blaggers

blagging

blaguers

blagueur

blighted

blighter

bloggers

blogging

bluggier

claggier

clagging

cloggers

cloggier

cloggily

clogging

elegance

elegancy

elegiacs

elegiast

elegised

elegises

elegists

elegized

elegizes

eligible

eligibly

elogists

elogiums

flagella

flaggers

flaggier

flagging

flagless

flagpole

flagrant

flagship

flegging

flighted

floggers

flogging

gleggest

glegness

glugging

oligarch

oligemia

oligemic

oligists

oligomer

oliguria

ologists

ologoans

plagiary

plagiums

plaguers

plaguier

plaguily

plaguing

plighted

plighter

pluggers

plugging

plughole

plugless

plugolas

plugugly

slaggier

slagging

slighted

slighter

slightly

sloggers

slogging

slugabed

slugfest

sluggard

sluggers

slugging

sluggish

slughorn

Almost certainly an Australian mchine gunner on the ground, who fired at the Baron's low-flying plane. This seemed apparent from the angle of the wound, with the bullet traveling upward through the body from the entrance wound in his side. But the man credited with the victory at the time, and still the official victor, was Canadian pilot Captain Arthur "Roy" Brown. Brown was a flight leader and the Baron was behind and shooting up one of his inexperienced pilots, when Brown made a desperate dive and got off a single short burst as he skidded by and below the Baron. But the Baron flew on for another two minutes after Brown got off his quick burst, something unlikely to have been possible given the nature of the wound, and how quickly the Baron expired after crashing. No one wanted to believe a lowly, mud-caked, foot-slogging, ground-pounding enlisted man could bring the Baron low - except, of course, the guy who actually did the shooting. This was most likely Australian Sergeant Cedric Popkin, or Gunner W. J. "Snowy" Evans, or Gunner Robert Buie, both also Australians.
No one is really sure. It was decided that it was either: -Snowy Evans (Australian) -Roy Brown (Canadian) -Sgt. Popkin (?) The History Channel recently did an analysis of that question and concluded that it was the result of ground to air fire, not air to air combat., It is quite possible that he was shot down by an unknown rifleman from the ground.

The planners of Operation Overlord had established "phase lines" to mark the limits of where they projected the Allied forces would be at D+30, D+60, and D+90. They did not try to make projections for more than ninety days after the landings, realizing that events would dictate progress and any planning estimates would necessarily drift farther and farther from the reality.

But the Allies were not able to meet the projections of the planners. Hitler still maintained very strong forces north of the Seine River, convinced that the Normandy landings were a massive diversion, and that the real attack was yet to come in the Pas de Calais area. But practically all German forces south of the Seine were eventually drawn into the Normandy battle, bent on containing the beachhead. The result was that when the Allies finally cracked their way out through this tough crust of German defenders, there was nothing left with which to stop them going anywhere they pleased. There followed a very happy time for the Allies, and most of France was liberated by September, after the Allied breakout in late July. So though the Allies were initially unable to reach the phase line projected by the planners, by D+90 they were far beyond them.

The breakout of late July was called "The St. Lo breakout", as the Americans passed through that town on the way to open country. The attack was facilitated by a massive bombardment of the four-engine, heavy bombers of the 8th US Air Force. These were the airplanes ordinarily used in strategic bombing attacks deep into enemy territory, and the air commanders did not like to "waste" the days on which the weather allowed them to fly missions on such tactical raids. But the heavies pulverized the German front lines and the breakthrough was finally made, after about seven weeks of slogging through the hedgerows, liberating France one farm field at a time. Up to this time the Americans in the beachhead were all in the 1st Army, but the 3rd Army was activated around August 1, and Patton immediately was able to divide his army and send half of 3rd Army west to clear the Brittany peninsula, and the other half pivoted east and hooked around behind the Germans still confronting the British and Canadians at their end of the beachhead. Soon these Germans were three quarters surrounded and trapped in what came to be called "The Falaise Pocket", with only one road still open through Falaise over which the Germans could try to escape complete encirclement and capture. Allied fighter-bombers had a field day, and shot up all German traffic attempting to flee the pocket over several days. This original "Highway of Death" was littered end to end with wrecked, burnt out German tanks, trucks and half-tracks. Efforts to "close the pocket" and completely trap the Germans failed, and are still controversial to this day. Conservative Allied commanders feared to risk a collision between American and Canadian troops trying to meet on the battlefield coming toward one another to close the pocket, so the escape route remained open. But the Germans got away without their tanks and artillery.

The Germans had finally made an effort to make a serious, coordinated counter attack using several armored divisions, in an effort to wipe out the beachhead. But the pounding these units took from Allied tactical fighter bombers just trying to reach the battlefield was grueling, and delayed their attack until after the Americans had already broken out. This attack was never a terribly serious threat to wipe out the beachhead, but the US 30th Infantry Division is credited with "saving the breakout" by its epic stand at Mortain in early August against this counter attack.

A good tactic for shutting down a shooty army such as the Tau is make sure they don't have anything much to shoot at! Choose to keep some of your units in reserve to get get behind the infamous gun-lines. Not only does this prevent the Tau disabling your units before you get to use them but it also means you have a higher chance of appearing on the board close enough to engage in close combat (Which is of course the Tau weak-spot as most units have a meager WS2 and I2)

Deploy skimmers/Jet Bikes etc behind terrain as it will protect them from the first round of shooting if the Tau end up taking first turn and won't hinder the movement or subsequent shooting of skimmers as they are able to move over difficult terrain without penalty in most cases. (The Fire Prism is a notable exception. It has a range 60" for a reason! Just keep that sucker away from harm and be content to let it take pot-shots from max range.)

Pulse rifles tend to tear through foot-slogging aspect warriors like nobodies business and will generally get of one or two rounds of range 30" shots before you are able to bring your eldar weapons into range. To combat this use Wave Serpents moving at full-tilt to inject your forces into the enemy lines.

This is also especially effective considering that the stock-standard anti-tank rail guns are limited to S8 hits due to the force shields that come standard on Wave Serpents. It's also worth remembering that skimmers which move fast gain a 4+ Cover save incase you don't quite make it.

Shining Spears Jet-Bikes with the hit and run ability make short work of Crisis-suits and tanks. I use a squad of Howling Banshees in one Wave Serpent and Fire Dragons in other to hit key points in the Tau force in order to force the enemy to fight into it's own ranks and to draw attention away from the less mobile elements of my army. Also by having these units close to a majority of the guns it means that they will have to take leadership tests to direct their fire elsewhere due to the 'prioity targeting' rule.

I use my slower forces such as guardians to fortify important positions and capture objectives. When I can I like to keep these guys out of sight behind terrain etc. until the enemy notices them and then use them to hassle the enemy enough just to hold the objective or to draw fire away from my more essential units. BTW against Tau is one of the only times when I can recommend storm guardian squads. A ten man squad with a Warlock with Destructor and the two flamers can be devastating against fire warriors! Even as pansy guardians they are still going to win a slap-fight against the fire warriors (WS2 vs. WS3 =3+ to Hit +first strike!) esp considering the extra base attack for wielding close combat weapons.

Finally just as in any battle KEEP THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING! Movement is the Eldar strength! For example, if your mission is just to simply get your units into a certain place, just get there and duck don't worry about taking heads. Watching the grin slide off the face of an opponent once he realizes that he has lost despite killing a lot of your stuff is priceless!

Happy Gaming.

The Arctic tern has one of the longest migrations of any animal, traveling around 44,000 miles roundtrip annually. This bird's endurance comes from its ability to fly nonstop for over 70 hours during migration.

The main differences between the two types of racing are the terrain and bicycles. Road races are usually held on closed courses around a city, across a state, etc. They cover a lot of miles. Races can go from 1 mile sprints to centuries (100 miles), to the well known Tour de France. Distances are determined by the race, skill levels, type, etc. Mountain bike races are on closed courses obviously in the mountains. Single-track courses are the most prevalent. Like road races distances vary. Road bicycles are significantly lighter and streamlined than mountain bikes. They are designed to fit their riders so comfortably they could ride hundreds of miles. They have skinnier tires for less friction on the road, and drop-style handlebars for comfort. A mountain bike is designed to deal with the terrain as well as the rider. Some mountain bikes may have full front and rear suspension, or none at all. They have beefier tires as well as stronger, thicker frames. The differences truly are night and day.

The French and Belgians justified their actions by claiming that Germany had defaulted on its reparations obligations when it delivered 100,000 telegraph poles ten days late in January 1923. This alleged default served as a pretext for the occupation of the Ruhr, a key industrial region of Germany.

In response, the German government encouraged passive resistance, where workers went on strike and refused to cooperate with the occupying forces. This led to economic turmoil, hyperinflation, and increased tensions between Germany and the Allied powers

I can only suggest you find a text-book on steam-engine principles and design to answer that one!

There is only space here, and time from me, to give a quick summary of a large and fairly complex subject. However, if we stick to conventional steam-engines as on the railway locomotive, the basics are (if Answer's "Unpredictable Text" will let me use paragraphs to help clarify things!):

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1. The engine is double-acting, i.e. the steam acts on each side of the piston alternately. (By contrast, internal-combustion engines are single-acting.) To achieve this the piston is on a rigid rod passing through a sealing gland in the cylinder end-cover, to the 'cross-head' a block sliding between guide-bars and holding the connecting-rod's small-end and gudgeon-pin. (This function is within the piston skirt in an i.c. engine.)

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2. The 'live' steam from the boiler, via a control-valve, is admitted to the cylinder, and the exhaust steam released, by a single valve that reciprocates across ports into a connecting passage, one passage at each end of the cylinder.

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3. This valve consists either of a hollowed block shaped rather like a baking-tray, moved by the valve-rod across a flat face with the ports cast into it, or a pair of pistons rigidly fitted to the valve-rod and moving over ports in the wall of a cylinder parallel to the adjacent power-cylinder. Respectively these are 'slide-valves' or 'piston-valves'. Most larger steam-locomotives were fitted with the latter, and their 'valve-chest' is the smaller but longer cylinder on top of the main (power) cylinder. The valve-rod passes through a gland on the rear end of the valve-chest, to its link with the 'valve-gear'.

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4. Now we come to the clever bit, hence my advising I can only summarise the field here! The steam is admitted to the cylinder, first one end then the other, by the valve; but not for the full duration of the piston stroke. Instead the valve closes the port (by passing across it) at some fraction of the piston-stroke. This fraction is called the 'cut-off' and is expressed as a percentage of stroke. So for an engine with a stroke of 24 inches, if the cut-off is set to 25% the valve closes to admission when the piston had travelled only 6 inches along the cylinder. Once the piston has reached almost to the end of the stroke, the valve opens the passage to exhaust, and the returning piston expels the used steam.

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5. This method of working is called "expansive", i.e., from cut-off onwards the steam does its work by expanding roughly according to the usual gas laws, so hyperbolically. This has two effects: smoother running, and greater efficiency. If the cut-off was 100% the engine would be very jerky in action and extremely wasteful of steam, hence of water and fuel. BUT... the shorter the cut-off the lower the 'mean effective' (roughly, the average) pressure throughout the stroke, so the lower the power-output. Now, a fixed engine driving a factory or ship could be designed to run at a set power-output against a fairly constant load, and in the case of the stationary engine, in one direction only. On a locomotive we need maximum power to get the train moving against its own inertia, and to help it haul the train up long gradients; but once on the move at a steady rate on fairly level ground, the power demand is reduced. So we need to vary the cut-off to vary the power-output and balance power-demand against economy - and of course, for a ship or locomotive, run it in reverse.

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6. Therefore, the valve-gear for a locomotive is designed to be adjustable, to give the long cut-off (perhaps 70-80%) for starting and heavy slogging up-hill, and the short cut-off, perhaps back to 20% or even less to keep the locomotive and its train running freely and at maximum water- and coal- efficiently for miles across the plains. The adjustment works by varying the geometry of the valve-gear's movements relatively to those of the piston; typically by what in principle (without naming actual parts because they vary with the individual valve-gear type) is a lever whose fulcrum-to-effort length can be shortened. What in fact happens is the valve's own travel across the ports in the valve-chest is shortened, hence the cut-off is shortened.

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7. So we can alter the valve-gear events to alter the valve-travel hence alter the cut-off, and the adjustment is carried out on the move from the 'reverser', a lever or hand-wheel operated by the driver. (In US parlance I think the reverser is called the reversing-pole, at least it is if in lever form.) But we also need to be able to drive the engine in reverse: so we extend the adjustable lever arrangement in such a way that its own motion with respect to the piston-stroke and connecting-rod travel reverses. So the valve and piston still work in the same way but their phase relationship hence engine rotation is changed by 180º. This is set by the same control in the cab. There is as you might guess, a mid-point, called 'mid-gear', where although the valves will move by strict geometry the engine won't as the valve-travels are too short to open the ports to admit steam to the cylinder; effectively a neutral setting.

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8. I said this can only be a summary! There are a wide range of valve-gears; the arrangement of links etc driven from the crankshaft in various ways to operate the valves. Most of the larger American steam-locomotives used Baker Gear invented in the USA but very similar to the Belgian-invented Walshaert's common in Britain and America. The US firm Case equipped with their traction-engines with the much simpler, but effective, Hackworth gear - their UK counterparts favoured the Stephenson Link Motion - both British inventions. And there are variations on these. Mill-engines (for powering factories) often had Corliss Drop-Valve Gear, somewhat similar to i.c. engine valves. Some British locomotives had Caprotti valve-gear, using poppet-valves (like in a car engine) driven by cams - direction and cut-off were set by selecting the appropriate cam. The finer details are long and complex, following decades of continual improvement in the quest for greater operating-efficiency; and the full study of valve-gear design can involve some very abstruse trigonometry!

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9. Phew! I hope that little lot helps.

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