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the original screw was just a nail that learned to commit.
means A slim, pointed metal spike driven into wood or other material to fasten things together — or, on a finger or toe, the hard protective plate of keratin at the tip.
from From Old English 'nægel,' which covered both the metal fastener and the fingernail — a double meaning that runs deep through the Germanic languages (compare German 'Nagel,' Dutch 'nagel'). It traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root '*(o)nogh-,' the same ancient source that, through Latin, gives us 'nail' words across Europe. The shared name for spike and fingernail isn't a coincidence — both are hard, pointed things at the end of something, and our ancestors clearly saw the resemblance long before they were hammering iron.
- roman wealth
- Legions buried 7 tons of nails to deny enemies
- hammer math
- A swung hammer head briefly outweighs a small car in force
- gun speed
- Pneumatic nailers fire roughly two nails per second
- hand-forged past
- Pre-1800 nails were so costly people burned houses to recover them
armstrong's moon landing — neil armstrong stepped on the moon on july 20, 1969, during apollo 11
crucifixion nails — iron nails used to crucify jesus christ, preserved in various reliquaries across europe
golden spike — the ceremonial nail driven at promontory summit, utah in 1869 to complete the first transcontinental railroad