Some of the late 17th- and early 18th-century pipe heads, cast with the arms of the owner of the house and the date of erection, are important decorative features.
From the 16th century, lead appeared in England in the form of gutters and pipe heads (which carried rainwater down from the gutters), often with cast ornament.
Early one morning several years ago, I was walking up Fifth Avenue on my way to work when I caught something in my peripheral vision: a five-foot-long lead pipe heading my way.
From these conflicting views, it is clear that, in some cases, the adjustment in the pipe head-loss coefficients may be more predominant than the adjustment in the nodal consumptions, while the opposite may be the situation in other cases (Shamir and Howard 1977).
10 p.m. 10) ESCAPE THE FIDDLES For a night out without the plucking and pipes, head over to the Pavilion (Carey's Lane; 353-21-427-6230; www.pavilioncork.com), a hot spot of recent prominence as both a mellow lounge with good beats downstairs and the choice venue for live acts and club nights upstairs.
Wearing a crisp safari uniform, a gun strapped to his waist, and smoking a pipe, he headed into the jungle; he emerged nine months later with his clothes in tatters, his face emaciated.
Certainly, if you are in the business of live-streaming coverage of events in a way that combines audio and video, it behooves participants to remember that they are working around pipes that head out into the world and you have to know when you are on "air," or whatever it is called on the Web, and when you are not.
Giving the Dutchman's-pipe a head start on next year obviously has advantages in the privacy department, and though a lacework of brown stems is less lovely than a wall of green, it does offer some winter protection from prying eyes.
But stand and screech and gamely slosh the booze she does while Mr. Damon's spy helps win the war and later helps turn the C.I.A. into a shadow empire with some dependable character actors: Mr. De Niro as one of the agency's founders, the dependably great Alec Baldwin as an F.B.I. agent and an equally fine William Hurt as the pipe-smoking head of the C.I.A.
Stuff reports that aquarium staff found tracks suggesting that the football-sized octopus, Inky, climbed through a gap at the top of his enclosure, treaded across the wet aquarium floor, and squeezed his body through a six inch-wide pipe that headed back into the sea.
This machine became Rogelio's source of income for the next few years; he rode it around the city, from one market to another, carrying cans of paint, lashed-together bundles of metal pipes, chickens headed for slaughter, crammed into crates stacked so high that he had to lean to one side in order to steer.
