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It is not known exactly how many speakers have shattered their gavels throughout history, but two speakers are notable for their mallet mauling.

Before long, the sail-type reaper with wooden arms (sails) that raised and lowered as they revolved and both swept the grain onto the semi-circular platform and then swept the cut grain off into gavels, soon became the standard, at least for a few years until self-binders made reapers obsolete.

I'D like to knock a commonly held legal stereotype on the head - judges don't use gavels in UK courts.

A speechcraft programme will be conducted in September while Dukhan gavels are planning to conduct a speech contest in November.

MILLBURY - Warren Baldwin, the chartering president of the Millbury Historical Society and now a resident of Myrtle Beach, S.C., recently donated one of two identical historic gavels to the Millbury Historical Society for safekeeping and preservation.

Each movie also has a "gavel rating," with four gavels declaring the film "classic," and one gavel imploring readers to "ask for a new trial." In assigning the gavels, the authors focus not on the legal accuracy or import of the movie as a whole, but solely on the entertainment value of the courtroom scenes.

Out-going co-presidents, Judge Amy Williams and Robert Persante, were presented gavels by incoming co-presidente, Judge Shawn Crane and Parnala Campbell.

Those north woods of Maine produce enough lumber for hundreds of gavels, and it was beginning to look as if House Speaker Michael Saxi was going to need every last one of them.

So fear not, all ye faithful--although gavels were best left behind.

After all, three of the biggest enemies of liberty and sensible environmental policy in the House of Representatives--California Democratic chairmen Henry Waxman, George Miller, and Norm Mineta--have turned in their gavels and lost their subpoena powers.