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Visitors can play with a tin can telephone or connect to the museum’s general store on a working candlestick phone.
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Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2024
And as the tension and fear mount, being trapped in a glorified tin can in the North Sea drives the survivors to paranoid extremes.
—Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Ir basically a tin can with as many seats as possible and no distinctive/cool feature.
—The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
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This log cottage maintains its historic feel with vintage quilts, a farm table, tin cans holding kitchen utensils, and its shelves of antiques.
—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
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Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2024
And as the tension and fear mount, being trapped in a glorified tin can in the North Sea drives the survivors to paranoid extremes.
—Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Ir basically a tin can with as many seats as possible and no distinctive/cool feature.
—The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
From $325 per night. BOOK NOW The Garden House in Alder, Montana
This log cottage maintains its historic feel with vintage quilts, a farm table, tin cans holding kitchen utensils, and its shelves of antiques.
—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Tin can.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tin%20can. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.
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