Palliser Furniture Palliser Furniture Palliser Furniture Upholstery Ltd. is a furniture manufacturing company headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Palliser Furniture is a family-owned company. Palliser Furniture manufactures and distributes upholstery furniture products throughout Canada, Mexico and United States. Palliser Furniture manufactures all types of upholstery, stationary, motion, recliners, home theatre, and chairs over 300 leathers and fabrics. In 2015 the former president Cary Benson was promoted CEO, succeeding Art DeFehr. In 1944, Abram Albert DeFehr, a Russian-born immigrant to Canada, began making wooden pieces in the basement of his Winnipeg home. Within a few years, the business moved from the basement into
Egg of Columbus (mechanical puzzle) Egg of Columbus (mechanical puzzle) The names Egg of Columbus and Columbus Egg have been used for several mechanical toys and puzzles inspired on the legend of Columbus balancing an egg on its end to drive a point. Typically, these puzzles are egg-shaped objects with internal mechanisms that make the egg stand up, once the users discovers the secret. Mechanisms typically used in such toys include moving weights, mercury flowing in sealed tubes or compartments, and steel balls rolling on grooves and pits. A Columbus Egg puzzle using a rolling ball was described in an 1893 book. The Montgomery Ward