They've knocked off the dials and worked on the hinges but the safe still holds its mystery and the farmer who has it hopes it will stay that way to give people something fun to debate in troubled times.
When a photon hits a crystal of silver bromide on a film strip, for instance, it knocks an electron off a negatively-charged bromide ion to create an atom of bromine.
Ove knows exactly what it sounds like; he learned how to do it on the railways when they had to knock out broken train windows without cutting their fingers.
The bear said: 'Here, children, knock the snow out of my coat a little'; so they brought the broom and swept the bear's hide clean; and he stretched himself by the fire and growled contentedly and comfortably.
When we think about the great sculptors like Michelangelo, we think of someone with a hammer and a chisel, using the chisel to remove pieces of rock from the marble so that he can make the statue.
I thus made my way into a wilderness of crumbling spires and battlements, built together in bewildering combinations, and glazed in many places with a thin coating of ice, which I had to hammer off with stones.
All this stuff is museum waxed down, because that cat over there loves to wake me up at like three or four in the morning by knocking all these things off.
Anyone who has experienced this kind of pain for more than one day will tell you they felt like ending it, or in less severe cases, knocking the tooth out themselves.