Search results for "Wheel" - New World Encyclopedia
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- * Invented a machine for shaping wheel hubs. * Devised a method of siphoning power from ocean tides. * Invented a rotary steam engine. ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 2023
- which is sometimes made of wood and shaped like a wheel of cheese. * Skittles: nine-pins is sometimes called "skittles," a term probably ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 20:02, 20 November 2023
- A spring is a flexible, elastic device used to store mechanical energy. When a force is applied to a spring, it expands or contracts to a certain ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 16:14, 8 February 2023
- covered by his foreskin; images of an eight-spoke wheel on the soles of their feet, forty teeth, etc. Yet since not everyone was able to discern these ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 10:18, 29 January 2024
- 2 years later. It is one of the earliest water wheel installations in the United States and also generated electricity. It is owned today by Edison Hydro. ...23 KB (3,052 words) - 21:35, 9 February 2024
- from his youth in his novel, Beneath the Wheel. ===Toward a writer=== ... he wrote his second novel Beneath the Wheel, which appeared in 1906. ...29 KB (4,532 words) - 10:19, 22 January 2024
- * The Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne, a side-wheel steamboat, sank in April 1850, in Lake Erie, while en route from the Toledo area to Buffalo ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 05:54, 31 July 2023
- 1832 by Joseph Plateau. This device used a spinning wheel with slots in it. The images were on a paper disk and were viewed on a mirror through the slots ...12 KB (1,946 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- mudra position represents the turning of the wheel of the Dharma. Dharmacakra Mudrā is formed when two hands close together in front of the chest ...13 KB (2,114 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- :Jeep: A four-wheel drive car of one-half to one-and-one-half ton ... :LAWMAKERS TAKE A RIDE—With Senator Meade, of New York, at the wheel ...24 KB (3,439 words) - 04:31, 31 July 2022
- *spokes on a bicycle wheel *brooms *a shopping cart *metal pipes *clay pots *garbage cans John Cage, Harry Partch, Edgard Varèse, all of whom ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 00:31, 24 November 2022
- sentenced to death on the Breaking wheel. However, when this failed to kill her, she was beheaded, and according to Christian tradition, angels ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:14, 22 December 2022
- 15 inches in diameter, wielded as a pair. Each wheel has an arc with a padded grip and cross-guard; opposite and adjacent arcs have protruding flame ...25 KB (3,699 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2023
- his great contribution was producing the color wheel of primary and intermediary hues. [[Image:Seurat-La Parade detail.jpg|thumb|Detail from Seurat ...12 KB (1,923 words) - 22:59, 24 November 2022
- Dave Godin in 1970 after a visit to the Twisted Wheel Club in Manchester, England. The term refers to rare soul music played by DJs at nightclubs ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- :a red wheel :barrow :glazed with rain :water :beside the white :chickens. The poem's intense focus on a single image, and its terseness ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 2023
- Zone." In The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness. Random House Canada, 2007. ISBN 978-0679314080 ==External links== ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- Susan Howatch's Cashelmara and The Wheel of Fortune, two Romans a ... * Howatch, Susan. 1984. The wheel of fortune. New York, NY: Simon ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- ) is a term used in Tantric Buddhism that means "wheel of time ... * Bryant, B. 2003. The Wheel of Time Sand Mandala. Snow Lion. ISBN ...25 KB (3,799 words) - 17:00, 14 May 2024
- and (occasionally) holding a Dharma wheel and/or lotus. In many of ... of the Pali Chakkavatti, 'Wheel Turning Emperor')." ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
