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  • within a triratana, over a Dharmacakra wheel, on the Torana gate at Sanchi ... Triratna is usually also surmounted by the Dharma wheel. ...
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  • power from the pedals of a bicycle to the drive-wheel, thus propelling the bicycle. It is the main distinguishing feature of the safety bicycle. Based ...
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  • ." An ancient adaptation of ichthus is a wheel which contains ... superimposed such that the result resembles an eight-spoked wheel. ...
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  • inukshuk, an upright monolith slab, a medicine wheel, a fire pit, a desert kite, or simply rocks lined up or stacked for various reasons. Old World petroforms ...
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  • during wartime steel shortages for bicycle wheel bearings married to replaceable ... * Wheel == Notes == ==References== *Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology ...
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  • symbolically represented as the Dharma wheel (Sanskrit: dharmacakra, Pāli: ... :As a wheel the draught ox's foot. :Preceded by perception are ...
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  • this list increased to include the wheel and axle, wedge and inclined ... quot; | Simple machines || Inclined plane, Wheel and axle, Lever, Pulley, ...
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  • ==Medicine wheel as mandala== pattern that often resembled a wagon wheel lying on its side. The wheels ...
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  • quot; bands such as Asleep at the Wheel and the growing popularity ... of Fame in 1999. In 2005, Asleep at the Wheel was featured in the play ...
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  • Citroën introduced the only popular front-wheel-drive car of its time, the ... left|200px|1934 Traction Avant 11CV - front wheel drive with independent suspension ...
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  • :Twelve spokes, one wheel, navels three. :Who can comprehend this? :On it are placed together :three hundred and sixty like pegs. :They shake ...
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  • Chakra (Sanskrit: meaning circle or wheel) is a widely used concept in Indian religion and politics that underpins many spiritual practices and ...
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  • written or co-written by Dylan, "This Wheel's on Fire," "Tears ... * Helm, Levon, with Stephen Davis. This Wheel's on Fire. Chicago: ...
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  • of purposes, including tool handles, bows, wheel spokes, the bottom of skis ... valued for tool handles, bows (like yew), wheel spokes, carts, drumsticks ...
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  • death, he began to train on the potter's wheel for which he showed much talent. He survived a childhood bout of smallpox to serve as an apprentice ...
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  • [[Image:Wheel of the Year.svg|right|400px|thumb|The Wheel of the Year ... of the Ancient Celts. York Beach, ME: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2003. ISBN 1590030559 ...
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  • One popular subject of Thangkas is "The Wheel of Life," which is a visual representation of cycle of suffering (Samsara). ...
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  • The noria, a water wheel with clay pots around the rim powered by ... reduction gearbox mounted behind each wheel. Precision controls, some ...
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  • Realm of the Little People (Boston, MA: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2002, ISBN 1578632676 ... Realm of the Little People. Boston, MA: Red Wheel/Weiser. ISBN 978-1578632671 ...
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  • gruesome methods of executions were used (the wheel, burning at the stake, and so forth). In the case of decapitation, it sometimes took repeated blows ...
    14 KB (2,196 words) - 08:14, 8 January 2024

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