Search results for "Twist" - New World Encyclopedia
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- may be scrambled, story lines may feature "twist endings," and lines between the antagonist and protagonist may be blurred. The roots of ...22 KB (3,307 words) - 22:38, 4 July 2022
- for Christie due largely to its unusual plot twist. Christie’s books provide the reader with a window into everyday English life and its ordinary ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 06:43, 16 June 2023
- Jewish Publication Society, 1986), 88. In a twist on the libel of Jews using blood in matzah, a Passover food, in 2002, a Saudi newspaper claimed that ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- of similar stories, characteristically with a twist at the end, some unforeseen event that is either ironic or supernatural. Jan Harold Brunvand ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- Orogeny, caused the original rocks to fold and twist into a vast mountain range. Over the millions of years these tilted rocks, which in many areas are ...27 KB (4,267 words) - 18:05, 31 October 2023
- Balloon artists are entertainers who twist and tie inflated tubular balloons into sculptures (see also balloon animal). The balloons used for ...27 KB (4,279 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- in formal Christian liturgies with a Gnostic twist, and performing many miracles. In the end, knowing that physical life is nothing compared to ...27 KB (4,575 words) - 05:44, 15 June 2023
- relation to the human body and mind. A scientific twist was added by H.G. Wells in The Time Machine (1895) in which Wells prophesied the splitting of ...28 KB (4,018 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- in three John Ford films. The first was 1962's twist-ending The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. How the West Was Won and Cheyenne Autumn were western ...25 KB (3,865 words) - 16:36, 30 January 2023
- that the principate came to him by an accidental twist of fate' (177). What is known is that on January 24, 41, the praetorian tribune Cassius ...28 KB (4,511 words) - 18:28, 25 November 2023
- who gives his own highly individual twist to various Zen parables. The book was translated into English by Ivan Morris in 1959. A film version ...26 KB (3,997 words) - 18:56, 9 November 2022
- steel strength members, again with a helical twist to allow for stretching. Another critical concern in cabling is to protect the fiber from contamination ...31 KB (4,772 words) - 00:56, 18 November 2022
- novel series The War Against The Chtorr takes a twist with the terraforming concept and has the Earth being invaded by an unseen alien species which ...32 KB (4,766 words) - 14:58, 30 April 2023
- needed Kepler more than ever. In a remarkable twist of fate, Tycho recommended Kepler to the emperor, became ill soon after, and died in 1601, leaving ...31 KB (4,812 words) - 07:18, 5 April 2024
- towards the top and one long end hanging down. Twist the tie so that the short end goes over your right shoulder. *Fold the long bottom end in ...33 KB (5,356 words) - 17:09, 19 May 2023
- screws (especially the set screws which hold twist-on downrods in place) be tight. == See also == * Fan (implement) == Notes == ==References== ...35 KB (5,762 words) - 23:44, 3 December 2023
- Korean culture's age reckoning system has a unique twist. One year old at birth, individual's age increments on New Year's Day ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- novel Mary Barton and Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. The emphasis on the purity of women found in such works as Coventry Patmore's The Angel ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 20:11, 3 May 2023
- In an ironic twist, Solidarity joined forces with its past enemy, the All-Polish Agreement of Trade Unions (OPZZ), and some of the protests were ...34 KB (5,074 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- A new twist was given to the ancient conundrum of the divisibility of matter by the discovery of quantum mechanics. Until then, no distinction ...37 KB (5,618 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
