Search results for "Twist" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • 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 ...
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  • steel strength members, again with a helical twist to allow for stretching. Another critical concern in cabling is to protect the fiber from contamination ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • screws (especially the set screws which hold twist-on downrods in place) be tight. == See also == * Fan (implement) == Notes == ==References== ...
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  • Korean culture's age reckoning system has a unique twist. One year old at birth, individual's age increments on New Year's Day ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • A new twist was given to the ancient conundrum of the divisibility of matter by the discovery of quantum mechanics. Until then, no distinction ...
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  • many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a surprise twist changes everything dramatically near the end of the story. Gilbert oversaw the designs ...
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  • If allowed to twist freely, a magnet will turn to point in the direction of the magnetic field at its location. A compass is a small magnet that ...
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  • known from Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist." The main purpose of a funeral mute was to attend funerals wearing a sad, melancholy expression ...
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  • fight with Penthesilea, but give it an extra twist of Achilles being 'played' by a man. ==Other stories about Achilles== ...
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  • the advertisement how you will, and twist it about as you will," said Lord Justice Lindley, "here is a distinct promise expressed in ...
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  • who tilted them in opposite directions to twist the wings and make the kite ... in the courts until the 1920s. In a twist of irony, the Wright Aeronautical ...
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  • crack may settle and tip, the other upthrust or twist, or all such combinations due to the effects of each floating on the plastic layers below and ...
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  • styles, with or without a modern twist (for example, the Museum of Roman Civilization at the EUR). === Fascism and Futurism === Mussolini's ...
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  • singles She's My Baby, Inside Out, and Wilbury Twist, He had a singing role as himself in Homer's Barbershop Quartet, an episode of ...
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  • of a "mental twist." Walker 2018, 109–110. The musicologist ... * Cooke, Charles. "Chopin and Liszt with a Ghostly Twist," ...
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