Search results for "Foot" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • and a laterally compressed muscular foot, which when extended into ... Like most bivalves, mussels have a large organ referred to as a foot ...
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  • basic two sets of strings; usually one 8-foot and a 4-foot, but occasionally ... German harpsichords included a choir of 2-foot strings (that is, strings ...
    23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
  • With walking one foot is always on the ground but in running both ... To prevent problems with pronation—either over or under—know your ...
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  • burial mound, which is situated at the foot of Mount Lishan. Mount Lishan ... are 8,009 life-size warriors, archers, and foot soldiers. The first pit, covering ...
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  • Non-SI units of work include the erg, the foot-pound, the foot-poundal, and the liter-atmosphere. ==Types of work== Forms of work that are not ...
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  • *Benjamin Outram's 44-foot-long single-span Holmes Aqueduct on ... the lower Manchester Ship Canal. A 234-foot section of the aqueduct rotates ...
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  • figure skating. All six are landed on one foot on the right back outside ... Toe loops take off from the back outside edge of the right foot and ...
    29 KB (4,650 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
  • his experiences in Navajo country, To the Foot of the Rainbow (1927) and ... *Kluckhohn, Clyde. 1927. To the Foot of the Rainbow. New York: Century ...
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  • Center in the Owens Valley, at the foot of Mt. Williamson. The resulting ... in his honor. Mt. Ansel Adams, an 11,760-foot peak in the Sierra Nevada ...
    9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
  • and/or various parts of the leg and foot. In addition to pain, which ... and down the back of the leg to the foot. It is the longest and largest ...
    16 KB (2,375 words) - 17:22, 25 January 2023
  • sculptor Lysippus, had constructed one 60-foot-high, bronze statue of Zeus ... of the structure, which stood on a 50-foot-high, white marble pedestal ...
    12 KB (1,850 words) - 22:42, 7 January 2024
  • the mouth of an inaccessible gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt. The ... The Monastery of St. Catherine straddles the foot of both Mount Sinai ...
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  • In 1212, he completed Hojo-ki (The Ten Foot Square Hut), a philosophical ... == Hojoki: (The Ten Foot Square Hut) == Kamo no Chomei's Hojoki ...
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  • 20th, 21st, 24th, 47th, 53rd, 62nd Regiments of Foot, King's Loyal Americans, and Queen's Loyal Rangers. The British force also consisted ...
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  • The interior of the memorial has a 19-foot (5.8 meters) tall, 10,000 ... The 129-foot (39 meters) dome is four feet (1.2 meters) thick and ...
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  • it presents a female's body with arms, foot and leg lines very stylistically ... ending in the "Latin Cross" foot position, which is characteristic ...
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  • that one leg is farther forward than the other foot. *Squat Back Stance ... one leg over the other and putting your foot to the mat, you are executing ...
    26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
  • sac, attached to the bottom by an adhesive foot, with a column shaped body ... The sea anemone has a foot that in most species attaches itself to ...
    10 KB (1,555 words) - 02:38, 21 April 2023
  • soles or flounder about 30 centimeters (one foot) long, as well as shrimp there. ... trapping them below the competitor's foot. Leisters, which are traditional ...
    11 KB (1,577 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
  • Its two contrasting spires—one, a 349-foot plain pyramid dating from ... The plan is cruciform, with a 92-foot-long nave and short transepts ...
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