Search results for "Wheel" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The Sanskrit word chakra also means "wheel." That may have suggested ... who has the mace, conch, sword and the wheel. And who is called Vishnu ...50 KB (7,445 words) - 20:39, 3 May 2023
- limbs successively, as men are broken on the wheel." Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels (W. Blackwood, 1811). ...23 KB (3,632 words) - 01:57, 15 January 2023
- [[Image:MonWheel.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Mon (ethnic group)|Mon]] ... The distinctive Dvaravati Sculptures of the Wheel of Law, the symbol of Buddha’s ...45 KB (6,630 words) - 15:04, 30 April 2023
- [[file:Ahimsa Jainism Gradient.jpg|thumb|150px|The hand with a wheel on the palm symbolizes the Jain Vow of Ahimsa. The word in the middle is ...51 KB (7,370 words) - 02:40, 16 November 2022
- of copper, gold, silver, iron (including iron wheel naves), glass, jewels, bones, and birchbark, as well as ceramics and coins from China and Central ...26 KB (3,693 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- * Tempozan Harbor Village Ferris wheel, located next to the aquarium * Tennōji Zoo * Universal Studios Japan * Umeda Joypolis Sega ...25 KB (3,427 words) - 19:39, 20 July 2023
- earth) and chakravartin ('who moves the wheel'). The kings performed sacrifices like rajasuya, (royal consecration) vajapeya (including a ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- provide service exclusively in the city. Four wheel drives, able to easily navigate the steep slopes in the region, have become the most popular means ...23 KB (3,374 words) - 17:14, 14 May 2024
- was a paddle wheel steamer around the same time, the name being an abbreviation of the same river Merrimack was named after. Both spellings are ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- womb of a sow due to an error at the Reincarnation Wheel, which turned him into a half-man, half-pig monster. While living in Yúnzhan-dòng ("cloud ...24 KB (3,989 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- map, and possibly the planets. In addition, it had a wheel of fortune and an indicator of the state of the tide at London Bridge. Bells rang every hour ...26 KB (3,970 words) - 22:10, 7 January 2024
- (初転法輪: "first turning the wheel of the Law"). At this time, he proclaimed that devotion to and practice of the Lotus Sutra ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- 24-hour news service based on the popular "wheel" conceived at CNN. The service folded in 1997 as sales departments were not able to generate ...26 KB (4,061 words) - 14:41, 11 November 2022
- *Matrim Cauthon from the Wheel of Time fantasy book series *Mr. Mxyzptlk, a tormentor of Superman *Plastic Man, comic artist Jack Cole's ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- both attached to a freely rotating third bicycle wheel mounted horizontally in front of the handlebars. The results, based on which way the third ...67 KB (10,436 words) - 14:04, 20 May 2023
- and the volume of traffic in Guadeloupe, two-wheel riders are recommended only for the most experienced. Motorcycles can be fun on Terre-de-Haut ...26 KB (3,654 words) - 02:55, 26 February 2023
- he had a premonition that Dean would die behind its wheel; a week later, Dean was killed in driving that car.Ryan Parker, [https://www.hollywoodreporter ...26 KB (4,059 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- Tower (hyperboloid structure). A giant ferris wheel sits in nearby Harborland, a notable tourist promenade, and offers spectacular views of the surroundings ...32 KB (4,446 words) - 03:58, 4 March 2023
- are available for hire at Dafni. They are all-wheel-drive vehicles since most roads in the mountain are unpaved. Upon arrival at a monastery, ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 17:04, 10 November 2022
- private estates, and was seen behind the wheel in the grounds of Windsor ... co.uk/news/uk/prince-philip-spotted-behind-wheel-for-first-time-since-giving ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a holy ... Such Nietzschean expressions as “dancing wheel,” “game,” and “play” ...52 KB (7,901 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- mission.”Fredman, Asher Ahuvia. Asleep at the Wheel: Comparing the Performance of Human Rights NGO's on Sudan and Arab-Israeli Issues.” NGO ...30 KB (4,487 words) - 00:59, 9 January 2023
- receive FCC approval for CBS' "color wheel" system (developed by inventor Peter Goldmark) in the early 1950s. Although CBS occasionally ...26 KB (3,902 words) - 02:29, 8 December 2022
- Use of the spinning wheel and hand loom restricted the production ... work a pump but could not drive a rotating wheel. They were successfully put ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- whose programs include The Oprah Winfrey Show and Wheel of Fortune. By 1999, all pre-CBS elements of Westinghouse's industrial past were gone. ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 22:42, 7 January 2024
- as bulls' horns. Marcel Duchamp used a bicycle wheel impaled on a bar stool as one of his ready-made (found) objects. In his late writings ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- history, including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first ... history, including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- power for the mill's characteristic overshot wheel. 7. The Becky Cable House, constructed in 1879. This building, adjacent to the Cable ...27 KB (4,145 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- into the driver's seat, and the steering wheel into the back. The true heroism came when Hogan dived across the passenger seat to save his ...31 KB (4,762 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (1793 - 1875) was a surgeon, chemist, lecturer, consultant, architect, builder, and prototypical British gentleman scientist ...27 KB (4,255 words) - 22:32, 29 January 2023
- few core symbols. One Jain symbol incorporates a wheel on the palm of the hand. The holiest one is a simple unadorned swastika or svastika. ...28 KB (4,275 words) - 12:42, 6 November 2021
- with a Buddhist [[Dharmacakra|eight-spoked wheel]],Narain, 122 and a palm ... A Buddhism wheel seems impressed on coins representing him, ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- heating the air (forced convection). It has a fan wheel with vanes fixed on a rotating shaft enclosed in a case or chamber, to create a blast of air ...28 KB (4,570 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- are required for both systems. EMS systems are wheel-less. The German Transrapid, Japanese HSST (Linimo), and Korean Rotem EMS maglevs levitate ...31 KB (4,504 words) - 05:00, 5 November 2022
- attempt to learn, and swore never to get behind the wheel again.Donald L. Miller, Lewis Mumford: A Life (NY: Grove Press, 2002, ISBN 0802139345), 378. ...29 KB (4,364 words) - 22:20, 25 October 2022
- of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and arch." Unable to elicit interest from mainstream publishers or medical professionals ...33 KB (4,873 words) - 17:26, 25 January 2023
- A road is an identifiable route, way, or path for the passage of people, vehicles, or animals between two or more places. United States Geological ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- ... how the wheel of justice is set in motion by a smidgen of wind - or if someone dies and someone else gives him a bottle of medicine, free ...31 KB (4,652 words) - 01:09, 9 February 2023
- mark coin of the Mauryan empire, with symbols of wheel and elephant. Third century B.C.E.]] For the first time in South Asia, political unity ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- guided elephant rides and Jeep or other four-wheel drive vehicles rides in advance. Starting from the Park Administrative Centre at Kohora, those rides ...31 KB (4,349 words) - 22:14, 15 September 2023
- ground. Most medicine wheels resemble a wagon wheel, having a center cairn of stones surrounded by an outer ring of stones, and then "spokes," ...60 KB (8,901 words) - 04:20, 11 March 2023
- Lacking metal tools, pulleys, and perhaps even the wheel, Mayan architects were usually assured of one thing in abundance: manpower. Beyond this enormous ...31 KB (4,849 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- Nevertheless, the Inca never discovered the wheel, and there is no evidence that they utilized written language, although they did use the quipu ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- Mystical Realm of the Little People. Boston, MA: Red Wheel/Weiser. ISBN 978-1578632671 *Ellis, Richard. 2006. Monsters of the Sea. The Lyons Press ...32 KB (4,984 words) - 22:44, 10 November 2022
- and an iron lamp containing beeswax and a small wheel-thrown bottle of north continental make at its south-east corner. [[Image:Sutton.Hoo.Shield ...29 KB (4,604 words) - 00:30, 27 February 2023
- still is) a mechanical violin using a rosined wooden wheel attached to a crank to "bow" its strings. Instruments without sound boxes, such as ...36 KB (5,655 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- html In the 1950's: Embracing the Wheel of the Law] Columbia University. Retrieved March 1, 2021. Ambedkar twice visited Burma in 1954; ...34 KB (5,057 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- :Spouting forth a red wheel, :It hangs on the blue mountain. :生平欺狂男女群 :彌天罪業過須彌 :活陷阿鼻恨萬端 :一輪吐紅掛碧山 ...36 KB (5,271 words) - 19:47, 21 April 2023
- well-known torture devices include the breaking wheel, iron Maiden, Judas chair, pau de arara, pillory, and stocks. Any method of execution which ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 04:41, 1 May 2023
- Wheel-show (1978-1981) for Times Magazine ==Notes== ==References== *Atwood, Maragaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986 ...39 KB (5,259 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- decorated with depictions of the Wheel of the Law (Tarn, "The Greeks in Bactria and India"). Commenting on the presence of Buddhists ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 22:01, 4 February 2023
- sheets. However, instead of pointed electrodes, wheel-shaped electrodes roll along and often feed the workpiece, making it possible to make long continuous ...41 KB (6,376 words) - 23:28, 3 May 2023
- invited to drive the pace car, this time at the wheel of an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. In 1986, President Reagan appointed Yeager to the Rogers Commission ...37 KB (5,256 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- * Fortune, Dion. Esoteric Orders And Their Work. Red Wheel/Weiser, 2007. ISBN 9781578631841 * Jonas, Hans. The Gnostic Religion. Beacon Press ...39 KB (5,837 words) - 11:35, 6 September 2022
- such as the kata guruma (or "shoulder wheel," known as a "fireman's carry" to Western wrestlers who use a slightly ...35 KB (5,636 words) - 09:00, 12 May 2024
- wounded a number of her crew and shot away her wheel, so that she had to be steered from her tiller below decks. Victory could not yet respond. At 12:45 ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- outwards, similar to the spokes in a bicycle wheel. An example can be found in a loudspeaker transducers (driver). I.S. Falconer, M.I. Large, ...54 KB (8,712 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- various torture sessions, including laceration on a wheel of swords in which he was miraculously resuscitated three times, George was executed by decapitation ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- *10. Mabel At The Wheel (Apr 18) * *11. Twenty Minutes Of Love (Apr 20) *12. Caught in a Cabaret (Apr 27) * *13. Caught in the Rain (May 4) ...32 KB (4,840 words) - 00:37, 5 December 2023
- towns of Kurseong, Kalimpong and Gangtok. Four wheel drives, including Land Rovers, prove the most popular means of transport, as they can easily navigate ...33 KB (4,712 words) - 06:27, 15 January 2023
- innovations—such as the steering wheel on the left, which every other company soon copied. The entire engine and transmission were enclosed; ...32 KB (4,898 words) - 15:22, 25 January 2023
- * Vanna White, "Wheel of Fortune" game show hostess since ... known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series under ...64 KB (9,145 words) - 15:14, 27 April 2023
- Lisbon tramway system still uses small (four wheel), yellow, 1930s vehicles well suited to the steep hills and narrow streets of the central city. The ...34 KB (4,753 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- in order to lead human beings to the end of the wheel of rebirth (moksa or the termination of samsara) and to enter the new existence of nirvana, the ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- *Rail Wheel Factory, Bangalore *Rail Spring Karkhana, Gwalior *Bharat Earth Movers Limited, Bangalore BEML, although independent of the railways ...37 KB (5,222 words) - 13:17, 4 March 2024
- with Harrison's father at the wheel), secretly smoking cigarettes on the top deck on the way to the Liverpool Institute. It was McCartney ...35 KB (5,701 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- inventions such as the pulley, lever, and wheel. Each of these inventions is consistent with the modern definition of engineering, exploiting ...41 KB (5,793 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- Tibetan woman in Lhasa with traditional prayer wheel.]] ... a deeply Buddhist approach. The Buddhist wheel, along with two dragons, ...62 KB (9,319 words) - 23:23, 30 April 2023
- m. below surface and extend like the spokes of a wheel. In the galleries in Malta's porous limestone, fresh water lies in a lens upon brine. More ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- design a Holstein cow, an ear of corn, and a wheel of cheese. Wisconsin ranks first in the production of corn for silage, cranberries, ginseng, and ...35 KB (5,043 words) - 23:16, 17 May 2023
- A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. Encyclopedia Britannica, [http://www.britannica ...41 KB (6,343 words) - 19:56, 9 February 2023
- and Darjeeling. Within the state, four wheel drives represent the most popular means of transport, as they can navigate rocky slopes. Minibuses ...35 KB (5,094 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- thus he "set in motion the Wheel of Dharma." They, together with the Buddha, formed the first sangha (the company of Buddhist monks ...39 KB (6,288 words) - 18:32, 22 November 2023
- *In The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, there are 7 seals on the Dark One's prison. *In Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, there are ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- the centre of the white band is a navy-blue wheel with 24 spokes. ... containing a galloping horse, a 24-spoke wheel, and an elephant. Underneath ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- universe. It also sees such gods as stuck in the wheel of samsara (rebirth and suffering). In the Pali Canon, earliest of the Buddhist scriptures, the ...41 KB (6,063 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- level of technical sophistication and the potter’s wheel had been introduced. Ceramics were thick-walled (0.5 cm), with a high proportion of silicate ...37 KB (5,882 words) - 20:18, 3 May 2023
- The three major works of Kuprin's Parisian years were The Wheel of Time (13 sketches styled as a novel, 1929), the autobiographical The ...37 KB (5,536 words) - 16:30, 7 September 2023
- because it signals release from the Wheel of Rebirth.Melford E. Spiro ... Tibetan Buddhist]] Thangka depicting the Wheel of Life with its six realms]] ...93 KB (13,393 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- waxworks, the London Eye (a giant Ferris wheel near Westminster Bridge), and the Tower of London. Another half a million employees resident in ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology The history of agriculture is the story of humankind's development and cultivation ...39 KB (5,853 words) - 00:03, 19 November 2020
- probably the first automatic cipher device, a wheel which implemented a partial realization of his invention. In the polyalphabetic Vigenère cipher, ...47 KB (6,889 words) - 06:31, 11 January 2024
- 19, 1940) was for a synchronized color filter wheel adapter for monochrome television, similar to the field sequential color receiver demonstrated ...44 KB (6,466 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
- gateway. Upper right in black has a factory in a cog wheel. Lower left in black has three ships. Lower right in red has a building. The base of the shield ...39 KB (5,723 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- Clyde was "a machine behind the wheel," driving dangerous roads and searching for places where they might sleep or have a meal without ...42 KB (6,735 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
- tall Ferris wheel is north of Grant Park on the lakefront and is one of the most visited landmarks in the Midwest, attracting about 8 million ...42 KB (6,247 words) - 20:57, 9 December 2023
- Toyota its first ever Championship win in a Four-wheel drive Toyota Celica and repeated the feat 2 years later. In 1993, Toyota bought the team from ...43 KB (6,055 words) - 04:51, 1 May 2023
- A toy or plaything is an object that is used primarily to provide entertainment. Simple examples include toy blocks, board games, and dolls. ...41 KB (6,246 words) - 04:50, 1 May 2023
- weapons and bronze bells (dōtaku), and wheel-thrown, kiln-fired ceramics ... ware), and baked in the open. The pottery wheel was introduced in the third ...78 KB (11,609 words) - 09:53, 1 April 2024
- Prater which is home to the Riesenrad, a ferris wheel. The imperial Schönbrunn's grounds contain an eighteenth century park which includes the ...42 KB (5,917 words) - 20:13, 3 May 2023
- Image:FalkirkWheelSide_2004_SeanMcClean.jpg|The Falkirk Wheel. ==Notes== ==References== *Burleigh, J.H.S. A Church History of Scotland. Oxford ...48 KB (6,984 words) - 17:25, 12 May 2024
- [[Image:Dharma wheel.svg|thumb|350px|right|The eight-spoked Dharmacakra ... Fields, and What's Behind It All. Red Wheel/Weiser, 2006. ISBN 978-1578633746 ...50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
- *Thunder 3: Specialism. Centralism via wheel, transport, cities: civil life. *Thunder 4: Markets and truck gardens. Patterns of nature submitted ...44 KB (6,751 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- reflects a deeply Buddhist approach. The Buddhist wheel, along with two dragons, constitutes a common feature on every gompa (including the likes of Lamayuru ...43 KB (6,368 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group| |group=Ojibwa |image=[[Image:Anishinabe ...46 KB (6,830 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- Ten: An Interview with Rep. John Lewis] The Emory Wheel, April 21, 2008. Retrieved September 3, 2020. Lewis drew on his historical involvement ...59 KB (8,081 words) - 20:53, 1 May 2024
- Cape Canaveral|alt=A smiling Glenn behind the wheel of a convertible File:LC-14 Glenn plaque.jpg|Plaque near Mercury launch pad File:John Glenn ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- turning it into a deadly trap. In attempting to wheel around to meet this threat, a command from Gen. Rodes was misunderstood by Lt. Col. James N. Lightfoot ...52 KB (8,281 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- An apartment (American English), or flat (British English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies ...54 KB (8,047 words) - 01:58, 9 January 2023
- The fishers set up very light nets of buoyant flax and wheel in a circle round about while they violently strike the surface of the sea with ...49 KB (7,746 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- arm and shoulder when his driver fell asleep at the wheel. His injuries were serious but he insisted that his arm be set in a cast so he could leave ...47 KB (7,340 words) - 17:15, 4 May 2023
- Although present-day Rangers wear the familiar "star in a wheel" badge, it was adopted officially only recently. The current design ...49 KB (7,650 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- Abrams tank to expose the track so that a road wheel can be replaced.]] [[Image:Cjtf7_m1abrams.jpg|thumb|250px|An M1 Abrams tank on lookout. Heat ...57 KB (9,115 words) - 04:01, 27 February 2023
- point Fields, and What's Behind It All. Red Wheel/Weiser, 2006. ISBN 1578633745. *Korotayev, Andrey. World Religions and Social Evolution ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid-nineteenth through ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- pork pie, a Mr Kipling cupcake and a Buddhist prayer wheel. It is all very intriguing." (Letter to the editor from Nick Ingham, The Times, September ...59 KB (9,088 words) - 02:40, 5 November 2022
- powered 908 racer. But that car has not turned a wheel in a race. In 2006, the JCB Dieselmax broke the diesel land speed record posting an average ...60 KB (9,401 words) - 14:31, 29 January 2024
- it in "The Cult of the Spinning Wheel,” an acrid 1925 essay (Dutta and Robinson, 261). Instead, he emphasized self-help and intellectual ...50 KB (7,214 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- who is stripped without ceremony and bound to a wheel for fondling and thrashing, would be unthinkable in the domestic Gothic fiction written for ...57 KB (8,573 words) - 17:01, 30 June 2023
- The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848 when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's ...61 KB (8,925 words) - 18:25, 25 November 2023
- One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe... and the very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits ...61 KB (9,138 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- and What's Behind It All.] San Francisco: Red Wheel/Weiser Books, 2006. Retrieved December 19, 2022. *Hume, David. Dialogues Concerning Natural ...81 KB (12,883 words) - 08:12, 24 January 2023
- home. It functioned as the hub around which the wheel of King family life rotated. And the sanctuary was located only three blocks away from the big ...58 KB (9,123 words) - 17:52, 18 January 2023
- in the modern world is based, invented the wheel, and the first plow. Their literature included the first known recorded story, the Epic of Gilgamesh ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- attractions, including the Observation Wheel water ponds with boats and water bicycles, dancing, tennis courts and other sport facilities. It ...63 KB (8,988 words) - 16:33, 10 November 2022
- the spirit of the four beings resides in the wheel. Finally, above the four figures, Ezekiel sees God sitting on a chariot or throne of blue lapis ...68 KB (10,629 words) - 21:49, 4 October 2022
- stretch of desert at the same time of year in four-wheel drive trucks and were unable to do so. (Rarick, 71. None of the party had any remaining ...73 KB (11,798 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
- line combat during the middle of winter, then wheel north to relieve Bastogne was one of his most remarkable achievements during the war. ...100 KB (15,023 words) - 13:47, 12 November 2022
- June 11, 2015 He installed a Ferris wheel, a carousel, a movie theater and a zoo.title= Michael Jackson – Biography |url= https://www.rollingstone ...200 KB (27,687 words) - 00:08, 13 March 2023
