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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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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  • For example, "Hand is to palm as foot is to ____?" These questions ... :HAND : PALM : : FOOT : ____ It is worth noting that while most competent ...
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  • (kephalópoda); "head-foot") are marine mollusks (phylum ... The name cephalopod ("head-foot") refers to the large, well ...
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  • , on the banks of the Kishon River, at the foot of Mount Carmel. This central ... became a quagmire for chariots and armored foot soldiers alike—Barak's ...
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  • tube feet branching from them. Each tube foot has a bulb-like ampulla, as ... to surface is chemical, with the tube foot secreting substances that ...
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  • King's Own Borderers" (25th Foot.), he was born at Golden Bridge ... After six months' duty with the 90th Foot at Aldershot, he went ...
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  • solar plasma will fill these loops from one foot point and drain from the other ... * Photospheric foot point shuffling * MHD wave propagation ...
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  • which put out much more seed in rows less than a foot apart, blanketing the field with crops. Transplanters fully or partially automate the task of ...
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  • or cap-shaped shell and a suckerlike foot without a protective operculum. ... using pedal mucus and a muscular "foot." They move using wave ...
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  • mail clad, and partially plated knights and foot soldiers. Rather than dooming ... another was discarded to save weight for foot soldiers. Breast and back ...
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  • The Jordan River rises at the foot of Mount Hermon from three principal ... #The Baniyas River, which rises from a spring at Banias at the foot ...
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  • body, short legs with four toes on each foot with non-retractile claws ... tree. They have four toes on each foot and long slender limbs. ...
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  • Hannah prays fervently to God for a child. Eli, who is sitting at ... was very great; Israel lost thirty thousand foot soldiers. The ark of God was ...
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  • times, and each time the Master hit him with a six-foot pole. Linji could not understand the meaning of these blows, and decided to leave the temple ...
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  • walk on the third and fourth toes of each foot, which are covered and protected ... in shoulder height, and with a 2.6 to 3.3 foot (.8 to 1 meter) tail, with ...
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  • quot; on his 1994 "anti-folk" record, One Foot in the Grave. James also left a mark on twenty-first century Hollywood, with Chris Thomas ...
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  • (order Artiodactyla), with two-toes on each foot and an "unguligrade" form of locomotion. (Unguligrade involves most of the weight ...
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  • === Foot care practitioners === Care and treatment for the foot, ankle, and lower leg may be delivered ...
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  • between one and four syllables per foot, with the stress always falling ... :Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. :And for all this, nature ...
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  • * 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot]], 1st Battalion * 1st Bombay European Fusiliers, also known as 103rd Regiment of Foot ...
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  • years of the history of the United States with 60-foot sculptures of the heads of former U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore ...
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  • of Ocean Life (reopened in 2003), the 62 foot (19 m) Haida carved and ... in the hall which includes a 432 square foot (40 m²) diorama of the ...
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  • sense, but what about nervously tapping one's foot? Such tapping is not as obviously an action as plunging into traffic to save a child, but it ...
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  • quot;The friction of the great beast's foot had stripped the skin from ... once applied his tusks, but, placing his foot on the prostrate victim, plucked ...
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  • the tail of the skateboard, sliding the front foot towards the nose and lifting up the back foot to level the skateboard out. This results in the ...
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  • site has a the winding, fifty kilometer, foot path that takes several days ... Image:Leshan, Sichuan Feb07 (32).jpg|Foot, toes, and toe nails ...
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  • head, and a modification of the mollusk foot into the form of arms or tentacles ... Squids have a specialized foot called the siphon, or hyponome, that ...
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  • and bushy tail, and five digits on each foot, including four with claws ... " the anteater has five digits on each foot; however the middle three ...
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  • with thick, round spectacles, the six-foot, 10-inch, 245-pound Mikan ... Lakers reserve guard Bob Harrison hit a 40-foot buzzer beater to give Minneapolis ...
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  • natural environment. Two weeks later, on her bad foot, she was scrambling up a 10,000-foot volcano for her first contact with the mountain gorilla. ...
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  • parts of head, visceral mass, and muscular foot; and organ systems for circulation ... that covers the internal organ that is called a foot. The shells of ...
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