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- #039;s classic tragedy but with a decided twist: In Shaw's version, Caesar is dramatically aged and Cleopatra an impulsive girl of 16. The ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 07:04, 18 April 2024
- dance. There is also a figure called the "Hip Twist," where, by closing his feet following a backward movement, the hip movement of the man ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
- Cry, retelling his story with a science fiction twist. * Novelist Frederick Buechner retold the story of Brendan's travels in his 1987 novel ...12 KB (1,898 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- of Thomas Atkinson, to create the Chorlton Twist Company, which in 1799 negotiated ... #039;s agreeing to sell to the Chorlton Twist Company and also his consent ...26 KB (4,155 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- though the Pizza has a unique Korean twist, often featuring corn, sweet ... do, though again with a slightly different twist. For example, couples will ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- helping. Books such as Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist highlighted such abuse. ===Diet=== The meals supplied in the workhouse had to meet the ...14 KB (2,160 words) - 23:59, 17 May 2023
- elements by mass and property, but he added a twist. Döbereiner had worked only in small groups, but Newlands wanted to relate all the elements to each other. ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 15:59, 25 January 2023
- do not actually throw the branches but they will twist the branch causing it to fall closer to the threat. The natives of the area know very well of ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 15:22, 27 April 2023
- Endymion. However, in a characteristically Romantic twist, Keats focuses the narrative not on Diana's love for a mortal, but Endymion's love ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 06:06, 3 August 2022
- *Twist of Fate (1954) *Black Widow (1954) *Tight Spot (1955) *The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) *Teenage Rebel (1956) *Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957) ...15 KB (2,082 words) - 07:46, 24 January 2023
- is, if it ever comes to mind, powerless trying to twist the outcome of the event in order to create a paradox. The delay is only of a few milliseconds ...17 KB (2,710 words) - 17:28, 12 February 2024
- Nash's poetry was often a playful twist of an old saying or poem. He expressed this playfulness in what is perhaps his most famous rhyme ...14 KB (2,140 words) - 23:56, 17 November 2022
- that he was in imminent danger of death. But the twist of the assassins was that they drugged the person to simulate a "dying" to later ...15 KB (2,338 words) - 22:24, 8 November 2021
- Four fossil rivers twist and turn through the arid reserve. Among them is Deception Valley, a dusty old watercourse that wound its way through ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 06:57, 28 February 2023
- Home Is In a Southern Town," "Turtle Twist," "Why?," "New Orleans Bump," "Fickle Fay Creep," "Cracker ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 18:02, 2 April 2024
- either slicing off thin shavings (in the case of twist drills or auger bits), grinding off small particles (in oil drilling), or crushing and removing ...16 KB (2,609 words) - 21:09, 30 January 2024
- thumb|200px|A rifled barrel, with a right hand twist.]] ... to trace. Archers had long realized that a twist added to the tail feathers ...37 KB (6,097 words) - 19:01, 11 August 2022
- with a funny comment, a pun, or an unexpected twist to the story. The comic situations portray fundamental human experiences, such as a man’s desire ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- In an ironic twist, the secular system in most states requires that a Jewish wedding be performed by an ordained rabbi in order to be legally ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- that permitted his storylines to take any twist their author wanted did not appeal to James' sense of artistic integrity. However, James ...17 KB (2,461 words) - 05:26, 31 July 2023
- works of fiction, notably Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie, the administrators of orphanages are depicted as cruel ...19 KB (2,793 words) - 10:44, 11 March 2023
- * Twist with Bobby Darin—1961 * Bobby Darin Sings Ray Charles—1962 * Things and Other Things—1962 * Oh! Look at Me Now—1962 ...16 KB (2,577 words) - 08:44, 16 November 2023
- saying or maxim. Often a fable will have a "twist" or a surprise ending as well. Fables, fairy tales, and parables all have in common ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- produce exploitation horror with a uniquely Asian twist. Shaw Studios produced Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (1973) in collaboration with Hammer ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 14:21, 7 February 2024
- 1970s animated television series. In an ironic twist, Shmoo-related merchandise became a huge consumer success. Also, in the 1940's and 1950 ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- this vocal style near the end of the song "Twist of Fate" from their self titled debut album "Theocracy." ==In literature== ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 08:33, 10 January 2024
- various, colorful characters from books like Oliver Twist. Both his view of the world and his powers of observation were greatly affected by the stories ...20 KB (2,916 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- in der Mitte sind Teile der Installation Jump and Twist by Dennis Oppenheim.]] The university also has an excellent library with a large collection ...21 KB (2,957 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- always with a women's college twist. Students that year staged a mock debate on the subject, "Does Higher Education Unfit a Man for ...19 KB (2,939 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
- A top-ranked SEO blog reported, "Search marketers, in a twist of irony, receive a very small share of their traffic from search engines." ...24 KB (3,505 words) - 02:44, 21 April 2023
- retell the Gilgamesh account with a monotheistic twist, or did Gilgamesh pervert the true story of Noah's ark into a polytheistic form? Most scholars ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- * Glanz, James. 2002. "New Twist on Physicist's Role in Nazi Bomb" The New York Times. February 7, 2002. * Walker, Mark. 1990. ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- The throttle control is a motorcycle-style twist grip mounted on the collective ... designed to "flap" – lift and twist in such a way that the advancing ...42 KB (6,643 words) - 23:04, 3 February 2022
- *Chuck Berry Twist (1962) *Chuck Berry's Greatest Hits (1964) *Two Great Guitars (with Bo Diddley) (1964) *St. Louis to Liverpool (1964) ...20 KB (3,002 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- Bulbs with a bayonet (push-twist) base, for use with sockets having ... tips, in order to lock into a socket with a twist. Other halogen bulbs come ...44 KB (6,810 words) - 12:43, 4 March 2024
- nytimes.com/1993/04/11/style/coins-a-modern-twist-for-church-tokens.html COINS; A Modern Twist For Church Tokens] The New York Times, April 11 ...23 KB (3,753 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please." [http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_18s16 ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- and devising ways to present them with his own twist. Michael J. Tortorella, [https://www.deming.org/content/three-careers-w-edwards-deming The ...24 KB (3,501 words) - 22:00, 3 May 2023
- white female pop singer is perhaps the ultimate twist in an extremely stormy career...He has a volatile personal style that often seemed more noteworthy ...23 KB (3,414 words) - 22:22, 4 December 2023
- influenced by Spanish tornar "to twist, turn," from Latin tornare ... narrow tubes or ropes, and often curl or twist into complex shapes. These ...56 KB (8,507 words) - 00:50, 20 February 2024
- 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
