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  • In 1996, the company decided to utilize all wheel drive (AWD) in most international ... by a four-cylinder engine and had a front-wheel wishbone-type independent ...
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  • design was Dan Albone's three-wheel Ivel tractor of 1902. In ... behind a single seat. The seat and steering wheel consequently are in the center ...
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  • The bead is that part of the tire that contacts the wheel. The bead ... ===Wheel=== Tires are mounted to wheels, or rims, that bolt to the ...
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  • through reaction, like a traditional water wheel. Turbines with multiple stages ... section and two rotors is termed a "Curtis Wheel" ...
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  • of the Ancient Celts (York Beach, ME: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2003, ISBN 1590030559). ... holidays (or "sabbats"), of the wheel of the year. Imbolc is defined ...
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  • A gear is a wheel with teeth around its circumference, the purpose of the teeth being to mesh with similar teeth on another mechanical device—usually ...
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  • typically described by Buddhists as a "Wheel of Suffering" or "Wheel ... God of death), who continually turns the wheel. The goal of life, naturally ...
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  • with David Byrne on The Catherine Wheel at the Winter Garden, and ... Award; and directing "The Catherine Wheel" for BBC Television ...
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  • quot; or solar festivals in the Wiccan Wheel of the Year, following Midsummer ... of the Ancient Celts. York Beach, ME: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2003. ISBN 978-1590030554 ...
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  • represented the symbol of the dharma, the Wheel of the Law. ... Shrivatsa within a triratana, over a Chakra wheel, on the Tonana gate at Sanchi. ...
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  • was often compared to a large potter's wheel that would screech as it was spun around, and did not turn smoothly. The opposite of dukkha ...
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  • it along with his feet, while steering the front wheel. adding a mechanical crank drive to the rear wheel, thus creating the first ...
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  • ever imagine.Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, The Wheel of Life (Touchstone, 1998 ... * Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth. 1998. The Wheel of Life. Touchstone. ISBN ...
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  • the most important mechanical inventions after the wheel, as it transforms continuous rotary motion into a linear reciprocating motion, and is central ...
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  • sources of food and the invention of the wheel helped humans in traveling ... [[Image:Wheel Iran.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The wheel was invented in ...
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  • within a triratana, over a Dharmacakra wheel, on the Torana gate at Sanchi ... Triratna is usually also surmounted by the Dharma wheel. ...
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  • power from the pedals of a bicycle to the drive-wheel, thus propelling the bicycle. It is the main distinguishing feature of the safety bicycle. Based ...
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  • ." An ancient adaptation of ichthus is a wheel which contains ... superimposed such that the result resembles an eight-spoked wheel. ...
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  • inukshuk, an upright monolith slab, a medicine wheel, a fire pit, a desert kite, or simply rocks lined up or stacked for various reasons. Old World petroforms ...
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  • during wartime steel shortages for bicycle wheel bearings married to replaceable ... * Wheel == Notes == ==References== *Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology ...
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  • symbolically represented as the Dharma wheel (Sanskrit: dharmacakra, Pāli: ... :As a wheel the draught ox's foot. :Preceded by perception are ...
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  • this list increased to include the wheel and axle, wedge and inclined ... quot; | Simple machines || Inclined plane, Wheel and axle, Lever, Pulley, ...
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  • ==Medicine wheel as mandala== pattern that often resembled a wagon wheel lying on its side. The wheels ...
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  • quot; bands such as Asleep at the Wheel and the growing popularity ... of Fame in 1999. In 2005, Asleep at the Wheel was featured in the play ...
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  • Citroën introduced the only popular front-wheel-drive car of its time, the ... left|200px|1934 Traction Avant 11CV - front wheel drive with independent suspension ...
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  • :Twelve spokes, one wheel, navels three. :Who can comprehend this? :On it are placed together :three hundred and sixty like pegs. :They shake ...
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  • Chakra (Sanskrit: meaning circle or wheel) is a widely used concept in Indian religion and politics that underpins many spiritual practices and ...
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  • written or co-written by Dylan, "This Wheel's on Fire," "Tears ... * Helm, Levon, with Stephen Davis. This Wheel's on Fire. Chicago: ...
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  • of purposes, including tool handles, bows, wheel spokes, the bottom of skis ... valued for tool handles, bows (like yew), wheel spokes, carts, drumsticks ...
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  • death, he began to train on the potter's wheel for which he showed much talent. He survived a childhood bout of smallpox to serve as an apprentice ...
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  • [[Image:Wheel of the Year.svg|right|400px|thumb|The Wheel of the Year ... of the Ancient Celts. York Beach, ME: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2003. ISBN 1590030559 ...
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  • One popular subject of Thangkas is "The Wheel of Life," which is a visual representation of cycle of suffering (Samsara). ...
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  • The noria, a water wheel with clay pots around the rim powered by ... reduction gearbox mounted behind each wheel. Precision controls, some ...
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  • Realm of the Little People (Boston, MA: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2002, ISBN 1578632676 ... Realm of the Little People. Boston, MA: Red Wheel/Weiser. ISBN 978-1578632671 ...
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  • gruesome methods of executions were used (the wheel, burning at the stake, and so forth). In the case of decapitation, it sometimes took repeated blows ...
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  • at the bottom. In the center, a navy blue wheel with twenty-four spokes, ... quot; in the centre of the white is the wheel of the law of dharma. Truth ...
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  • of a motorcycle that holds the front wheel and allows one to steer. ... referred to as forks), which hold the front wheel axle, and a triple tree, ...
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  • life-size statue of the Buddha turning the wheel of the Law stood. To the ... first five disciples pay respects to the Wheel of the Dharma at the deerpark ...
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  • the book of Ezekiel, the thrones are described as a wheel intersected by another wheel, one to move forward and back, the other to move side to side. ...
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  • ====Case 8: Keichu's Wheel==== : Getsuan said to his students, "Keichu, the first wheel-maker ...
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  • [[Image:Wheel of life col.jpg|200px|thumb|Fresco on a wall of the Bardan Gompa representing a [[Bhavacakra|Wheel of Life]].]] Buddhism regained ...
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  • was severed, and they parted into several wheel-shaped and fire-filled bubbles of air (Diels and Kramz 12A11). Anaximander is said to have written ...
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  • of the Ancient Celts (York Beach, ME: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2003, ISBN 978-1590030554 ... Wheel of the Year [[Image:Wheel of the Year.svg|right|350px|thumb|The ...
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  • comes from the Greek word trochos, meaning "wheel." In North America, the big wheels of wagons were called trucks. When the gasoline-engine ...
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  • planning and a suitable vehicle (usually a four wheel drive.) On remote routes considerable supplies and equipment may be required, this can include prearranged ...
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  • this had changed to either an iron shod stone wheel or a cast iron wheel running on an iron bed. The mix is sometimes dampened with alcohol or water ...
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  • blends are the fuel of choice in open wheel racing circuits like Champcars ... Pure methanol has been used in open wheel racing since the mid-1960s ...
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  • and performance was so immense that from the wheel's release in 1974, the popularity of skateboarding started to rise rapidly again, and companies ...
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  • must not simply "bandage the victims under the wheel, but jam the spoke in the wheel itself." Nevertheless, in September, a national Protestant ...
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  • the Mystical Realm of the Little People. Red Wheel/Weiser. 2002. ISBN 1578632676 * Evans-Wentz, W.Y. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. New ...
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