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  • A new twist was given to the ancient conundrum of the divisibility of matter by the discovery of quantum mechanics. Until then, no distinction ...
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  • many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a surprise twist changes everything dramatically near the end of the story. Gilbert oversaw the designs ...
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  • If allowed to twist freely, a magnet will turn to point in the direction of the magnetic field at its location. A compass is a small magnet that ...
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  • known from Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist." The main purpose of a funeral mute was to attend funerals wearing a sad, melancholy expression ...
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  • fight with Penthesilea, but give it an extra twist of Achilles being 'played' by a man. ==Other stories about Achilles== ...
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  • the advertisement how you will, and twist it about as you will," said Lord Justice Lindley, "here is a distinct promise expressed in ...
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  • who tilted them in opposite directions to twist the wings and make the kite ... in the courts until the 1920s. In a twist of irony, the Wright Aeronautical ...
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  • crack may settle and tip, the other upthrust or twist, or all such combinations due to the effects of each floating on the plastic layers below and ...
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  • styles, with or without a modern twist (for example, the Museum of Roman Civilization at the EUR). === Fascism and Futurism === Mussolini's ...
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  • singles She's My Baby, Inside Out, and Wilbury Twist, He had a singing role as himself in Homer's Barbershop Quartet, an episode of ...
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  • of a "mental twist." Walker 2018, 109–110. The musicologist ... * Cooke, Charles. "Chopin and Liszt with a Ghostly Twist," ...
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  • In a strange twist of irony, Fuller receives a one-year (1962) appointment as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University ...
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  • I Want To Hold Your Hand at #23, Let It Be at #32, Twist And Shout at #57, She Loves You at #59, Strawberry Fields Forever at #61, and A Hard Day's ...
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  • to bring the number down to five. This is a new twist on the biblical tradition of Moses as the intercessor who begs for God to be merciful to the Israelites. ...
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  • by Charles Dickens in such novels as Oliver Twist. In 1829, the prime minister Robert Peel established the Metropolitan Police as a police force ...
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  • region has received an original contemporary twist in the monumental fantastic sculpture gardens of Luang Pu Bunleua Sulilat: Buddha Park near Vientiane ...
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  • diet, and because of this it must be able to twist and turn in the water easily when hunting. On the other hand, the porbeagle, which hunts schooling ...
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  • #039;s literature, fairy tales are retold with a twist simply for comic effect, such as The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka. A common comic motif ...
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  • In a twist of fate, the French National Defense Committee ultimately did agree that Navarre's responsibility did not include defending Laos ...
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  • In an ironic twist, Warhol (who had made a point of seeking out Capote when he first arrived in New York) took the author under his wing. He ...
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