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- * Raup, David M. 1991. Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? New York: W.W. Norton & Co. * University of California Museum of Paleontology. 2005 ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 06:16, 13 September 2023
- Schumpeter's bad luck was that he was the contemporary of John Maynard Keynes, the two being born but a few months apart. Hence, his prestige ...19 KB (2,667 words) - 04:57, 7 May 2024
- lives in which hard work, perseverance, love and luck win out in the end; virtue would be rewarded and wrong-doers are suitably punished. They tended ...18 KB (2,842 words) - 20:10, 3 May 2023
- straight at it, you fall short; aim above, and with luck you score. Every kid knows that. I'll tell you the story of my life" (Evelyn Waugh ...17 KB (2,728 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- George Luck, "Witches and Sorcerers in Classical Literature, ... * Luck, George. "Witches and Sorcerers in Classical Literature ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- quot;the world's worst jinx," bringing bad luck to all those nearby. Btfsplk always had a small dark cloud over his head. ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- It might even be a presage of bad luck or have dire consequences. Dancers who were learning to do such hula necessarily made many mistakes. ...19 KB (3,030 words) - 16:15, 9 February 2024
- carries the hide. The "good-luck charm" hats are used by Chinese newlyweds. Such hunting for their pelts, and the continuous clearing ...17 KB (2,708 words) - 02:48, 8 December 2022
- Even here, Goodyear's bad luck seemed to follow him, for the Rider brothers failed and it was impossible to continue the business. ...19 KB (3,096 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- The ceremony is supposed to bring good luck and fertility, while the curse of an unappeased hijra is feared by many. Other sources of income ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 18:55, 11 September 2023
- In Vietnam, some consider it bad luck to take a photo with three people ... Luck, especially bad luck, is often said to "come in threes." ...42 KB (5,963 words) - 06:44, 13 June 2023
- rather concepts such as names, titles, or good luck symbols.Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/Melchert/hluvianscript ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- prodigy, Mikan. With a stroke of good luck, the Minneapolis Lakers landed him. ===NBL and BAA Minneapolis Lakers (1947-49)=== In the 1947-1948 ...19 KB (3,019 words) - 16:27, 15 August 2021
- *Hollywood Luck (1932) *The Flirty Sleepwalker (1932) *Hollywood Lights (1932) *Over the Counter (1932) *Air Tonic (1933) *School for Romance (1934) ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 14:44, 23 July 2022
- The red-crowned crane is a common symbol of luck and fidelity. A pair of red-crowned cranes was used as a design in the D-series of 1,000 yen ...19 KB (2,899 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- into the top window of the ruins from the stairs for luck. ===Old Protestant Cemetery in Macau=== [[Image:Macao Protestant Cemetary.jpg|right ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 21:51, 31 January 2024
- feathers and beavers were thought to bring luck in gambling. Reptiles were viewed as having strong supernatural power, as was the coyote (Olmstead ...18 KB (2,714 words) - 07:37, 14 June 2023
- his last great novel, Hemingway's notorious bad luck struck once again; on a safari he suffered injuries in two successive plane crashes. As if this ...19 KB (2,931 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- and depended on a run of very good luck, but it was not totally fanciful. Again on July 15, the attempt was called off at the last minute, for ...20 KB (3,280 words) - 10:00, 12 May 2024
- in the West and in Mexico, but was down on his luck. On August 22, 1936, Seabiscuit raced for the first time for his new jockey and trainer, in ...19 KB (3,089 words) - 17:34, 25 January 2023
- quot; was the Egyptian word for "good luck" (which it is not). It is also possible that Bond adapted the name of the fabled Moroccan ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- have, of course, no real effect upon one's luck or upon a ball half way down an alley, just as in the present case the food would appear as often ...20 KB (3,039 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- him to kill her as well. It is through sheer blind luck he is able to escape detection. After falling ill with fever and lying bedridden for days ...21 KB (3,343 words) - 06:23, 11 January 2024
- cases of Philip Marlowe and other down-on-their-luck private detectives (e.g. John Dalmas, Steve Grayce) or good samaritans (e.g. Mr Carmady). The ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- the methods undertaken, the weather and even luck play a vital role in what we will catch. Additionally, the composition of history is inevitably ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- which he extricates himself by aplomb and good luck. A final hair-raising threat of exposure comes in the last scene, through the well-meaning frankness ...21 KB (3,484 words) - 15:19, 14 May 2023
- fortune cookies) is closely related to that of luck, good or bad, hence to that of destiny. Like destiny, fortune implies that there is an “invisible ...22 KB (3,568 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- by the incident, as well as the song "The Luck Of The Irish," which dealt more with the Irish conflict in general. (Lennon was of Irish ...21 KB (3,395 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- mind for the job. Next time I'll have better luck, and I'll get a job soon." Beck also identified a number of other cognitive distortions ...25 KB (3,498 words) - 17:04, 20 March 2024
- of a similar modest social status to try their luck in Africa. He epitomized a new type of here, Kryza writes of a new type of European hero, the ...19 KB (3,147 words) - 18:22, 10 November 2022
- * Brackman, Arnold C. The Luck of Nineveh: Archaeology's Great Adventure. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. ISBN 9780070070301. * Chandler, Tertius ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- together, and then they will accuse their own ill-luck and not the rulers.[http://studymore.org.uk/xpla5.htm Chapter 5: On matrimony and philosophy] Plato ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 15:33, 10 December 2023
- often nocturnal nature) or as agents of good luck, fertility, and rain. Shamans, the spiritual leaders in the religion of Shamanism, have used them ...22 KB (3,306 words) - 12:33, 9 January 2023
- *Dropping a pair of chopsticks is believed to bring bad luck. *When a diner has finished eating, he or she places the chopsticks across the bowl ...24 KB (3,847 words) - 17:19, 10 December 2023
- thrown into a burning flame, it will give good luck, and that if a rose bush were pruned on St. John's Eve, it would be guaranteed to bloom in ...22 KB (3,504 words) - 21:40, 15 August 2022
- Division. At dawn, the Battle Group von Luck of the 21st Panzer Division ... # von Luck, Hans. Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von ...68 KB (10,141 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- Critics say that Menzies' success was mainly due to the good luck of the long post-war boom and his manipulation of the anti-communist fears ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- to-hear-george-winston-good-luck/?-Good-luck- "Want to hear George Winston? Good luck"] The Durango Herald (December 24, 2015). Retrieved ...27 KB (3,773 words) - 21:17, 29 October 2023
- voltage-controlled filter. Then, by a stroke of luck, Moog was invited that September to the AES Convention in New York City, where he presented a paper ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- *"Landing in Luck" (1919) *"The Hill" (1922) *"New Orleans" *"Mirrors of Chartres Street" (1925) ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- and the workmen of the country towns who had the luck to see them. The "Red Cossack" was quite different. As Burov put it with deep ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 16:42, 28 July 2023
- money. The lion dance is supposed to bring good luck and fortune to the business and the dancers receive the money as reward. The tradition becomes ...24 KB (3,959 words) - 00:19, 5 September 2023
- an instance of the god Apollo's dreadful luck with human women. In the tale, the God of Music falls in love with Coronis (or Arsinoe) and seduces ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 03:52, 18 August 2023
- cattle through the fires to purify them and bring luck (Eadar dà theine Bhealltainn in Scottish Gaelic, 'Between two fires of Beltane'). ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 08:55, 27 September 2023
- by white men who tried to lynch him and only through luck and a disguise was he able to escape. Another time, when he had to change trains on his way ...24 KB (3,985 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
- quot;) carries implications of gamblers' luck as well as of the capacity to take risks, but "true" leaders, like gamblers but unlike ...25 KB (3,568 words) - 18:44, 25 October 2022
- on the left, the sinister side (left implying bad luck in superstition, and the word sinister coming from the Latin word for left). These entities will ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- expedition and returned, without any luck, to Panama. ===Second expedition (1526)=== Two years after the first unsuccessful expedition, Pizarro ...25 KB (4,083 words) - 04:54, 9 April 2024
- stupid person subjected to very unusually bad luck, and then a moral is drawn, not merely by inference but by solemn assertion, that we are all in the ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 17:20, 4 October 2020
- hunted animal. Such an offense could lead to bad luck in the future of the hunter who carried out the improprietous kill, furthering the notion that—at ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- *Nagel, T. Moral Luck. Reprinted in his Mortal Questions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1107604711 *Sabini, J., & ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 22:13, 30 November 2022
- general, owls are viewed as harbingers of bad luck, ill health, or death. The belief is widespread even today. Bruce G. Marcot, [https://www.owlpages ...23 KB (3,514 words) - 19:47, 20 July 2023
- protect the mummy from harm and to give good luck to the Ka. Once preserved, the mummies were laid to rest in a sarcophagus inside a tomb, where it was ...24 KB (3,616 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- get just one more on top of the pile, to bring good luck. This tradition has its roots in the worship of San-shin, or Mountain Spirit, still revered in ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- destroys all Dharmic obstacles and engenders good luck and swift spiritual awakening.(Beyer) A central aim of Tantric practice is to visualize ...26 KB (4,258 words) - 04:30, 27 February 2023
- David M. Raup, Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? (New York, NY: W.W. Norton ... *Raup, David M. Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? New York, NY: W ...47 KB (7,217 words) - 08:56, 28 January 2024
- women settled on the shore, only to suffer bad luck with fishing, being plagued by a water fiend known as Muldjewangk. They later moved to a more suitable ...26 KB (4,062 words) - 19:01, 10 November 2022
- In 1944 Miller wrote The Man Who Had All the Luck, which was produced in New York, and won the Theater Guild's National Award. ...28 KB (4,477 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- position in Slovakia but without luck. === Bohemia (1833 - 1861)=== While in Novi Sad, Šafárik maintained contact with Czech and Slovak revivalists ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- a French word or phrase. (One even bids dancers good luck in French.) Because of the universal terminology, dancers can take a ballet class anywhere in ...26 KB (3,932 words) - 16:13, 30 August 2023
- prayers, incantations, and amulets to bring good luck and ward off evil. After death the soul was supposed to depart to the “place of departed spirits ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- one. Also in China, crows commonly symbolize bad luck, probably due to the color black. ===Gods and goddesses associated with crows and ravens=== ...26 KB (3,938 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- experience," implicitly "to find luck on the sea." The word is also cognate to "peril." In the popular modern imagination ...24 KB (3,715 words) - 06:18, 24 November 2022
- story. The ceremony is to ensure good luck, good health, harmony, and ... type of ailment. Short blessings for good luck and protection may only take ...48 KB (7,395 words) - 15:33, 11 November 2022
- Lean, referring to Guinness as "my good luck charm," continued to cast Guinness in character roles in his later films: Arab leader Prince ...26 KB (4,059 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- group of Boy Scouts, happily waving and wishing him luck. Gehrig waved back, but leaned forward to his companion, a reporter, and said, "They're ...26 KB (4,116 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- believed to cleanse the island of sins and bad luck. ==Notes== == References == * Lutz, William. 1987. Netherlands Antilles. Edgemont, PA: Chelsea ...29 KB (4,221 words) - 04:34, 11 March 2023
- Depending on what you read, the Goodyear story is one of either pure luck or careful research. Goodyear insists that it was the latter, though ...28 KB (4,420 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- for the Cape of Good Hope. However, more bad luck struck, and a third of his crew soon perished on the Comoros due to an outbreak of cholera. To ...26 KB (4,192 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- Valera, who had escaped execution in 1916 through luck. (His physical location away from the other prisoners prevented his immediate execution, while ...29 KB (4,554 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2020
- many commented on at the time. Some credited luck, and others skill, in his rapid promotions, and it is fair to say that Brock had substantial portions ...28 KB (4,513 words) - 18:55, 7 March 2024
- This was another example of Prokofiev's bad luck in operatic matters. The failure also cost him his American solo career, since the opera took ...32 KB (4,755 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- But, as with Elser’s bomb in 1939 and all other attempts, luck favored ... and depended on a run of very good luck, but it was not totally fanciful. ...78 KB (12,369 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- Look at the parts played by skill and luck; and at the difference between skill in chess and skill in tennis. Think now of games like ring-a ...32 KB (5,041 words) - 02:42, 8 January 2024
- to the superstition that spilling salt is bad luck). ==Notes== == References == * Brown, Raymond E. 1994. The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- will come in and start dancing as a blessing of luck and fortune for the home. In return, the host gives "lucky money" to show their gratitude. ...32 KB (4,726 words) - 17:31, 9 November 2022
- of John Hay in the John Hay Library for good luck on exams, a superstition that has been in effect since around 1910, resulting in a very shiny ...30 KB (4,416 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- not to have to say the actual word and bring bad luck to oneself. It is said that a public house (on the island) can be cleared of people by calling ...28 KB (4,391 words) - 16:17, 7 December 2022
- a more superstitious beliefs associated with bad luck and misery. === Rediscovery === [[Image:Borobudur photograph by van kinsbergen.jpg|right ...30 KB (4,409 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- Becky Sharp. His earlier novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844) recounts the rise and fall of an Irish arriviste conniving his way into the eighteenth ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- wealth could reward hard work and good luck. Historian H. W. Brands noted ... won in a twinkling by audacity and good luck. [This] golden dream ... ...61 KB (8,925 words) - 18:25, 25 November 2023
- believe that the control is outside of them - luck, fate, or other people control their life circumstances. Julian Rotter developed an Internal/External ...35 KB (5,056 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- || Water greeting, washing hair to wash away bad luck || Day 15 of Month 6 || Five coloured noodles (yudumyeon), rice dumplings (sudan) ...29 KB (4,255 words) - 06:48, 11 January 2024
- to show the Soviets that they could push their luck no further. Accordingly, General Lucius D. Clay, who was deeply respected by Berliners after ...32 KB (5,068 words) - 11:04, 28 September 2023
- Plains was, by many accounts, an act of sheer luck. They were undefended save for Vergor's camp, as Vaudreuil had ordered one of the French regiments ...33 KB (5,197 words) - 10:21, 22 September 2023
- brother was killed in 1943, but Franjo had better luck, meeting his future wife Ankica. Shortly after the end of the war his father Stjepan, who was ...32 KB (4,830 words) - 06:17, 23 January 2023
- rubs the left shoe of the Rogers statue for good luck before entering the House Chamber to give the State of the Union address. "Police Dept ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- with one blow not to practicing in advance but to luck. Schama, 736–37. Charlotte Corday asked for Gustave le Doulcet, an old acquaintance, ...30 KB (4,620 words) - 00:41, 5 December 2023
- battle for both sides, but, by a stroke of luck, the Spanish came out victorious. Cémaco, together with his warriors, abandoned the town and ...34 KB (5,513 words) - 14:37, 3 May 2023
- *Out of Luck (1919) *Virtuous Sinners (1919) *The Fog (1919) *Nobody Home (1919) *The Eyes of Youth (1919) *Stolen Moments (1920) *An Adventuress ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2023
- family - you are expected to bring them good luck and so the family must respect you. When we think of our ancestors, we respect them as individuals ...36 KB (5,331 words) - 23:49, 9 January 2024
- *Floating ribs of a tiger are considered a good luck talisman. *The tiger's penis is said to be an aphrodisiac. *Small bones in a tiger& ...34 KB (5,273 words) - 03:13, 4 November 2022
- of the dragon during the fight. This will bring luck for one year to the ones succeeding in this challenge. This event is part of the annual Ducasse ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- workers to San Cristóbal Island and tried his luck at planting sugar cane. He ruled his plantation with an iron hand, which led to his assassination ...33 KB (5,083 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- that implies a minor deity, attendant spirit, luck, fortune, "guiding star," and the like, with no negative or pejorative connotations. ...31 KB (4,948 words) - 20:58, 3 April 2024
- times before leaving the funeral to ward off bad luck. This custom is also found in other East Asian and Southeast Asian cultures. ...37 KB (6,189 words) - 14:58, 3 December 2023
- his magnificent mind and he had the hard luck to lead a people susceptible ... Alcibiades' victory was due to the luck of a rainstorm, while, according ...78 KB (11,681 words) - 05:06, 17 June 2023
- were closely allied races, and by good luck we know the Phrygian form of the god's name, Diounsis. Concerning the meaning of the name, since ...32 KB (5,115 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- of the relevant fossils, which requires a lot of luck. Despite the difficulties, analyses of ice core and ocean sediment cores has shown periods ...38 KB (5,850 words) - 17:11, 10 February 2024
- (winning the lady); finally Hother, befriended hy luck and the Wood Maidens, to whom he owed his early successes and his magic coat, belt, and girdle ...36 KB (5,860 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
