Search results for "Wheel" - New World Encyclopedia
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- pattern. It is named for the trapiche, a grinding wheel used to process sugarcane in the region. Davidson, Michael W. [http://micro.magnet.fsu ...10 KB (1,413 words) - 15:17, 31 December 2021
- using a steam engine to drive a paddle wheel or propeller to move the ... a culture of transportation centered on the wheel. Native Americans had developed ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 02:08, 2 May 2023
- In the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel in 1972. In 1975, they recorded an album of art songs with Peggy Lee, entitled Mirrors. A remixed ...10 KB (1,625 words) - 08:02, 3 April 2024
- 2004 SeanMcClean.jpg|thumb|350px|The Falkirk Wheel in Scotland.]] Civil engineering is a broad field of engineering covering many specialties ...12 KB (1,647 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- (symbol of eternal, heavenly space) and a wheel (eternal time and destructive ... a fusion Shiva and Vishnu) holding a conch, wheel and trident. The artisan ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:15, 18 March 2023
- Furniture is the term used for a class of movable objects that may support the human body (as for seating or sleeping), provide storage, or hold ...10 KB (1,622 words) - 07:22, 15 April 2024
- Rev: Eight-spoke wheel or star within diadem. Hebrew legend inside the spokes: "Yehonatan the King".]] Alexander Jannaeus (also known ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 14:25, 18 July 2023
- which involves rotation of a central focusing wheel. In addition, one of the two eyepieces can be further adjusted to compensate for differences between ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 17:52, 31 October 2023
- pottery domestically produced on a slow wheel, to a great variety of unpainted ... Examples of Sumerian technology include: the wheel, cuneiform, arithmetic ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- teams won several championships in open-wheel IndyCar racing. He was co ... his first television special, Once Upon a Wheel, on the history of auto racing ...38 KB (5,689 words) - 17:42, 21 November 2022
- Agricultural technology refers to technology for the production of machines used on a farm to help with farming. Agricultural machines have been ...11 KB (1,529 words) - 06:48, 16 June 2023
- of imperial victory; the eight-spoked wheel that guides the ship of state ... festivals, seasons, or spokes in the Wheel of the Year. ...21 KB (2,909 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue.jpg|thumb|240px|Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue - near Kulu]] Padmasambhava ...11 KB (1,775 words) - 06:13, 18 November 2022
- the iris diaphragm used in cameras, the balance wheel used in watches, and the universal joint used in motor vehicles (RHSC 2003); he also elucidated ...11 KB (1,559 words) - 17:09, 15 March 2024
- The prayer wheel is widely seen among Tibetan people. A wheel made ... Barkhor.jpg|An elderly Tibetan woman with a prayer wheel. ...35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- covered by his foreskin; images of an eight-spoke wheel on the soles of their feet, forty teeth, etc. Clearly if these were physical marks the Buddha ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 16:53, 2 May 2023
- instead of hidden underneath; the steering wheel was adopted on the Type 36; ... Peugeot 504, the highly developed four-wheel-drive turbo-charged versions ...27 KB (3,917 words) - 02:54, 24 November 2022
- Tanning is the process by which raw animal skins and hides are converted into leather. This process permanently alters the protein structure ...11 KB (1,861 words) - 04:26, 27 February 2023
- the ever-changing outer world is called the wheel of samsara; to live on that ... :This vast universe is a wheel, the wheel of Brahman. Upon it are ...35 KB (5,768 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- [[Image:Ephesus IchthysCrop.jpg|thumb|right|150px|An early wheel-like circular ichthys symbol, created by combining the Greek letters ΙΧΘΥΣ ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- * Invented a machine for shaping wheel hubs. * Devised a method of siphoning power from ocean tides. * Invented a rotary steam engine. ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 2023
- which is sometimes made of wood and shaped like a wheel of cheese. * Skittles: nine-pins is sometimes called "skittles," a term probably ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 20:02, 20 November 2023
- A spring is a flexible, elastic device used to store mechanical energy. When a force is applied to a spring, it expands or contracts to a certain ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 16:14, 8 February 2023
- covered by his foreskin; images of an eight-spoke wheel on the soles of their feet, forty teeth, etc. Yet since not everyone was able to discern these ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 10:18, 29 January 2024
- 2 years later. It is one of the earliest water wheel installations in the United States and also generated electricity. It is owned today by Edison Hydro. ...23 KB (3,052 words) - 21:35, 9 February 2024
- from his youth in his novel, Beneath the Wheel. ===Toward a writer=== ... he wrote his second novel Beneath the Wheel, which appeared in 1906. ...29 KB (4,532 words) - 10:19, 22 January 2024
- * The Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne, a side-wheel steamboat, sank in April 1850, in Lake Erie, while en route from the Toledo area to Buffalo ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 05:54, 31 July 2023
- 1832 by Joseph Plateau. This device used a spinning wheel with slots in it. The images were on a paper disk and were viewed on a mirror through the slots ...12 KB (1,946 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- mudra position represents the turning of the wheel of the Dharma. Dharmacakra Mudrā is formed when two hands close together in front of the chest ...13 KB (2,114 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- :Jeep: A four-wheel drive car of one-half to one-and-one-half ton ... :LAWMAKERS TAKE A RIDE—With Senator Meade, of New York, at the wheel ...24 KB (3,439 words) - 04:31, 31 July 2022
- *spokes on a bicycle wheel *brooms *a shopping cart *metal pipes *clay pots *garbage cans John Cage, Harry Partch, Edgard Varèse, all of whom ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 00:31, 24 November 2022
- sentenced to death on the Breaking wheel. However, when this failed to kill her, she was beheaded, and according to Christian tradition, angels ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:14, 22 December 2022
- 15 inches in diameter, wielded as a pair. Each wheel has an arc with a padded grip and cross-guard; opposite and adjacent arcs have protruding flame ...25 KB (3,699 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2023
- his great contribution was producing the color wheel of primary and intermediary hues. [[Image:Seurat-La Parade detail.jpg|thumb|Detail from Seurat ...12 KB (1,923 words) - 22:59, 24 November 2022
- Dave Godin in 1970 after a visit to the Twisted Wheel Club in Manchester, England. The term refers to rare soul music played by DJs at nightclubs ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- :a red wheel :barrow :glazed with rain :water :beside the white :chickens. The poem's intense focus on a single image, and its terseness ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 2023
- Zone." In The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness. Random House Canada, 2007. ISBN 978-0679314080 ==External links== ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- Susan Howatch's Cashelmara and The Wheel of Fortune, two Romans a ... * Howatch, Susan. 1984. The wheel of fortune. New York, NY: Simon ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- ) is a term used in Tantric Buddhism that means "wheel of time ... * Bryant, B. 2003. The Wheel of Time Sand Mandala. Snow Lion. ISBN ...25 KB (3,799 words) - 17:00, 14 May 2024
- and (occasionally) holding a Dharma wheel and/or lotus. In many of ... of the Pali Chakkavatti, 'Wheel Turning Emperor')." ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
- flagellum acts mainly as the steering wheel, but provides a small propulsive force as well. Dinoflagellates have a complex cell covering called ...14 KB (1,913 words) - 09:15, 15 January 2023
- Many areas allow four-wheel-drive (4WD) vehicles on to the beach. This allows the surf fisherman to scout and fish large stretches of shoreline ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 23:52, 26 February 2023
- time has no beginning or end. It moves like the wheel of a cart. There have been an infinite number of time cycles before our present era and there ...12 KB (1,718 words) - 17:11, 30 September 2021
- **Paddle Wheel **Water Jet (Jet ski, Personal water craft, Jetboat) **Air Fans (Hovercraft, Air boat) [[Image:lifeboat.17-31.underway.arp.jpg ...13 KB (1,916 words) - 05:44, 16 November 2023
- 25810 Two Emory Schools Renamed] The Emory Wheel, 09/15/2008. Retrieved October ... award-winning student newspaper The Emory Wheel and many work for the school ...26 KB (3,754 words) - 18:26, 13 February 2024
- forces on September 5, and, too late, began to wheel his Army to face the west. In the morning of September 5, battle commenced when the advancing French ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 22:10, 16 January 2022
- three wheels, being steered by the front wheel and with the passengers and ... !align=left|Steering wheel chained to front axle |} Benz's lifelong ...26 KB (3,947 words) - 07:15, 5 October 2022
- image used to depict this path is an eight-spoked wheel, which is found on the modern day flag of India. The most important Theravadin commentary ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- a mirror several kilometers away. A rotating cog wheel was placed in the path of the light beam as it traveled from the source, to the mirror and then ...39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- In 1992, Nissan re-launched its Patrol four-wheel drive, which was ... 1969; and the Skyline GT-R, a powerful all-wheel-drive sports coupe. In 1985 ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- roof. Also discovered was a broken stone chariot wheel some seven feet in diameter, which came from the sculpture on the mausoleum's roof. Finally ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 00:51, 9 November 2022
- provided hit singles for Julie Driscoll ("This Wheel's on Fire"), The Byrds ("You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"), and Manfred ...41 KB (6,363 words) - 05:45, 16 November 2023
- over a freely spinning corrugated fiber-mesh wheel before passing through a media filter and back into the aquarium. The spinning mesh wheel develops ...40 KB (5,900 words) - 10:11, 26 January 2023
- Despite coming up short and having his back wheel hit the box containing the ... allow him to get up enough speed. His back wheel hit the top of the van while ...38 KB (5,931 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- into squares or circles. The carts were joined wheel to wheel by chains and positioned aslant, with their corners attached to each other, so that ...28 KB (4,454 words) - 21:23, 9 February 2024
- they expected they would be set free from the wheel of life. Religious training included: studies of philosophy and mathematics (thereby cultivating ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- blue," and it predicts the color wheel: it is the collection of ... the color which is missing from the color wheel. For example, in a limited ...32 KB (4,860 words) - 22:38, 7 January 2024
- :with the wheel, with oil, leather, and the hammer. :Ninety thousand miners taking silver from the rocks :and children drawing stairs and perspectives. ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- [[Image:L’Hortus Deliciarum.jpg|thumb|200px|Wheel of Fortune.]] [[Image:Hortus Deliciarum - Hell.jpg|thumb|200px|Hell]] Hortus Deliciarum was ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 22:37, 12 February 2022
- however, remained the highest speed achieved by a wheel-driven car until 2001; Bluebird CN7 is now on display at the National Motor Museum in Hampshire ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 17:19, 30 January 2024
- to align the platelets. One example is throwing on a wheel to increase the plasticity and workability of the clay body. == History == ...32 KB (4,846 words) - 22:42, 13 January 2023
- logical stepping-stone to Second Turning of the Wheel teachings, by beginning with the premises of the First Turning in order to guide readers to the Second. ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- in the 1930s. Among these was "The Broken Wheel," written under the name Sirak Goryan and published in the Armenian journal Hairenik in 1933. ...13 KB (2,107 words) - 10:49, 12 May 2023
- for a trade treaty. The 187-ton side-wheel schooner, well armored with two 12-inch canon, carried a cargo of cotton, tin, and glass. Curiously ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 06:44, 18 April 2024
- mounted on a horse, to ride up closer to the enemy, wheel in a tactical maneuver called a caracole, and discharge his hand-cannon or later, pistols, ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- often with many circulating buckets attached to a wheel or chain. Some bucket dredgers and grab dredgers are powerful enough to work through coral ...15 KB (2,387 words) - 17:41, 30 January 2024
- 9 in Europe) and the Amati 1000 (a rear-wheel drive V12 successor to the ... Formula Mazda Racing features open wheel race cars with Mazda engines ...29 KB (4,390 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- drawn by horse or mule teams and used a bull wheel to provide power. Tractor-drawn, PTO-powered combines were used for a time. These combines used ...16 KB (2,512 words) - 00:04, 8 January 2024
- , the first Yogācāra text, Buddha set the "wheel of the doctrine" (dharmacakra) in motion three times." Hence, the [[Sandhinirmocana ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- [[Image:Carafe Iran.JPG|thumb|left|Ghaznavid era art: Free-blown, wheel-cut carafes. First half of eleventh century. Excavated at Teppe Madraseh ...15 KB (2,234 words) - 16:57, 8 December 2022
- and spun into thread, most often on a spinning wheel. The threads then could be woven into cloth. A fragment of cotton cloth was found in the ancient ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 21:13, 23 May 2020
- and observing a day of silence by his spinning wheel has become an iconic image. The same year she photographed Pakistan's founder Muhammed ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- cycle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, The Red Wheel, and several shorter works. Despite an enthusiastic welcome on his first arrival in America ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 14:40, 18 July 2023
- in relation to the flywheel. A rubber wheel mounted on the end of the ... drive models; however, instead of a rubber wheel on the motor shaft using ...35 KB (5,762 words) - 23:44, 3 December 2023
- bodhisattvas. One popular subject is the Wheel of Life, a visual representation ... placed upon them. The Buddhist Prayer wheel, along with two deer or dragons ...39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- Despite their lack of a written language or the use of the wheel, the Inca were remarkably advanced in their understanding of drainage, construction ...16 KB (2,638 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
- letter said that a bomb in the aircraft's wheel bay was set to detonate when the wheels came down for landing. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/a ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 07:44, 12 January 2024
- overhead he arched her tail, locked-in to the wheel of heaven; the pit was under his feet, between was the crotch, the sky's fulcrum. Now the earth ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- or red and black as the colors of the roulette wheel may indicate the unexpected changes in the hero's career. ====Plot summary==== ...15 KB (2,490 words) - 19:57, 9 February 2023
- | On the track that is worn by the wheel? |- |—Yun-men, from the Jingde Chuandeng Lu 《景德傳燈錄》 |- |} :"Ummon's school ...14 KB (2,283 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- of falling weights, pins, and a steel wheel lock to ignite the train of fuses. The book described various proto–guns including the fire lance ...17 KB (2,391 words) - 20:43, 3 April 2024
- A drill (from the Dutch term Drillen) is a tool with a rotating probe called a drill bit, used for drilling holes in various materials. A "chuck ...16 KB (2,609 words) - 21:09, 30 January 2024
- Indiana. The mechanism connecting the wheel to the pump is missing. Image:Windmill 02.JPG|A modern windmill in Sweden. Image:Texas Windmill.JPG ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- Sutta: Setting in Motion the Wheel of Truth] (SN 56.11) 1999. Retrieved December 20, 2022. *Pound, Ezra (translation and commentary). "The ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 06:15, 20 December 2022
- shells, bones, jade, and ceramics (including wheel-made-ceramics) have been unearthed, together with spinning wheels, which serve as definitive evidence ...31 KB (4,438 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- quot; design that engages into a cog wheel attached to the handle shaft. The latest design is Instant Anti-Reverse, or IAR. This system incorporates ...18 KB (3,010 words) - 00:51, 30 July 2022
- who had been driving, was pinned by the steering wheel. Perkins managed to drag him from the car, which had caught on fire. Clayton had been thrown from ...15 KB (2,405 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- derives from the Indo-European Swastika, or Solar Wheel ... American culture to represent the great Medicine Wheel of life. ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- employed a special formation, the “rolling wheel,” in which the soldiers in the front would switch with their comrades in the rear, as they became ...16 KB (2,605 words) - 11:26, 18 April 2023
- impermanence), an empty throne, and the wheel of dhamma. ... the left shoulder of thin muslin, the wheel on the palm, the lotus seat, etc. ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- Tom to continue to believe it was Gatsby at the wheel when Myrtle was killed in the hit and run. None of the legions who attended his parties come ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- *Actinoform, which resembles a leaf or a spoked wheel. == Colors == [[Image:CloudColors.jpg|thumb|right|An example of various cloud colors.]] ...17 KB (2,628 words) - 22:12, 7 January 2024
- Squadron and captain USS Mississippi, a side-wheel steamer. ... (1844), USS Saratoga (1842), and the side-wheel steam frigate USS Mississippi ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- service, replacing the extremely basic four wheel carriages. DHR extension ... were followed by 10 engines with a 0-4-2T wheel arrangement of a slightly ...33 KB (4,994 words) - 17:47, 10 November 2022
- posts and beams encircled the central frame. A wheel of rafters rested on this outer ring, with the central smoke hole in the center. The dome-like ...18 KB (2,809 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- It is believed that Brooks fell asleep behind the wheel before the accident after driving all night, and neither drugs nor alcohol were responsible. ...18 KB (2,744 words) - 14:09, 9 February 2022
- : The fishers set up very light nets of buoyant flax and wheel in a circle round about while they violently strike the surface of the sea with ...17 KB (2,692 words) - 17:32, 28 March 2024
- *1997 [1998]. The Wheel of Life. Simon & Schuster [Touchstone]. ISBN 0684846314. *1999. The Tunnel and the Light: Essential Insights on Living ...18 KB (2,757 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- pottery appears to have been made on a pottery wheel, but was actually made by the coil method, by forming the clay into a long rope and coiling it upwards ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:53, 23 May 2023
- The tank-to-wheel efficiency of a fuel cell vehicle is about 45 percent ... hydrogen may have a power-plant-to-wheel efficiency of 22 percent ...40 KB (5,810 words) - 07:10, 15 April 2024
