Search results for "Luck" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The filming of this piece was disrupted by bad luck and bad chemistry with his crew. A true auteur, few others understood what Cocteau's vision ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 17:01, 4 July 2022
- in the belief that they carried good luck. Bent coins, such as the crooked sixpence of the nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man," ...23 KB (3,753 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- and also the poverty stricken hoping to find better luck in a new land. John Macias was one of the latter. He first arrived at Cartagena de Indias ...8 KB (1,322 words) - 19:54, 22 December 2022
- sounding names in hopes of obtaining good luck in various areas of life during ... certain ages were especially prone to bad luck and hence in need of divine ...16 KB (2,547 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- focusing on the complexity, the "moral luck," as he called it, of ... Bernard Williams, Moral Luck: Philosophical papers, 1973-1980 (New ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- hours. Raw strength, experience and dumb luck saved their lives. At Framheim ... was then used by Scott. Without the good luck of finding this new shorter ...24 KB (3,885 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- Fortuna, the personification of good and bad luck. Several authors, such as Disticha Catonis, refer to the Latin concept of Occasio (a female word that ...9 KB (1,381 words) - 22:33, 4 October 2022
- from a projectionist who was "down on his luck". Warner pg. 50. The enterprising brothers screened a well-used copy of The Great Train ...9 KB (1,211 words) - 08:50, 13 March 2024
- Sonia Cole, Leakey's Luck: The Life of Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey ... * Cole, Sonia. Leakey's Luck: The Life of Louis Seymour Bazett ...20 KB (2,921 words) - 11:00, 11 March 2023
- started making caramel candies. This time he had luck. An English importer of candies was so impressed by the taste and quality of Hershey’s caramels ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- |"Bad Luck""Bad Luck" was the b-side to "Sweet ... |"Bad Luck Soul" || || || || |- |"Hold That Train" ...26 KB (3,986 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- that can be used for love, mental clarity, and good luck in card games. In addition, Persian magi are known to have prized agate rings in their ...9 KB (1,311 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- known as "Hoover Hog" by down-on-their luck Americans who had to eat them instead of the "chicken in every pot" Herbert Hoover ...11 KB (1,442 words) - 03:47, 15 August 2023
- death in 1784, Boswell moved to London to try his luck at the English Bar, which proved even more unsuccessful than his career in Scotland. He also ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 08:53, 18 March 2024
- He attended Wharton Elementary School,Kenny Rogers, Luck or Something ... In October 2012, Rogers released a book Luck or Something Like it: ...38 KB (5,690 words) - 22:10, 3 March 2023
- for happiness, prosperity, longevity, and good luck. Today in India, Hindu Sadhus still meditate below this tree, and in Theravada Buddhist Southeast ...10 KB (1,612 words) - 20:37, 17 April 2023
- known as the Vedas assert that emeralds promise good luck and enhance well-being. International Colored Gemstone Association, [http://www.gemstone ...10 KB (1,413 words) - 15:17, 31 December 2021
- actually a portmanteau of "pot" and "luck." ==The Traditional Ceremony== [[Image:Indian visitors attending Potlatch at Kok ...10 KB (1,450 words) - 05:54, 30 November 2022
- *Cole, Sonia. Leakey's Luck: The Life of Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, 1903-1972. Harcourt. 1975. ISBN 0151494568 *Isaac, Glynn L. Human Origins: ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 02:54, 4 November 2022
- considered by students to bring good luck) in recognition of his donation. He also made substantial gifts to the Tuskegee Institute and the Hampton ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 11:03, 6 November 2022
