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A rabbit's foot, in most English-speaking countries, is considered a sign of good luck when carried on or near the body.Superstition Bash ...

As is the case with any good luck charm or amulet, if the bearer believes ... powers, either to hex (wish someone bad luck) or bring about good fortune ...

which is any object intended to bring good luck or protection to its owner. ... In Asia, figures of elephants are said to attract good luck and money ...

is to insulate moral appraisal from moral luck. Moral luck is a term introduced ... *Nagel, T. 1976. Moral Luck. in Mortal Questions. Cambridge: Cambridge ...

they are considered a sign of good luck, whose killing brings bad ... on one's body, to be a sign of good luck to come, and that killing ...

been used to indicate pure love and good luck; while striped carnations ... the carnation symbolizes misfortune and bad luck. In ancient Rome, carnations ...

footing" and the eating of "good-luck" foods. ... Most cultures have their own traditions of good-luck foods, meant ...

of a natural disaster, and brick good-luck pavilions were sometimes built to ward off bad luck from surrounding villages. According to ancient ...

longer fictional works, Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Later, through ... Sharp in Vanity Fair, Barry Lyndon in The Luck of Barry Lyndon, and the eponymous ...

every one to whom these were exhibited, and bad luck was thought to menace the household not visited by the doll-bearers before Christmas Eve at the latest. ...

Gwalior in a military campaign, but Ibrahim's luck ran out against Rana Sangha, the ruler of Mewar, who defeated his armies twice and drove him ...

trance-state mutterings of shamans.Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi: Magic and the ... *Luck, Georg. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and ...

themselves and their homes to receive good luck. Celebrating Chinese New Year’s ... believed the cleaning sweeps away the bad luck of the preceding year and ...

Crickets are popular pets and are considered good luck in Asia, especially ... Cri-kee is carried in a cage as a symbol of luck, as in many Asian countries. ...

fictional town of Freedom, Kansas. In Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (Atlantic-Little ... memoir, is a little more extended than Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff and though there ...

* Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck (1972) * South of No North (1973) ... * Luck (1987) * Barfly (film) (1987) * Beauti-Ful (1988) ...

Sun of the Desert. "Your Excellency Lady Luck" (Ваше благородие, госпожа Удача, music: Isaak Schwarz, lyrics: ...

” blessings, and was applied for luck as well as joy and beauty ... ” blessings, and was applied for luck as well as joy and beauty ...

| "Bad Luck Blues" |- |} ===1927 Blues singles=== ... | "Change My Luck Blues" |- | 1928 | "Prison Cell Blues" ...

carved in jade, as ornaments to be worn or good-luck totems. People that wore the jewelry of the Feng-huang were regarded as being highly moral, and ...

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 ...

in the belief that they carried good luck. Bent coins, such as the crooked sixpence of the nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man," ...

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 ...

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 ...

focusing on the complexity, the "moral luck," as he called it, of ... Bernard Williams, Moral Luck: Philosophical papers, 1973-1980 (New ...

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 ...

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 ...

from a projectionist who was "down on his luck". Warner pg. 50. The enterprising brothers screened a well-used copy of The Great Train ...

Sonia Cole, Leakey's Luck: The Life of Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey ... * Cole, Sonia. Leakey's Luck: The Life of Louis Seymour Bazett ...

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 ...

|"Bad Luck""Bad Luck" was the b-side to "Sweet ... |"Bad Luck Soul" || || || || |- |"Hold That Train" ...

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 ...

known as "Hoover Hog" by down-on-their luck Americans who had to eat them instead of the "chicken in every pot" Herbert Hoover ...

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 ...

He attended Wharton Elementary School,Kenny Rogers, Luck or Something ... In October 2012, Rogers released a book Luck or Something Like it: ...

for happiness, prosperity, longevity, and good luck. Today in India, Hindu Sadhus still meditate below this tree, and in Theravada Buddhist Southeast ...

known as the Vedas assert that emeralds promise good luck and enhance well-being. International Colored Gemstone Association, [http://www.gemstone ...

actually a portmanteau of "pot" and "luck." ==The Traditional Ceremony== [[Image:Indian visitors attending Potlatch at Kok ...

*Cole, Sonia. Leakey's Luck: The Life of Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, 1903-1972. Harcourt. 1975. ISBN 0151494568 *Isaac, Glynn L. Human Origins: ...

considered by students to bring good luck) in recognition of his donation. He also made substantial gifts to the Tuskegee Institute and the Hampton ...

An Apsara (Sanskrit: अप्सरा: apsarāḥ , plural अप्सरस: apsarasaḥ ) is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in ...

" but with "so long, and good luck." The future British ... *Good Night, and Good Luck., a 2005 Oscar-nominated film directed ...

they were expected to do—and with enough luck not to get wounded." Roosevelt’s biggest worry was that quantity of medals would dilute ...

flowers, bamboo and knotted good luck symbols were incorporated ... traditional forms. Intended to bring good luck to the owner’s household ...

* Harding's Luck (1909) ISBN 0548661618. * These Little Ones (1909) ISBN 1406598097. * The Magic City, (1910) ISBN 1587170248. ...

each other's gagmen. But we had no luck with Keaton, because he thought ... *Hard Luck (1921) *The High Sign (1921) *The Goat (1921) ...

symbol in Japanese culture of good luck. They are also popular in other parts of the world as pond fish. Goldfish and koi have advantages over ...

survival was attributable to "typical Brown luck... we're unsinkable." She became known as the Unsinkable Mrs. Brown for the rest of her life. ...

*Kane, Robert. Responsibility, Luck, and Chance: Reflections on Free Will and Indeterminism. Journal of Philosophy 96 (5). 1999. p. 217-240. ...

*Brackman, Arnold C. 1978. The Luck of Nineveh: Archaeology's Great Adnventure. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. ISBN 007007030X ...

on the false assumption that the "luck principle" is true. The ... minister.Robert Kane, "Responsibility, Luck, and Chance: Reflections on ...

whose successes were due as much to luck as to military skill. ... attributes during the Civil War was luck, and he needed it to survive ...

Also in Japanese mythology, weasels represent bad luck and death. ==References== * Bertrand, J. 2007. A gulp of cormorants?. The Bosque Watch 14(2). ...

coin, or some food for them: it was considered bad luck to refuse. Other youths might set out with a large bowl of spiced ale with roasted apples, offering ...

as to whether the curse results from sheer bad luck or from coordinated violence against the Kennedy family. There are several theories regarding ...

of more than 9,000 troops required stealth and luck and the skill of Colonel John Glover and his 14th Regiment Marblehead Mariners. It was not completed ...

version of God or just the idea of luck. Famous examples of superstition include bad luck resulting from breaking ...

wishes and Allah's blessing and a good luck." Then she entrusted ... the hadith “three things bring bad luck, dogs, asses and women.” ...

Gua Nasib Bagus (Good Luck Cave) or Lubang Nasib Bagus is the outstanding cave found within Gunung Mulu National Park, housing Sarawak Chamber ...

heart, he had a soft spot for anyone down on their luck or with a good story. During his lifetime Robinson spent a fortune, but his generosity was not ...

three either missed or failed to explode. But luck was against the Russians in so far as two of the three torpedoes hit their best battleships: The ...

made on persons and things to denote good luck. It is composed of su- (cognate ... Traditionally the swastika has been used as a symbol of good luck ...

as a symbol for abundance, fertility, and good luck. ==Tree, foliage ... a symbol of abundance, fertility, and good luck. Pomegranate decorations for ...

shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and luck led to her timely rise to fame and a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which ...

omened ages when he was born, so to avoid bad luck he was “abandoned” and handed over to his father’s friend, then accepted back into the Niihara ...

Toju also tied moral principles with luck, or spiritual fortune. While actions made according to these moral principles lead to good spiritual ...

your hands meet behind it, as a token of good luck. ==Qutb Complex Gallery== Image:Qutab.jpg|The Qutab Minar Image:9936775.jpg |Writing on the Minar. ...

been a symbol of strength, prosperity, and good luck. They reflect the human ability to develop over time new varieties from the rich variability ...

with the scale used for clothing and used for good-luck charms, such as rings used as a charm against rheumatic fever (Atkins 2004). ...

When Kitchener died, the Mail reported it as a great stroke of luck for the British Empire. The paper then campaigned against Asquith, and Asquith ...

R. Murrow's, "Good night and good luck," or Walter Cronkite ... R. Murrow's, "Good night and good luck," or Walter Cronkite ...

*Keeling, Richard. 1993. Cry for Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California. Berkeley, ...

name. In Chinese culture, red wrapping connotes luck. ==Occasions== Gift giving occurs in many different situations. Many occasions are simply ...

In 1961, Nureyev's luck turned. The Kirov's leading male dancer, Konstantin Sergeyev, was injured, and at the last minute Nureyev was ...

and the Oni dropped his magical Mallet of Luck. As a reward for his bravery ... , the Japanese god of fishermen, good luck, and workingmen, as well as ...

This cap was traditionally worn by shepherds for luck and by married men (for fertility). ==Sikhs== Although not a skullcap per se, the Sikh ...

*Kinako mochi is traditionally made on New Year's Day for luck. This style of mochi preparation includes roasting the mochi over a fire ...

*Nagel, Thomas. 1991. Moral Luck. In "Mortal Questions. Cambridge: ... *Williams, Bernard. 1976. "Moral Luck," Proceedings of the ...

he comes of age. However, fearing that Tamar is bad luck and that Shelah too will die if he becomes her husband, Judah does not fulfill his word to her. ...

events, or to end a perceived cycle of bad luck. During the Ming Dynasty, ... months in certain times of the year bring bad luck. The main purpose ...

nature it is still considered a symbol of good luck. == Gallery== Image:Leonardo da Vinci 047.jpg|Painting (the animal is deemed a ferret rather ...

in the folk memory. For moments of bad luck, they have a saying: "more was lost at Mohács" (Több is veszett Mohácsnál). To this ...

king and Florence. Boccaccio's notorious bad luck would strike as soon as he arrived. His father went bankrupt, and a little later, his mother died ...

"I was told one who has good luck strives to do things in favor of others while one who suffers from frustration pays more attention to ...

categories. The cooperative had the good luck to open in 1695 with the première ... himself by quick thinking and good luck. Horner never becomes a reformed ...

However, the common soldier would have no such luck and therefore he told them they had better fight for their lives. The French were arrayed ...

American Land Company to provide for his family. His luck continued to worsen and he was forced to move in with this daughter and son-in-law in 1845. ...

Meher Baba and Irwin Luck. (compiler). The Silent Master Meher Baba ... *The Silent Master Meher Baba. Irwin Luck. (compiler). (Meher Baba ...

designs was largely a mix of trial-and-error, luck and serendipity. With advances in origami mathematics however, the basic structure of a new origami ...

offering table to please the ghosts and ward off bad luck. Fourteen days after the festival, to make sure all the hungry ghosts find their way ...

a unique demon of destruction and bad luck, according to Hesiod a daughter of Echidna and of Orthrus or, according to others, of Typhon and ...

*Lindsay's Luck (1878) *Haworth's (1879) *Louisiana (1880) *A Fair Barbarian (1881) *Through One Administration (1883) *Little Lord ...

Owing to a stroke of luck, the royal family escaped unharmed from the catastrophe. King Joseph I of Portugal and the court had left the city ...

#039;s first recordings, having better luck with stations that catered ... *Pot Luck (June 5, 1962) *Girls! Girls! Girls! (November 9, 1962) ...

of world affairs, culture, zeitgeist, talent, and luck. It is simply no longer possible to have a life like his. What 21st-century Belgian-born aristocrat ...

hopes. At the end of a process marked by chance, luck, and coincidence, and driven by greed, hatred, and the lust for power, embodied in a repressive ...

practices like the use of horseshoes for luck, or charms to ward off evil ... enemy, are often used for healing and good luck in different areas of one ...

and the X-1 (Glamorous Glennis) after her as a good-luck charm: "You're my good-luck charm, hon. Any airplane I name after you always brings ...

* Raup, David M. 1991. Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? New York: W.W. Norton & Co. * University of California Museum of Paleontology. 2005 ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Luck, "Witches and Sorcerers in Classical Literature, ... * Luck, George. "Witches and Sorcerers in Classical Literature ...

quot;the world's worst jinx," bringing bad luck to all those nearby. Btfsplk always had a small dark cloud over his head. ...

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. ...

carries the hide. The "good-luck charm" hats are used by Chinese newlyweds. Such hunting for their pelts, and the continuous clearing ...

Even here, Goodyear's bad luck seemed to follow him, for the Rider brothers failed and it was impossible to continue the business. ...

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 ...

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." ...

rather concepts such as names, titles, or good luck symbols.Peter T. Daniels and William Bright, [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/Melchert/hluvianscript ...

prodigy, Mikan. With a stroke of good luck, the Minneapolis Lakers landed him. ===NBL and BAA Minneapolis Lakers (1947-49)=== In the 1947-1948 ...

*Hollywood Luck (1932) *The Flirty Sleepwalker (1932) *Hollywood Lights (1932) *Over the Counter (1932) *Air Tonic (1933) *School for Romance (1934) ...

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 ...

into the top window of the ruins from the stairs for luck. ===Old Protestant Cemetery in Macau=== [[Image:Macao Protestant Cemetary.jpg|right ...

feathers and beavers were thought to bring luck in gambling. Reptiles were viewed as having strong supernatural power, as was the coyote (Olmstead ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

the methods undertaken, the weather and even luck play a vital role in what we will catch. Additionally, the composition of history is inevitably ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Brackman, Arnold C. The Luck of Nineveh: Archaeology's Great Adventure. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. ISBN 9780070070301. * Chandler, Tertius ...

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 ...

often nocturnal nature) or as agents of good luck, fertility, and rain. Shamans, the spiritual leaders in the religion of Shamanism, have used them ...

*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 ...

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 ...

Division. At dawn, the Battle Group von Luck of the 21st Panzer Division ... # von Luck, Hans. Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von ...

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 ...

to-hear-george-winston-good-luck/?-Good-luck- "Want to hear George Winston? Good luck"] The Durango Herald (December 24, 2015). Retrieved ...

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 ...

*"Landing in Luck" (1919) *"The Hill" (1922) *"New Orleans" *"Mirrors of Chartres Street" (1925) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

cattle through the fires to purify them and bring luck (Eadar dà theine Bhealltainn in Scottish Gaelic, 'Between two fires of Beltane'). ...

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 ...

quot;) carries implications of gamblers' luck as well as of the capacity to take risks, but "true" leaders, like gamblers but unlike ...

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 ...

expedition and returned, without any luck, to Panama. ===Second expedition (1526)=== Two years after the first unsuccessful expedition, Pizarro ...

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 ...

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 ...

*Nagel, T. Moral Luck. Reprinted in his Mortal Questions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1107604711 *Sabini, J., & ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

destroys all Dharmic obstacles and engenders good luck and swift spiritual awakening.(Beyer) A central aim of Tantric practice is to visualize ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

position in Slovakia but without luck. === Bohemia (1833 - 1861)=== While in Novi Sad, Šafárik maintained contact with Czech and Slovak revivalists ...

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 ...

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 ...

one. Also in China, crows commonly symbolize bad luck, probably due to the color black. ===Gods and goddesses associated with crows and ravens=== ...

experience," implicitly "to find luck on the sea." The word is also cognate to "peril." In the popular modern imagination ...

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 ...

Lean, referring to Guinness as "my good luck charm," continued to cast Guinness in character roles in his later films: Arab leader Prince ...

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 ...

believed to cleanse the island of sins and bad luck. ==Notes== == References == * Lutz, William. 1987. Netherlands Antilles. Edgemont, PA: Chelsea ...

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 ...

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 ...

Valera, who had escaped execution in 1916 through luck. (His physical location away from the other prisoners prevented his immediate execution, while ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

to the superstition that spilling salt is bad luck). ==Notes== == References == * Brown, Raymond E. 1994. The Death of the Messiah: From Gethsemane ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

a more superstitious beliefs associated with bad luck and misery. === Rediscovery === [[Image:Borobudur photograph by van kinsbergen.jpg|right ...

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 ...

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 ... ...

believe that the control is outside of them - luck, fate, or other people control their life circumstances. Julian Rotter developed an Internal/External ...

|| Water greeting, washing hair to wash away bad luck || Day 15 of Month 6 || Five coloured noodles (yudumyeon), rice dumplings (sudan) ...

to show the Soviets that they could push their luck no further. Accordingly, General Lucius D. Clay, who was deeply respected by Berliners after ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

with one blow not to practicing in advance but to luck. Schama, 736–37. Charlotte Corday asked for Gustave le Doulcet, an old acquaintance, ...

battle for both sides, but, by a stroke of luck, the Spanish came out victorious. Cémaco, together with his warriors, abandoned the town and ...

*Out of Luck (1919) *Virtuous Sinners (1919) *The Fog (1919) *Nobody Home (1919) *The Eyes of Youth (1919) *Stolen Moments (1920) *An Adventuress ...

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 ...

*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& ...

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 ...

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 ...

that implies a minor deity, attendant spirit, luck, fortune, "guiding star," and the like, with no negative or pejorative connotations. ...

times before leaving the funeral to ward off bad luck. This custom is also found in other East Asian and Southeast Asian cultures. ...

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 ...

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 ...

of the relevant fossils, which requires a lot of luck. Despite the difficulties, analyses of ice core and ocean sediment cores has shown periods ...

(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 ...

divorce, death of a spouse, a long streak of bad luck, or a change in career—will often have a new jitsu in made. Several magazines are published ...

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and Tilly. Christian's poor luck was with him again when all of the allies he thought he had were forced aside: England was weak and internally ...

from time to time they "cast lots whose luck (honor) it shall be to be sacrificed, and they make him great cheer, on whom the lot falls, and ...

flags onto the sacred grounds as a symbol of good luck. Mani stones, stone plates, rocks or pebbles inscribed with mantra or ashtamangala (a sacred ...

Thompson in the main library will bring a student luck on tests, particularly for final exams.Roland Becerra and Adam Jardy, Ohio State University 2007 ...

and that the incident was merely a stroke of good luck for the Nazis. Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris (London, U.K.: Allen Lane, 1998 ...

communes and asks Kakilambe if they will have good luck over the coming years, and if there are any major events to be aware of, such as drought, war ...

tell visitors that students consider it good luck to rub the toe of the statue of Theodore Dwight Woolsey on Old Campus. Actual students rarely do ...

romantic love, keeping a job, being down on one’s luck, breaking the law, staying out of jail, gambling, as well as reflections on life’s beauty and ...

the increasingly erratic Caligula. However, his luck would change again the following year. On January 24, 41 C.E. Caligula, his wife Caesonia, and ...

point northeast of Midway (known as "Point Luck") without being detected. Willmott, Barrier and the Javelin, 351. A second attempt to ...

a famous Fairy Bridge and it is said to be bad luck if one fails to wish the fairies good morning or afternoon when passing over it. ...

other theater people often consider it to be bad luck to mention Macbeth by name while inside a theater, and usually refer to it superstitiously as ...

eyes of the native troops as a man of baraka (good luck, derived from the Arabic for "blessing"). He was also proposed unsuccessfully for Spain ...

or taken out and tossed over the shoulder for good luck.Jack Santino, All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life (University of Illinois ...

same. Sacrificial offerings to them could promote luck in hunting.Kleivan & Sonne 1985:31, 36 Caribou shamans performed fortune-telling through ...

their hands, feet, and genitals to bring good luck to the new building. Children are victims of sacrifice for various reasons, the most common ...

Building 6. His nose is rubbed by students for good luck.]] In 1861, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts approved a charter for the incorporation ...

they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground" (Julie Burchill). *"The women who ...

honors to abstractions like Chance, Necessity, and Luck, divinities that stood in ambiguous relation to the personalized gods of the tradition. All ...

Rome with the Praetorian Guard. By a stroke of luck, a thaw prevented the Chatti from crossing the Rhine and coming to Saturninus' aid. Within ...

Some cadets spin Sedgwick's spurs for good luck prior to difficult exams.]] ;Thayer Award West Point is home to the Sylvanus Thayer Award ...

earthy, about rocky or steamy relationships, hard luck and hard times. Gut-bucket blues and the rowdy juke-joint venues where it was played, earned ...

for the uncontrollable, where a streak of bad luck could destroy an entire community. By believing that all things, including animals, have souls ...

the T" was largely a matter of luck; more common were heavy exchanges between two fleets on roughly parallel courses. ==Battlecruiser action== ...

it is a foregone conclusion that you are (as good luck would have it) quoting Shakespeare; if you think it is early days and clear out bag and baggage ...

*The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1991) – Television movie starring Kenny Rogers as The Gambler. Hugh O'Brian cameos as Wyatt Earp. ...

of West Germany, said, "He was a stroke of luck for the world. Two years after Reagan called on Gorbachev to tear down the wall, he noted, it fell ...

by the mariner is a traditional symbol of good luck, and its death takes on metaphorical implications. Aristotle wrote in the Poetics that "the ...

Diocletian, either by skill or sheer luck, solved many of the acute problems experienced during this crisis. However, the core problems would ...

doing so again. She may have owed her change of luck to a doctor called Jean Fernel, who had noticed slight abnormalities in the couple's sexual ...

Allied shipping. The submarines made up in skill, luck, and daring what they lacked in numbers. One U-boat sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous ...

hunter, killed a bear, but had little luck after that. The Reed and Eddy families had lost almost everything. Margret Reed promised to pay double ...

give a kind acknowledgment of tashi delek (good luck) at the time of presenting. ===Cuisine=== [[Image:Monk churning butter tea.JPG|thumb|right ...

not chase down the Britons. The Romans' luck did not improve, and a Roman foraging party was ambushed. The Britons took this as a sign of Roman ...

is off, Kobe will pound away relentlessly until his luck turns."Mike Bresnahan, [https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2013-may-16-la-sp-phil-jackson ...

century this was a tradition believed to bring good luck. Devotional statues are not specifically mentioned. In Hinduism Indra uses Vajrayudham or the ...

12-22-court_N.htm "Timing and luck crucial for seat on high court,"] USA Today, December 22, 2008. Retrieved December 6, 2022. ...

Festival, and other celebratory occasions for good luck. The island nation of Singapore (Singapura) derives its name from the Malay words ...

the city. Sebastião de Melo survived by a stroke of luck and then immediately embarked on rebuilding the city, with his famous quote: What now? We bury ...

9249_1/3 | title = Houston Hits: Master Plan, Blind Luck | publisher = Tribune Company |work=Los Angeles Times | date = June 8, 1986 | accessdate =October ...