Search results for "Luck" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 00:08, 15 April 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 11:51, 22 January 2024
- 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 ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- is to insulate moral appraisal from moral luck. Moral luck is a term introduced ... *Nagel, T. 1976. Moral Luck. in Mortal Questions. Cambridge: Cambridge ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:03, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 22:15, 7 January 2024
- been used to indicate pure love and good luck; while striped carnations ... the carnation symbolizes misfortune and bad luck. In ancient Rome, carnations ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 00:27, 29 November 2023
- footing" and the eating of "good-luck" foods. ... Most cultures have their own traditions of good-luck foods, meant ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- of a natural disaster, and brick good-luck pavilions were sometimes built to ward off bad luck from surrounding villages. According to ancient ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 06:15, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- 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. ...6 KB (941 words) - 06:21, 15 June 2023
- 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 ...6 KB (975 words) - 05:58, 16 June 2023
- trance-state mutterings of shamans.Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi: Magic and the ... *Luck, Georg. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- 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 ...42 KB (6,591 words) - 16:45, 10 December 2023
- 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. ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 00:20, 15 January 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (2,098 words) - 11:04, 9 May 2023
- * Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck (1972) * South of No North (1973) ... * Luck (1987) * Barfly (film) (1987) * Beauti-Ful (1988) ...22 KB (3,383 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- Sun of the Desert. "Your Excellency Lady Luck" (Ваше благородие, госпожа Удача, music: Isaak Schwarz, lyrics: ...7 KB (1,082 words) - 18:39, 22 November 2023
- ” blessings, and was applied for luck as well as joy and beauty ... ” blessings, and was applied for luck as well as joy and beauty ...26 KB (4,222 words) - 09:39, 10 March 2023
- | "Bad Luck Blues" |- |} ===1927 Blues singles=== ... | "Change My Luck Blues" |- | 1928 | "Prison Cell Blues" ...16 KB (2,469 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- 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 ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 17:17, 26 March 2024
- 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
- An Apsara (Sanskrit: अप्सरा: apsarāḥ , plural अप्सरस: apsarasaḥ ) is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in ...10 KB (1,598 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- " but with "so long, and good luck." The future British ... *Good Night, and Good Luck., a 2005 Oscar-nominated film directed ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- they were expected to do—and with enough luck not to get wounded." Roosevelt’s biggest worry was that quantity of medals would dilute ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- flowers, bamboo and knotted good luck symbols were incorporated ... traditional forms. Intended to bring good luck to the owner’s household ...22 KB (3,315 words) - 22:03, 5 January 2024
- * Harding's Luck (1909) ISBN 0548661618. * These Little Ones (1909) ISBN 1406598097. * The Magic City, (1910) ISBN 1587170248. ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- each other's gagmen. But we had no luck with Keaton, because he thought ... *Hard Luck (1921) *The High Sign (1921) *The Goat (1921) ...28 KB (4,366 words) - 18:53, 22 November 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,855 words) - 00:56, 13 January 2023
- survival was attributable to "typical Brown luck... we're unsinkable." She became known as the Unsinkable Mrs. Brown for the rest of her life. ...10 KB (1,600 words) - 03:54, 6 November 2022
- *Kane, Robert. Responsibility, Luck, and Chance: Reflections on Free Will and Indeterminism. Journal of Philosophy 96 (5). 1999. p. 217-240. ...14 KB (2,077 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- *Brackman, Arnold C. 1978. The Luck of Nineveh: Archaeology's Great Adnventure. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. ISBN 007007030X ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
