Search results for "Pound force" - New World Encyclopedia
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- contents, before shaking the can enough to force the press buttons to re-seal ... 30 empty aluminum cans to an avoirdupois pound (450 g). ...13 KB (2,176 words) - 03:29, 1 October 2023
- English prison reformer who was the driving force in legislation to make the ... In 2002, she was depicted on the Bank of England five pound note. ...14 KB (2,286 words) - 16:17, 13 February 2024
- Like fellow modernist poet and expatriate Ezra Pound, Eliot drew liberally ... associated with the likes of Picasso, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Marcel Proust ...25 KB (3,801 words) - 02:02, 27 February 2023
- gravitational attraction between two 350 pound lead spheres. There is the ... * Inverse square law of variation of electric force with distance ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- to engage a possibly superior fighting force; he believes the wise man ... #039; translation of Beowulf and Ezra Pound's translation of The ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- opinion was that "the savage only respects force, power, boldness, and decision." Stanley would eventually be held responsible for a number ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:07, 8 February 2022
- many medals, and commanded three Air Force groups during the war. ... missions as commander of the 12th Air Force in North Africa, for which ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- lived, the ambitious, Modern poetry of Ezra Pound, Eliot, and Yeats would give ... :Force in the last resort... Having spent the war years in the United ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- common along mountain ranges because mountains force horizontal winds upward in a process known as orographic lifting, thereby intensifying the thunderstorm ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- of modernist poets such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams ... functioned as a group centering around Ezra Pound, Stevens was a markedly solitary ...19 KB (3,090 words) - 20:56, 18 November 2022
- 1, 2009, when a new constitution came into force giving the three islands ... used as a staging post for the British Task Force during the Falklands War ...33 KB (4,923 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- Silver mining was a driving force in the settlement of western North ... copper. The British monetary unit 'pound' originally had the ...20 KB (2,849 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- recovery range to meet classified U.S. Air Force missions. Factors involved ... safety improvements. In addition, the Air Force developed their own much ...43 KB (6,281 words) - 15:42, 4 February 2023
- Department stipulated that no military force should used in securing the ... The expeditionary force that set out for Korea from China included ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 11:56, 3 May 2023
- where he raised funds to establish a force under the command of Captain ... of the three forts. Soon, a Connecticut force of 1,000 men under Colonel ...26 KB (3,968 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- it depends on the speed or the amount of force in the wind that might change ... the air stream by its spring, then uses the force generated by passing air ...30 KB (4,644 words) - 07:42, 18 November 2022
- time The Movement seemed to some a spent force, in terms of fashion; the ... modernists like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, have favored Larkin's ...12 KB (1,825 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- one of his soldiers exploded a 12-pound artillery shell underneath ... Kirby Smith, who was commanding a separate force operating out of Knoxville ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 13:25, 11 February 2022
- oversaw a controversial devaluation of the pound which did not produce the ... of the Board of Trade, he was the driving force behind the Statistics of ...47 KB (7,170 words) - 20:22, 29 January 2022
- 24 percent and goods at 28 percent in the pound (an eerie augur of modern ... discriminatory practices and violent force, Tejanos were kept at the ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
- The total cost is expected to come in around the £150 million pound ... Army was welcomed by Catholics as a neutral force there to protect them from ...21 KB (3,395 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- making them appear to be a much larger force than they actually were. ... two 200-pounder Parrotts and 12 100-pound Parrots, with the rest of ...15 KB (2,213 words) - 01:43, 26 September 2023
- The biggest driving force for settlement was the offer of free land. ... *1/2 pound baking soda *2 pounds of tea *5 pounds of rice ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- spectacles, the six-foot, 10-inch, 245-pound Mikan was one of the pioneers ... to score a basket. With no shot clock to force them into offense, the score ...19 KB (3,019 words) - 16:27, 15 August 2021
- Wendover credits Godiva as the persuasive force behind this act. In the 1050s ... *Lady Godiva also appears in Ezra Pound's poem "Nicotine." ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- a pencil detonator, inserted it into a two pound block of plastic explosive, organized by Wessel von Freytag-Loringhoven, and placed it inside ...20 KB (3,280 words) - 10:00, 12 May 2024
- of the intervention of some exterior evil force." Reflecting on the ... the English-speaking world, among them Ezra Pound and Elizabeth Bishop. ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 01:56, 4 December 2023
- drove Napoleon on. The central French force, under Napoleon’s direct ... Eugene's artillery continued to pound Russian support columns ...24 KB (3,590 words) - 11:34, 20 September 2023
- or south of the equator. Accordingly the force exerted on a mass of one ... Gravitational metric systems use the kilogram-force (kilopond) as ...26 KB (4,128 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- e.g. Botswana pula, euro, Indian rupees, pound sterling, Australian dollars ... but did not reestablish control by force. When negotiations in 1966 ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- St Ouen's Bay; on January 6, 1781, a force lead by Baron de Rullecourt ... Pound coins are issued, but are much less widely used than pound notes ...44 KB (6,712 words) - 18:59, 16 October 2022
- flow rate is one gallon of solvent per pound of garments (roughly eight ... may cause the textile to fail under normal force during the extraction cycle ...18 KB (2,825 words) - 21:15, 30 January 2024
- laborers, served as the driving popular force behind the revolution. They ... of bread should be fixed at three sous a pound, that nobles holding senior ...31 KB (4,299 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- For a 1914 World Magazine article, she submitted to force-feeding ... with letters of introduction to Ezra Pound and James Joyce, and she ...26 KB (3,975 words) - 16:29, 29 January 2024
- recent centuries seems to be an underlying force driving the usage, as new ... ; Vopo (for Volkspolizist, member of police force in the GDR); Mufuti or MuFuTi ...44 KB (6,504 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- armed citizens surrounded the Convention to force the deputies to deliver the ... of bread should be fixed at three sous a pound, that nobles holding senior ...32 KB (4,897 words) - 15:20, 31 August 2022
- The cubs are born blind, toothless, hairless and weigh less than 1 ... tiger, even bears of the same size are a force to be reckoned with when ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- (1686) had described gravity as a force between masses, but experiments ... call fictitious forces (such as the force pressing the driver of an ...66 KB (9,838 words) - 15:01, 26 September 2022
- is not as though we perceive some sort of force passing from one to the other ... instance, the final cause of a hammer is to pound nails. In the Nicomachean ...23 KB (3,623 words) - 16:19, 3 December 2023
- 0813938332), 54. The walls mounted 18 eight-pound guns and 12 smaller pieces ... A substantial force of Royal Army troops encamped on the Champ de ...35 KB (5,341 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- and minerals all posses this vital force in varying amounts. The supernatural ... or Northern regions of Ghana or Nigeria pound millet in long mortars, creating ...41 KB (6,461 words) - 06:06, 16 June 2023
- :By force of sight and might of rapture, fair :As dreams that die and ... immediately after his death. The young Ezra Pound thought Swinburne and the ...19 KB (3,190 words) - 21:27, 20 July 2023
- Explosive force is released in a direction perpendicular to the surface ... cause an explosion. For example, although a pound of coal yields five times ...41 KB (6,258 words) - 23:56, 24 March 2024
- from the harsh rhythms of Beowulf; Ezra Pound was influenced deeply by ... the hall itself might fall down from the force of their battle. Beowulf ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 10:54, 28 September 2023
- Government of Alexander Kerensky by force of arms. Reed and Bryant ... the bread supply from 2 pounds a day to 1 pound, to half a pound, to a quarter ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- as an English novel of great dramatic force and intellectual subtlety. ... and canals through which we do so love to force our utterance. We can break ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 07:34, 12 January 2024
- wooden plug. When fired, the iron cap would force itself into the hollow cavity ... is usually given in grains (one avoirdupois pound = 7000 grains), but elsewhere ...22 KB (3,492 words) - 18:43, 22 November 2023
- global commerce with the implied threat of force, thus initiating a period ... the shogunal army and create an elite force, and an order was placed ...49 KB (7,292 words) - 13:40, 28 April 2020
- sent a 300,000 strong British Expeditionary Force to Belgium, which later had ... triggered a crisis of confidence in the pound, and Labour ministers grappled ...55 KB (8,451 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- While the German Army was preparing to land an assault force of two ... 1 shilling, 2 shillings, 10 shillings and 1 pound, which were issued in 1942 ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
