Search results for "Twist" - New World Encyclopedia

From New World Encyclopedia
  • a prefix to describe the left-handed propeller twist formed by three bidentate ligands, as shown. Similarly, the symbol Δ (lambda) is used as a prefix ...
    21 KB (3,125 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
  • blade, thus it was necessary to introduce a twist along its length. Their original ... and combined with the lack of a lengthwise twist, this made them not as efficient ...
    19 KB (3,022 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
  • leaf stems, which enable the leaves to twist and flutter in the slightest of breezes. The juvenile leaves on young seedlings and root sprouts ...
    9 KB (1,368 words) - 04:51, 18 August 2023
  • other says, and giving trick analogies to twist the other's point, they ... and neglect people's feelings.” They twist words so “people cannot ...
    20 KB (2,994 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
  • When Chubby Checker introduced The Twist to the Bandstand crowd—and ... Object Is and then Missing Links. In a near twist of irony, on Missing Links ...
    18 KB (2,796 words) - 12:01, 29 January 2024
  • Twist lifts are a form of a pair lifts where the lifted partner is thrown into the air, twists, and is caught by the lifted partner. The lady ...
    29 KB (4,650 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
  • " "Les Bijoux") are imitated with a twist by Maugham ("Mr Know-All," "A String of Beads") and Henry James ("Paste ...
    10 KB (1,476 words) - 21:45, 21 June 2024
  • The ironic twist that O'Connor adds to the situation is that despite the hostilities between the two sides, the English prisoners and the ...
    11 KB (1,818 words) - 05:07, 9 April 2024
  • "An all night extravaganza with a scientific twist." Up to 380 children aged between eight and 11, accompanied by adults, are invited to spend ...
    12 KB (1,766 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
  • French, who settled in Madagascar. In an odd twist of history, French colonialism in Eastern Africa was aided by the British, as they had ceded Madagascar ...
    13 KB (1,820 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
  • In a curiously "Shandean" twist in events, it appears that Sterne's body was stolen shortly after it was interred and sold to ...
    13 KB (1,975 words) - 17:53, 25 October 2022
  • #039;s classic tragedy but with a decided twist: In Shaw's version, Caesar is dramatically aged and Cleopatra an impulsive girl of 16. The ...
    12 KB (1,761 words) - 07:04, 18 April 2024
  • dance. There is also a figure called the "Hip Twist," where, by closing his feet following a backward movement, the hip movement of the man ...
    13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
  • Cry, retelling his story with a science fiction twist. * Novelist Frederick Buechner retold the story of Brendan's travels in his 1987 novel ...
    12 KB (1,898 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
  • of Thomas Atkinson, to create the Chorlton Twist Company, which in 1799 negotiated ... #039;s agreeing to sell to the Chorlton Twist Company and also his consent ...
    26 KB (4,155 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
  • though the Pizza has a unique Korean twist, often featuring corn, sweet ... do, though again with a slightly different twist. For example, couples will ...
    25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
  • helping. Books such as Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist highlighted such abuse. ===Diet=== The meals supplied in the workhouse had to meet the ...
    14 KB (2,160 words) - 23:59, 17 May 2023
  • elements by mass and property, but he added a twist. Döbereiner had worked only in small groups, but Newlands wanted to relate all the elements to each other. ...
    15 KB (2,217 words) - 15:59, 25 January 2023
  • do not actually throw the branches but they will twist the branch causing it to fall closer to the threat. The natives of the area know very well of ...
    14 KB (2,166 words) - 15:22, 27 April 2023
  • Endymion. However, in a characteristically Romantic twist, Keats focuses the narrative not on Diana's love for a mortal, but Endymion's love ...
    14 KB (2,196 words) - 06:06, 3 August 2022

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)