For Want of a Nail For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a...
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For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga is an alternate history novel published in 1973 by the American business historian Robert Sobel. The...
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lost, for want of a horse the knight was lost, for want of a knight the battle was lost. So it was a kingdom was lost – all for want of a nail. Twenty-four...
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Anaphora (rhetoric) (category Figures of speech)
For want of a message the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail. — "For Want of a Nail"...
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Red Ball Express (category African-American history of the United States military)
to tail. — For Want of a Nail: The Influence of Logistics on War (1948) by Hawthorne Daniel The Red Ball was at the center of a number of other named...
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eye of a master will do more work than both his hands" "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" "For want of a nail..."...
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Mary Robinette Kowal (category John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer winners)
Sharable.net, 2010 "For Want of a Nail", Asimov's Science Fiction, 2010 (winner of the Hugo Award for Best Short Story) "Salt of the Earth", Redstone...
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Nearly Human (category Album articles lacking alt text for covers)
horn-tinged overdrive of 'The Want of a Nail' to the strident bass-lead 'Unloved Children' it demonstrates a man cable of delving into a myriad of rock styles without...
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Robert Sobel (category City College of New York alumni)
famous for his only work of fiction, the 1973 book, For Want of a Nail. This book is an alternate history in which Burgoyne won the Battle of Saratoga...
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Neil Gaiman (redirect from Nail gaiman)
"neither wanted nor enjoyed." Scarlett, a former nanny for Gaiman and Palmer's child, "alleges that Gaiman sexually assaulted her within hours of their first...
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Chaos theory (redirect from The order of choas)
folklore: For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost. For want of a rider, the...
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Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Arts for Transit program, a mixed-media installation was created in 2000. Entitled "For Want of a Nail", named after the old proverb...
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three days[a] Flattery will get you nowhere[a] Fools rush in (where angels fear to tread)[a] For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the...
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achievement 1997 – Robert Sobel, For Want of a Nail 1999 – Randall Garrett, the Lord Darcy series 2018 – Eric Flint, for support of writers in the alternate history...
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Todd Rundgren discography (category Discographies of American artists)
Day" (1983) "Crybaby" (1984) "Something to Fall Back On" (1985) "The Want of a Nail" (1989) "Change Myself" (1991) "Property" (1993) The Desktop Collection...
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Ray Bradbury (category American people of English descent)
thought control and freedom of speech control. In a 1982 essay, he wrote: "People ask me to predict the Future, when all I want to do is prevent it." This...
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Jackson keeps summoning the phrase "For want of a nail ...” to convey the kinds of fateful repercussions that each bit of the story has...And Ms Atkinson...
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series created for streaming service Amazon Prime Video, depicting a parallel universe where the Axis powers of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan rule...
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don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail." According to Kagan, the corollary explains the difference in views on the use of military...
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Root cause analysis (category Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback via Module:Annotated link)
reliability engineering For Want of a Nail – ProverbPages displaying short descriptions with no spaces Forensic engineering – Investigation of failures associated...
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Camel's nose (redirect from Give them an inch, they'll take a mile)
a yard." Creeping normality Foot in the door – a persuasion technique Slippery slope – an argument, sometimes fallacious Domino effect For Want of a Nail...
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reaction Chaos theory Cache stampede Congestion collapse Domino effect For Want of a Nail (proverb) Network science Network theory Interdependent networks Kessler...
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Camp (2003 film) (category LGBTQ-related coming-of-age comedy-drama films)
arrival of Vlad Baumann, a handsome new camper who is, as a staff member marvels, "an honest-to-god straight boy." The camp enlists a guest counselor for the...
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ISBN 978-0-367-15749-4. OCLC 1303906366. Macksey, Kenneth (1989). For Want of a Nail: The Impact of War on Logistics and Communications. London: Brassey's....
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Ted Chiang (category John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer winners)
had really wanted. In 2013, his collection of translated stories Die Hölle ist die Abwesenheit Gottes won the German Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for best foreign...
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Counterfactual history For Want of a Nail Point of divergence in alternate history Langford, David (August 21, 2012). "Jonbar Point". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction...
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The Downward Spiral (redirect from Heresy (Nine Inch Nails song))
rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on March 8, 1994, by Nothing Records in the United States and Island Records in Europe. It is a concept album detailing...
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Steam tractor Locomobiles, in Robert Sobel's alternate history book For Want of a Nail Road locomotive (disambiguation) Road train Locomotive Automobile...
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successful songs for Israeli military ensembles including Chamsinim Bameshlat, and Hakol Biglal Masmer (based on For Want of a Nail). During the same...
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The Hugo Award for Best Short Story is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English...
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