• The Big Swallow (AKA: A Photographic Contortion) is a 1901 British silent comic trick film, directed by James Williamson, featuring a man, irritated by...
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  • attempt called "The Big Swallow" in which a group of sword swallowers try to simultaneously swallow as many swords as possible. Alex lost the record to Erik...
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    Emily Swallow (born December 18, 1979) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as The Armorer in the Star Wars series The Mandalorian. She...
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    made perhaps the most extreme close-up of all in The Big Swallow in which his character approaches the camera and appears to swallow it. D. W. Griffith...
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    the loose association of early film pioneers dubbed the Brighton School by French film historian Georges Sadoul. He is best known for The Big Swallow...
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  • created The Big Swallow. In the film. a man becomes irritated by the presence of the filmmaker and "swallows" the camera and its operator through the use of...
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  • Who Swallowed a Fly", "There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly" and "I Know an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly". An early documentation of the story...
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  • Fleming – (US) The Big Swallow, directed by James Williamson – (GB) Blue Beard (Barbe-Bleue), directed by Georges Méliès, based on the 1697 fairy tale...
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    Swallow Sidecar Company, Swallow Sidecar and Coachbuilding Company, and Swallow Coachbuilding Company were trading names used by Walmsley & Lyons, partners...
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    Sword swallowing is a skill in which the performer passes a sword through the mouth and down the esophagus to the stomach. This feat is not swallowing in...
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  • The Swallows were an American R&B group. They are best known for their 1951 recording of "Will You Be Mine", which appeared in the US Billboard R&B chart...
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    The welcome swallow (Hirundo neoxena) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae that is native to Australia and nearby islands. It has...
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    perhaps the most extreme one of all in The Big Swallow, when his character approaches the camera and appears to swallow it. These two filmmakers of the Brighton...
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  • film The Big Swallow (1901), achieved by moving the camera closer to the subject. Smith's The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) is considered to mark the beginnings...
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    The cliff swallow or American cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) is a member of the passerine bird family Hirundinidae, the swallows and martins...
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  • Swallows and Amazons is a children's adventure novel by English author Arthur Ransome first published on 21 July 1930 by Jonathan Cape. Set in the summer...
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  • Too Hard to Swallow is the debut studio album by American hip hop duo UGK. It was released on November 10, 1992, by Jive Records. Sample credits "Something...
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  • Weekly. Archived from the original on October 14, 2018. Retrieved September 23, 2009. Swallow 2003, p. 102. Swallow 2003, p. 103. Swallow 2003, p. 95. Farber...
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  • mythology. Early people believed this creature is so big that it can swallow (or cover) the Sun to explain the occurrence of eclipses.[citation needed] It is...
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  • Too Hard to Swallow, in 1992, followed by several other albums charting on the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, including the self-titled...
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    was one of the first jazz double bassists to switch entirely to electric bass guitar. Born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, United States, Swallow studied piano...
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    The mosque swallow (Cecropis senegalensis) is a large species of swallow. It is a resident breeder in much of sub-Saharan Africa, although most common...
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    The Swallows and Amazons series is a series of twelve children's adventure novels by English author Arthur Ransome. Set in the interwar period, the novels...
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  • Hard to Swallow is the third studio album by American rapper Vanilla Ice. Released by Republic Records in 1998, the album was the first album Vanilla...
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    Sinkhole (redirect from Swallow hole)
    openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as ponor, swallow hole or swallet. A cenote is a type of sinkhole that exposes groundwater...
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  • He had moderate success as a sire of winners in the United Kingdom and Japan. My Swallow was a big, powerful bay horse standing 16.3 hands high with...
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  • Big Brother 2008, also known as Big Brother 9, was the ninth series of the British reality television series Big Brother. The show followed twenty-one...
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  • Moroka Swallows Football Club (often referred to as Swallows or The Birds) is a South African professional football club based in Soweto, Johannesburg...
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  • half of the hip-hop duo Underground Kingz (UGK). Signing to Jive in 1992, UGK released their major-label debut studio album Too Hard to Swallow to critical...
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  • The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three-quarters of a million votes were received from...
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