• William W. Twist (182?-1861) was possibly a Canadian native, a volunteer soldier in the Mexican American War in California, Sheriff of Santa Barbara County...
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    Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837...
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    William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the...
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    Rifling (redirect from Twist rate)
    the term (as a verb) for creating such grooves. Rifling is measured in twist rate, the distance the rifling takes to complete one full revolution, expressed...
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    Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at...
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  • , {\displaystyle \delta W={\mathsf {W}}\cdot {\check {\mathsf {T}}}\delta t=0,} then the wrench W is reciprocal to the twist T. The mathematical framework...
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    W. B. Yeats. Cambridge University Press, 2006 ISBN 978-0-521-54737-6, p. 80 Spanos, William. ″Sacramental Imagery in the Middle and Late Poetry of W....
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    probably given the first name William at that time. As an adult, Sherman signed all his correspondence, including to his wife, "W. T. Sherman". His friends...
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    Strange Twist, Bush Is Suffering From Same Gland Disease as Wife". The New York Times. Retrieved June 5, 2018. Burke, Monte (March 25, 2010). "George H. W. Bush's...
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    Twist-on wire connectors are a type of electrical connector used to fasten two or more low-voltage (or extra-low-voltage) electrical conductors. They...
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    William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was an American business theorist, composer, economist, industrial engineer, management...
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    be formed by attaching the ends of a strip of paper together with a half-twist. As a mathematical object, it was discovered by Johann Benedict Listing...
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    stories run alongside each other, as seen in Dickens' novels such as Oliver Twist. When criticized by a cameraman for doing this technique in a later film...
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    Observation of Chair and Twist-Boat Conformations". J. Org. Chem. 70 (26): 10726–10731. doi:10.1021/jo051654z. PMID 16355992. Brown, William H.; Foote, Christopher...
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  • Exotic sphere (redirect from Gluck twist)
    abelian, though it is suspected to be infinite; see the section on Gluck twists. All homotopy n-spheres are homeomorphic to the n-sphere by the generalized...
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    "William Shockley". American Institute of Physics. September 10, 1974. Retrieved July 17, 2022. Hiltzik, Michael A. (December 2, 2001). "The Twisted Legacy...
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  • companions. Miguel Blanco, who had stabbed the militiaman, Captain William W. Twist, in order to rob him of a thousand dollars, was held in jail until...
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    Shatner" – via www.youtube.com. William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy for Western Airlines 1985, retrieved March 1, 2024 "New WoW ads featuring Shatner and Mr...
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    popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every creative medium. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted and, like many of his...
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    properties twist and writhe according to the following relationship: Lk= T + W, where Lk is the linking number, W is the writhe and T is the twist of the...
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    William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American attorney and jurist who served as the 16th chief justice of the United States...
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  • Twisting by the Pool is a 1983 song by British rock band Dire Straits which appears on ExtendedancEPlay. It was released as a single in 1983, peaking at...
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  • Twisted is a 2004 American psychological thriller directed by Philip Kaufman, written by Sarah Thorp, and starring Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, and...
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  • Wesley (August 24, 2020). "Plot Twist! Why 2004 Was a Surprising Year for Movies". The New York Times. Davis, Scott W. "The Village - Movie Review". Horror...
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  • Reverend William Stryker is a fictional character in Marvel Comics, known for his recurring role as an adversary of the X-Men. A former sergeant and a...
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    The Federal Open Market Committee action known as Operation Twist (named for the twist dance craze of the time) began in 1961. The intent was to flatten...
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    (played by Evan Rachel Wood), and subsequently co-starred in the thriller Twisted (2004), portraying the attorney of a serial killer. In 2005, Moffett performed...
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    policies of Reagan and Bush. In early 1992, the race took an unexpected twist when Texas billionaire Ross Perot launched a third party bid, claiming that...
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    action of the mapping class group, and using the relationship between Dehn twists and the generalized Fenchel–Nielsen flows, he proved the ergodicity of the...
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  • 2021-10-29. Britt, Ryan (29 October 2020). "'Star Trek: Discovery's latest twist is an unexpected 'TNG' Easter egg". Inverse. Keng, Diana (March 9, 2021)...
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