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 Hawking (redirect from Stephen W. Hawking)
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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Screw theory (redirect from Twist (screw theory))
, {\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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Möbius strip (redirect from Loop with a twist)
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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Cyclohexane conformation (redirect from Twist boat)
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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History of Federal Open Market Committee actions (redirect from Operation Twist)
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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