A bell-ringer is a person who rings a bell, usually a church bell, by means of a rope or other mechanism. Despite some automation of bells for random swinging...
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Campanology (redirect from Bell ringing)
refer to a bell ringer. In English style (see below) full circle ringing, the bells in a church tower are hung so that on each stroke the bell swings through...
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Change ringing (redirect from Change ringer)
invention of English full-circle tower bell ringing in the early 17th century, when bell ringers found that swinging a bell through a much larger arc than that...
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headstock, and when the bell ringer pulls on the rope the bell swings back and forth and the clapper hits the inside, sounding the bell. Bells that are hung dead...
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the blessing of a bell ringer. Bells are blessed with a ritual containing many of the elements of the Rite of Baptism. The new bell is blessed with holy...
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off as it swings to and fro. The bells are controlled by ringers (one to a bell) in a chamber below, who rotate the bell to through a full circle and back...
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Gellar Ringer (EP), an EP by Four Tet "Ringer" (song), a song by Godflesh Ringer (surname) Ringer Edwards (1913–2000), Australian soldier Bell-ringer, one...
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I the Old, who commissioned it. The bell weighs almost 13 tonnes (28 thousand pounds) and requires 12 bell-ringers to manually swing it. It tolls on special...
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The Bell Ringer's Daughter (French: La fille du sonneur), is a 1906 French silent short film directed by Albert Capellani. It is a melodrama about a young...
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New York Stock Exchange (section Notable bell-ringers)
of the bells usually accompanied with applause and is often done by VIPs and celebrities (See pictures and the section "Notable bell-ringers"). The signal...
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groat for the ringing of the dead bell at his funeral by the bedral or bell-man. In later, secular times, the bell ringer would pass through the streets...
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baby was found, and brings him up to be the bell-ringer of the cathedral. Due to the loud ringing of the bells, Quasimodo also becomes deaf causing Frollo...
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Dead ringer is an idiom in English. It means "an exact duplicate" or "100% duplicate", and derives from 19th-century horse-racing slang for a horse presented...
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Barrowfield's Mill. Jarge Box: her brother, a weaver at Hornbeam's Mill, and a bell-ringer. Dottie Castle: Joanie's and Jarge's aunt, their tenant. The Northwoods...
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career. Bell spent the 2014–15 season as the director of player development for the Cleveland Cavaliers. He is now a podcast host for The Ringer. Bell was...
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Princess were reduced in size the same year, allowing a small, quiet bell ringer to be placed to the left of the touch-tone dial. In the mid-1970s, AT&T...
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held a seven-bell carillon, which included la Pugnaise, a bell used to signal the bell ringer in the main towers, and the chapter bell la Clopette, used...
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A standing bell or resting bell is an inverted bell, supported from below with the rim uppermost. Such bells are normally bowl-shaped, and exist in a...
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A ringer box is a telephone signaling device, similar to a bell box. It usually contains an electromechanical gong and was used with most early desk stand...
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and Kevin Kline, the film follows Quasimodo, the deformed and confined bell-ringer of Notre Dame, and his yearning to explore the outside world and be accepted...
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Foundry took the position that the bell was either damaged in transit or was broken by an inexperienced bell ringer, who incautiously sent the clapper...
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Handbell (redirect from Bell choir)
A handbell is a bell designed to be rung by hand. To ring a handbell, a ringer grasps the bell by its slightly flexible handle – traditionally made of...
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Central Council of Church Bell Ringers (CCCBR) is an organisation founded in 1891 which represents ringers of church bells in the English style. It acts...
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Miguelete Tower (category Christian bell towers)
was often home to bell-ringers. The last bell-ringer who lived in the Miguelete Tower was Mariano Folch, who was in charge of the bells for more than sixty...
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Sunday, and is repeated at 12:45 AM the following Monday, and features bell ringers ringing the changes. The recordings come from a different church tower...
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The Japanese Peace Bell is a bell donated to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City via the United Nations Association of Japan in June 1954...
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The Ringer is a 2005 American slapstick sports comedy starring Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl, and Brian Cox with cameos by Terry Funk and Jesse Ventura...
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shared his love. Claude Frollo had made him the bell ringer of Notre-Dame, and to give the great bell in marriage to Quasimodo was to give Juliet to Romeo...
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an occupational name for a bell ringer or bell maker; or else from a topographic name for someone who lived by an actual bell, or by a house sign or inn...
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Bellringer may mean bell-ringer, someone who rings a church or other bell. Bellringer may also refer to: Amber Bellringer (born 1990), New Zealand netballer...
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