• Look up catherine wheel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Catherine wheel may refer to: wheel or breaking wheel, an instrument of torturous execution...
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  • Catherine Wheel were an English alternative rock band from Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. The band was active from 1990 to 2000, releasing five full-length...
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    The Catherine wheel or pinwheel is a type of firework consisting either of a powder-filled spiral tube, or an angled rocket mounted with a pin through...
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    The breaking wheel, also known as the execution wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the (Saint) Catherine('s) Wheel, was a torture method used for public...
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    condemned Catherine to death on a spiked breaking wheel, but, at her touch, it shattered. Maxentius ordered her to be beheaded. Catherine herself ordered...
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  • The Catherine Wheel is an album by Scottish-American musician David Byrne, released in 1981 by Sire Records. It contains Byrne's musical score for choreographer...
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    are also called "Catherine windows" after Saint Catherine of Alexandria, who was sentenced to be executed on a spiked breaking wheel. A circular window...
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  • Chrome is the second studio album by English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel, released on 20 July 1993 by Fontana Records in the United Kingdom...
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    multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter previously of the band Catherine Wheel. Dickinson was raised in Norfolk, England, and is the paternal cousin...
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  • victims had their long bones broken by an iron bar while tied to a Catherine wheel. The quotation is used to suggest someone is "[employing] superabundant...
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  • Pinwheel (redirect from Pin wheel)
    tilings of the plane whose tiles appear in infinitely many orientations Catherine wheel (firework), a form of pyrotechnic display device also known as a pinwheel...
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  • and Eve is the fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel. It was released on 29 July 1997 by Mercury Records. This was the band's...
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    is looking upward in ecstasy and leaning on a wheel, an allusion to the breaking wheel (or Catherine wheel) of her martyrdom. It was painted c. 1507–1509...
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    also known as former frontman and guitarist of the English rock band Catherine Wheel. The company is based in Los Angeles, California. The name Singer Vehicle...
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    The winged wheel is used in heraldry, though plain wheels (usually cart wheels) and mill wheels are also used. However, the Catherine wheel torture device...
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    album The Catherine Wheel for a ballet with the same name, prominently featuring unusual rhythms and lyrics. Productions of The Catherine Wheel appeared...
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    Dickinson, is the former lead singer of British alternative rock band Catherine Wheel, while his son, Austin, fronted the metalcore band Rise to Remain....
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    entitled A Retrospective, showcased by SIGGRAPH. In creating "The Catherine Wheel" Allen worked alongside the choreographer Twyla Tharp. Tharp later...
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    Very Young, followed in 1981 by The Catherine Wheel, her collaboration with David Byrne at the Winter Garden. Wheel was broadcast on PBS and its soundtrack...
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    Donelly recorded a track with Catherine Wheel entitled "Judy Staring at the Sun," which appeared on Catherine Wheel's 1995 album Happy Days. The single...
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    Branch Bulgarian Cossack Burgundy Byzantine Calvary Camargue Canterbury Catherine wheel Celtic Variant Cercelée Coptic Crosslet Fitchy Crucifix Cruciform halo...
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    Sun cross (redirect from Wheel cross)
    A sun cross, solar cross, or wheel cross is a solar symbol consisting of an equilateral cross inside a circle. The design is frequently found in the symbolism...
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    points, it also has large curved arcs between the points. Catherine wheel Seven Catherines have been granted sainthood. This cross is composed of wagon...
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    a freely rotating wheel such that when water is pumped out of them, the resulting jets cause the wheel to rotate; a Catherine wheel and the aeolipile...
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  • Happy Days is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel. It was released 6 June 1995 by Fontana Records in the UK and Mercury...
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  • CrazyNDaLazDayz "Big Business", song from David Byrne's score for The Catherine Wheel (album) Big government This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    it held a wheel of fire." -- A description of Gollum and Frodo, respectively, as seen by Samwise. Catherine wheel (firework) Breaking wheel Hamartia Act...
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  • Stock by Talk Talk (1991) Ferment by Catherine Wheel (1992) Broooch by Sidi Bou Said (1993) Wishville by Catherine Wheel (2000) Skeleton Hill by Firefly Burning...
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  • remixed by Ronald Prent. All of the tracks except "Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel" and "Promised You a Miracle" (for which the multitrack tapes were...
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  • Black Metallic (category Catherine Wheel songs)
    "Black Metallic" is the debut single by English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel, released on 11 November 1991 by Fontana Records. It was later included...
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