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  • Thumbnail for Bell jar
    A bell jar is a glass jar, similar in shape to a bell (i.e. in its best-known form it is open at the bottom, while its top and sides together are a single...
    12 KB (1,586 words) - 02:55, 30 May 2024
  • Under a Glass Bell, originally published in 1944 and subsequently published with several more editions, was the first book by Anaïs Nin to gain attention...
    3 KB (314 words) - 18:43, 29 October 2023
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    In 1944, she published a collection of short stories titled Under a Glass Bell, which were reviewed by Edmund Wilson. Nin was also the author of several...
    38 KB (4,513 words) - 20:05, 9 June 2024
  • His first novel You Don't Know Me (2017), which was shortlisted for the Glass Bell Award in 2018, was dramatised by the BBC in 2021. Mahmood, whose parents...
    12 KB (1,420 words) - 00:56, 12 April 2024
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    function. Some small bells such as ornamental bells or cowbells can be made from cast or pressed metal, glass or ceramic, but large bells such as a church...
    48 KB (5,911 words) - 13:56, 3 June 2024
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    a nearby glass pavilion on Independence Mall in 1976, and then to the larger Liberty Bell Center adjacent to the pavilion in 2003. The bell has been featured...
    67 KB (8,239 words) - 18:15, 4 June 2024
  • 2020 she is also longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, Glass Bell Awards, Australian Book Industry Awards and Visionary Honours Awards....
    18 KB (1,847 words) - 04:41, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cloche (agriculture)
    French, cloche for "bell") is a covering for protecting plants from cold temperatures. The original form of a cloche is a bell-shaped glass cover that is placed...
    3 KB (271 words) - 00:01, 13 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Stained glass
    Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively...
    87 KB (10,550 words) - 02:56, 1 June 2024
  • based on Fleetwood Mac. Daisy Jones & the Six won the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award in 2020. The novel was a finalist for Book of the Month's Book of...
    11 KB (929 words) - 20:23, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for CT-100
    voltage connection is a metal ring between the face of the tube and the glass bell or funnel. This is where the leakage often occurs. Ed Reitan's CT-100...
    4 KB (470 words) - 17:41, 19 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Kandor (comics)
    supervillain Brainiac, miniaturized by his shrinking ray and placed inside a glass bell jar. Defeating Brainiac and taking possession of the jar, Superman brings...
    23 KB (3,153 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cloche (tableware)
    cloche (from the French for "bell") is a tableware cover, sometimes made out of silver though commercially available as glass, stoneware, marble, or other...
    954 bytes (68 words) - 23:46, 19 February 2024
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    by the bell", was known by the 16th century: it involved burning sulfur under a glass bell in moist weather (or, later, under a moistened bell). However...
    65 KB (7,197 words) - 08:02, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Big Ben
    Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower itself, which stands at the north...
    61 KB (6,924 words) - 13:09, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clayton and Bell
    Clayton and Bell was one of the most prolific and proficient British workshops of stained-glass windows during the latter half of the 19th century and...
    25 KB (3,018 words) - 08:44, 6 June 2024
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    and designated by Bell as 412CF Bell 412EP Enhanced performance version with P&WC PT6T-3DF engines Bell 412EPI Glass cockpit version with P&WC PT6T-9...
    40 KB (2,913 words) - 10:06, 7 June 2024
  • Debut Novel at the Strand Magazine Critics Awards and longlisted for The Glass Bell Award. In 2021, the Japanese edition of the novel, translated by Kazuyo...
    17 KB (2,239 words) - 09:57, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oxford Electric Bell
    albeit inaudibly due to being behind two layers of glass. The experiment consists of two brass bells, each positioned beneath a dry pile (a form of battery)...
    6 KB (679 words) - 00:44, 30 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Liz Claiborne
    she perceived as male hierarchies. She controlled meetings by ringing a glass bell and became famous for her love of red—"Liz Red". She sometimes would pose...
    12 KB (1,122 words) - 02:40, 29 March 2024
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