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  • Thumbnail for Gordian Knot
    been reduced to a satrapy, or province, of the Persian Empire. An oracle had declared that any man who could unravel its elaborate knots was destined to...
    10 KB (1,115 words) - 13:47, 6 June 2024
  • Knots Unravelled: From String to Mathematics is a book on the mathematics of knots, intended for schoolchildren and other non-mathematicians. It was written...
    5 KB (487 words) - 17:30, 17 September 2023
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    button knot, double connection knot, double coin knot, agemaki, cross knot, square knot, Plafond knot, Pan Chang knot, and the good luck knot. Knots of more...
    33 KB (4,285 words) - 16:35, 5 June 2024
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    Unravelled Knots, by Baroness Orczy, author of the Scarlet Pimpernel series, contains thirteen short stories about the Old Man in the Corner, Orzy's armchair...
    3 KB (333 words) - 18:13, 26 December 2023
  • overhand knot, for example, is also known as the thumb knot. The figure-eight knot is also known as the Savoy knot or the Flemish knot. Contents Top A B C...
    27 KB (4,001 words) - 04:18, 4 June 2024
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    knot is intended to be permanent. It is often used to prevent the end of a rope from unraveling. An overhand knot becomes a trefoil knot, a true knot...
    5 KB (570 words) - 08:29, 23 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Grief knot
    A grief knot (also what knot) is a knot which combines the features of a granny knot and a thief knot, producing a result which is not generally useful...
    4 KB (530 words) - 17:17, 11 August 2023
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    unraveling. It then functions like a whipping knot. A stopper knot is tied at the end of a rope to prevent the end from slipping through another knot...
    5 KB (634 words) - 16:10, 28 December 2023
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    A Matthew Walker knot is a decorative knot that is used to keep the end of a rope from fraying. It is tied by unraveling the strands of a twisted rope...
    6 KB (723 words) - 23:36, 15 February 2024
  • The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy is a 1997 book by Allan G. Johnson. Johnson explains and addresses the concept of patriarchy and how...
    4 KB (414 words) - 18:34, 3 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Albright special
    from unraveling and spilling. For the Albright special, it is important to wind the turns neatly around the loop of larger line and dress the knot so that...
    2 KB (239 words) - 16:05, 13 July 2020
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    through the final loop and pull on the free end. The sinnet will quickly unravel. As an alternative for long ropes the rope can be doubled one or more times...
    3 KB (309 words) - 07:14, 26 February 2024
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    Quipu (redirect from Talking knot)
    "Tying the Archive in Knots, or: Dying to Get into the Archive in Ancient Peru Mann, C. C. (12 August 2005). "ARCHAEOLOGY: Unraveling Khipu's Secrets". Science...
    53 KB (6,076 words) - 14:06, 27 May 2024
  • undergoes a positive reaction, becoming once again attached to life and thus discarding suicide, the Persian woman is unable to unravel the knots of her...
    8 KB (945 words) - 11:35, 1 May 2024
  • — The Ashley Book of Knots French whipping is a whipping knot that consists of a series of half hitches. It is used to stop unraveling of rope ends as well...
    7 KB (958 words) - 19:36, 16 January 2024
  • related to knots. Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A bend is a knot used to join two lengths of rope. A bight is a slack part...
    15 KB (1,723 words) - 20:32, 2 May 2024
  • Documentary Unravels Twisted Knots Of QAnon Movement. NPR. Lee, N. J., Shah, D. V., & McLeod, J. M. (2013). Processes of political socialization: A communication...
    28 KB (3,720 words) - 09:01, 24 May 2024
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    Julie Andrews (category Singers with a four-octave vocal range)
    could find and understand her" if only someone were to "gently unravel the knotted ... string inside my stomach". During rehearsals, director Moss Hart...
    94 KB (9,875 words) - 22:10, 3 June 2024
  • As they struggle to unravel the knot that is stitched tight around Stringer Station, sixty years of remote tranquility erupt into a brutal, terrible violence...
    15 KB (2,263 words) - 05:17, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Allan G. Johnson
    sociology and gender studies. One of his nonfiction works is The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy, about the detrimental effects of the patriarchy...
    8 KB (722 words) - 03:34, 10 April 2024
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