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Whirligig store. A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one part that spins or whirls. It can also be a pinwheel, spinning top, buzzer, comic weathervane, gee-haw, spinner, whirlygig, whirlijig, whirlyjig, whirlybird, or simply a whirly.
Whirligig is a 1998 novel by Paul Fleischman. It is about a teenager who builds a Whirligig in each of the corners of the United States in order to pay restitution (and to find redemption for himself) after he kills another person, by accident, in a suicide attempt by car crash.
Whirligig was a BBC television programme for children originally broadcast fortnightly from November 1950 until June 1954, with summer breaks, and then subsequently revived for a single further series from October 1955 to June 1956. [1]
The whirligig beetles are water beetles, comprising the family Gyrinidae, that usually swim on the surface of the water if undisturbed, though they swim underwater when threatened. They get their common name from their habit of swimming rapidly in circles when alarmed, and are also notable for their divided eyes which are believed to enable ...
The festival was renamed in 2016 to the North Carolina Whirligig Festival, [16] and is usually held the first full weekend of November. [17] The Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park was created in Wilson to document, conserve, and display the large sculptures from Simpson's land in Lucama. [18] The park had its grand opening on November 2, 2017. [19]
Anystis (whirligig mites) is a genus of mites. They are predatory on other mites and small insects. Species in this genus are often red, long-legged, and range in size from 500μm – 1500μm. [1] Both the genus and the family Anystidae are referred to as whirligig mites.
A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has whirling parts, also found at: Buzzer (whirligig) Whirligig may also refer to: Whirligig (torture), a medieval torture device; Whirl-Y-Gig, a dance club in London; Whirligig beetle, a family of water beetles; Whirlygig, a film by Chaz Thorne
Mesklin is a fictional planet created by Hal Clement and used in a number of his hard science fiction stories, starting with Mission of Gravity (1954). Alongside the novel's original 1953 serialization in Astounding Science Fiction, Clement published an essay titled "Whirligig World" detailing the process of designing the planet to have the properties he wanted.