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The circle of death is a hazardous phenomenon experienced by motorboats . A circle of death can be initiated if the boat operator releases the steering mechanism while the boat is still powered, which means the propeller is still turning. The force of the rotating propeller blades incurs a force known as steering torque, causing the motor ...
The Voyage of Life is a series of four paintings created by the American artist Thomas Cole in 1840 and reproduced with minor alterations in 1842, representing an allegory of the four stages of human life. The paintings, Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and Old Age, depict a voyager who travels in a boat on a river through the mid-19th-century ...
Carlo Acutis (3 May 1991 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian website designer who documented Eucharistic miracles and approved Marian apparitions, and catalogued both on a website he designed before his death from leukaemia.
Ant mill. An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. This circle is commonly known as a "death spiral" because the ants might eventually die of exhaustion.
Ants do this when they lose track of their colony, and sometimes will keep walking until death
January 26, 1959. (1959-01-26) (aged 52) Paris, France. Bruno Bernhard Gröning (1906 in Danzig – January 26, 1959 in Paris [1]) was a German mystic who rose to fame in the late 1940s for performing faith healings. Prior to this, he was a member of the Nazi Party, serving in World War II and spending several months in a prisoner of war camp.
Sports and recreation. Circle of death (boating), a hazardous phenomenon experienced by motorboats. Circle of Death (cycling), the hardest Tour de France stage in the Pyrenees. Circle of Death (drinking game) or Kings, a drinking game using playing cards. Circle of Death (sports), a type of tie in sporting events.
Samantha's parents were killed in a boating accident and she was orphaned at age five and raised by her wealthy Victorian-era grandmother, Mary Edwards, whom she called Grandmary, in fictional Mount Bedford, New York, Samantha befriends a poor servant girl named Nellie O'Malley. Eventually Samantha, Nellie and Nellie's young sisters are adopted ...