enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Francesca Martinez - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Martinez

    Martinez in 2019. Francesca Martinez (born 1978) is an English comedian, writer and actress. She has cerebral palsy, but prefers to describe herself as "wobbly". [1] Martinez first came to public attention in 1994, when she made her debut on the television series Grange Hill, where she went on to portray the role of Rachel Burns for a total of 55 episodes.

  3. Glossary of Wobbly terms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Wobbly_terms

    Wobbly lingo is a collection of technical language, jargon, and historic slang used by the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Wobblies, for more than a century. Many Wobbly terms derive from or are coextensive with hobo expressions used through the 1940s .

  4. 30 Culture Shocks That Left People Reevaluating Their ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/70-people-share-biggest-culture...

    Image credits: PeopleLikeColdplay #4. In Japan. Left my phone on my desk at uni, sleepless night, rushed there the next morning to find it sitting exactly where I left it.

  5. Joe Hill (activist) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill_(activist)

    Hill was the author of numerous labor songs, including "The Rebel Girl", inspired by IWW activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.. By this time using the name Joe or Joseph Hillstrom (possibly because of anti-union blacklisting), he joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or Wobblies around 1910, when working on the docks in San Pedro, California.

  6. Misattribution of arousal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misattribution_of_arousal

    The same woman becomes more attractive when meeting on the exciting suspension bridge. Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron's study (1974) [3] to test the causation of misattribution of arousal incorporated an attractive confederate woman to wait at the end of a bridge that was either a suspension bridge (that would induce fear) or a sturdy bridge (that would not induce fear).

  7. Wobbly (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wobbly_(disambiguation)

    A Wobbly is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Wobbly may also refer to: Waco, Beaumont, Trinity and Sabine Railway, a defunct Texas shortline railroad nicknamed the Wobbly; Wobbly (musician) The Wobbly, a 1926 novel by B. Traven

  8. Existential nihilism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_nihilism

    Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".

  9. T-Bone Slim - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bone_Slim

    In an interview, Noam Chomsky cited T-Bone Slim as one of his favorite Wobbly singers. [12] A number of T-Bone Slim's songs can be found in the Little Red Songbook. Among the best known are The Popular Wobbly, Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life, and The Lumberjack's Prayer. First published by the IWW in 1909, the songbook has never gone out of print.