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Queue areas are places in which people queue ( first-come, first-served) for goods or services. Such a group of people is known as a queue ( British usage) or line ( American usage), and the people are said to be waiting or standing in a queue or in line, respectively. (In the New York City area, the phrase on line is often used in place of in ...
Look up draw a line in the sand in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Line in the sand is an idiom, a metaphorical (sometimes literal) point beyond which no further advance will be accepted or made. Related terms include unilateral boundary setting, red lines and ultimatums to define clear consequences if a line is crossed.
The Vitruvian Man ( Italian: L'uomo vitruviano; [ˈlwɔːmo vitruˈvjaːno]) is a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1490. Inspired by the writings of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, the drawing depicts a nude man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed ...
It is the act of sitting or standing in long lines for people who don't have the time or simply don't want to. The idea came to Samuel when found himself unemployed in 2012 around the same time ...
Wang Weilin (posited) Known for. Iconic photo of him obstructing tanks during the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. The Tank Man (also known as the Unknown Protester or Unknown Rebel) is the nickname given to an unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks ...
To such critics the people looking up at the speaker have stars in their eyes, their posture conveying celebrity worship, not a room full of respectful dissent." [24] Bruce Cole describes Freedom of Speech as Rockwell's "greatest painting", "forging traditional American illustration into a powerful and enduring work of art." He notes that ...
Josephus problem. In computer science and mathematics, the Josephus problem (or Josephus permutation) is a theoretical problem related to a certain counting-out game. Such games are used to pick out a person from a group, e.g. eeny, meeny, miny, moe . A drawing for the Josephus problem sequence for 500 people and skipping value of 6.
Miming is an art form in which the performer uses gestures to convey a story; charades is a game of gestures. Mimed gestures might generally be used to refer to an action in context, for example turning a pretend crank to ask someone to lower a car side window (or for modern power windows , pointing down or miming pressing a button).