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Packard had introduced hydraulic window lifts (power windows) in fall of 1940, for its new 1941 Packard 180 series cars. [1] [2] This was a hydro-electric system. In 1941, the Ford Motor Company followed with the first power windows on the Lincoln Custom (only the limousine and seven-passenger sedans). [3]
The Devil's Wind is a painstaking literary work that blends beautifully the artist and the historian. [1] The book is both an epic and an autobiography. [2] Malgonkar's purpose is to rehabilitate Nana Saheb, maligned as a monster by British propaganda, by telling the story from the Indian point of view in Nana Saheb own words.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff.
The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908.It details the story of Mole, Ratty, and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad, after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and gets into trouble.
Power windows may refer to: Power window, automobile windows that are raised and lowered by a switch; Power Windows, a 1985 album by Rush "Power Windows" (song), a 1991 song by Billy Falcon; Power windows, the term for selective color grading in film processing
After a tortured and torturously long journey to the big screen, The Woman in the Window -- 20th Century's adaptation of A.J. Finn's best-selling thriller -- instead lands on Netflix, met with ...
Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works.