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Broken escalator phenomenon. The foot of an escalator. The broken escalator phenomenon is the sensation of losing balance, confusion or dizziness reported by some people when stepping onto an escalator which is not working. It is said that there is a brief, odd sensation of imbalance, despite full awareness that the escalator is not going to move.
Dimensions. 147 cm × 89.2 cm (57 + 7⁄8 in × 35 + 1⁄8 in) Location. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (French: Nu descendant un escalier n° 2) is a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp. The work is widely regarded as a Modernist classic and has become one of the most famous of its time.
List of incidents at Disneyland Resort. This is a summary of notable incidents that have taken place at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. While the California Department of Safety and Health has ruled that some guest-related incidents are Disney's fault, the majority of fatal incidents were the result of wrongdoing on the guests' part.
Spatial disorientation is the inability to determine position or relative motion, commonly occurring during periods of challenging visibility, since vision is the dominant sense for orientation. The auditory system, vestibular system (within the inner ear), and proprioceptive system (sensory receptors located in the skin, muscles, tendons and ...
An escalator malfunction at American Family Field after the game caused nearly a dozen people to be injured, with six requiring hospitalization due to non-life-threatening injuries, the Brewers ...
He began walking up to the barricades and shaking hands, hugging people between lines of “One More Light,” letting fans grip his arm and pat his shoulder as he sang the chorus.
Escalator etiquette is the etiquette of using escalators. In many places, there is a convention that people should stand on a particular side to allow other people to walk on the other side. [2] Standing on the right is the most common convention, following early escalator design in London. [1] In the 21st century, there have been campaigns for ...
An older English term that was sometimes used for this meaning is afterwit; it is used, for example, in James Joyce's Ulysses (Chapter 9).. The Yiddish trepverter ("staircase words") [4] and the German loan translation Treppenwitz express the same idea as l'esprit de l'escalier.