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In the North West, weavers sought to eliminate the steam-powered looms threatening wages in the cotton trade. In Yorkshire, workers opposed the use of shearing frames and gig mills to finish woolen cloth. [20] Many Luddite groups were highly organized and pursued machine-breaking as one of several tools for achieving specific political ends.
A sense of impending doom is a medical symptom that consists of an intense feeling that something life-threatening or tragic is about to occur, despite no apparent danger. . Causes can be either psychological or physiologic
A few word choices could be changed to clarify: "Pitch was increased for looming sounds, and decreased for receding, to give the illusion on [of] sounds either coming towards, or away from the listener." and there was a spot where you say "looming, receding, or stationary " that would be improved if you added the word 'sound'.
(Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)Ukrainian government websites were knocked offline Wednesday in a new wave of cyberattacks pummeling Ukraine, just as Russian forces are starting to roll into ...
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Another examination found that 9% of women in Australia and 9.6% of women in the United Kingdom reported receiving "comments, email or text messages threatening sexual assault". For the UK, this was more common for women age 20 to 24 (%19.6) followed by women age 25 to 29 years of age (%17), while in Australia women age 40 to 44 was the most ...
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — A New Hampshire man has been indicted after threatening text messages were allegedly sent to three presidential candidates, including Republicans Vivek Ramaswamy and Chris ...
Looming is a term found in the study of perception, as it relates directly to psychology.Looming occurs when an object begins moving closer to the eye. As the resulting image becomes increasingly larger on the perceiver's retina, i.e., when an object looms, there is an automatic physiological response to perceive the object as an approaching object or surface, instead of one that is stationary ...