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Cartwheel (gymnastics) A cartwheel is a sideways rotary movement of the body. It is performed by bringing the hands to the floor one at a time while the body inverts. The legs travel over the body trunk while one or both hands are on the floor, and then the feet return to the floor one at a time, ending with the athlete standing upright.
The Cartwheel Galaxy (also known as ESO 350-40 or PGC 2248) is a lenticular ring galaxy about 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. [1] It has a D 25 isophotal diameter of 44.23 kiloparsecs (144,300 light-years), and a mass of about 2.9–4.8 × 10 9 solar masses ; its outer ring has a circular velocity of 217 km/s .
Hotline TNT. Hotline TNT is an American rock band from New York City. The band is fronted by singer and guitarist Will Anderson, who writes and records all of their music and performs live with a rotating lineup of musicians. Their style is characterized by Anderson's wall-of-sound layering of distorted guitars and is often described as shoegaze.
Cartwheel is the second album by American shoegaze project Hotline TNT, fronted by Will Anderson. It was released on November 3, 2023, through Third Man Records and received acclaim from critics. Themes and composition
Operation Cartwheel. The eastern part of the Territory of , and the northern ; the area in which Operation Cartwheel took place, from June 1943. Operation Cartwheel (1943 – 1944) was a major military operation for the Allies in the Pacific theatre of World War II. Cartwheel was an operation aimed at neutralising the major Japanese base at Rabaul.
Breaking wheel. The breaking wheel, also known as the execution wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the ( Saint) Catherine ( 's) Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages up to the 19th century by breaking the bones of a criminal or bludgeoning them to death.
A move similar to a cartwheel where the gymnast pushes off the ground and lands on two feet, facing the direction in which the move was initiated in. This move is often used to initiate a tumble. Roll A roll is a rotation over an axis in the body over a surface. Rope A gymnastics apparatus used in rhythmic gymnastics.
Düsseldorf's cartwheeler. Sculpture of cartwheeling boys. Boys and girls cartwheeling in Düsseldorf around 1900. The Düsseldorf's cartwheeler ( Radschläger in German) is the oldest tradition of Düsseldorf and became one of their famous landmarks. This tradition was honoured in 1954 by the erection of a fountain, called Cartwheeler's ...