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Sinistrofulgur perversum, the lightning whelk, is a species of very large predatory sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Busyconidae, the busycon whelks. This species has a left-handed or sinistral shell. It eats mostly bivalves .
Twister is a 1996 American disaster thriller film directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin.It was produced by Crichton, Kathleen Kennedy, and Ian Bryce, with Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, and Gerald R. Molen serving as executive producers.
Genre (s) Action-adventure, sandbox. Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Terraria ( / təˈrɛəriə / ⓘ [1]) is a 2011 action-adventure sandbox game developed by Re-Logic. The game was first released for Windows and has since been ported to other PC and console platforms. The game features exploration, crafting, building, painting, and ...
In God of War III, Kratos forcibly takes the Boots of Hermes off the Messenger God's feet by cutting his legs off. In Terraria, the player can acquire the item Hermes' Boots, which increase the players movement speed. The American company Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company has a logo of the winged sandals of Mercury, Hermes’ Roman form.
Lightning is a prime example of a change in thinking that turned builders away from shaping ships' hulls like cod's heads and mackerel tails. She had 16 feet (4.9 m) of concavity in her bows and a beautiful fine run, yet she also had a moderate deadrise and a good full midsection with tumblehome , allowing her to be fast yet stable, with good ...
A sprite at the horizon, with lightning below in the troposphere and above the green line of airglow at the upper mesopause and border to space (the bright light above is the Moon). Sprites or red sprites are large-scale electric discharges that occur in the mesosphere , high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus , giving rise to a varied ...
Background William Steig was a cartoonist at The New Yorker from 1930 to the 1960s. He created over 1,600 cartoons and was dubbed "The King of Cartoons". However, he intensely disliked creating advertisements, and started writing children's books instead at the age of sixty-one. Steig was in his eighties when he wrote Shrek!. His books became known for “graphically repeated themes of stark ...
Perceptions Further information: Cultural impact of Taylor Swift § Fame and stardom, and List of awards and nominations received by Taylor Swift § Listicles Swift at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards ; she was considered a teen idol in her early career. The life and career of American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift are recurrent topics in global celebrity culture. She is considered a dominant ...