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( A similar trick is still used by many games to create huge outdoor environments.
Supposedly, due to another mechanical trick, when the king reached the first step, the ox stretched forth its leg, on which Solomon leaned, a similar action taking place in the case of the animals on each of the six steps.
Sabata and If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death, directed by Gianfranco Parolini introduces into similar betrayal environments a kind of hero molded on the Mortimer character from For a Few Dollars More, only without any vengeance motive and with more outrageous trick weapons.
He became quite well known in the early days of the world wide web through an easter egg in the Netscape browser: typing " about: jwz " into the address box would take the user to his home page ( a similar trick worked for other Netscape staffers ).
For example, a similar tale is recorded in Arabian Nights where Harun al-Rashid plays the same trick on a man he finds sleeping in an alley, and in De Rebus Burgundicis by the Dutch historian Pontus de Heuiter, where the trick is performed by Philip the Good, i. e. Philip III, Duke of Burgundy.
During a heelflip, a similar trick, the board rotates in the opposite direction.
A similar trick is played in the old clue " A wicked thing " for CANDLE, where the-ed suffix must be understood in its " equipped with a.
Eumenes had tried to use a similar propaganda trick.
In contract bridge and similar games, a finesse is a card play technique which will enable a player to win an additional trick or tricks should there be a favorable position of one or more cards in the hands of the opponents.
In " Clever Cinders ", the Opies observe that the heroine incinerates a giant by shoving him into an oven in a manner similar to Gretel, and point out that a ruse involving a twig in a Swedish tale resembles Hansel's trick of the dry bone.
A charlatan ( also called swindler or mountebank ) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception.
A similar effect could be obtained in playback by merely taking an LP recorded at 33 RPM and playing it back at 45 or 78 RPM, a trick sometimes tried out by ordinary record listeners.
A more intelligent victim may fall afoul of the further trick " How to keep a genius busy for hours ", a similar act of subtle deceit which involves appealing to the victim's sense of reason to force their attention, often taking the form of a logical contradiction.
The public information campaign that had run over the preceding two years helped, as did the trick of getting a rough conversion of new pence into old shillings and pence by the simple process of doubling the number of new pence and placing a solidus, or slash, between the digits: 17p multiplied by 2 = 34, — approximately equal to 3 / 4 (" three and four ", or three shillings and four pence ), with a similar process for the reverse conversion.
By looking at a horizontally repeating pattern, but converging the two eyes at a point behind the pattern, it is possible to trick the brain into matching one element of the pattern, as seen by the left eye, with another ( similar looking ) element, beside the first, as seen by the right eye.
# Surface 360-This trick is very similar to the side slide.
One feat he often performed was being shot with a shotgun, which may have been similar to the bullet catch " trick ".
Thus we have " glued " along the images of Z under f and g. A similar trick yields the pushout in the category of R-modules for any ring R.
Worship of this or any other idol can be a form of devil-worship, regardless of the intent of the worshipers, as the Devil can trick people into doing similar things.
The 2nd structure is similar to the 1st one however, the " how " is written first, then the trick name is written, then the abbreviated notations and then the slots ( E. g.
While it is similar to a confidence trick or simple fraud, it is typically trickery or deception for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or computer system access ; in most cases the attacker never comes face-to-face with the victims.
Tricks are evaluated in a similar fashion as other trick-taking games with a trump suit ; the highest trump, if played, takes the trick, and if trump is not played, the highest-value card of the led suit takes the trick.

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A similar story appears in the later Sörla þáttr, where Heimdall does not appear.
The word Christ ( or similar spellings ) appears in English and most European language, owing to the Greek usage of Christós ( transcribed in Latin as Christus ) in the New Testament as a description for Jesus.
In the hypothetical situation that a given coastline has this property of self-similarity, then no matter how greatly any one small section of coastline is magnified, a similar pattern of smaller bays and promontories superimposed on larger bays and promontories appears, right down to the grains of sand.
A story similar in character, and obviously older in date, is the one alluded to in 2 Maccabees 1: 18 et seq according to which the relighting of the altar fire by Nehemiah was due to a miracle which occurred on the 25th of Kislev, and which appears to be given as the reason for the selection of the same date for the rededication of the altar by Judah Maccabee.
( A similar melody appears in Telemann.
The more famous ones include the " bamboo-copter " ( very similar to the ones that appears on the older series of Beany and Cecil ), a small head accessory that allows flight ; the " Anywhere Door ", a door that opens up to any place the user wishes ; and the " Time Machine ".
Struve 2725, called the " Ghost Double ", is a pair that appears similar to a dimmer Gamma Delphini.
In the Rigveda, the word appears as an n-stem,, with a range of meanings encompassing " something established or firm " ( in the literal sense of prods or poles ), figuratively " sustainer, supporter " ( of deities ), and semantically similar to the Greek ethos (" fixed decree, statute, law ").
The notion of elves thus appears similar to the animistic belief in spirits of nature and of the deceased, common to nearly all human religions ; this is also true for the Old Norse belief in dísir, fylgjur and vörðar (" follower " and " warden " spirits, respectively ).
On the seabed off the west coast of the island rests a block of rock 22 km long and 11 km wide, which appears to have slid off the island largely intact at some point in prehistory, similar to the predicted future collapse of Cumbre Vieja, a geological fault on the neighboring island, La Palma.
It appears montly and its contents include fashion, advice, health, weddings and similar features geared at young women.
The Khazar language appears to have been an Oghuric tongue, similar to that spoken by the early Bulgars and corresponding to the modern day Chuvash dialects.
It appears similar to an Asagi, with little or no hi below the lateral line and a Kohaku Hi pattern over reticulated ( fishnet pattern ) scales.
Very rarely seen is the Tsumi-Goromo which is similar to Budo-Goromo, but the hi pattern is such a dark burgundy that it appears nearly black.
The architecture of his towers appears to be similar, but each project represents new ideas about the formation of highly sophisticated urban space at ground level.
Considerably higher rainfall would have been required to keep such a lake full ; the draining of Lake Bungunia appears to mark the end of a wet phase in the history of the Murray-Darling Basin and the onset of widespread arid conditions similar to today.
A similar concept appears, although much less developed, in the game Quake 4, where the player can drive Mechs as well as other vehicles while the game is still primarily focused on ground based human combat.
It appears that the bladelets might have been fixed in groups like the teeth of a harpoon or similar weapon.
A very similar phenomenon by the name " Noodie News " appears in Canadian Margaret Atwood's 2003 novel Oryx and Crake.
The Minoan " cult of the tree " appears also in Mycenean seals and jewellerry, however we don ’ t know if this cult in Greece was similar with the Minoan.
Raimi occasionally appears on-screen in his own movies, usually in similar fashion to the cameos made by his idol Alfred Hitchcock: A silhouette behind a projection screen ( Spider-Man, in the wrestling scene ), a passer-by with some kind of physical interaction with the film's protagonist ( Spider-Man 2, as the student whose bookbag hits Peter Parker in the back of the head ), a hitchhiking fisherman accompanied by Robert Tapert in The Evil Dead.
As it appears that the defenses and theodicies which might allow the theist to resist the problem of evil can be inverted and used to defend belief in the omnimalevolent being, this suggests that we should draw similar conclusions about the success of these defensive strategies.
" A similar sentence, likely paraphrased from Gregory, appears in a work published by Christian Wolff in 1724.
Nonetheless, she appears to be attracted to him and their relationship appears similar to that later displayed between Steed and Tara King.

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