Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina.

Y ( named wye or wy, plural wyes ) is the twenty-fifth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet and represents either a vowel or a consonant in English.

The economy of Iran is the seventeenth largest in the world by purchasing power parity ( PPP ) and twenty-fifth by nominal gross domestic product.

His only " Christmas gift " is allowing his overworked, underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit Christmas Day off with pay-which he does only to keep with social custom, Scrooge considering it " a poor excuse for picking a man ’ s pocket every twenty-fifth of December!

In " Living Doll ", the twenty-fifth issue of the series, Dawn undergoes her final transformation into a living doll and is kidnapped by a disturbed dollmaker for her ' protection '.

White Box Requiem is the twenty-fifth album by Jandek, and his only for 1996. Released as Corwood Industries # 0763, it is essentially a " concept album " ( see the title ) about a man who opens a " Pandora's box " of sorts.

William Gray " Bill " Daughtridge, Jr. is a businessman from Rocky Mount, North Carolina who served three terms ( Jan. 2003-Dec. 2008 ) as a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's twenty-fifth House district, including constituents in Nash County.

The Transalpine Redemptorists who live on Papa Stronsay celebrate ' Little Christmas ' on the twenty-fifth day of every month, except for December, when the twenty-fifth day is of course celebrated as Christmas Day.

In December 2009, UGO. com placed Sephiroth twenty-fifth on their list of " Top 25 Japanese RPG Characters " calling him " one of the most visually striking villains of all time " while praising how different he is from previous Final Fantasy villains.

Asterix and the Great Divide is the twenty-fifth volume of the Asterix comic book series.

In philately, a Silver Jubilee issue is an issue of postage stamps by the British Post Office and the Post Offices of Commonwealth countries and British dependencies to commemorate the monarch's twenty-fifth anniversary on the throne.

The Beach Boys is the self-titled twenty-fifth studio album by American rock band The Beach Boys, released on June 10, 1985.

The Once and Future King is the first segment of the twenty-fifth episode ( the first episode of the second season ( 1986 – 1987 ) of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album is an album of Christmas songs by the American band Chicago, their twenty-fifth album overall, released in 1998 on the band's Chicago Records label.

The rubric is necessary because the last Sunday before Advent does not always fall on the twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity: Trinity Sunday is a moveable feast and the Advent season is fixed, so the number of weeks in between varies from year to year.

In their 2006 season, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ( Dance Your Booty But Cheaks Off ) will celebrate Robinson's twenty-fifth year with the company ; her tenure is the longest of any female dancer in the company's history.

It is currently the third tallest in Montreal and the twenty-fifth tallest building in the country.

Therefore, the twenty-fifth hour, which is the first hour of the following day, is dominated by the Sun ; the forty-ninth hour, which is the first hour of the next day, by the Moon.

The fact that sticks out in this voluminous record is that the bulk of Du Pont's production has always supplied the largest part of the requirements of the one customer in the automobile industry connected to Du Pont by a stock interest.

however, the anode is still the part receiving the largest heat flux.

It is often stated that the largest snakes require five years to attain maturity, but this apparently is an overestimation.

Bernard Heuvelmans also treats of the largest snakes, but on the third level, and is chiefly concerned with the anaconda.

In addition, the iodoamino acid formed in largest quantity in the intact thyroid is di-iodotyrosine.

This development is reflected in the action taken in February, 1961, by the general board of the National Council of Churches, the largest Protestant organization in the Aj.

The ultimate objective of American policy is to help establish a world in which there is the largest possible measure of freedom and justice and peace and material prosperity ; ;

I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

The dome of the church is, outside of St. Peter's, one of the largest in Rome.

It is the second largest city in Japan, with about four million people.

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1

Behind this reply, and its many variations, is the ever-present budget problem all libraries must face, from the largest to the smallest.

Also, the state with the largest number of Negroes is New York -- not in the South at all.

The largest city by population is Birmingham.

The largest city by total land area is Huntsville.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

The largest amphibian is the Chinese Giant Salamander, Andrias davidianus.

The suborder Neobatrachia is by far the largest group and includes the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species.

The largest family in this group is Plethodontidae, the lungless salamanders, which includes sixty percent of all salamander species.

Alaska () is the largest state in the United States by area.

One of the largest problems that affect patients with disabilities is discomfort with prosthesis.

The largest segmental script is probably an abugida, Devanagari.

The largest known abjad is Sindhi, with 51 letters.