The name, which by an ingenious afterthought is explained as “ the fore thinker ,” is originally the sanskrit pramantha and means “ twirler ” or “ fire-stick ,” being the rod of hard wood which produced fire by rapid rotation in a piece of soft wood .< p > We cannot deny that the myth must have been known also in Mesopotamia, the main center of civilization between India and Greece, and it becomes probable that the figure Sui-Jen has been derived from the same prototype as the Greek Prometheus.

The contestant earned one point for matching answer ( or reasonably similar as determined by the adjudicator – producer Tony Connelly who was dubbed by Kennedy " Tony the moustache twirler ").

As for the feature twirler, currently Karrissa Wimberley ( a 37-time world champion baton twirler ) has the position.

In 2006, instead of a twirler, the featured performer was a Band Juggler For 2011, the Band has returned to having two Feature Twirlers, ReJoyce Green and Michelle Glymph.

She was such a well-rounded teenager, having been a twirler, Future Farmers sweetheart, and secretary of Future Homemakers.

Carrying it to the living room, she imagined the picture she made: tall and roundly slim, a bit sophisticated in her yellow sheath, with a graceful swingy walk that she had learned as a twirler with the school band.

Many of these types of show bands may have both a twirler line and a dancer line, such as Jackson State University's " Prancing J-settes ", along with or in place of a more conventional flag corps.

A fire twirler with staff

Anakin and Obi-Wan prettily fiddle with their sabers like no finely tuned teenage band twirler ever could.

Bill Davis quartet of Hillsboro was second and baton twirler Sue Ann Nuttall of Reedville third.

Mrs. Huffington is a talented Baton twirler, and she taught Ruby and Louise how to twirl batons.

Gelechiidae is a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths.

While these figures are certainly outdated due to the many of reevaluations of Gelechioidea and new descriptions of twirler moths, they still serve to give an impression of the enormous biodiversity contained in this important family.

It is the voracious habits of their larvae that make twirler moths suitable for biological control of invasive plants.

But numerous genera of twirler moths – including most of the former " Deoclonidae " and for the time being also the proposed Physoptilinae – are of undetermined affiliation at present.

With Guy Slade as director, baton twirler, and drill master, 74 letters were spelled during the 1930 football season, 29 at the Harvard-Yale game alone.

Curved horn moths, twirler moths, case-bearers and allies.

Before basketball Calvin Murphy was a world class baton twirler.

His reputation as a twirler earned him invitations to perform at major sporting events and the 1964 New York World's Fair.

It is the showcase song for the baton twirler.

Gelechioidea is the superfamily of moths that contains the case-bearers, twirler moths, and relatives, also simply called curved-horn moths or gelechioid moths.

Some early members were Scott Moore on sousaphone, Cuzn Johnny, Dreiky Caprice, Tim Hoey, Darius ' Boom Boom ' Macrum, Noah on percussion, Theresa Westerdahl aka Tara Fire Ball on clarinet, Gam Mitkevich on trombone and Sara Valentine as baton twirler.

Amaranths are recorded as food plants for some Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species including the nutmeg moth and various case-bearer moths of the genus Coleophora: C. amaranthella, C. enchorda ( feeds exclusively on Amaranthus ), C. immortalis ( feeds exclusively on Amaranthus ), C. lineapulvella and C. versurella ( recorded on A. spinosus ).

* Callisto ( moth ), a genus of moths in the Gracillariidae family

The Polygalaceae is fairly well researched among plant families, in part due to the large diversity of the genus Polygala, and also due to members of the family, like the Fabaceae, being food plants for various Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species.

For the moth genus of that name, see Erechthias.

* Psyche ( moth ), a genus of bagworm moth

Despite the high content of chemicals that are noxious to herbivores, some have evolved the ability to withstand the chemical defences of pepper plants, for example the sematurine moth Homidiana subpicta or some flea beetles of the genus Lanka.

* Sycorax Haliday 1839, a genus of moth flies

A venom which is among the most potent defensive chemicals in any animal is produced by the South American silk moth genus Lonomia.

* Papago ( moth ), a genus of geometer moths

Thyridopteryx is a genus of bagworm moth.

* Merida, a genus of moth in the family Geometridae

* Peoria ( moth ), a genus of pyraloidea ( pyraloid moths )

Ceiba species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species including the leaf-miner Bucculatrix ceibae which feeds exclusively on the genus.

: For the geometer moth genus, see Dirce ( moth )

* Aon ( moth ), a genus of moths

For the fairy longhorn moth genus, see Dicte ( moth ).

The former snout moth genus of that name is now synonymized with Aphomia.

* Amboyna ( genus ), a moth genus

: Lampetia is also a junior synonym of the geometer moth genus Erannis.

: For the moth genus, see Biston ( moth ).