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Rota Fortunae. From an edition of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium showing Lady Fortune spinning her wheel. In medieval and ancient philosophy, the Wheel of Fortune or Rota Fortunae is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna ( Greek equivalent: Tyche) who spins it at random, changing the ...
Tianjin Eye. Tianjin Eye, the official name The Tientsin Eye, is a 120-meter (394 ft)-tall giant ferris wheel built above the Yongle Bridge (formerly Chihai Bridge), over the Hai River in Tianjin, China. Construction started in 2007, with completion of the main body on 18 December 2007, and the wheel opened to the public on 7 April 2008.
The series revolves around the Tracing Department of a charity group named Yan Ming Federation. It is responsible for helping families locate their missing loved ones, lost due to war, natural disaster, or other factors. The series is roughly split into six segments, each revolving around a different case. The last two cases also had a very ...
Slewing bearing. A slewing bearing or slew [ing] ring (also called a turntable bearing) is a rotational rolling-element bearing that typically supports a heavy but slow-turning or slowly-oscillating loads in combination (axial, radial and moment loads), often a horizontal platform such as a conventional crane, a swing yarder, or the wind-facing ...
A USB-pluggable hardware true random number generator. In computing, a hardware random number generator (HRNG), true random number generator (TRNG), non-deterministic random bit generator (NRBG), or physical random number generator is a device that generates random numbers from a physical process capable of producing entropy (in other words, the device always has access to a physical entropy ...
Vọng cổ ( Vietnamese: [vâwŋmˀ ko᷉], chữ Hán: 望 古, "nostalgia") is a Vietnamese song and musical structure used primarily in the cải lương theater music and nhạc tài tử chamber music of southern Vietnam. [1] It was composed sometime between 1917 and 1919 by Cao Văn Lầu (performing name Sáu Lầu "sixth Lầu"), of ...
A French old-fashioned carousel with stairs in La Rochelle. A carousel or carrousel (mainly North American English ), [1] merry-go-round ( international ), Galloper ( international) or roundabout ( British English) [2] is a type of amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders.
Lottery wheeling (also known as lottery system, lottery wheel, lottery wheeling system) is a method of selecting multiple lottery tickets, widely used by individual players and syndicates to secure wins provided they hit some of the drawn numbers.