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Contorts (arguably) is a portmanteau, or a
combination of "contracts" and "torts"
originated by
Grant Gilmore in his book The
Death of Contract. The generally...
- Look up
contort or
contortion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contortion is an act of
twisting and deforming.
Contortion may also
refer to: Contortion...
- In
organic chemistry,
contorted aromatics, or more
precisely contorted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, are
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in...
- Duméril & Bibron, 1853
Ancistrodon contortrix — Baird, 1854
Agkistrodon contorting Abbott, 1869 (ex errore)
Ancistrodon atrofuscus — Cope, 1875 Agkistrodon...
- "Quintuplets 2000" (also
known as "
Contorting Quintuplets 2000" in some
syndicated markets and "Quintuplets" on the
South Park
Studios website) is the...
- more
disease resistant. 'Tortuosa' is an
upright tree with
twisted and
contorted branches,
marketed as cork**** willow. Yet
other weeping willow cultivars...
- strangled. In one such case, a man by the name of
James Stephens was left
contorting and
gurgling for
minutes until he
finally died of asphyxiation. Capital...
- marble, calcite, obsidian, and opal, and
misleadingly to
materials with
contorted banding, such as "cave onyx" and "Mexican onyx". Onyx
comes through Latin...
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About 25
million years ago, a
shift in
plate tectonic movements began to
contort and
crumple the region. This is now most
evident in the
Southern Alps,...
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print series,
which depict sharply dressed men and
women writhing in
contorted emotion. He
lives in New York and East Hampton.
Longo was born in 1953...
