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3 unusual facts about Knot


Avena

Avena species, including cultivated oats, are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including Rustic Shoulder-knot and Setaceous Hebrew Character.

Fly system

Knots, such as the clove hitch and half hitch, are used for rope line terminations.

Hordeum

Hordeum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including The Flame, Rustic Shoulder-knot and Setaceous Hebrew Character.


Arf invariant of a knot

Every knot is pass-equivalent to either the unknot or the trefoil; these two knots are not pass-equivalent and additionally, the right- and left-handed trefoils are pass-equivalent.

Augustyn Träger

Augustyn Träger (born August 25, 1896 in Kalnica Dolna - died, April 22, 1957 in Bydgoszcz), codenames Sęk (Knot) and Tragarz (Moving Man), was a Polish-Austrian soldier during World War I and an intelligence officer in interwar and German-occupied Poland.

Barney Simon

Before he opened the Market, he staged multi-racial plays anywhere he could: in warehouses and shantytowns, storefronts and back yards, including Athol Fugard's The Blood Knot (1961).

Blood Knot

Blood Knot is an early play by South African playwright, actor, and director Athol Fugard, performed first, but only one time, in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1961, with the playwright Fugard and Zakes Mokae playing the brothers Morris and Zachariah.

Capt. Jim's Popeye Club

In addition to showing "Popeye" cartoons (both old and new), it featured interviews with celebrities promoting family films, such as Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers talking about the their newly released film Born Free, and children's games such as "Untie the Knot", musical chairs, and most famously, "Ooey-Gooey".

Chiral knot

The only known amphichiral knot with odd crossing number is a 15-crossing knot discovered by Hoste et al.

Cortège for Rosenbloom

The transcendental naturalism of some of Colin McGinn's work, which construes the mind-body connection (the `world knot') as a natural feature of homo sapiens but `cognitively closed' to our epistemic horizons, is a philosophical analog of this outlook.

Dersingham Bog

The Mire also has some rare insects such as the Black Darter Dragonfly (Sympetrum danae) and moths such as the Light Knot Grass (Acronicta menyanthidis).

Fubuki-class destroyer

After the end of World War I, the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff issued requirements for a destroyer with a maximum speed of 39 knots, range of 4000 nautical miles at 14 knots, and armed with large numbers of the recently developed Type 8 torpedoes.

Girdle book

The knot used for the handle was a Turk's head knot, so named for similar appearance to the turbans worn by medieval Muslims of the Turkish Empire.

Honeypot Wood

Plants in the reserve include Mercurialis perennis (dog's mercury), Anemone nemorosa (wood anemone), plants in the genus Neottia (formerly known as Listera, commonly known as twayblades), Paris quadrifolia (True-lover's Knot or Herb Paris), Hyacinthoides non-scripta (formerly Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta, Common Bluebell or Bluebell) and St John’s wort (Tipton's weed, chase-devil, or Klamath weed).

Hot prowl burglary

The Original Night Stalker - Also known by the monikers "East Area Rapist" and "Diamond Knot Killer," the Original Night Stalker is a serial killer and rapist who was active in California in the 1970s and 1980s.

International Guild of Knot Tyers

Officially established in 1982, the founding members were initially drawn together by the 1978 publication in The Times of an allegedly new knot, the Hunter's bend.

International Speed Windsurfing Class

Antoine Albeau is the current record holder with a speed of 52.02 knots (90.91 km/h or 56.49 mph) over a 500 metre course at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (France) on 5 March 2008.

Isotopy

Regular isotopy of a link diagram, an equivalence relation in knot theory

James J. Montague

Together with Montague, New York theater impresario John Golden organized the "Knot-Very Social and Musical Frat."

Jamming knot

As a type of binding knot, the jamming knot is good for constricting a bundle of objects such as sticks or brush.

Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications

The Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications was established in 1992 by Louis Kauffman and was the first journal purely devoted to knot theory.

Leopard's bane

Paris quadrifolia, also known as Herb Paris, True lover's Knot, a species in the family Melanthiaceae

Marreau

All the plays have premièred in the Tring area, being produced by Frayed Knot Theatre Company.

Overhand loop

Made by tying an Overhand knot in the bight, it can be tied anywhere along a rope (does not need any working end).

Perko pair

This duplication had been missed by John Horton Conway several years before in his knot table and subsequently found its way into Rolfsen's table.

Peter Shalen

An important corollary of the theorem is that at most one nontrivial Dehn surgery (+1 or −1) on a knot can result in a simply-connected 3-manifold.

Place Guillaume II

It is colloquially known as Knuedler, from the Luxembourgish language's word for 'knot', referring to the knot in the belt worn by Franciscan friars.

Relative contact homology

The relative SFT of this pair is a differential graded algebra; Ng derives a powerful knot invariant from a combinatorial version of the zero-th degree part of the homology.

Ricardo Gutierrez

Gutierrez has appeared in various television shows including Hill Street Blues, Knot's Landing, Max Headroom, Hunter, and Wiseguy.

Rich Boy

Another track "She Luvs Me (She Luvs Mi Knot)" featuring Polow da Don was released on June 21, 2010.

Robert Cooter

Recent publications include the sixth edition of the leading textbook "Law and Economics" (co-authored with Thomas Ulen), also translated into many languages, as well as "Solomon's Knot: How Law Can End the Poverty of Nations" (co-authored with Hans-Bernd Schäfer).

Service with a Smile

When Connie reveals plans to spend a day having her hair done in Shrewsbury, Myra at once contacts Bailey, arranging to meet in a registry office and tie the knot.

Shilpa Shinde

Shilpa Shinde and Romit Raj were all set to tie the knot on November 29,2009 before it was called off at the last moment.

Solomon's knot

Because the knot seems to be two entwined figures, it is sometimes interpreted as a Lover's Knot, although that name may indicate another knot.

SS Antilles

The Flandre or the Antilles appeared as stock footage in the 1964 Perry Mason episode Nautical Knot, set near Acapulco, Mexico.

Suebian knot

In 2000 at the Baltic Sea coast at Czarnowko near Lębork, Poland, a bronze kettle was found depicting males wearing the Suebian knot hairstyle.

The Canal

In October 2008, The Canal's leading position on the world sailing map was taken by the Lüderitz Speed Challenge in Namibia, when the "holy grail" 50-knot barrier of speed sailing was first broken by a kitesurfer.

The Wench is Dead

Colin Dexter based the novel on the 1839 murder of 37-year-old Christina Collins as she travelled the Trent and Mersey Canal at Rugeley, Staffordshire on the Staffordshire Knot en route to London.

Thistlethwaite

Morwen Thistlethwaite, knot theorist and professor of mathematics for the University of Tennessee in Knoxville

Torus knot

Unknot, 171 knot (7,2), 819 knot (4,3), 91 knot (9,2), 10124 knot (5,3)

Ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1

Human UCH-L1 and the closely related protein UCHL3 have one of the most complicated knot structure yet discovered for a protein, with five knot crossings.

William Durant

William West Durant (1850–1934), architect and developer of camps in the Adirondack Great Camp style, including Camp Pine Knot and Sagamore Camp

Windsor knot

The Windsor knot is the only tie knot that is to be used by all personnel in the Royal Air Force and the Royal Air Force Cadets (ATC and CCF(RAF)) in the UK when wearing their black tie while in uniform.

The knot is often thought to be named after the Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII before his abdication).

Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival

TJ Dawe (The Slip-Knot), Charles Ross (One Man Star Wars), Ribbit Productions (BoyGroove), and Monster Theatre (The Canada Show), have all performed over several years in Winnipeg.


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