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A loose ball cap finial on the newel post at the base of the stairway is a plot device in the 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life.The same is used in jest in the 1989 film Christmas Vacation, in which Clark Griswold, in an emotional meltdown, cuts a loose finial off a newel post with a chainsaw.
A Newel is the upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind. Newel may also refer to: Newel, Germany; People. Stanford Newel (1839–1907 ...
Soar [1] is a cognitive architecture, [2] originally created by John Laird, Allen Newell, and Paul Rosenbloom at Carnegie Mellon University.. The goal of the Soar project is to develop the fixed computational building blocks necessary for general intelligent agents – agents that can perform a wide range of tasks and encode, use, and learn all types of knowledge to realize the full range of ...
Newel (disambiguation) Newill (surname) This page was last edited on 11 August 2024, at 11:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Gabe Logan Newell (born November 3, 1962), also known by his nickname Gaben, is an American video game developer and businessman. He is the president and co-founder of the video game company Valve Corporation.
The Magyar or Hungarian tribes (/ ˈ m æ ɡ j ɑːr / MAG-yar, Hungarian: magyar törzsek) or Hungarian clans were the fundamental political units within whose framework the Hungarians (Magyars) lived, before the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin and the subsequent establishment of the Principality of Hungary.
In 1634, Władysław IV granted Newel to the Radziwiłł family. [12] At the time, there were eight churches, either Catholic or Orthodox, in the town. [12] In 1655, the town was captured by the Russians, and the castle was destroyed, however, it was restored to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1678. [12]
In 1581, Poland also demanded the restoration of Siebież, but to no avail, and regained Siebież and Newel only in 1617–1618. [68] During the war, Poland also temporarily controlled the more northern towns of Velikiye Luki , Opochka and Ostrov .