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Sistine Chapel
40–41
,
41
,
42
,
84

situs inversus
159–61
,
187
,
224
,
247

skeleton
86
,
177
,
201

smoking
213

Snow White
104

socialism
73–4

soldiers
30
,
77–8
,
94
,
131
,
131

somites
246

South Africa
79

South America
45

Spain, Spanish
67
,
131
,
136
,
280

Spain, Philip
IV
of
136
,
140

speech, speech problems
103
,
164
,
181–3
,
205–7

sperm
49
,
219–20

Sperry, Roger
185–6
,
187

split brain
185

splitting, of embryos
244–9

sport
19
,
45
,
203–4
,
284

Sprenger, Jacob
68–69
,
68

Spurzheim, Johann
178
,
179

Stasi
76

Stekel, Wilhelm
252

Stier, Ewald
211–13

Strien, Jan van
88

stroke
see
trauma

stubbornness
164

stuttering
267–8

Subirana, Antonio
243

sun
20–21
,
29–32
,
44–6
,
47

supermarkets
258
,
265–6

superstition
33–4
,
36–9
,
41
,
43–6
,
49

survival chances
27
,
168
,
171
,
174
,
220

Sybaris
19

Sydow, Max von
54

symmetrical, symmetry
15–16
,
95–7
,
100–3
,
104–14
,
105
,
108
,
111
,
143–5
,
178–80
see also
asymmetry

Syria
26

Table of Opposites
19
,
34
,
36
,
49

taboo
21
,
23–8
,
88
,
150

Tadeusz, Norbert
132
,
133

Tanzania
24
,
64

Tarot
43

teaching, teacher training
10
,
27
,
91
,
254
,
268–71
,
276

testosterone
201
,
217
,
231–3

theatre, stage
98–9
,
115

Thomson, William,
see
Kelvin

throwing
170–3

Throwing Madonna theory
168–9
,
173

Tintin, Tintin’s Law
119
,
122
,
126

Titans
261

Titian
133
,
133

Tiu
18

toads
37–8
,
200–1
,
215

tools, left-handed
163
,
261–4

Torah
48
,
148–9
,
149

Toraja
42

trauma, traumatic left-/right-handedness
227–31
,
234
,
249

Turkey, Turkish
151
,
152
,
154

twins
88
,
217
,
222
,
224–5
,
229–30
,
231–33
,
243–9
,
246
,
254

two-handed, two-handedness
see
ambidextrousness

Uhrbrock, Richard
136
,
140

uncanny valley
53–7
,
54
,
55
,
61

United States
see
America untrustworthiness
9
,
18

upbringing
80–81
,
158–9
,
164
,
182

Uranos
261

utensils, left-handed
262
,
264
see also
tools

vampires
37

Van Gils
50

vegetarianism
15
,
169

Velasco, Isabel de
136
,
138

Velázquez, Diego
136–7
,
137
,
140

Vesalius, Andreas
175
,
176
,
177
,
197

Victoria, Queen
82

Victorian
241

Villars, Duchess de
120

Vinci, Leonardo da
82
,
138
,
271–2
,
272
,
283

violence
64
,
125–31
,
129
,
131
,
131
,
134
,

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