Information about Wishbone

Wishbone may refer to:
  • The wishbone, known in anatomy as the furcula, is a sternum bone found in birds which is shaped like the letter Y. It is used as an attachment point for the wing muscles. It is so named because of a tradition: Two people pull on each side of such a bone, and when it breaks, the one who gets the larger part is said to have a wish granted.
  • Wishbone (TV series), an educational children's television show starring a Jack Russell terrier.
  • Wishbone (computer bus), a non-proprietary (open) system bus/system-on-chip (SoC) interconnect architecture designed for reuse.
  • In automobiles, a wishbone is a suspension component which resembles the avian bone. It is used to control lateral and longitudinal wheel motion. A common suspension design is the double wishbone suspension.
  • The wishbone formation is an offensive formation in American football. It consists of the quarterback, followed by a fullback, who is flanked by one halfback on either side of him, giving the look of a flipped Y, or a wishbone.
  • The wishbone boom on Sailing Craft is most commonly seen on sail boards.
  • Wish-Bone salad dressing is a popular brand of salad dressing.
  • Wish Bone, an American rapper and member of the rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
  • Wishbone Ash, a British rock band.
furcula ("little fork" in Latin) is a forked bone found in birds and theropod dinosaurs, formed by the fusion of the two clavicles. It first appears in the fossil record in the archosaur Longisquama.
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sternum (from Greek στέρνον, sternon, "chest" and hebrew pronounced "Shamokin" also meaning chest) or breastbone is a long, flat bone located in the center of the thorax (chest).
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Wishbone is a television show which aired from 1995 to 2001 in the United States featuring a Jack Russell Terrier of the same name. Re-runs currently air weekly on select PBS stations.
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The Wishbone Bus is an open source hardware computer bus intended to let the parts of an integrated circuit communicate with each other. The aim is to allow the connection of differing cores to each other inside of a chip.
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automobile (from Greek auto, self and Latin mobile moving, a vehicle that moves itself rather than being moved by another vehicle or animal) or motor car (usually shortened to just car) is a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor.
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control arm (sometimes called a wishbone or A-arm) is a nearly flat and roughly triangular member (or sub-frame), that pivots in two places. The broad end of the triangle attaches at the frame and pivots on a bushing.
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In automobiles, a double wishbone (or "upper and lower A-arm") suspension is an independent suspension design using two parallel wishbone-shaped arms to locate the wheel. Each wishbone or arm has two mounting points to the chassis and one joint at the knuckle.
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wishbone formation, also known simply as the ’bone or the wishbone offense, is a formation in American football.

The wishbone is primarily a running formation with one wide receiver, one tight end and three running backs behind the quarterback (who takes
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American football, known in the United States simply as football [1] is a competitive team sport known for its physical roughness despite being a highly strategic game.
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Quarterback (QB) is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the center, in the middle of the offensive line.
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The wishbone boom on sailing craft is most commonly seen on windsurfing boards (sailboards).

The wishbone boom on larger sailing craft is a double-sided boom set at an angle to the mast and typically supported by line stays from the leading edge of the mast to each side of
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Wish-Bone is a popular American brand of salad dressing. The original dressing was based on a recipe served at the Wish-Bone restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri, founded by ex-soldier Phillip Sollomi in the late 1940s.
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Charles C. Scruggs, Jr.,(born on February 17 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio) better known as Wish Bone, is an American rapper and member of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Also known as Straight Jacket and Big Wish.
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Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is an American rap group from Cleveland, Ohio, best known for their high pace rapping style and harmonizing vocals. In 1997, the group was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance with their song "Tha Crossroads.
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Wishbone Ash are a British rock band who achieved particular success in the early and mid-1970s. Formed in Devon in 1969 out of the ashes of the group The Empty Vessels, which had featured Wishbone Ash's founding members Martin Turner and Steve Upton, the original line-up was
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