Endings

thumb|The 1914 film serial The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)|Perils of Pauline was shown in bi-weekly installments and ended with a cliffhanger. A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious situation, facing a difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction or before a commercial break in a television programme. A cliffhanger is intended to incentivize the audience to return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma, or to provide a mysterious or thought provoking

describes a topic, subject or symbol in a story

the 27-year transition period from Roman Britain to post-Roman Britain from 383C-410C

political and philosophical concept

occurrence or absence of disease, symptom, sign or laboratory abnormality constituting a target outcome in clinical research trials

biomarker intended to substitute for a clinical endpoint