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In linguistics and semantics contrast is a relationship between two discourse segments. Contrast is often overtly marked by contrastive markers like but or however, such as in the following examples: (1) It's raining but I am taking an umbrella. (2) We will be giving a party for our new students. We won't, however, be serving drinks. In (1) the first clause, It's raining implies that the speaker will get wet, while the second clause I am taking an umbrella implies that the speaker ...

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Contrast, Contrast - Visual perception, Contrast - Telecommunication, Contrast - Music, Contrast - Linguistics and semantics, Contrast - Medicine

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Blue Man Group is a creative organization centered on a trio of mute performers that present themselves in blue paint, latex bald caps, and black clothing. Friends Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton (collectively referred to as CMP) conceived the idea during the 1980s while in New York City. They began appearing on the streets in Blue Man regalia, entertaining passersby and staging unusual events such as "The Funeral For the 80s." Originally appearing doing short bits as part of Tom Murrin's "The Alien Comic's" underground caba ...

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• Blue Man Group - Theatrical productions
• Blue Man Group - List of theatrical productions
• Blue Man Group - Musical instruments
• Blue Man Group - Music and tours
• Blue Man Group - Appearances and other work
• Blue Man Group - Community
• Blue Man Group - Controversy
• Blue Man Group - Discography
• Blue Man Group - Audio
• Blue Man Group - The Complex
• Blue Man Group - Videography
• Blue Man Group - Side projects

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A bus stop is a place where a public transport bus stops for the purpose of allowing passengers to board or leave the bus. The simplest kind can be just a sign saying "bus stop", or it can be a post with special colouring or other marks identifying it as a bus stop; however, line numbers and/or destinations are often indicated. The times the bus departs may be given, or the whole timetable for the lines involved. A map of the bus lines and tariff information may be provided. Electronic signs may be present to tell real-time when the n ...

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• Bus stop - Bus stop placement
• Bus stop - Bus stop location
• Bus stop - Bus stops in music

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Ceramic Discharge Metal Halide lamps are a relativly new source of light that is a variation of the mercury-vapor lamp. There is a ceramic tube inside the lamp that heats a Mercury-Argon mixture creating a blueish light that is close to daylight with a CRI (color rendering index) of 96. They are five times brighter than comparable tungsten incandescent light bulbs. Applications for these lamps include television and film making as well as digital photography and architectural lighting. Natural/prehistoric light sources: ...

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An airport is a facility where aircraft can take off and land. At the very minimum, an airport consists of one runway (or helipad), but other common components are hangars and terminal buildings. Apart from these, an airport may have a variety of facilities and infrastructure, including fixed base operator services, air traffic control, passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services. A military airport is known as an airbase in North American terminology (other countries may use the term airfield or air s ...

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• Airport - Attributes
• Airport - Airport structures
• Airport - International airports
• Airport - Shops and food services
• Airport - Cargo and freight services
• Airport - Support services
• Airport - History and development
• Airport - Airport designation and naming
• Airport - Airport security
• Airport - Airport operations
• Airport - Air traffic control
• Airport - Traffic pattern
• Airport - Navigational aids
• Airport - Guidance signs
• Airport - Lighting
• Airport - Wind indicators
• Airport - Safety management
• Airport - Environmental concerns
• Airport - Military Airbase
• Airport - Aircraft Carriers
• Airport - Airports in entertainment
• Airport - Airport Directories

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A lamp in general is any device that produces light. Originally, this meant a source of light from an open flame. The word now commonly refers to an electric lamp that sits on a table, desk, or on the floor. It refers specifically to the light bulb (or tube) itself, hence "relamping" refers to the replacement of only the light source in a light fixture. For communication between ships, a signal lamp was commonly used. See lighting and light fixture for more information. ...

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• Lamp - Flame lamps
• Lamp - Electric lamps

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VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language, usually pronounced vermal) is a standard file format for representing 3-dimensional (3D) interactive vector graphics, designed particularly with the World Wide Web in mind. VRML - Format. VRML is a text file format where, e.g., vertices and edges for a 3D polygon can be specified along with the surface color, image-mapped textures, shininess, transparency, and so on. URLs can be associated with graphical components so that a web browser might fetch a we ...

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• VRML - Format
• VRML - Standardization
• VRML - Emergence popularity decline and rebirth
• VRML - Open source programs that can export VRML
• VRML - Open source VRML programs external links

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The General Electric Company, or GE (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. Going into 2005, it was the world's largest corporation in terms of market capitalization ([1]). It should not be confused with The General Electric Company plc, which was renamed Marconi plc in 1999. In the 1960s, peculiarities in U.S. tax laws and accounting practices made it fashionable to assemble conglomerates. GE, which was a conglomerate long before the term was coined, is one of the very few corporations to a ...

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• General Electric - History
• General Electric - Today
• General Electric - GE subsidiaries
• General Electric - Jack Welch
• General Electric - Corporate information
• General Electric - Analyst coverage
• General Electric - Financials

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Contrast has several meanings: Contrast - Visual perception. In visual perception, contrast is the difference in visual properties that makes an object (or its representation in an image) distinguishable from other objects and the background. world, contrast is determined by the difference in the color and brightness of the light reflected or emitted by an object and other objects within the same field of view. In imaging, contrast depends additionally on the image source, the m ...

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• Contrast - Visual perception
• Contrast - Telecommunication
• Contrast - Music
• Contrast - Linguistics and semantics
• Contrast - Medicine

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Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 24 or November 25, 1958), also known as "Boss" Kettering, was born in northern Ohio, USA. He was a farmer, school teacher, mechanic, engineer, scientist, inventor and social philosopher. He had poor eyesight, but acquired an electrical engineering degree from Ohio State University in 1904. He held that new ideas can be developed through cooperative team ...

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Aesthetics (also esthetics and æsthetics) is the subfield of philosophy concerning beauty and art. An aesthetic (also esthetic and æsthetic) is the philosophical theory of a particular school of philosophy concerning beauty and art; for example, "he despised the aesthetic of minimalism". Aesthetics - Aesthetics in History and Philosophy. Thinkers and sages over the world have pondered beauty and art for millennia, but the subject was formally distinguished as an i ...

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• Aesthetics - Aesthetics in History and Philosophy
• Aesthetics - Aesthetics in the Arts
• Aesthetics - Visual arts
• Aesthetics - Music
• Aesthetics - Performing Arts
• Aesthetics - Literature
• Aesthetics - Gastronomy
• Aesthetics - Aesthetics in the Sciences
• Aesthetics - Information Technology
• Aesthetics - Digital Aesthetics
• Aesthetics - Mathematics
• Aesthetics - Neuroesthetics
• Aesthetics - Aesthetics in Engineering
• Aesthetics - Industrial Design
• Aesthetics - Architecture
• Aesthetics - Urban Life
• Aesthetics - Landscape Design
• Aesthetics - Schools of Aesthetics

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Cinematography literally means "writing in the movement", and is the discipline of making lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for the cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography, though many additional issues arise when both the camera and elements of the scene are in motion. In the film industry, the cinematographer is responsible for the technical caliber of the images, but also works closely with the director to ensure that the aesthetics are supporting the story bei ...

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• Cinematography - Cinematographic decisions
• Cinematography - The Film: Film Stock Width and Exposure
• Cinematography - Filters
• Cinematography - Lens
• Cinematography - Depth of field and focus
• Cinematography - Aspect Ratio and Framing
• Cinematography - Camera Movements
• Cinematography - Duration of a shot: long takes
• Cinematography - Lighting
• Cinematography - Special effects
• Cinematography - External links

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A lantern is a portable lighting device used to illuminate broad areas. Lanterns may be used for signaling, or as general light sources for camping. Dim varieties are often used for decoration. Lantern - Modern lanterns. Some lanterns are battery-powered and have a lightbulb, often of the fluorescent type. They are easy to use and comparatively durable, but much less bright than propane or liquid fuel lanterns. Propane lanterns are more complex in design. A lantern of this type is typically s ...

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• Lantern - Modern lanterns
• Lantern - Traditional and decorative lanterns

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Furniture is the collective term for the movable objects which support the human body (seating furniture and beds), provide storage, and hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground. Storage furniture is used to hold or contain smaller objects such as clothes, tools, books, and household goods. Furniture can be a product of artistic design and is considered a form of decorative art. In addition to furniture's functional role, it can serve a symbolic or religious purpose. Domestic furniture works, in conjunction with furnishing ...

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• Furniture - Furniture design
• Furniture - Furniture types
• Furniture - Selected Bibliography
• Furniture - Related Links

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Illumination is either lighting — supplying light to an area Enlightenment (Satori), see also Illuminati the art of decorating letters or pages with ink and embossing techniques. See illuminated manuscript. Illumination (album), an album by Paul Weller. Other related archivesEnlightenment, Illuminati, Paul Weller, Satori, art, embossing, illuminated manuscript, ink, light, lighting

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Night is the time when a location is facing away from the Sun, and thus dark. On Earth, it is night on just under half the planet at any time. When it is night on one side of the planet, it is day on the other side. Because of the rotation of Earth about its axis, it is alternately day and night, which together form a 24-hour day. The Earth's tilt also means that the nights are shorter in the seasons of summer and longer in winter. Two effects contribute to the fact that nights are on average shorter than days. The sun is not a ...

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A zoological garden or zoo is a place where animals are restricted within artificial environments and exhibited to the public. The first zoos were private menageries, usually belonging to monarchs. King Charles I of England established a zoo with a large python as the main attraction. The first public zoo was established in Vienna in 1752, when the Habsburg emperors decided to grant public access to the former privately-owned Schönbrunn Palace menagerie, now called Tiergarten Schönbrunn Zoo Vienna. After the French Revolutio ...

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A nightclub (often shortened to club) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. In most other languages, night clubs are referred to as "discos" or "discothèques" (French: discothèque; German: Disko; Japanese: ディスコ, disuko or クラブ, kurabu). Nightclubs are always associated with music and have a dance floor, however small: a drinking establishment without music is a saloon or bar, pub or tavern. Though a nightclub may have a floor show or other enterta ...

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• Nightclub - History

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A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), also known as a compact fluorescent light bulb, is a type of fluorescent lamp which screws into a regular light bulb socket, or plugs into a small lighting fixture. In contrast to incandescent light bulbs, they have a longer life and use less electricity. In fact, their savings in electricity expenditures are many times their higher initial cost. Compact fluorescent lamp - Details. Globally introduced in the early 1980s, compact fluorescent lamps have been ste ...

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• Compact fluorescent lamp - Details
• Compact fluorescent lamp - Colors
• Compact fluorescent lamp - Disposing of CFLs
• Compact fluorescent lamp - Comparison of electricity cost
• Compact fluorescent lamp - How they work
• Compact fluorescent lamp - Parts
• Compact fluorescent lamp - End of life
• Compact fluorescent lamp - Design Compromises and Challenges
• Compact fluorescent lamp - Other CFLs
• Compact fluorescent lamp - Gallery of compact fluorescent lamp types

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Cockermouth is a town in Cumbria, England, where the River Cocker flows into the River Derwent. It is situated on the North west fringe of the English Lake District. This location tends to enhance the life and character of the town without the negative impact of receiving too many tourists (as some believe has occurred in the case of Cockermouth's neighbour Keswick). Much of the architectural core of the town remains la ...

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• Cockermouth - Gallery

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