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Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most prominent of Founders and early political figures and statesmen of the United States. Considered the earliest of the Founders, Franklin was noted for his curiosity, ingenuity and diversity of interests. His wit and wisdom is proverbial to this day. More than anyone he shaped the American Revolution despite never holding national elective office. As a leader of the Enlightenment he had the attention of scientists and intellectuals all across Europe. As agent in ...

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Electricity is a property of matter that results from the presence of electric charge. Together with magnetism, it constitutes the fundamental interaction known as electromagnetism. Electricity is responsible for many well-known physical phenomena such as lightning, electric fields and electric currents, and is put to use in industrial applications such as electronics and electric power. Electricity - Concepts in electricity. In casual usage, the term electricity is applied to several related concept ...

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Lightning is a powerful natural electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. Lightning's abrupt electric discharge is accompanied by the emission of visible light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. The electric current passing through the discharge channels rapidly heats and expands the air into plasma, producing acoustic shock waves (thunder) in the atmosphere. Lightning - Early lightning research. During early investigations into electricity via Leyden jars and other instruments, a n ...

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A pagoda is the general term in the English language for a tiered tower with multiple eaves common in China, Japan, Korea, and other parts of Asia. Most pagodas were built to have a religious function, most commonly Buddhist, and were often located in or near temples. This term may refer to other religious structures in some countries. In Thailand, "pagoda" usually means the same as stupa while in Vietnam, "pagoda" is a more ...

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Weather control is the purported ability to control the weather by any means, including the use of prayer, magic, or advanced technology. Weather control - History of weather control. Some American Indians had rituals which they believed could induce rain. The Finnish people, on the other hand, were believed by others to be able to control all weather. Thus Vikings refused to take Finns on their raids by sea. Remnants of this belief lasted well into the modern age, with many ship crews being reluctan ...

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McCloud - The Westerner in New York City. The most enduring theme of the show was the conflict between the good-natured, clear-eyed buoyancy of McCloud and the metropolitan cynicism of the residents of New York City, including his fellow officers. McCloud's attire, typically consisting of a sheepskin coat or Western jacket, kerchief tie and cowboy hat, allowed for implied comic relief in many encounters with New Yorkers. That New Yorkers might mistake him for a naif because of his appearance occasionally worked to his advantage. He would often allay suspicion of his moti ...

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Electricity - Ancient. According to Thales of Miletus, writing 600 BC, a form of electricity was known to the Ancient Greeks who found that rubbing fur on various substances, such as amber, would cause a particular attraction between the two. The Greeks noted that the amber buttons could attract light objects such as hair and that if they rubbed the amber for long enough they could even get a spark to jump. An object found in Iraq in 1938, dated to about 250 BC and called the Baghdad Battery, resembles a galvanic cell and is believed by som ...

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Electricity, Electricity - Concepts in electricity, Electricity - History, Electricity - Ancient, Electricity - Modern, Electricity - Electric charge, Electricity - Electric field, Electricity - Electric potential, Electricity - Electric current, Electricity - Electrical energy, Electricity - Electric power, Electricity - SI electricity units, Electricity - Devices, Electricity - Engineering, Electricity - Safety, Electricity - Electrical phenomena in nature

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Open source culture - Appropriation art. Main article: appropriation art Since the early years of the 20th century, the idea of ownership and 'openness' in the visual arts has been influenced by processes of appropriation. To appropriate something is to take possession of it. In the visual arts the term appropriation is often used in a general way to refer to the use made of borrowed elements in the creation of new work. These borrowed elements might include images, forms or styles from art history ...

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Open source culture, Open source culture - Open source culture and intellectual property law, Open source culture - Open source culture versus free culture, Open source culture - Open source culture and technology, Open source culture - Open source culture and networking, Open source culture - Economic implications, Open source culture - Skepticism, Open source culture - Examples, Open source culture - Appropriation art, Open source culture - Sampling music, Open source culture - Scholarship, Open source culture - Science industry and manufacturing, Open source culture - Communication and personal expression, Open source culture - Religious ideology and practice, Open source culture - Government and public policy

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During the Soviet times, Nevyansk was a closed city, which prevented archaeologists from properly studying the tower. They have lifted the veil of secrecy only in the early 2000s. Historians are still debating about the exact purpose of the Nevyansk Tower. Some say that Demidov used it as a "bank safe", others believe it was either a watchtower, or a belltower, or a prison, or even a laboratory for conducting chemical experiments and producing counterfeit money. Some historians think that the tower was supposed to embody the might of the Demidov fami ...

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Leaning Tower of Nevyansk, Leaning Tower of Nevyansk - The purpose of the tower, Leaning Tower of Nevyansk - The purpose of inclination, Leaning Tower of Nevyansk - 18th century hi-tech, Leaning Tower of Nevyansk - Sources

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It is not made clear in the movie exactly how the flux capacitor works. It consists of a box with three small, flashing incandescent lamps arranged as a "Y", located above and behind the passenger's seat of the De Lorean time machine. As the car nears 88 miles per hour, the light of the flux capacitor pulses faster until it has a steady stream of light. The stainless steel body of the De Lorean also has a beneficial effect on the "flux dispersal" as the capacitor activates, although Doc is interr ...

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The first process in the generation of lightning is the forcible separation of positive and negative charge carriers within a cloud or air. The mechanism by which this happens is still the subject of research, but one widely accepted theory is the polarisation mechanism. This mechanism has two components: the first is that falling droplets of ice and rain become electrically polarised as they fall through the atmosphere's natural electric field, and the second is that colliding ice particles become charged by electrostatic induction. Once ch ...

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Lightning, Lightning - Early lightning research, Lightning - Modern research, Lightning - How lightning is formed, Lightning - Types of lightning, Lightning - Intracloud lightning sheet lightning anvil crawlers, Lightning - Cloud-to-ground lightning anvil lightning, Lightning - Bead lightning ribbon lightning staccato lightning, Lightning - Cloud-to-cloud lightning, Lightning - Ground-to-cloud lightning, Lightning - Heat lightning or summer lightning, Lightning - Ball lightning, Lightning - Sprites elves jets and other upper atmospheric lightning, Lightning - Streak lightning, Lightning - Triggered lightning, Lightning - Lightning throughout the Solar System, Lightning - Lightning safety, Lightning - Facts and Trivia

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In fiction, weather control technology can be encountered in the realm of science fiction, fantasy and alternative realities. The concept of weather control is often a part of terraforming. Weather control - Film and Television. In the Star Trek universe, most advanced planets and colonies utilise weather control. A small, but long-established TNG-era (ca 2369) colony a weather control facility for approximately hundred years. Most advanced civilizations apparently employ weather control standard equipment either within the hull or as se ...

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Weather control, Weather control - History of weather control, Weather control - Modern aspirations, Weather control - Ideas to Consider for the Future, Weather control - In fiction, Weather control - Film and Television, Weather control - Computer games, Weather control - Prose, Weather control - Other Fictional Weather Controllers

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No place is completely safe in a thunderstorm, but some are more safe than others. Listening to a radio to keep up to date on storms in the area is the first step in lightning safety. One way to prepare is to install a lightning rod (or, lightning conductor) for preventing lightning damage to a building. Lightning strikes can be prevented by the dissipation of the electrical charges that cause it. This is often done on radio masts and towers, which are frequently struck during thunderstorms. < ...

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Lightning safety, Lightning safety - Methods and precautions, Lightning safety - Activities and safer locations, Lightning safety - Post lightning events, Lightning safety - Lightning rod

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Electricity - Ancient. According to Thales of Miletus, writing circa 600 BCE, a form of electricity was known to the Ancient Greeks who found that rubbing fur on various substances, such as amber, would cause a particular attraction between the two. The Greeks noted that the amber buttons could attract light objects such as hair and that if they rubbed the amber for long enough they could even get a spark to jump. An object found in Iraq in 1938, dated to about 250 BCE and called the Baghdad Battery, resembles a galvanic cell and is believed by some to have been used for electroplating. ...

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Electricity, Electricity - Concepts in electricity, Electricity - History, Electricity - Ancient, Electricity - Modern, Electricity - Electric charge, Electricity - Electric field, Electricity - Electric potential, Electricity - Electric current, Electricity - Electrical energy, Electricity - Electric power, Electricity - SI electricity units, Electricity - Devices, Electricity - Engineering, Electricity - Safety, Electricity - Electrical phenomena in nature

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Benjamin Franklin - Ancestry. Franklin's father, Josiah Franklin, was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and farmer, and Jane White. His mother, Abiah Folger, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wife Mary Morrill, a former indentured servant. Around 1677, Josiah married Anne Child at Ecton, and over the next few years had three children. These half-siblings of Benjamin Franklin included Elizabeth (March 2, 1678), Sa ...

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The earliest example in the Oxford English Dictionary of the use of the word pagoda in English is from 1634. According to Alain Rey's Dictionnaire historique de la langue française (rev. ed. 1995), the word first appeared in French as pagode in 1545, meaning "temple of an Eastern religion" and deriving from a Portuguese word dated from 1516. The derivation is uncertain. Possible roots are the Dravidian pagodi or pagavadi, a name of Kali derived from the Sanskrit bhagavati ("goddess" ...

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Pagoda, Pagoda - Functions of pagodas, Pagoda - Derivation of word, Pagoda - Some famous pagodas, Pagoda - Reference

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An electric current is a flow of electric charge, and its intensity is measured in amperes. Examples of electric currents include metallic conduction, where electrons flow through a conductor such as a metal wire, and electrolysis, where ions (charged atoms) flow through liquids. The particles themselves often move quite slowly, while the electric field that drives them propagates at close to the speed of light. See elec ...

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Electricity, Electricity - Concepts in electricity, Electricity - History, Electricity - Ancient, Electricity - Modern, Electricity - Electric charge, Electricity - Electric field, Electricity - Electric potential, Electricity - Electric current, Electricity - Electrical energy, Electricity - Electric power, Electricity - SI electricity units, Electricity - Devices, Electricity - Engineering, Electricity - Safety, Electricity - Electrical phenomena in nature

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In the movie, the power required is pronounced "one point twenty-one jigowatts". Although this pronunciation of "gigawatt" was once considered the correct one, it is no longer the most common. (In addition, since Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale were unfamiliar with the term, they misspelled it in the script.) Because of this, a "jigowatt" will sometimes be referred to on Internet forums as a fictional unit or to make fun of someone's electrical knowledge. The spelling "jigowatt" is used in the novelizations of films 2 and 3. However, the book of the original ...

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Essentially born out of a desire for increased general access to digital media, internet is open source culture's most valuable asset. It is questionable whether or not the goals of an open source culture could be achieved without the internet. The global network not only fosters an environment where culture can be generally accessible, but also allows for easy and inexpensive redistribution of cu ...

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Open source culture, Open source culture - Open source culture and intellectual property law, Open source culture - Open source culture versus free culture, Open source culture - Open source culture and technology, Open source culture - Open source culture and networking, Open source culture - Economic implications, Open source culture - Skepticism, Open source culture - Examples, Open source culture - Appropriation art, Open source culture - Sampling music, Open source culture - Scholarship, Open source culture - Science industry and manufacturing, Open source culture - Communication and personal expression, Open source culture - Religious ideology and practice, Open source culture - Government and public policy

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There has not been extensive economic study on open sourced models of works such as books, photographs, paintings, sculpture, music, technical drawings, computer software, movies, and maps. However, papers exist which may be suggested to cover general approaches to open source to more specific approaches. There has been some analysis done specifically on copyright and appropriation art. The basic economic approach is to first understand why a certain product might be considered suitable for ?open source.? And then, it is helpful to expl ...

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Open source culture, Open source culture - Open source culture and intellectual property law, Open source culture - Open source culture versus free culture, Open source culture - Open source culture and technology, Open source culture - Open source culture and networking, Open source culture - Economic implications, Open source culture - Skepticism, Open source culture - Examples, Open source culture - Appropriation art, Open source culture - Sampling music, Open source culture - Scholarship, Open source culture - Science industry and manufacturing, Open source culture - Communication and personal expression, Open source culture - Religious ideology and practice, Open source culture - Government and public policy

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