The structure of the show was very similar over the series during the Mike Murphy years. He would meet each contestant individually, chatting to them for a few minutes, then they would play the first game. These games included, among others: "The Scratch Card Game", which celebrated the fact that entry was reliant on scratchcards. Each contestant got three 'scratches' on their card, which won them cars, holidays or cash. "Treasure Ireland", in which a map of Ireland was shown on the big screen, ...

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Winning Streak, Winning Streak - 1990s, Winning Streak - 2000s, Winning Streak - Format Changes

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Hot-Streak, Hot-Streak - Hot-Streak in the Comicbook, Hot-Streak - Hot-Streak in the Animated Series

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Eventually the project was cancelled due to its apparent lack of credibility as a deterrent. Some considered the cancellation of Blue Streak to be not only a blow to British military-industrial efforts, but also to Commonwealth ally Australia, which had its own vested interest in the project. The missiles used very cold liquid propellant that could only be kept in the missile for a short length of time before icing became a problem. To fuel the rocket took 15 minutes, meaning it was incapable of being used as a rapid response to an at ...

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Blue Streak missile, Blue Streak missile - Background, Blue Streak missile - Cancellation, Blue Streak missile - Civilian Programme, Blue Streak missile - Blue Streak Today

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Virga is a meteorologic term for precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground. At high altitudes the precipitation falls mainly as ice crystals, before melting and finally evaporating. It is very common in desert nations. Virga can cause very interesting weather effects, because as rain changes from liquid to vapour form it takes a lot of heat out of the air due ...

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An agar plate is a sterile Petri dish that contains agar plus nutrients, and is used to culture microorganisms. Generally, selecting substances are also added to the plate, such as antibiotics. Agar plate - Preparation of agar plates. Most types of agar are purchased pre-prepared in powder form, although it is possible to buy a base agar mix and add nutrients separately. They are dissolved in distilled water as per their instructions. It is usually necessary to gently boil the mixture to facilitate dissolvi ...

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Agar plate - Preparation of agar plates Agar plate - Inoculation techniques
Agar plate - Streaking Agar plate - Christmas tree Agar plate - Stab culture Agar plate - Preparing a lawn
Agar plate - Incubation of agar plates Agar plate - Types of agar plates Agar plate - Safe disposal of agar plates

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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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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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Post-war Britain's nuclear weapons armament was initially based on free-fall bombs delivered by the V bomber force. It soon became clear that if Britain wanted to have a credible threat a ballistic missile would be essential. There was a political need for an independent deterrent, so Britain could remain one of the major post-war powers. The use of any American missile would have appeared to hand control to the United States. In April 1954 the Americans proposed a joint development programme for ballistic missiles. The United States ...

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Blue Streak missile, Blue Streak missile - Background, Blue Streak missile - Cancellation, Blue Streak missile - Civilian Programme, Blue Streak missile - Blue Streak Today

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Cirrus (Lat. 'wisp of hair') is a type of cloud. Cirrus clouds are composed of ice crystals and shaped like hairlike filaments. They are formed at an altitudes above 5000 metres (16,500 feet). The streaks are made of snowflakes that are falling from the cloud and being caught by the high level winds. The streaks point in the direction of the wind and may appear straight giving the clouds the appearance of a comma (cirrus uncinus), ...

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Cirrus cloud - Gallery

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The term bolide (from the Greek βολις, bolis, missile) can refer to either an extraterrestrial body that collides with the Earth, or to an exceptionally bright, fireball-like meteor regardless of whether it ultimately impacts the surface. The object itself is a meteoroid; the streak of light is a meteor (or shooting star). If the meteor is brilliant enough to cast shadows, it is a fireball. Finally, if the object appears to explode, it is called a detonating fireball or bolide

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The Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) is a species of thrasher, part of a family of New World birds (Mimidae) that includes New World catbirds and mockingbirds. The Brown Thrasher is, as the name suggests, mostly brown or reddish-brown above, with a white breast and throat streaked with brown, and two white bars on each wing. It has a long tail, and its beak is also relatively large and somewhat cu ...

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Brown Streak Railroad trains typically run with 2 car service, with the occasional 3 car set. The freight trains can reach a length of 4 cars. Service is operated 24 hours a day, and tickets can be purchased from ticket windows, vending machines and aboard trains. As a new feature in the Grand Theft Auto series, players can hijack a train and drive it themselves. Additional sub-missions also involve operating the train and delivering cargo to stations within the allowed time limit. If one has successfully completed the freight train sub-mission ...

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Brown Streak Railroad, Brown Streak Railroad - Overview, Brown Streak Railroad - Stations, Brown Streak Railroad - Los Santos, Brown Streak Railroad - San Fierro, Brown Streak Railroad - Las Venturas

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After the cancellation as a military project, there was reluctance to cancel the project outright because of the huge investment that had taken place. Blue Streak would have become the first stage of a projected all British satellite launcher known as Black Prince, the second stage was derived from the Black Knight test vehicle, and the orbital injection stage was a small hydrogen peroxide/kerosene moto ...

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Blue Streak missile, Blue Streak missile - Background, Blue Streak missile - Cancellation, Blue Streak missile - Civilian Programme, Blue Streak missile - Blue Streak Today

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Two teams of five (one consisting of men, the other consists of women) compete in a game of word association (ala Pyramid). In round one, the captain of the team in control chooses one of two word to play with, while the other four are wearing headphones to make sur they don't hear the word. Once a word is chosen, then the team would then have 40 seconds to guess the word. The team captain would then have describe the word the his first partner, whom would then (if possible) do the same for partner #2. The process is repeated down the ...

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Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak - Gameplay, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak - The Bonus Round, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak - The Party Line Pilot, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak - External links, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak - International Versions

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Three pilots for the show were made, but in 1983 the first one was made under a different name. It was called Party Line, and it was hosted by Gene Rayburn. The main game was basically the same as the other two pilots & the series except teams played for points not dollars (Ruck Zuck, the German version used the same scoring format). The bonus round was way different than the bonus round in the series & the other two pilots. For the winning team faced a zig-zag line of nine players. All team members were given the same ...

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Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak - Gameplay, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak - The Bonus Round, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak - The Party Line Pilot, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak - External links, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak - International Versions

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On September 12, 1995, the Harlem Globetrotters lost an exhibition game 91-85 to Kareem Abdul Jabbar's All Star Team in Vienna, Austria ending a run of 8,829 straight "victories" in exhibition games going back to 1971. The Globetrotters won the other 10 games during that European tour. They also immediately went on another winning streak of 1,270 before losing 72-68 to the Michigan State University Spartans on November 13th 2000. In addition to their exhibition games, the Globetrotters have faced some competitive action since 1997 against many ...

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Harlem Globetrotters, Harlem Globetrotters - History, Harlem Globetrotters - Early years, Harlem Globetrotters - Finding success, Harlem Globetrotters - Modern era, Harlem Globetrotters - Winning Streaks, Harlem Globetrotters - Media

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By removing the prism from the rotary prism cameras, and using a very narrow slit in place of the shutter, it is possible to take images whose exposure is proportional to the film speed across the slit. The image that results has several useful properties. The film advance direction is essentially a measure of time. If the subject's motion is perpendicular to the slit, it may show growth or motion perpendicular to the slit. When the motion of the film is opposite to that of the subject with an inverting (positive) lens, and synchroniz ...

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High speed photography, High speed photography - Early applications, High speed photography - Stroboscopy and laser applications, High speed photography - High speed film cameras, High speed photography - Pin register, High speed photography - Rotary prism, High speed photography - Rotary mirror, High speed photography - Streak shadowgraph and motion compensation photography, High speed photography - Video, High speed photography - CCD, High speed photography - CMOS, High speed photography - Infrared

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Prior to 2003, Jeopardy! contestants were limited to five consecutive games. At the beginning of the show's 20th season (in 2003), the rules were changed to allow contestants to remain on the show as long as they continued to win. After this rule change, and until Jennings' run, the record winning streak was set by Tom Walsh, who won $186,900 ($184,900 in his winning episodes) in eight games in January 2004. Jennings's run began with the episode aired on Monday, June 2, 2004, and spanned two seasons. Since he did not lose befor ...

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Ken Jennings, Ken Jennings - Biography, Ken Jennings - Streak on Jeopardy!, Ken Jennings - Other media appearances, Ken Jennings - After Jeopardy!, Ken Jennings - Ultimate Tournament of Champions, Ken Jennings - Trivia and trademarks, Ken Jennings - Records, Ken Jennings - Game summaries, Ken Jennings - Jennings and previous Jeopardy! champions, Ken Jennings - Loss on Jeopardy! and final statistics, Ken Jennings - Endorsements

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David Madden - Trivia. Average daily winnings of 19 winning episodes: $22,652.63 Average daily winnings with 20th episode: $21,620.00 Average daily winnings with final day's total ($13,300): $22,185.00 ...

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David Madden, David Madden - Streak on Jeopardy!, David Madden - Loss, David Madden - Game-by-Game statistics, David Madden - Trivia

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Harlem Globetrotters - Early years. The Globetrotters started in the Negro American Legion League as the "Giles Post", and in 1927 turned professional as the "Savoy Big Five". That year, promoter Saperstein bought the team and re-named it the Harlem Globetrotters, after the most famous of all African American neighborhoods. The Globetrotters were initially a serious competitive team, and they beat the premier professional team, the Minneapolis Lakers, two games in a row in 1948 and 1949. However, in 1950, Chuck C ...

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Harlem Globetrotters, Harlem Globetrotters - History, Harlem Globetrotters - Early years, Harlem Globetrotters - Finding success, Harlem Globetrotters - Modern era, Harlem Globetrotters - Winning Streaks, Harlem Globetrotters - Media

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Before inoculation, important information is written on the bottom of the plates, close to the rim: date of inoculation temperature of incubation duration of incubation microorganism inoculated Agar plate - Streaking. The most common method of inoculating an agar plate is streaking. With this method, a small amount of sample is placed on the side of the agar plate (either with a swab, or as a drop from an inoculating loop if the sample is a liquid ...

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Agar plate, Agar plate - Preparation of agar plates, Agar plate - Inoculation techniques, Agar plate - Streaking, Agar plate - Christmas tree, Agar plate - Stab culture, Agar plate - Preparing a lawn, Agar plate - Incubation of agar plates, Agar plate - Types of agar plates, Agar plate - Safe disposal of agar plates

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