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White Light/white Heat: Encyclopedia - White Light/white Heat
White Light/White Heat is The Velvet Underground's second album.
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White Light Rudy Rucker Novel: Encyclopedia - White Light Rudy Rucker Novel
White Light is a work of science fiction by Rudy Rucker published in 1980 by Ace Books. The novel deals mainly with the concept of infini...
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White Light:
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white light Energy that balances and restores, natural and available to all living things. Emanations from the spiritual, the light o...
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Mystical Experiences: Visions Of Lights In Meditation
Visions of
Lights in Meditation
Various kinds of lights manifest during meditation
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Feng Shui: Qi - Light And Color
Qi - Light and Color
In the Taoist philosophy of feng shui,
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Meditation: Mystic Experience In Meditation - Visions Of Lights
Mystic
Experience - Visions Of Lights
Various kinds of lights manifest during
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White: Encyclopedia - White
White is a color (more accurately it contains all the colors of the visible spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—...
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White People: Encyclopedia - White People
White (noun, white or whites; adjective, white people) is a color-defined term used as a form of ethno-racial classification. Though lite...
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Brown Dwarf: Encyclopedia - Brown Dwarf
Brown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects (~5 to 90 Jupiter masses) that do not fuse hydrogen into helium in their cores, as do stars on the m...
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109 Virginis: Encyclopedia - 109 Virginis
109 Virginis is the seventh brightest star in the constellation Virgo.
109 Virginis is a white A-type main sequence dwarf with an apparen...
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Zeta Arietis: Encyclopedia - Zeta Arietis
Zeta Arietis (ζ Ari / ζ Arietis) is a star in the constellation Aries.
Zeta Arietis is a white A-type main sequence dwarf with an appar...
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Xi Virginis: Encyclopedia - Xi Virginis
Xi Virginis (ξ Vir / ξ Virginis) is a star in the constellation Virgo.
Xi Virginis is a white A-type main sequence dwarf with an appare...
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Xi Arietis: Encyclopedia - Xi Arietis
Xi Arietis (ξ Ari / ξ Arietis) is a star in the constellation Aries.
Xi Arietis is a blue-white B-type subgiant with an apparent magnit...
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Zinc Oxide: Encyclopedia - Zinc Oxide
Zinc oxide is a chemical compound with formula ZnO. It is nearly insoluble in water but soluble in acids or alkalis. It occurs as white h...
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Wormhole: Encyclopedia - Wormhole
In physics, a wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that is essentially a "shortcut" through space and time. A worm...
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White Gold: Encyclopedia - White Gold
White gold refers to an alloy of gold and other white metals such as silver, palladium, or nickel. The natural color of white gold is lig...
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - White As Opposed To Light Skinned
There is considerable controversy as to the difference between "light skinned" as opposed to "White". As mentioned above, the term "White...
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - White As Opposed To Light Skinned
There is considerable controversy as to the difference between "light skinned" as opposed to "white". As mentioned above, the term "white...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - White Light/white Heat 1968
The Velvet Underground performed live often, and their performances became louder, harsher and often featured extended improvisations. Ca...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - White Light/white Heat 1968
The Velvet Underground performed live often, and their performances became louder, harsher and often featured extended improvisations. Ca...
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Isaac Newton's Early Life And Achievements: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton's Early Life And Achievements - The Composition Of White Light
On December 21, 1671 he was proposed as a candidate for admission into the Royal Society by Dr Seth Ward, bishop of Salisbury, and on Jan...
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White: Encyclopedia Ii - White - Color
White - Paint.
In painting, white can be created by reflecting ambient light from a white pigment. White when mixed with black produces...
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Light-emitting Diode: Encyclopedia Ii - Light-emitting Diode - Considerations In Use
Unlike incandescent light bulbs, which light up regardless of the electrical polarity, LEDs will only light with positive electrical pola...
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Light-emitting Diode: Encyclopedia Ii - Light-emitting Diode - Led Applications
Light-emitting diode - List of known applications for LEDs.
Some of these applications are further elaborated upon in the following tex...
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Light-emitting Diode: Encyclopedia Ii - Light-emitting Diode - Led Technology
Light-emitting diode - Physical function.
A LED is a special type of semiconductor diode. Like a normal diode, it consists of a chip of...
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - The Epistemological Challenge
White (noun, white or whites; adjective, white people) is a color-defined term used as a form of ethno-racial classification. Though lite...
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - Historic Use Of The Term In The United States
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Inner Light:
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Hinduism Dictionary On Inner Light
inner light: light perceived inside the head and body, of which there are varying intensities. When the karmas have been sufficiently ...
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - Synonyms
Today "White" and "black" are less often used as nouns (e.g. "Whites"), as they are often thought to be slightly impolite; instead the ph...
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - Use Of The Term Outside The United States
1.Is the person Spanish/Hispanic/Latino?
2.What is the person's race?
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - Social Vs. Physical Perceptions Of White
Ultimately, whether any individual considers any other individual as White (or not) often comes down to whether the person "looks White."...
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Phosphor: Encyclopedia Ii - Phosphor - Materials
Phosphors are usually made from a suitable host material, to which an activator is added. The best known type is a copper-activated zinc ...
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - Historic Use Of The Term In The United States
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - Areas Of Habitation
Ever since the era of European expansion, and especially since the 19th century, most Europeans have come to see most other Europeans as ...
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - The Epistemological Challenge
The concept of a "White person" (or a "Black person") is scientifically useless. This does not mean that the terms are inaccurate, nor th...
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - Synonyms
Today "white" and "black" are less often used as nouns (e.g. "whites"), as they are often thought to be slightly impolite; instead the ph...
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - Social Vs. Physical Perceptions Of White
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - Use Of The Term Outside The United States
1.Is the person Spanish/Hispanic/Latino?
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White People: Encyclopedia Ii - White People - Areas Of Habitation
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - Discography
The Velvet Underground - Singles.
"All Tomorrow's Parties" / "I'll Be Your Mirror" (recorded and released 1966)
"Sunday Morning" / "Fe...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - Discography
The Velvet Underground - Singles.
"All Tomorrow's Parties" / "I'll Be Your Mirror" (recorded and released 1966)
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - Enter Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol became the band's manager in 1965, and suggested they feature the German-born singer Nico on several songs. Warhol's reputati...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico 1967
At Warhol's insistence, Nico joined the V.U. on their debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico. The album was recorded in one or two ...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground 1969
Before work on their third album started, Reed fired Cale, and replaced him with Doug Yule. The Velvet Underground was recorded in late 1...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - The Fourth Album Unreleased
The Velvet Underground recorded a lot of material that was never officially released due to disputes with their record label. What many c...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - Loaded 1970
In 1969, MGM Records president Mike Curb wanted to purge any drug- or hippie-related bands from MGM, and the V.U. were on his list, along...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - Reunion
In 1990, Reed and Cale released Songs for Drella, dedicated to the recently deceased Andy Warhol. ("Drella" was a nickname Warhol had ado...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - 1970 Onwards
Although Loaded's spin-off single "Who Loves the Sun" did nothing, the album itself is something of a muted triumph. "Sweet Jane" and "Ro...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - Early Career
The foundations for what would become The Velvet Underground were laid in late 1964. Lou Reed had performed with a few short-lived garage...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - Enter Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol became the band's manager in 1965, and suggested they feature the German-born singer Nico on several songs. Warhol's reputati...
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Slayers: Encyclopedia Ii - Slayers - Characters
Slayers - Lina Inverse.
Main Article: Lina Inverse
Lina appears in all incarnations of Slayers. She is a young but very powerful sorc...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico 1967
At Warhol's insistence, Nico joined the V.U. on their debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico. The album was recorded in one or two ...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground 1969
Before work on their third album started, Reed fired Cale, and replaced him with Doug Yule. The Velvet Underground was recorded in late 1...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - The Fourth Album Unreleased
The Velvet Underground recorded a lot of material that was never officially released due to disputes with their record label. What many c...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - Reunion
In 1990, Reed and Cale released Songs for Drella, dedicated to the recently deceased Andy Warhol. "Drella" was a nickname Warhol had adop...
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Slayers: Encyclopedia Ii - Slayers - Spells
There are a wide variety of magical spells in the world of Slayers, categorized by the origin of their power. Following are some of the m...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - Loaded 1970
In 1969, MGM Records president Mike Curb wanted to purge any drug- or hippie-related bands from MGM, and the V.U. were on his list, along...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - 1970 Onwards
Although Loaded's spin-off single "Who Loves the Sun" did nothing, the album itself is something of a muted triumph. "Sweet Jane" and "Ro...
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The Velvet Underground: Encyclopedia Ii - The Velvet Underground - Early Career
The foundations for what would become The Velvet Underground were laid in late 1964. Lou Reed had performed with a few short-lived garage...
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Shadow: Encyclopedia Ii - Shadow - Colored Shadows
If white light is produced by separate colored light sources, the shadows are colored.
Illuminate a room with a red light, and the shadow...
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Lighting: Encyclopedia Ii - Lighting - Vehicle Lighting
Vehicles typically include headlights and tail lights. Headlights are white or yellow lights placed in the front of the vehicle, designed...
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Slayers: Encyclopedia Ii - Slayers - The Universe
In the universe of Slayers, there is a supreme being, neither good nor evil, called Lord of Nightmares, L-sama or Sea of Chaos, who creat...
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Traffic Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Traffic Light - Introduction
Traffic lights for normal vehicles or pedestrians always have two main lights, a red one that means stop and a green(or white for pedestr...
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Bicycle Lighting: Encyclopedia Ii - Bicycle Lighting - Front Lighting
Bicycle lighting - LEDs.
Cyclists that ride at night only occasionally might opt for an inexpensive LED front light and rear LED flashe...
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The White Stripes: Encyclopedia Ii - The White Stripes - Discography
The White Stripes - Albums.
The White Stripes - EPs.
The White Stripes - Singles.
The White Stripes - DVDs.
Candy Coloured Blues...
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Isaac Newton's Early Life And Achievements: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton's Early Life And Achievements - Newton's Poverty
On March 8, 1673 Newton wrote to Oldenburg, the secretary of the Royal Society:
"Sir, I desire that you will procure that I may be put ou...
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Isaac Newton's Early Life And Achievements: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton's Early Life And Achievements - Academic Career
In January 1665 Newton took the degree of B.A.. The persons appointed (in conjunction with the proctors, John Slade of Catharine Hall, Ca...
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Solid State Lighting: Encyclopedia Ii - Solid State Lighting - Technology Overview
A single LED can produce only a limited amount of light, and only a single color at a time. To produce the white light necessary for SSL,...
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Runway: Encyclopedia Ii - Runway - Runway Lighting
At bigger airports, runways use a standard lighting system to allow night landings. Seen from a landing plane, the runway starts with a s...
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Isaac Newton's Early Life And Achievements: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton's Early Life And Achievements - Birth And Education
Sir Isaac Newton (January 4, 1643 - March 31, 1727 Gregorian Calendar), the English mathematician and scientist, was born at Woolsthorpe-...
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Runway: Encyclopedia Ii - Runway - Runway Lighting
At bigger airports, runways use a standard lighting system to allow night landings. Seen from a landing plane, the runway starts with a s...
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English Channel: Encyclopedia Ii - English Channel - The Channel Tunnel
Nowadays, many travellers cross the English Channel underneath, by way of the Channel Tunnel or "Chunnel". This grand engineering feat, f...
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English Channel: Encyclopedia Ii - English Channel - Formation Of The Channel
Before the end of the last ice age, around 10,000 years ago, the British Isles were part of mainland Europe. As the icesheet melted, a la...
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English Channel: Encyclopedia Ii - English Channel - Historical Significance
The Channel has been a key natural defence for Britain, a fact that is referred to in William Shakespeare's play Richard II:
This precio...
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Rhodesia: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhodesia - Politics
Main Article: Politics of Rhodesia
The 1961 Constitution governed Rhodesia up till 1969. It used the Westminster Parliamentary System, th...
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Brown Dwarf: Encyclopedia Ii - Brown Dwarf - History
Brown dwarfs were originally called black dwarfs, a classification for dark substellar objects floating freely in space which were too lo...
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English Channel: Encyclopedia Ii - English Channel - Notable Channel Crossings
On 7 January 1785 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travelled from Dover to Calais in a gas balloon, becoming th...
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Brown Dwarf: Encyclopedia Ii - Brown Dwarf - In Theory
Brown dwarf - Distinguishing heavy brown dwarfs from light stars.
Lithium: Lithium is generally present in brown dwarfs and not in low-...
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Christmas Lights: Encyclopedia Ii - Christmas Lights - History
The first known electrically-illuminated Christmas tree was the creation of Edward H. Johnson, an associate of inventor Thomas Edison. Wh...
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Christmas Lights: Encyclopedia Ii - Christmas Lights - History
The first known electrically-illuminated Christmas tree was the creation of Edward H. Johnson, an associate of inventor Thomas Edison. Wh...
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Brown Dwarf: Encyclopedia Ii - Brown Dwarf - In Practice
Typical atmospheres of known brown dwarfs range in temperature from 300 to over 3000 K, in comparison with stars, which cool to minimum t...
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Rhodesia: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhodesia - End Game
The need to cut a deal was apparent to most Rhodesians by 1978 – but not to all. Rhodesian special forces carried out a raid on Joshua ...
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White Blood Cell: Encyclopedia Ii - White Blood Cell - Types
There are three major types of white blood cells.
White blood cell - Granulocytes.
Granulocytes are a category of white blood cells, ch...
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Rhodesia: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhodesia - History
Rhodesia - 1953–1965.
In 1953, with calls for independence mounting in many of its African possessions, the United Kingdom created th...
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Rhodesia: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhodesia - Publications
Rhodesia - African perspective.
Ranger, Terence O. The African voice in Southern Rhodesia, 1898-1930 (Northwestern Univ. Press, 1970) ...
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Automotive Lighting: Encyclopedia Ii - Automotive Lighting - Conspicuity
Automotive lighting - Front position lamps and rear taillamps.
Nighttime standing-vehicle conspicuity to the front is provided by front...
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Marfa Lights: Encyclopedia Ii - Marfa Lights - The Characteristics Of Marfa Lights
Reports of evidently similar strange nocturnal lights in this area have persisted all through the twentieth century, and they continue to...
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Solid State Lighting: Encyclopedia Ii - Solid State Lighting - Challenges
Solid State Lighting - Technological Hurdles.
The current manufacturing process of white LEDs has not matured enough to be produced cos...
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Earthquake Lights: Encyclopedia Ii - Earthquake Lights - Appearance
The lights are most evident in the middle of the quake, although there are reports of lights that occurred after or even before the earth...
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Wormhole: Encyclopedia Ii - Wormhole - Wormhole Metrics
Theories of wormhole metrics describe the spacetime geometry of a wormhole and serve as theoretical models for time travel. A simple exam...
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Wormhole: Encyclopedia Ii - Wormhole - Traversable Wormholes
Lorentzian traversable wormholes would allow travel from one part of the universe to another part of that same universe very quickly or w...
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Wormhole: Encyclopedia Ii - Wormhole - Definition
Giving a precise definition of a wormhole is slightly tricky. The idea which one wishes to capture is that there is a compact region of s...
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Wormhole: Encyclopedia Ii - Wormhole - Wormhole Metrics
Theories of wormhole metrics describe the spacetime geometry of a wormhole and serve as theoretical models for time travel. A simple exam...
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Solid State Lighting: Encyclopedia Ii - Solid State Lighting - Research And Development
In order to further the development of SSL technology, the DOE has committed more than $50 million on over 45 applied research projects, ...
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Path Of Light:
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Traditions Dictionary On Path Of Light
PATH OF LIGHT: A term used to identify some traditions where Magick is never used for destructive purposes. Also known as the Right Ha...
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Wormhole: Encyclopedia Ii - Wormhole - Wormholes In Fiction
Wormholes are also a popular feature of science fiction as they allow interstellar travel within human timescales.
They are a centerpiece...
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White Color:
New Age
Spiritual Dictionary On White Color
white color The perfect blending of all the seven colors of the spectrum making white pure color. The positive aspects represents goo...
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White Blood Cell: Encyclopedia Ii - White Blood Cell - Types
There are many different types of white blood cells. Here are the most basic kinds:
White blood cell - Granulocytes.
Granulocytes are a...
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White:
Spiritual - Theosophy
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White
White Regarded as the source whence the seven prismatic colors diverge, it stands for the Logos of a hierarchy. Nearly all the archaic...
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Dreams Symbol: Christian Dream Interpretation Dictionary - White
White: Purity that dispels the darkness; righteousness; God's majesty; blameless; washed white by the blood; redeemed; God's glory; wh...
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