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  • Thumbnail for Light in August
    Light in August is a 1932 novel by American author William Faulkner. It belongs to the Southern gothic and modernist literary genres. Set in the author's...
    29 KB (4,050 words) - 05:52, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Light Railways Act 1896
    companies could simply plan a line under the auspices of the new act, and, having obtained a light railway order, build and operate it. By reducing the legal costs...
    13 KB (1,027 words) - 14:37, 10 May 2024
  • Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.; lit. 'Order of the Temple of the East' or 'Order of Oriental Templars') is an occult secret society and hermetic magical...
    38 KB (5,148 words) - 01:51, 25 July 2024
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    Light Our Guide". The Star of India emblem, the insignia of order and the informal emblem of British India, was also used as the basis of a series of...
    20 KB (2,302 words) - 08:58, 19 June 2024
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    Light, visible light, or visible radiation is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye. Visible light spans the visible spectrum...
    51 KB (6,346 words) - 23:00, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Light therapy
    Light therapy, also called phototherapy or bright light therapy is the exposure to direct sunlight or artificial light at controlled wavelengths in order...
    56 KB (6,394 words) - 01:54, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
    spin-off of Law & Order, it stars Mariska Hargitay as Detective (ultimately promoted to Captain) Olivia Benson, now the commanding officer of the Special...
    152 KB (11,276 words) - 19:30, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joint Light Tactical Vehicle
    deployed operations. In August 2015, the L-ATV was selected as the winner of the JLTV program. The first JLTV delivery order was placed in March 2016...
    91 KB (9,405 words) - 10:46, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Light-emitting diode
    electron holes, releasing energy in the form of photons. The color of the light (corresponding to the energy of the photons) is determined by the energy required...
    166 KB (18,396 words) - 18:02, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fresnel lens
    Close-up of a second-order lens. Third-order lens (St. Simons Island Light). Fourth-order lens (Sekizaki Lighthouse, Oita, Japan). Fourth order lens from...
    57 KB (6,509 words) - 22:05, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charge of the Light Brigade
    of a misunderstood order from the commander in chief, Lord Raglan, who had intended the Light Brigade to attack a different objective for which light...
    45 KB (5,502 words) - 20:33, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
    14 August 2024. Archived from the original on 15 August 2024. Retrieved 15 August 2024. "Authorities in Russia's Kursk Oblast order evacuation of another...
    189 KB (14,654 words) - 05:38, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rainbow
    has the order of its colours reversed, with red on the inner side of the arc. This is caused by the light being reflected twice on the inside of the droplet...
    79 KB (9,112 words) - 15:36, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Speed of light
    The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately...
    145 KB (15,359 words) - 18:03, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peter Hook & the Light
    Peter Hook & The Light are an English post-punk band, formed in May 2010 by bassist and vocalist Peter Hook, formerly of the influential post-punk bands...
    22 KB (2,262 words) - 21:56, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zorawar LT
    For Trials In December". Retrieved 26 June 2024. "L&T gets order to build prototype of light tank for Sino-India border". Business Standard. 14 April 2023...
    21 KB (1,800 words) - 09:28, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Order of Merit (Jamaica)
    or OM (Hon.) in the case of Honorary Members. The order's motto is "He that does the truth comes into the light." The Order of Merit was originally one...
    11 KB (762 words) - 10:05, 1 August 2024
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    The Most Noble Order of the Garter is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III of England in 1348. The most senior order of knighthood in the British...
    65 KB (6,321 words) - 12:39, 17 August 2024
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    The Order of Assassins or simply the Assassins (Persian: حشاشين, romanized: Ḥaššāšīn) were a Nizari Isma'ili order that existed between 1090 and 1275 AD...
    99 KB (13,489 words) - 19:27, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Traffic light
    The regular traffic light colours are red, yellow (also known as amber), and green arranged vertically or horizontally in that order. Although this is internationally...
    98 KB (10,706 words) - 02:08, 19 August 2024
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