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  • Thumbnail for Window
    A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air. Modern...
    49 KB (5,630 words) - 09:28, 7 June 2024
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    windowpane, called a fixed sash, flanked by two or more smaller windows, known as casement or double-hung windows. The arrangement creates a panoramic view...
    8 KB (812 words) - 16:29, 7 May 2024
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    "optical window" region of the electromagnetic spectrum. An example of this phenomenon is when clean air scatters blue light more than red light, and so...
    34 KB (3,902 words) - 20:48, 22 June 2024
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    the light. There are also several types of window coverings, called shades, that use a single piece of soft material instead of slats. The term window blinds...
    22 KB (3,058 words) - 05:54, 30 June 2024
  • Light in the Window (also known as Light in the Window: The Art of Vermeer) is a 1952 short film directed by Jean Oser. It won an Oscar in 1953 for Best...
    2 KB (76 words) - 05:25, 12 February 2024
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    a window or glass door, typically illuminated with red lights and blacklight. Window prostitution is the most visible and typical kind of red-light district...
    31 KB (3,670 words) - 06:40, 8 June 2024
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    controversial into the 20th century. When the window tax was introduced, it consisted of two parts: a flat-rate house tax of two shillings per house (equivalent to...
    9 KB (1,161 words) - 14:49, 26 April 2024
  • A Light in the Window is a novel written by American author Jan Karon. It is book two of The Mitford Years series. The first edition (ISBN 0-7459-2803-X)...
    1 KB (56 words) - 17:11, 5 June 2024
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    Skylight (redirect from Skylight (window))
    A skylight (sometimes called a rooflight) is a light-permitting structure or window, usually made of transparent or translucent glass, that forms all or...
    14 KB (1,436 words) - 18:32, 26 June 2024
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    Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster (1781–1868). When light encounters a boundary between two media with different refractive indices, some of it is...
    14 KB (1,707 words) - 19:14, 24 February 2024
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    Quarter glass (redirect from Vent window)
    Quarter glass (or quarter light) on automobiles and closed carriages may be a side window in the front door or located on each side of the car just forward...
    8 KB (949 words) - 07:48, 27 May 2024
  • Windows 10 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. Microsoft described Windows 10 as an "operating system as a service"...
    113 KB (6,765 words) - 17:00, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Holsworthy
    "United Methodist Church 1910". The porch, with a two-light window above, is flanked by two-light windows under continuous hood moulds. The church and hall...
    38 KB (3,929 words) - 06:45, 20 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Rose window
    Rose window is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in Gothic cathedrals and churches. The...
    46 KB (6,050 words) - 05:32, 30 March 2024
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    contains some traces of old work in the buttresses and a 14th-century two-light window. A 16th-century gateway remains but is now blocked. It has undergone...
    3 KB (397 words) - 16:59, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Wilfrid's Church, Burnsall
    buttresses, a three-light west window and a doorway with a four-centred arch. Above is a clock face with an octagonal surround, a two-light window, chamfered and...
    4 KB (451 words) - 11:07, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barlow Church
    west and north facades each have one two-light window, while the east facade has the entrance door and two windows. Before its conversion, there were 19th...
    2 KB (269 words) - 19:59, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Oswald's Church, Arncliffe
    three-light west window, a clock on the south side, two-light windows to the belfry, and battlements with corner finials. The east window of the chancel...
    2 KB (211 words) - 00:15, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Leonard's Church, Burton Leonard
    niche containing a statue. At the west end is a paired two-light window, and the east window has five lights. It depicts the Ascension of Jesus, and...
    2 KB (245 words) - 19:54, 23 May 2024
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    Curtain (category Windows)
    the inside of a building's windows to block the passage of light. For instance, at night to aid sleeping, or to stop light from escaping outside the building...
    17 KB (2,029 words) - 12:21, 18 June 2024
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