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  • Radiative cooling

    Radiative cooling

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  • Imago clipeata

    Imago clipeata

    Imago clipeata (Latin: "portrait on a round shield") is a term in the art history of ancient Rome for images of ancestors, famous people or deceased shown as on a round shield (in Latin: clipeus).

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  • National legislature

    National legislature

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  • Southern Sporades

    Southern Sporades

    The Southern Sporades (Greek: Νότιες Σποράδες, romanized: Nóties Sporádes) are Greek islands situated between the Cyclades and Turkey. They correspond to the Dodecanese plus a few northern islands

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  • Truncated octahedron

    Truncated octahedron

    In geometry, the truncated octahedron is the Archimedean solid that arises from a regular octahedron by removing six pyramids, one at each of the octahedron's vertices. The truncated octahedron has

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  • Ivan Aivazovsky

    Ivan Aivazovsky

    Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian: Иван Константинович Айвазовский ; 29 July [O.S. 17 July] 1817 – 2 May [O.S. 19 April] 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the gre

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  • Consular diptych

    Consular diptych

    In Late Antiquity, a consular diptych was a type of diptych intended as a de-luxe commemorative object. The diptychs were generally in ivory, wood or metal and decorated with rich relief sculpture.

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  • Wisconsin Senate

    Wisconsin Senate

    The Wisconsin Senate is the upper house of the Wisconsin State Legislature. Together with the Wisconsin State Assembly they constitute the legislative branch of the state of Wisconsin. The powers o

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  • Willem Verhulst

    Willem Verhulst

    Willem Verhulst or Willem van Hulst was an employee of the Dutch West India Company and the second (provisional) Director of the New Netherland colony in 1625–26. Nothing can be verified about his

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  • Grigory Chernetsov

    Grigory Chernetsov

    Grigory Grigoryevich Chernetsov (Russian: Григорий Григорьевич Чернецов , 1802, Lukh — 1865, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian painter. He is notable mainly for landscapes of various parts of Russia,

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