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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
An additional constraint in the special case of the "dark forest" is the scarcity of vital resources. [9] The "dark forest" can be considered an extensive-form game with each "player" possessing the following possible actions: destroy another civilization known to the player; broadcast and alert other civilizations of one's existence; or do ...
The novel's title is derived from the opening lines of Dante's Inferno in which Dante is lost in a dark forest, shown here in this engraving by Gustave Doré. Francesca Angelini, writing in The Sunday Times, called it "a daring novel" [2] and Sarah Hughes, reviewing the book for the i newspaper, described Forest Dark as "a novel of ideas that is impossible to put down".
South Africa was building a defendable total against Sri Lanka as it reached 191-3 in its second innings and a lead of 221 runs on day three Saturday of the second test. Aiden Markram's 55 moved ...
The first 4K home theater projector was released by Sony in 2012. [81] Despite this, there's not many finished films with 4K resolution as of 2023. Even for movies and TV shows shot using 6K or 8K cameras, almost all finished films are edited in HD resolution and enlarged to fit a 4K format. [82]
A Georgia man was arrested Monday in the 1985 murder of two people at a church, after the original suspect spent two decades in prison.
Despite advocating for a potential TikTok ban that’s currently under judicial review, politicians of all stripes turned to the platform to boost their chances in the 2024 election.
Related forms of the name occur elsewhere in Europe, such as in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald), and may thus be a general term for dark and dense forests of ancient Europe. [3] [4] The name was anglicised by Sir Walter Scott (in Waverley) and William Morris (in The House of the Wolfings) and later popularized by J. R. R. Tolkien as "Mirkwood".