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  2. Averted vision - Wikipedia

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    Averted vision works because there are virtually no rods (cells which detect dim light in black and white) in the fovea: a small area in the center of the eye. The fovea contains primarily cone cells, which serve as bright light and color detectors and are not as useful during the night. This situation results in a decrease in visual ...

  3. Adaptation (eye) - Wikipedia

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    The fovea is blind to dim light (due to its cone-only array) and the rods are more sensitive, so a dim star on a moonless night must be viewed from the side, so it stimulates the rods. This is not due to pupil width since an artificial fixed-width pupil gives the same results.

  4. Touch of Death - Wikipedia

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    The touch of death (or death-point striking) is any martial arts technique reputed to kill using seemingly less than lethal force targeted at specific areas of the body.. The concept known as dim mak (simplified Chinese: 点脉; traditional Chinese: 點脈; pinyin: diǎnmài; Jyutping: dim 2 mak 6; lit. 'press artery'), alternatively diǎnxué (simplified Chinese: 点穴; traditional Chinese ...

  5. These wise quotes from Maya Angelou will inspire you every day

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    “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.” Maya Angelou quotes about love

  6. Stage lighting - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known form of stage lighting was during the early Grecian (and later the Roman) theaters. They would build their theatres facing east to west so that in the afternoon they could perform plays and have the natural sunlight hit the actors, but not those seated in the orchestra.

  7. Blackout (wartime) - Wikipedia

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    A Londoner pointing a torch at the ground during a blackout to find her way home at night in 1940 Blackout regulations in Norwich, England during the First World War.. During World War II, the Air Ministry had forecast that Britain would suffer night air bombing attacks causing large numbers of civilian casualties and mass destruction.

  8. Switch your Inbox style in AOL Mail

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    1. Click the Settings icon | select More Settings. 2. Click Viewing email. 3. Under Inbox style, select Unified Inbox or use New/Old Mail. 4. Click Back to Inbox or Back to New Mail when done.

  9. Dimmer - Wikipedia

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    The design of most analogue dimmers meant that the output of the dimmer was not directly proportional to the input. Instead, as the operator brought up a fader, the dimmer would dim slowly at first, then quickly in the middle, then slowly at the top. The shape of the curve resembled that of the third quarter of a sine wave.