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  2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    [3] [10]: 3:57 "I don't think the engineers or anybody at Microsoft had any idea it would have the success it had," he said. [10]: 4:40 After the rights to the photograph were bought by Microsoft, it was renamed Bliss and was chosen as the default wallpaper of the Luna visual style, [2] [26] the default graphical user interface of Windows XP. [27]

  3. Lightning - Wikipedia

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    Positive lightning is less common than negative lightning and on average makes up less than 5% of all lightning strikes. [10] A bolt from the blue lightning strike which appears to initiate from the clear, but [clarification needed] the turbulent sky above the anvil cloud and drive a bolt of plasma through the cloud directly to the ground. They ...

  4. Upper-atmospheric lightning - Wikipedia

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    The shot was taken on March 27, 2023 at 21.43 UTC from Possagno, TV, Italy. The lightning that triggered it was in Polverigi, AN, Italy, at a distance of 285 km. Its strength, estimated at about 410 kA (kilo-Ampère), which is an order of magnitude stronger than a normal lightning (10 to 30 kilo-Ampère), generated an intense electromagnetic pulse.

  5. Wild photos show lightning strikes over Paris Olympics

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    Across the city, lightning and rain lit up the night sky and made quite a fuss for the athletes at the 2024 Paris Games. On Aug. 1, the official TODAY Instagram shared photos of the brilliant ...

  6. Nature photography - Wikipedia

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    National Geographic Pictures of the Year: As one of the most respected and well-known organizations for nature photography, National Geographic began its “Pictures of the Year” contest in 2023. It invites photographers, both amateur and professional, to submit photos to compete in one of four categories: nature, people, places, and animals.

  7. Heat lightning - Wikipedia

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    This is due to high moisture content in the lower atmosphere and high surface temperature, which produces strong sea breezes along the Florida coast. [5] As a result, heat lightning is often seen over the water at night, the remnants of storms that formed during the day along a sea breeze front coming in from the opposite coast.

  8. Fulgurite - Wikipedia

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    Interview with artist Allan McCollum along with an historical archive of 66 versions of booklets included in Allan McCollum's exhibition, The Event: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida; Mindat with location data; W. M. Myers and Albert B. Peck, "A Fulgurite from South Amboy, New Jersey", American Mineralogist, Volume 10, pages 152–155, 1925

  9. iPhone X - Wikipedia

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    The iPhone X (Roman numeral "X" pronounced "ten" [13]) is a smartphone that was developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is part of the 11th generation of the iPhone. Available for pre-order from September 26, 2017, it was released on November 3, 2017. The naming of the iPhone X (skipping the iPhone 9 and 9s) marked the 10th anniversary of the ...