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  2. Twin mountain drawing - Wikipedia

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    A drawing of twin mountains (Indonesian: pemandangan gunung kembar, "twin mountain view", or pemandangan gunung legendaris, "legendary mountain view") is a drawing pattern commonly made by Indonesian kindergarten and primary school students. The drawing is often produced by students who are asked by their teacher to draw natural features. [1]

  3. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia

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    Approximate X-bar representation of Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.See phrase structure rules.. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed, but semantically nonsensical.

  4. Thaumatrope - Wikipedia

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    Claudet also noted in 1867 that the thaumatrope could create a three-dimensional illusion. A spinning rectangular thaumatrope with the alternating letters of the name "Victoria" on each side, showed the full word with the letters at two different distances from the observer's eye. If the two strings of the thaumatrope are attached to the same ...

  5. Pekarangan - Wikipedia

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    This is similar to the Sundanese breakdown of the word pekarangan: pe-is a prefix that means 'place', karang means 'idea', and the combination of these can be loosely translated as 'a place to create ideas'. [64] Javanese culture, however, takes offense at the gardens' comparison with forests due to the low social value of forest in the culture.

  6. Landscape - Wikipedia

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    The word landscape, first recorded in 1598, was borrowed from a Dutch painters' term. [6] The popular conception of the landscape that is reflected in dictionaries conveys both a particular and a general meaning, the particular referring to an area of the Earth's surface and the general being that which can be seen by an observer.

  7. Documentary photography - Wikipedia

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    John Beasly Greene's photo of the Abu Simbel temples, 1854 Bandit's Roost (1914) by Jacob Riis. The term document applied to photography antedates the mode or genre itself. . Photographs meant to accurately describe otherwise unknown, hidden, forbidden, or difficult-to-access places or circumstances date to the earliest daguerreotype and calotype "surveys" of the ruins of the Near East, Egypt ...

  8. White - Wikipedia

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    The word white continues Old English hwīt, ultimately from a Common Germanic *χ w ītaz also reflected in OHG (h)wîz, ON hvítr, Goth. ƕeits.The root is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European language *k w id-, surviving also in Sanskrit śveta "to be white or bright" [6] and Slavonic světŭ "light".

  9. Pemandangan - Wikipedia

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    Pemandangan was a daily Indonesian language newspaper published in the Dutch East Indies (or later Indonesia) between 1933 and 1958. It was one of the few local newspapers which was initially allowed to operate during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies .