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  2. White on White - Wikipedia

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    Malevich intended the painting to evoke a feeling of floating, with the colour white symbolising infinity, and the slight tilt of the square suggesting movement. A critic from the rival Constructivist movement quipped that it was the only good canvas in an exhibition by Malevich's UNOVIS group: "an absolutely pure, white canvas with a very good ...

  3. Red Square (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions, also known as Red Square, [1] is a 1915 painting by Kazimir Malevich. [2] Red Square was part of Malevich's Suprematist art movement (1915-1919), which aimed to create artworks that were universally understood. A non-representational work, the painting shows a red quadrilateral on a white ...

  4. Calculator - Wikipedia

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    All of the logic functions of a calculator had been squeezed into the first "calculator on a chip" integrated circuits (ICs) in 1971, but this was leading edge technology of the time and yields were low and costs were high. Many calculators continued to use two or more ICs, especially the scientific and the programmable ones, into the late 1970s.

  5. Mouth and foot painting - Wikipedia

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    Self portrait by mouth and foot artist Thomas Schweicker (1540–1602) Mouth and foot painting is a technique to create drawings, paintings and other works of art by maneuvering brushes and other tools with the mouth or foot. The technique is mostly used by artists who through illness, accident, or congenital disability have no use of their hands.

  6. Slide rule - Wikipedia

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    A 7-foot (2.1 m) teaching slide rule compared to a normal-sized model The width of the slide rule is quoted in terms of the nominal width of the scales. Scales on the most common "10-inch" models are actually 25 cm, as they were made to metric standards, though some rules offer slightly extended scales to simplify manipulation when a result ...

  7. Contra Costa County, California - Wikipedia

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    By the early 1990s, 22 million square feet of office space had been built [55] along the 680 corridor, that segment of Interstate Highway 680 that extends from Concord in the north to San Ramon in the south, continuing into inland Alameda County from Dublin to Pleasanton. During the 1980s and early 1990s, many corporations that were formerly ...

  8. Green building - Wikipedia

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    As of 2020, they account for 37% of global energy use and energy-related CO 2 emissions, which the United Nations estimate contributed to 33% of overall worldwide emissions. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Including the manufacturing of building materials, the global CO 2 emissions were 39%. [ 10 ]

  9. Hollyhock House - Wikipedia

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    West of the house is a 4-by-12-foot (1.2 by 3.7 m) living-room balcony, with slightly raised terraces on either side. [252] There is also a square reflecting pool to the west, complementing the circular pool on the east. [252] [262] The house's northern wing as seen from the central courtyard, looking west toward the staircase and living room