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  2. Wallpaper (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles A wallpaper from fractal. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.

  3. List of lightning phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Sympathetic lightning is the tendency of lightning to be loosely coordinated across long distances. Discharges can appear in clusters when viewed from space. [22] [23] [24] [clarification needed] Upward lightning or ground-to-cloud lightning is a lightning flash which originates from the top of a grounded object and propagates upward from this ...

  4. Lightning - Wikipedia

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    Lightning is a natural phenomenon, more specifically an atmospheric electrical phenomenon. It consists of electrostatic discharges occurring through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions, either both existing within the atmosphere or one within the atmosphere and one on the ground, with these regions then becoming partially or wholly electrically neutralized.

  5. Sprite (lightning) - Wikipedia

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    When a sufficiently large positive lightning strike carries charges to the ground, the cloud top is left with a strongly negative net charge. This can be modeled as a quasi-static electric dipole and for less than 10 milliseconds a strong electric field is generated in the region above the thunderstorm.

  6. English Electric Lightning - Wikipedia

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    English Electric Lightning (XS929), displayed as a gate guardian at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus Lightning P.1A at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester Lightning F.6 at the Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Georgia, United States, now on display at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona Lightning F1 XM135 at Imperial War Museum ...

  7. File:Lightning--.svg - Wikipedia

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  8. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Earthquake light - Wikipedia

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    An earthquake light also known as earthquake lightning or earthquake flash is a luminous optical phenomenon that appears in the sky at or near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions. [1]