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  2. Umbrella - Wikipedia

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    Parts of an umbrella [2]. The word parasol is a combination of the Latin parare, and sol, meaning 'sun'. [3] Parapluie (French) similarly consists of para combined with pluie, which means 'rain' (which in turn derives from pluvia, the Latin word for rain); the usage of this word was prevalent in the nineteenth century.

  3. Fulton Umbrellas - Wikipedia

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    The "birdcage" transparent umbrella invented by Arnold Fulton. The company was founded in 1956 in London, England by Arnold Fulton, [2] an engineer and inventor, who was born in Poland and survived the Warsaw Ghetto, whose sister and brother-in-law ran an umbrella factory in Stockholm. He died in 2022 aged 91. [3]

  4. Old Man River's City project - Wikipedia

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    The city has a one-mile (1.6 km)-diameter geodesic, quarter-sphere transparent umbrella mounted high above it to permit full, all-around viewing below the umbrella's bottom perimeter. The top of the dome roof is 1,000 feet (300 m) high.

  5. Umbra, penumbra and antumbra - Wikipedia

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    Umbra, penumbra, and antumbra formed through windows and shutters. The umbra (Latin for "shadow") is the innermost and darkest part of a shadow, where the light source is completely blocked by the occluding body.

  6. Umbrella Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Umbrella Movement (Chinese: 雨傘運動) was a political movement that emerged during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. [2] [3] [4] Its name arose from the use of umbrellas as a tool for passive resistance to the Hong Kong Police Force's use of pepper spray to disperse the crowd during a 79-day occupation of the city demanding more transparent elections, which was sparked by the decision of ...

  7. Visor - Wikipedia

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    Nowadays many visors are transparent, but before strong transparent substances such as polycarbonate were invented, visors were opaque like a mask. The part of a helmet in a suit of armor that protects the eyes. A type of headgear consisting only of a visor and a band as a way to fasten it around the head. Any such vertical surface on any hat ...

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