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  2. Shadow - Wikipedia

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    The shadow of a musician cast onto a brick wall Park fence shadow is distorted by an uneven snow surface. Shadows from cumulus clouds thick enough to block sunlight. A shadow is a dark area where light from a light source is blocked by an object. It occupies all of the three-dimensional volume behind an object with light in front of it.

  3. Optical phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    Optical phenomena encompass a broad range of events, including those caused by atmospheric optical properties, other natural occurrences, man-made effects, and interactions involving human vision (entoptic phenomena).

  4. Eiffel Tower - Wikipedia

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    The Eiffel Tower was the world's tallest structure when completed in 1889, a distinction it retained until 1929 when the Chrysler Building in New York City was topped out. [102] The tower also lost its standing as the world's tallest tower to the Tokyo Tower in 1958 but retains its status as the tallest freestanding (non-guyed) structure in France.

  5. Rouen Cathedral (Monet series) - Wikipedia

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    For Monet, the effects of light on a subject became as important as the subject itself. Like his other series (such as the famous Water Lilies ) in which Monet painted many views of the same subject under different lighting conditions, these works are an attempt to illustrate the importance of light in our perception of a subject at a given ...

  6. Opposition surge - Wikipedia

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    Opposition surge from the retroreflective lunar soil brightens the area around Buzz Aldrin's shadow during Apollo 11 (photo by Neil Armstrong).. The opposition surge (sometimes known as the opposition effect, opposition spike or Seeliger effect [1]) is the brightening of a rough surface, or an object with many particles, when illuminated from directly behind the observer.

  7. Human Shadow Etched in Stone - Wikipedia

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    Human Shadow Etched in Stone (人影の石, hitokage no ishi) [2] is an exhibition at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It is thought to be the shadow of a person who was sitting at the entrance of Hiroshima Branch of Sumitomo Bank when the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima. It is also known as Human Shadow of Death [1] or simply the ...

  8. Beekman Tower - Wikipedia

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    The Beekman Tower, also known as the Panhellenic Tower, is a 26-story Art Deco skyscraper situated at the corner of First Avenue and East 49th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building was constructed between 1927 and 1928 and was designed by John Mead Howells .

  9. Echo Night 2: The Lord of Nightmares - Wikipedia

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    Like the first game, Echo Night 2 is played from a first-person perspective. However, unlike most other first-person games, there is no use of firearms in the game. When confronted by a ghost, the player must turn on the lights in the room by means of a light switch.