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Both types, along with most of the candle-shaped ones, are pinched-off at the tip rather than the base during manufacturing. Most contemporary miniature light bulbs have an internal shunt that is intended to activate when the bulb's filament burns out. The shunt closes the circuit across the bad filament, restoring continuity, which allows the ...
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Konrad Bernheimer, Venezuelan-born German art dealer and collector; Antony Gormley, English sculptor; September 4 – Kobe (Jacques Saelens), Belgian visual artist and sculptor; November 10 – Jonathan Janson, American painter and art historian; December 11 – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist and film director (d. 2007)
When you think of a yule log, you probably picture a roaring, wood-burning fire casting a warm light on an ornament-adorned Christmas tree.Or perhaps you have a sweet tooth and the first thing ...
A 1950s set of fluorescent Christmas lights The Old Harrison County Courthouse in Marshall, Texas, outlined in Christmas lights Schwäbisch Hall The technology used in Christmas lighting displays is highly diverse, ranging from simple light strands, Christmas lights (a.k.a. Fairy lights ), through to full blown animated tableaux, involving ...
The decade from 1810 to 1819 was the coldest in England since the 17th century. In 1812, the French Grande Armée was forced to retreat from Moscow by the advancing winter – known to the Russians as General Snow. These climactic events played a great part in the development of a new art genre, the winter landscape. [6]
Looking to give her cold, gray cubicle walls some winter warmth, Angela Westfield remodeled her desk with a log cabin facade and snow-topped roof. Westfield works in the sales department for the W ...
The current Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site includes three houses on two sites: A reconstruction of the Thomas Lincoln log cabin, completed in 1934 as a project of the Civilian Conservation Corps. It is surrounded by a subsistence farmstead similar to the senior Lincoln's actual farm, is the central feature of the main site. The farm ...