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It is known as the Blue Snowball Nebula, Snowball Nebula, and Caldwell 22. This nebula was discovered October 6, 1784 by the German-born English astronomer William Herschel . In the New General Catalogue it is described as a "magnificent planetary or annular nebula, very bright, pretty small in angular size , round, blue, variable nucleus".
Earlier versions of Windows 11 used a black background [24] before later switching to a dark blue background starting with build 22000.348. [25] Preview builds of Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server (available from the Windows Insider program) feature a dark green background instead of a blue one.
Silicon Dreams is a trilogy of interactive fiction games developed by Level 9 Computing during the 1980s. The first game was Snowball, released during 1983, followed a year later by Return to Eden, and then by The Worm in Paradise during 1985.
A snowball effect [1] is a process that starts from an initial state of small significance and builds upon itself (an exacerbating feedback), becoming larger (graver, more serious), and also perhaps potentially more dangerous or disastrous (a vicious circle), though it might be beneficial instead (a virtuous circle).
The snowball Earth hypothesis was originally devised to explain geological evidence for the apparent presence of glaciers at tropical latitudes. [15] According to modelling, an ice–albedo feedback would result in glacial ice rapidly advancing to the equator once the glaciers spread to within 25° [ 16 ] to 30° [ 17 ] of the equator.
A song titled "The Great Santa Snowball Debacle of 1968" was released in 2006. [1] In 2009, Olivo returned to an Eagles game dressed as Santa Claus. [9] A book titled A Snowball's Chance: Philly Fires Back Against The National Media, which defended the Eagles fans' behavior in the incident, was published in 2012. [7]
The snowball fight was scheduled weeks in advance, and was helped by the fact that the University canceled all classes due to 12–16 inches of snow that fell the night before. [11] However, this snowball fight failed to break the record set in October of the same year in Leuven.
Realizing the call was questionable, Couch wasted no time hurrying the offense to the line of scrimmage, starting the next play with only 0:50 left on the clock. [5] He took the snap and appeared to pump his arm twice; Couch then spiked the ball with 0:48 remaining to stop the clock. The officials stopped play and huddled for a lengthy period.