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2. Light switch - Wikipedia

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   This "quick break" technology is still in use in almost every ordinary light switch in the world today, numbering in the billions, as well as in many other forms of electric switch. The toggle light switch was invented in 1916 by William J. Newton. [2] As a component of an electrical wiring or home wiring system, the installation of light ...

3. Door - Wikipedia

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   A pet door (also known as a cat flap or dog door) is an opening in a door to allow pets to enter and exit without the main door's being opened. It may be simply covered by a rubber flap, or it may be an actual door hinged on the top that the pet can push through.

4. Luminous gemstones - Wikipedia

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   One year later, as Heraclea sat at the door of her cottage, the young stork returned and dropped a precious stone into her lap, and she put it indoors. Awakening that night, she saw that the gem "diffused a brightness and a gleam, and the house was lit up as though a torch had been brought in, so strong a radiance came from, and was engendered ...

5. Stepping Stones Light - Wikipedia

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   Stepping Stones Light is a Victorian-style lighthouse in Long Island Sound, in Nassau County, New York. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The lighthouse is square-shaped and made of red brick , standing one-and-a-half stories high.

6. Park Avenue Armory - Wikipedia

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   The drill hall is also clad with brick, with three band courses of stone running horizontally across the plain facade. The top of the wall has stone coping and a parapet that is crenellated . [ 17 ] [ 16 ] The arched doorway at the center of the Lexington Avenue facade was originally fitted with a heavy iron gate and thick oaken doors.

7. University of Texas tower shooting - Wikipedia

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   The University of Texas tower shooting was an act of mass murder that occurred on August 1, 1966, at the University of Texas at Austin.The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman, indiscriminately fired at members of the public, both within the Main Building tower and from the tower's observation deck.