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  • Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various ...
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  • Rubin's vase (sometimes known as the Rubin face or the Figure ... illusionworks.com/html/figure_ground.html Figure/ground.] Retrieved October ...
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  • The Orbison figures most often involve a figure placed over a background ... may cause the perception of a distorted figure.Sara Bolouki and Roger Grosse ...
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  • classification of syllogisms known as the figure. The four figures are: ... conclusion followed by the number for the figure. For example, the syllogisms ...
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  • [[Image:Mueller lyer.svg|thumb|200 px|A figure to explain the Mueller ... visual system is unable to separate the figure into parts. As a whole figure ...
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  • A piece of the mantle is shown in Figure 1 (orthopyroxene is black ... quot;pyroxene quadrilateral" shown in Figure 2. The enstatite-ferrosilite ...
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  • which is marked off on the two axes (see Figure 1). Cartesian coordinate ... by the equation x² + y² = 4 (see Figure 2). == History == ...
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  • illusion easily when reading text with the illusion figure in the periphery. Motion is consistently perceived in a dark-to-light direction, so the two ...
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  • in which the perspective changes while viewing the figure. ... angles and so is fully aware that the figure is not "impossible, ...
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  • other angles and so is fully aware that the figure is not "impossible," perception from the critical viewing angle does not change—the ...
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  • In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression, pattern, or melodic fragment), often played by instruments in the rhythmic ...
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  • [[Image:5kingdoms.png|thumb|right|Figure 1. Five kingdoms.]] ... In 1969, Robert Whittaker published a proposed five kingdom system ...
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  • the ambiguous parts that makes the whole figure consistent. It is rare that ... There is evidence that by focusing on different parts of the figure ...
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  • ===Black & white and the figure-ground relationship=== ... visual art, stemming from a discordant figure-ground relationship that ...
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  • Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various ...
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  • this case misinterpretation, of the actual figure. Study of this illusion aids ... To further complicate matters, the figure is not actually of a checkerboard ...
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  • false Messiah (see also: Antichrist) is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology. He is to appear at a time in the future, before Yawm al-Qiyamah (The ...
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  • Zerubbabel shows that he was an important figure to many Second Temple Jews. ... who is depicted as a kind of Daniel-type figure in the dispute among the ...
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  • traditionally believed that Harold is the figure with the arrow in his eye ... male figures in the border below this figure; the one directly below the ...
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  • one sees a set of vertical red lines over a figure of blue lines that radiate out from two points to the left and right of the set of red lines, ...
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  • animals, to the shape, size, and angle of a figure's eyes, nose, and lips. The process seems very scientific, but often requires a very deep understanding ...
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  • The line segment (or chord) AB (in the figure), which passes through the ... The semimajor axis (denoted by a in the figure) is one-half of the ...
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  • in his right hand, close to his heart. The figure of the Wrathful Vajrapani ... the five wisdoms is also associated with a Buddha figure. ...
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  • Scientific notation is a compact form of writing numbers that are very large or very small. It is especially useful when expressing measurements ...
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  • [[Image:Carbon_dioxide_pressure-temperature_phase_diagram.jpg|frame ... diagram for carbon dioxide, as shown in Figure 2, where the critical point ...
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  • The Zöllner figure is composed of a series of parallel, diagonal lines intersected by a number of short horizontal and vertical bars. The parallel ...
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  • *Morgan, M.J. and B. Moulden. "The Münsterberg figure and twisted cords." Vision Research, 26 (1986):1793–1800. *Ninio, Jacques. ...
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  • especially in Switzerland, where the Tell figure was instrumentalized in the ... again had become national identification figure, the historian Karl Meyer ...
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  • authorities regard him as a type of merman figure or fish-deity of the the ... Dagon has become a popular figure in recent literature, movies, and ...
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  • jpg|The upper portion of the central Sakyamuni figure. ====Other Northern ... wall.jpg|South wall with Bodhisattva and additional figure. ...
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  • complex web of relationships as shown in the figure on the right. In this figure, the grouping of Phytoplankton → Herbivorous zooplankton → Carnivorous ...
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  • right|thumb|Pegasus and Bellerophon, Attic red-figure]] ... objects that make up a constellation. The figure that these objects create ...
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  • Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, or simply "Santa," is the mythical figure who, in most of ...
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  • reference to him as a significant literary figure. The relative scarcity of ... In the history of poetry, Archilochus is a somewhat paradoxical figure ...
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  • [[Image:Ehrenstein figure.svg|thumb|Illusion 3. Adding a circle (bottom ... further input, will assume that there is a figure in front of the lines. ...
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  • ninety years, from 1131 to 1221. The central figure of the first section is Taira no Kiyomori (平清盛) who is described as arrogant, evil, ruthless ...
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  • opposite directions, according to this pattern: (Figure 1) They will then reach this position: (Figure 2) But to move from the ...
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  • Another relief at the same site shows him with his court. Every figure ... Anahita was a divine figure associated with water, wisdom and healing ...
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  • American female outlaw. She was a well-known figure during the late nineteenth century and is rumored to have been involved with a number of famous criminals ...
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  • == Literary figure == Sima Qian's Shiji is respected as a model of biographical literature with high literary value. Its artistry was mainly ...
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  • Image:Polispasto4.jpg|Figure 4b - A practical block and tackle pulley ... pulleys are encased in single housings is shown in Figure 4b. ...
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  • to for disaster relief. A legendary figure, Lee’s contributions to ... A pioneering yet controversial figure among public relations, Ivy ...
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  • referred to it as the "shifted chequerboard figure." It has also been called the "illusion of kindergarten patterns" because it was ...
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  • device may act as a cooler, as in the figure to the left below. This is ... == Figure of merit == The figure of merit for thermoelectric devices ...
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  • statues into a granite wall. One Buddha figure posed in reclining position ... Historians have identified a standing figure on a lotus throne located ...
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  • strength of various contributing factors like figure orientation was different among each species.Tadasu Oyama and Takuo Goto. [http://www.blackwell-synergy ...
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  • and philosophy of history. He is an important figure in the early twentieth century liberal school of religious and philosophical thought in Germany ...
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  • Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world cultures, a trickster is a figure who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys ...
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  • Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments. There are two main types of ...
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  • new religions. He is a deeply respected figure by the followers of many ... He first appears in the Hebrew Bible as a figure who challenged the idolatrous ...
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  • sense of morality, Buck is also in important figure in the history of American literature due to her connections with the cultures of Asia, and China ...
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