Smog, or smoke fog, is a type of intense air pollution. The word "smog" was coined in the early 20th century, and is a portmanteau of the words smoke and...
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The SMOG grade is a measure of readability that estimates the years of education needed to understand a piece of writing. SMOG is an acronym for "Simple...
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The Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air pollution event that affected London, England, in December 1952. A period of unusually...
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up smog in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Smog is a form of air pollution. Smog or SMOG may also refer to: SMOG, a measure of readability SMOG (literary...
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include: anti-smog tower smog-filtering tower smog-sucking tower smog-eating tower smog-extracting tower smog removal tower smog control tower smog-alert tower...
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The 1962 London smog was a severe smog episode that affected London, England, in December 1962. It occurred ten years after the Great Smog of London, in...
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California Smog Check Program requires vehicles that were manufactured in 1976 or later to participate in the biennial (every two years) smog check program...
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Bill Callahan (musician) (redirect from (Smog))
singer-songwriter, who has also recorded and performed under the band name Smog. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre, with home-made tape-albums recorded...
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Golden Smog is an alternative country-rock supergroup of loosely connected musicians mostly from the Minneapolis area. At various times members of Soul...
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Air pollution in Delhi (redirect from Smog in Delhi)
pollution and cold weather. In November 2016, in an event known as the Great Smog of Delhi, the air pollution spiked far beyond acceptable levels. Levels of...
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The 1948 Donora smog killed 20 people and caused respiratory problems for 6,000 of the 14,000 people living in Donora, Pennsylvania, a mill town on the...
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Godzilla vs. Hedorah (redirect from Godzilla vs The Smog Monster)
from pollution. It was released in the United States as Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster. Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka offered Banno the opportunity to direct...
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Electromagnetic radiation (redirect from Electronic smog)
In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EMR) consists of waves of the electromagnetic (EM) field, which propagate through space and carry momentum and electromagnetic...
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York City smog was a major air-pollution episode and environmental disaster, coinciding with that year's Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Smog covered the...
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Emission standard (redirect from Smog control)
enacted in 1963 in the United States, mainly as a response to Los Angeles' smog problems. Three years later Japan enacted their first emissions rules, followed...
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Air pollution in Lahore (redirect from Lahore smog)
2017 flights were cancelled because of air pollution. In January 2019 a smog wave prompted measures to reduce air pollution going forward. In April 2020...
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Theatrical smoke and fog (redirect from Theatrical smog)
Theatrical smoke and fog, also known as special effect smoke, fog or haze, is a category of atmospheric effects used in the entertainment industry. The...
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Environmental law (redirect from Smog law)
suffered from terrible air pollution, and this culminated in the "Great Smog" of 1952, which in turn triggered its own legislative response: the Clean...
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Bill Callahan discography (redirect from Floating (Smog EP))
alias Smog, except where noted. Macramé Gunplay (1988) Cow (1989) A Table Setting (1990) Tired Tape Machine (1990) All released under the name "Smog" except...
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Knock Knock is the seventh studio album by Bill Callahan, released under his Smog alias. It was originally released through Drag City in January 1999. In Europe...
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Public Smog is an "atmospheric park" created by San Francisco-based artist Amy Balkin and her supporters through the use of financial, political, and legal...
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The 1939 St. Louis smog was a severe smog episode that affected St. Louis, Missouri on November 28, 1939. Visibility was so limited that streetlights remained...
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DeSmog (formerly The DeSmogBlog), founded in January 2006, is an international journalism organization that focuses on topics related to climate change...
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Red Apple Falls (redirect from Ex-Con (Smog song))
Red Apple Falls is the sixth album by Smog (the alias of Bill Callahan), released in May 1997 on Drag City and re-released in Europe in 2001 by Domino...
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The 2013 Eastern China smog was a severe air pollution episode that affected East China, including all or parts of the municipalities of Shanghai and Tianjin...
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SMOG (‹See Tfd›Russian: СМОГ) was one of the earliest informal literary groups independent of the Soviet state in the post-Stalin Soviet Union. Among several...
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Pollution in China (redirect from 2015 China smog)
This in turn increases the burning of fossil fuels, resulting in smog. Exposure to Smog poses a threat to the health of Chinese citizens. A study from 2012...
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Clean Air Act 1956 (section The Great Smog)
of the United Kingdom enacted principally in response to London's Great Smog of 1952. It was sponsored by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government...
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Vog (redirect from Volcanic smog)
presence of sunlight. The word is a portmanteau of the words "volcanic" and "smog". The term is in common use in the Hawaiian Islands, where the Kīlauea volcano...
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Data Smog is a 1997 book by journalist David Shenk and published by HarperCollins. It addresses the author's ideas on how the information technology revolution...
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