Walter Glaß (1905–1981) was a German skier. He was born in Klingenthal. He competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, where he placed 15th in...
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Gorilla Glass, developed and manufactured by Corning, is a brand of chemically strengthened glass now in its ninth generation. Designed to be thin, light...
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common objects made of glass like "a glass" of water, "glasses", and "magnifying glass", are named after the material. Glass is most often formed by...
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Stained glass is colored glass as a material or works created from it. Although, it is traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations...
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Float glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal of a low melting point, typically tin, although lead was used for...
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be referred to as a Tuckahoe homemaker." Walter F. "Walt" Glass (1921 – 1945): The twin brother of Waker Glass. He was an American soldier who died in...
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The Glass–Steagall legislation describes four provisions of the United States Banking Act of 1933 separating commercial and investment banking. The article...
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The Glass Slipper (1955) is an American musical film adaptation of the fairy tale Cinderella, made by MGM, directed by Charles Walters and produced by...
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Corning Inc. (redirect from Corning Glass)
American multinational technology company that specializes in specialty glass, ceramics, and related materials and technologies including advanced optics...
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Glass production involves two main methods – the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers...
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Tester[circular reference] Walter Glaß (1905–1981), German skier William Glass (1786–1853), British settler on Tristan da Cunha Glass family, a fictional family...
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Lead glass, commonly called crystal, is a variety of glass in which lead replaces the calcium content of a typical potash glass. Lead glass contains typically...
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Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th...
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Kristallnacht (redirect from Night of the broken glass)
pronunciation: [kʁɪsˈtalnaχt] lit. 'crystal night') or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (German: Novemberpogrome, pronounced...
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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto...
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Smart glass, also known as switchable glass, dynamic glass, and smart-tinting glass, is a type of glass that can change its optical properties, becoming...
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The glass–liquid transition, or glass transition, is the gradual and reversible transition in amorphous materials (or in amorphous regions within semicrystalline...
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Materials: Glass, Plastics, Metals. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783034614320. "Physical Properties of Glass - Saint-Gobain Glass UK". uk.saint-gobain-glass.com...
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include toughened glass (also known as tempered glass), laminated glass, and wire mesh glass (also known as wired glass). Toughened glass was invented in...
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Don't Make Me Wait for Love (category Songs written by Preston Glass)
1986 album Duotones. The song was written and composed by Walter Afanasieff, Preston Glass and Narada Michael Walden. In the US, "Don't Make Me Wait For...
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass or simply Through the Looking-Glass) is a novel published...
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The glass cliff is a hypothesized phenomenon in which women are more likely to break the "glass ceiling" (i.e. achieve leadership roles in business and...
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Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Parting Glass "The Parting Glass" (Roud 3004) is a Scottish traditional song, often sung at the...
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Glass Hammer is an American progressive rock band from Chattanooga, Tennessee, created and led by Steve Babb and Fred Schendel. Babb and Schendel, who...
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foreground. Vermeer was about 27 when he painted The Glass of Wine, and according to the critic Walter Liedtke, "No analysis of artistic conventions can...
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Jessica Walter tests boundaries in 'Jennifer Falls'". Los Angeles Times. Sepinwall, Alan (March 25, 2021). "Raising a Glass to Jessica Walter, from Sixties...
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Disguise, p. 93. Reid-Walsh, Jacqueline (1988). The Burning-Glass: A Developmental Study of Walter de la Mare's Poetry (PDF) (PhD). Montreal: McGill University...
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Favrile glass is a type of iridescent art glass developed by Louis Comfort Tiffany. He patented this process in 1894 and first produced the glass for manufacture...
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Walter Afanasieff (born Vladimir Nikitich Afanasyev; February 10, 1958), formerly nicknamed Baby Love in the 1980s, is an American record producer and...
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York Minster (section Stained glass)
arm and central tower. The minster retains most of its medieval stained glass, a significant survival among European churches. The east window, which...
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