Floating Life is a 1996 Australian drama film directed by Clara Law about a Hong Kong family who move to Australia. The film was selected as the Australian...
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Six Records of a Floating Life (Chinese: 浮生六記, Fu sheng liu ji) is an autobiography by Shen Fu (沈復, 1763–1825), who lived in Changzhou (now Suzhou) during...
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Coconut crab (section Life cycle)
enhanced if a floating life support system avails itself to them. Examples of the systems that provide such opportunities include floating logs and rafts...
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and places where water transport played an important role in daily life, most floating markets operating today mainly serve as tourist attractions, and...
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A floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore oil and gas industry for the production and processing...
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The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the 520 Bridge and officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, carries Washington State Route...
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Celia Ireland (section Early life)
in 1994, which was her film debut; Dad and Dave: On Our Selection, Floating Life, Idiot Box and Thank God He Met Lizzie, with Cate Blanchett; all of...
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world's largest floating restaurant, until it sank at sea in 2022. Sometimes retired ships are given a second lease on life as floating restaurants. The...
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Floating solar or floating photovoltaics (FPV), sometimes called floatovoltaics, are solar panels mounted on a structure that floats on a body of water...
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Floating is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by William Roth and starring Norman Reedus. Van is a man who struggles set against a turbulent...
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The Gaza floating pier is a floating dock facility created by the U.S. military after being proposed immediately before U.S. President Biden's 2024 State...
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Floating Weeds (Japanese: 浮草, Hepburn: Ukigusa) is a 1959 Japanese drama directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Nakamura Ganjirō II and Machiko Kyō. Considered...
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antiquity. Thought to have been written towards the end of Archimedes' life, On Floating Bodies I-II survives only partly in Greek and in a medieval Latin...
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large floating structures have been constructed or proposed in real life, aerial cities and islands remain in the realm of fiction. Seaborne floating islands...
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A floating timeline (also known as a sliding timescale) is a device used in fiction, particularly in long-running comics and animation, to explain why...
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writer Robert Bell said "...the subject matter of Floating City doesn't come as a surprise, mirroring the life of a self-made man with the rapid change of Hong...
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the third Australian film to be considered for the award (following Floating Life in 1996 and La Spagnola in 2001).[citation needed] Ten Canoes was nominated...
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A floating airport is an airport built and situated on a very large floating structure (VLFS) located many miles out at sea utilizing a flotation type...
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A submerged floating tunnel (SFT), also known as submerged floating tube bridge (SFTB), suspended tunnel, or Archimedes bridge, is a proposed design for...
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An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono...
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The Floating Opera is a novel by American writer John Barth, first published in 1956 and significantly revised in 1967. Barth's first published work, the...
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Ukiyo (浮世, 'floating/fleeting/transient world') is the Japanese term used to describe the urban lifestyle and culture, especially the pleasure-seeking...
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The Sunset Lake Floating Bridge is a floating bridge that carries Vermont Route 65 across Sunset Lake in Brookfield, Vermont, United States. The first...
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Hydrocotyle ranunculoides (redirect from Floating Pennywort)
Hydrocotyle ranunculoides, known commonly as floating pennywort, or floating marshpennywort, is an aquatic plant in the family Apiaceae. It is native...
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Houseboat (redirect from Floating House)
2020.. "Living the life aquatic in Bluffer's Park - Toronto Star". The Toronto Star. 8 July 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2016. "Are Floating Homes in Toronto...
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Floating markets of Vietnam, or chợ nổi in Vietnamese, are areas of commerce based within the country's many river systems. Vietnam's extensive network...
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The Floating Admiral is a collaborative detective novel written by fourteen members of the British Detection Club in 1931. The twelve chapters of the story...
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Salvinia natans (redirect from Floating Fern)
(commonly known as floating fern, floating watermoss, floating moss, or commercially, water butterfly wings) is an annual floating aquatic fern, which...
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Floating Clouds (Japanese: 浮雲, Hepburn: Ukigumo) is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the novel Ukigumo by Japanese writer...
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