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5 unusual facts about GLOW


Glow-in-the-dark

Chemiluminescence, is the emission of light (luminescence) without emission of heat

Radioluminescence, production of luminescence in a material by the bombardment of ionizing radiation

Bioluminescence, the production and emission of light by a living organism

Phosphorescence, a specific type of photoluminescence related to fluorescence (as seen in "glow in the dark" toys and materials)

Glow-Worm Caves Tamborine Mountain

Tours consist of a seven minute DVD (available in English, Mandarin, Japanese and Korean), photo opportunities in front of the stalactites and stalagmites, and finally a 15 minute tour through "glow worm alley".


Antique Glow

Antique Glow is a 2002 album by San Francisco musician Kelley Stoltz.

Ashen

Ashen light, a subtle glow that is seen from the night side of the planet Venus.

Ate Glow

Rene Boy Facunla, better known under the moniker Ate Glow, is a Filipino comic best known for his transvestite routine impersonating Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the 14th President of the Philippines.

Banksia 'Lemon Glow'

cunninghamii 'Lemon Glow', is a form of Banksia spinulosa var. cunninghamii with lemon-yellow flowers.

Banksia spinulosa

var cunninghamii 'Lemon Glow' was registered with ACRA in 1982 by Alf Salkin and hails from French Island in Victoria, growing 2–3 m (7–10 ft) with all lemon yellow flowers.

Belper School

It is also located very near to the Vaillant-owned Glow-Worm boiler factory and the former Deb factory, which has since been demolished and had housing built on it.

Bluegrass Balloon Festival

By 2002, the event had grown to 85 registered balloons, and WHAS-TV 11, a local television station in Louisville, featured the evening Balloon Glow during its prime time broadcast.

Changi Boardwalk

Night-lighting, tuned to a romantic glow, and rest points along the waterfront are among a host of amenities that the URA has put in place for visitors.

Conditions on Transformations

A significant number of members of GLOW have found their common ground in the research programme that grew out of Conditions.

Dennis Kamakahi

Kamakahi launched his solo career in 1996, releasing his first slack key guitar CD Pua'ena, (Glow Brightly) co-produced by Howard Johnston and pianist George Winston, under Dancing Cat Records.

Family Force 5

Beginning in November 2012, Soul Glow Activatur began hosting his own radio show "Phenomenon" for Christian Radio Station NGEN Radio every Friday Night at 10pm.

Fillan

St. Fillan was credited with powers such as the healing of the sick and also possessed a luminous glow from his left arm which he used to study and write Sacred Scriptures in the dark.

For Darfur

On May 6, 2008, For Darfur Inc. produced and promoted Kanye West's Glow in The Dark concert at the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami, Florida.

Generative Linguistics in the Old World

"Sister conferences" to the annual GLOW meeting in Europe have been organized under the rubric "GLOW Asia" in Japan, Korea and India, and the European GLOW conference itself has travelled as far south as Morocco (and as far north as Tromsø).

Gideon Obarzanek

2008 Helpmann Award for Glow which incorporates sophisticated interactive technology for body, sound and light won the for best ballet or dance work.

Glow by JLo

Since Glow Lopez has been credited with influencing other celebrity endorsements of fragrance, which has included Halle Berry, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Madonna, among others.

Jacqueline Nesti Joseph

Dino Buzzati: “The majority of Jacqueline's paintings depict scenes and figures of Haiti, groups of women at the market and multitudes of flowers. She captures an illuminating glow of her subjects demonstrated in her best canvases”

Japanese rice fish

They have been genetically modified to secrete various human hormones, express promoter sequences from other fish, and to make antimicrobial proteins and a protein that makes the medaka glow fluorescent green.

LECO Corporation

LECO carries out research in many fields of analytical chemistry including protein measurement in foods, sulfur in coal emissions, glow discharge emission in metals, multi-dimensional gas chromatograph mass spectrometry, environmental monitoring, air quality, Metabolomics, and diverse medical and pharmaceutical applications.

Love and Glamour

Melanie Dee of Yahoo! Voices gave Love and Glamour a mixed review, stating that while it "smells simply delicious", it was unoriginal in contrast to her previous fragrances and opined that "it will not wow perfume connoisseurs out there enough to become a mainstream must have fragrance like her original Glow".

Madcon

In the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 which took place in Oslo, Norway they performed their hit song "Glow" as an interval act.

Maggie Koerth-Baker

Released in 2009, Be Amazing: Glow in the Dark, Control the Weather, Perform Your Own Surgery, Get Out of Jury Duty, Identify a Witch, Colonize a ... Girl, Make a Zombie, Start Your Own Religion is a tongue-in-cheek self-improvement guide written with Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur, the co-founders of Mental Floss.

Martina Stoessel

In 2011, she participated in the Spanish version of the song Shannon Saunders′ "The Glow", called "Tu Resplandor", contained in the album recording Disney Princess: Fairy Tale Songs.

Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter

But the "season-proof" common sense of his secretary Miss Gillyard, and especially his impulsive gesture in inviting a lower-ranking office member out for a drink on Christmas Eve afternoon begin to kindle a faint glow of Christmas spirit within him, culminating in a hilarious attempt at buying a final gift for his wife in Saks Fifth Avenue later that day.

Monster Mini Golf

Locations typically include two party rooms and an arcade with such things as glow-in-the-dark air hockey tables, custom-made glow-in-the-dark pool tables and arcade games as well as ticket redemption games such as glow Skee Ball.

Never, Never, Land

The track Glow was used as one of the insert songs of the 2009 film Push starring Dakota Fanning.

New Roc City

The complex also contains a Regal Cinemas multiplex and IMAX theater, bowling alley, 25-table billiards hall, electric go-kart track, a glow in the dark miniature golf course, an arcade with over 300 games and rides, a Marriott Residence Inn, a fitness center, EastWest Karate Jujitsu, an ice cream cafe, a Modell's store, and a Stop & Shop Supermarket.

Newnes glow worm tunnel

The Newnes glow worm tunnel is a disused railway tunnel in the Wolgan Valley, New South Wales, Australia, that is famous for its resident glow worms, the bioluminescent larvae of Arachnocampa richardsae, a type of fungus gnat.

Robin Crow

Crow also released his 11th album entitled "Let it Glow" which features Jon Anderson (Yes (Band)) along with Tracy Silverman and Phil Keaggy.

Scarabaeus satyrus

In a study by Marie Dacke published in the journal Current Biology, it is reported that researchers have found that beetles of this species use the bright glow from the Milky Way to navigate during night-time operations.

Taimak

Taimak's leading role in Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon, in which he played Leroy Green, a Bruce Lee-inspired martial artist in search of "The Glow", was his first major break in acting.

TCPO

In glowsticks, a fluorescent dye is added, which absorbs much of the energy produced during the decomposition of the oxalate ester, and converts that energy into light energy which is observed as the characteristic glow.

The Distant and Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties

"The Distant and Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties" is the second single to be released from the album The Destruction of Small Ideas by 65daysofstatic.

The Nudie Suits

Their follow-up album, Sweetacres, was a concept album based on Lyons' childhood in an Auckland suburb and was said to "exude(s) the vintage charm and warm glow of an antique valve radio", according to Russel Baillie from The New Zealand Herald.

The Pea-Pickers

Not quite a critical response, but in his autobiography Flaws in the Glass, Australian Nobel Laureate Patrick White, writing of his experience of the Second World War says "Otherwise I had dried up. There were stirrings of what I had it in me to write if there were ever a peace, but that didn't seem likely. So I read. I read The Bible, literally from cover to cover. I read The peapickers and was filled with a longing for Australia, a country I saw through a childhood glow".

Thrislington Plantation

The area supports a diverse invertebrate fauna, which includes the nationally-rare least minor moth, Photedes captiuncula, the nationally-notable Durham argus butterfly, Aricia artaxerxes salmacis, and the common glow-worm, Lampyris noctiluca.

Trudy Adams

When promoter David McLane left GLOW in 1987, Adams was one of several GLOW performers that joined his new Powerful Women of Wrestling promotion.


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