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2 unusual facts about Prism


Jan Philipp Albrecht

On his request the European parliament started the investigations on the intelligens programs Prism and Tempora in Summer 2013.

Prism

The results of this experiment dramatically transformed the field of metaphysics, leading to John Locke's primary vs secondary quality distinction.


Andriy Savenets Mykolayovych

In parallel, he studied at the postgraduate studies in the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, where in 2005 defended his thesis "Poetry in the prism of translation: poems Wislava Shymborska in Ukrainian language."

Apollo PRISM

The original PRISM design was introduced in 1988 in the one-to-four-CPU Apollo DN10000 workstations.

PRISM (Parallel Reduced Instruction Set Machine) was Apollo Computer's high-performance CPU used in their DN10000 series workstations.

Bhangura Upazila

Noted educational institutes are Bhangura Union High School, Bhangura Jarina Rahim Girls High School, Hazi Jamal Uddin College, Bhangura Girls College, Sharatnagar Fazil Madrasa, Bharamara Udayan Academy, and Pathorghata Government Primary School, Doharigram Govt High school,Patulipara High School, Baral Kindergarten, Shishu Tirtho, Momotaz Mostafa Ideal School & College, Bhangura Biggan School & College, Bhangura Model School & college,Prism Shikkha poribar etc.

Borderline tree

It happens when a tree cannot be easily determined as in or out when using a prism or angle gauge.

Bryan Donkin

In 1813 he and a printer, Richard Mackenzie Bacon of Norwich, obtained a patent for a "Polygonal printing machine"; this used types placed on a rotating prism.

Deanne Bray

A California native, Bray broke into the entertainment industry after she was discovered performing with a deaf dancing group called "Prism West" at a deaf festival at California State University, Northridge, where she earned a B.A. degree in Biology.

DECstation

The brainchild of James Billmaier, Mario Pagliaro, Armando Stettner and Joseph DiNucci, the systems family was to also employ a truly RISC-based architecture when compared to the heavier and very CISC VAX or the then still under development Prism architectures.

Dispersive prism

The image of a dispersive prism was featured on the album cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of the best-selling albums of all time.

An artist's rendition of a dispersive prism is seen on the cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.

Duoprism

Conway proposed a similar name proprism for product prism.

John Doget

The neoplatonic texts cited by Doget, which include Marsilio Ficino's Latin version of the Pimander, or Poemander, of Hermes Trismegistus, are seen through the prism of Christian apologetics, and the Phaedo was no doubt chosen in the first place as a vehicle for his commentary because it could be presented as a mythologized version of Christian doctrine.

Kerry Hannon

Hannon’s work has appeared in CBS MoneyWatch.com, AARP Bulletin Today, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, Institutional Investor, USAA Magazine, Working Woman, Bloomberg Personal Finance, Your Company, Prism, The Chronicle of The Horse and Advertising Age, among other national publications.

Long-slit spectroscopy

In astronomy, Long-slit spectroscopy involves observing an elongated celestial object (such as a nebula or along the major axis of a disc galaxy at high inclination) through an elongated slit aperture, and refracting this light with a prism or diffraction grating.

María Rosa Lojo

Brett Alan Sanders’ English translations of her poetry and prose have appeared in The Saint Ann's Review, Chelsea, Stand Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Perihelion, Artful Dodge, Event, New Works Review, Hunger Mountain, Rhino, Mudlark: An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics, Contemporary Verse 2, PRISM International, and The Dirty Goat.

Paul Warren

He began being a guitar player for hire between the years 1981 and 1987, working for such greats and The Ventures, Tina Turner and Prism.

Schuylkill Canal

Near Gibraltar, the Allegheny Creek Aqueduct still exists along with a drained section of the canal prism.

SGI Prism

Released in April 2005, the Prism's basic system architecture was based on the Altix 3000 servers, but with graphics hardware.

Split-ring resonator

Just before this prism experiment, Pendry et al. was able to demonstrate that a three-dimensional array of intersecting thin wires could be used to create negative values of ε.

StoryServer

StoryServer was the name the company Vignette gave to CNET's web publishing application "PRISM" when they bought it.

Triaprism

Conway proposed a similar name proprism for product prism, thus applying to any number of products.

Wometco Home Theater

PRISM, an over-the-air and cable television subscription service that served Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, Delaware and the Delmarva Peninsula.

World Tour Golf

Evan Robinson worked on the game and graphics code (which was adapted from code written by Dan Silva for an internal EA editor named Prism, which eventually became Deluxe Paint) for WTG, while Nicky Robinson created the editor and Paul Reiche acted as game designer and artist.

Your World Today

However, following the creation of programmes such as The Brief, Prism and International Desk, the weekday edition was reduced to sixty minutes, while the weekend edition aired for thirty minutes.

Z Channel

In the late 1980s, Z Channel broadcast a number of the World Wrestling Federation's live events from the Los Angeles Sports Arena, but nowhere near as many as Madison Square Garden (MSG Network), Boston Garden (New England Sports Network) or the Philadelphia Spectrum (PRISM).


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