Glass has praised Bowie's gift for creating " fairly complex pieces of music, masquerading as simple pieces ".

Glass has the ability to refract, reflect, and transmit light following geometrical optics, without scattering it.

Glass has a higher dielectric strength, but it attracts condensation and the thick irregular shapes needed for insulators are difficult to cast without internal strains.

Glass in particular has recently turned to conventional orchestras in works like the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra and the Violin Concerto No. 2.

Glass has a higher refractive index than air.

With Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers, Crawford has edited Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

Toledo is known as the Glass City because of its long history of innovation in all aspects of the glass industry: windows, bottles, windshields, construction materials, and glass art, which the Toledo Museum of Art has a large collection.

In Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co.,, the Supreme Court laid out what has become the modern understanding of what constitutes ' gross income ' to which the Sixteenth Amendment applies, declaring that income taxes could be levied on " accessions to wealth, clearly realized, and over which the taxpayers have complete dominion.

The Pier also has an IMAX theater, and the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, many of which were salvaged from Chicago mansions.

Glass sponges are relatively uncommon and are mostly found at depths from although the species Oopsacas minuta has been found in shallow water, while others have been found much deeper.

Opened in 2002, the Ohio Glass Museum is located in historic downtown Lancaster and dedicated to recording the history of the glass industry, which for over 100 years has been one of the mainstays of the economy of Fairfield County.

In 2012, Brin has been involved with the Project Glass program and has demoed eyeglass prototypes.

In Facts and Fallacies about Software Engineering, Robert Glass refers to Linus ' Law as a " mantra " of the Open source movement, but calls it a fallacy, stating that research has found that the number of bugs found decreases with too many inspectors, and that no research supports the Law as stated.

The American composer Philip Glass has also written a symphonic cantata named Itaipu, in honour of the structure.

The main difference to K. minor is the longer anal fin of the Glass Catfish, which in the latter has more than 54 and up to 68 rays.

She has performed in theatre productions of The Playboy of the Western World, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Glass Menagerie, Hedda Gabler, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Heidi Chronicles and Uncle Vanya.

On Saturday, September 2, 2003, the Phillips football field ( James E. Glass Stadium ) was named after Coach James E. Glass in honor of the dedication he has given to the football team and school throughout the years.

The Kokomo Opalescent Glass Works started making stained glass in Kokomo in 1888 and has been in continuous operation ever since.

Corning Incorporated has a plant located in Harrodsburg, which makes Gorilla Glass.

Cardinal Glass Industries has a float glass manufacturing facility in western Durant.

The poet Peter Oresick has also written about it in The Story of Glass ( 1977 ).

Fenton Art Glass Company has officially stopped making glass.

Glass beads have been in use for almost five centuries in the Americas.

Like " Jabberwocky ," another poem published in Through the Looking Glass, " Haddocks ’ Eyes " appears to have been revised over the course of many years.

Glass Moonshine slides are made of glass, but have a porous ceramic interior that helps prevent slipping ; other slides have been designed to reduce the weight of brass or porcelain slides by using a lightweight interior, while still others are made of glass on the front and of metal on the back to allow easy switching.

Owens-Illinois, Owens Corning, Libbey Glass, Pilkington North America ( formerly Libbey Owens Ford ), and Therma-Tru have long been a staple of Toledo's economy.

In the liner notes to Season of Glass, Ono explained that the album is not dedicated to Lennon because " he would have been offended — he was one of us.

The Glass Blowers and Desirée have had revivals, the latter having been released on CD like El Capitan, the best known of them.

The concept of a Glass House set in a landscape with views as its real “ walls ” had been developed by many authors in the German Glasarchitektur drawings of the 1920s, and already sketched in initial form by Johnson's mentor Mies.

Glass Harp's original Decca studio albums were re-issued on CD in 2005 by Music Mill Entertainment ( having first been released on CD in 1993 by Line Records in Germany before quickly going out of print ).

In an August 2012 interview, Keaggy said " Especially this past year I've gotten extra comfortable playing with Glass Harp, we've been lifelong friends.

One of the company ( Joseph Wood ) remarked that he had been out with the party sent to survey Ionia and other counties, and that the surveyors were struck by the valuable water-power at the mouth of the Looking Glass River, saying there would surely be a village there some day.

Years ago the district had also been called Ynys Gutrin in Welsh, that is the Island of Glass, and from these words the invading Saxons later coined the place-name ' Glastingebury '.

As early as the year 1800 Stephen Van Rensselaer sold to a glass manufacturing company of Sloan's, Albany county, a tract of of land near the body of water whiclihas since been known as Glass lake.

It is part of Glasriket, The Realm of Glass, where people have been producing glass products at least since the 17th century, and transported them to the rest of Sweden.

Among the most important of the regulatory changes was the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999, which repealed the parts of the Glass – Steagall Act which had not already been repealed.

There have been other timpani concertos, notably, Philip Glass, considered one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century, wrote a double concerto titled Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, which features its soloists playing nine drums apiece.

The banking industry had been seeking the repeal of the 1933 Glass – Steagall Act since the 1980s, if not earlier.

Glass had been the House sponsor of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 ( the Glass-Owen Act ) and considered himself “ the father of the Federal Reserve System .” The various versions of his Glass bill consistently sought to ( 1 ) expand branch banking and bring more banks and activities under Federal Reserve supervision and ( 2 ) separate ( or regulate the mix of ) commercial and investment banking.

He wished the more extensive branch banking permission in earlier Glass bills had been adopted.

* The assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by a German-born Polish Jew triggers the Kristallnacht ( The Night of Broken Glass ) held between the 9 to 10 November 1938 and carried out by the Hitler Youth, the Gestapo and the SS during which the Jewish population living in Nazi Germany and Austria were attacked – 91 Jews were murdered and 25, 000 to 30, 000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps.

It is unknown whether or not the promoter or Glass Harp's then-management directed that the statement be placed in the advertisement, but it is believed to be the first instance of any rumor regarding Hendrix in relation to Keaggy / Glass Harp

A study by Surrey University and Pilkington Glass proposes that waste laminated glass is placed into a separating device such as a rolling mill where the glass is fragmented and the larger cullet is mechanically detached from the inner film.

For part of 2006, the Missouri Botanical Garden featured " Glass in the Garden ", with glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly placed throughout the garden.

Instead, he focused on a story set in the future and placed the three shorter stories, " authored " by Knecht in The Glass Bead Game at the end of the novel.

In one of the more remarkable treks known to history, Glass set his own leg, wrapped himself in the bear hide his companions had placed over him as a shroud, and began crawling.

Glass wall blocks are fixed together to form complete walls by several methods – the most common method of construction is to bed the blocks together in a Portland cement based mortar with reinforcing rods of steel placed within the mortar as recommended by the project architect or block manufacturer.

In the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop music critics ' poll, the album placed 7th overall for 1980, beating out such better selling releases as Michael Jackson's Off the Wall, Stevie Wonder's Hotter than July and Pete Townshend's Empty Glass.

Seamus Blackley, a physics expert and experienced pilot, had just been hired on at Looking Glass Technologies, and he was well placed to see where the current simulators fell short of what they could be.

The piece is placed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art gallery beside The Green Box, the selection of Duchamp's own notes on The Large Glass.