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

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.

Glass has been placed higher than 7 World Trade Center.

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.

Contrary to the tight production and song-oriented nature of Glass Harp's studio albums, their live performances demonstrated the band's ability to stretch out and expand the boundaries of their compositions.

Contrary to the tight production and song-oriented nature of their studio albums, the band's live shows at the time demonstrated Glass Harp's ability to stretch out and expand the boundaries of their compositions.

Glasses are classified using the Schott Glass letter-number code to reflect their composition and position on the diagram.

Stanley Hilton is also an author having written four books, including an unauthorized biography, Bob Dole, American Political Phoenix ( 1988 ); Senator for Sale ( 1995 ), another biography which purports to reflect Hilton's deep animus towards Dole, Glass Houses ( 1998 ), about congressional sex scandals ; and To Pay or Not to Pay ( 2003 ).

Still Life with Glass Flask and Fruit, c. 1750 ( note reflected light on glass / silver )

In 2010 the Space Needle Corporation submitted a proposal for an exhibition of Chihuly's work at a site in the Seattle Center, in competition with proposals for other uses from several other groups. The project, which sees the new Chihuly exhibition hall occupy the site of the former Fun Forest amusement park in the Seattle Center park and entertainment complex, received the final green light from the Seattle City Council on April 25, 2011. Divisive Dale Chihuly Glass-Art " Museum " Approved for Former Seattle Amusement Park ARTINFO. com It opened May 21, 2012. Chihuly Garden and Glass Opens with Dedication Ceremony on Monday, May 21 prnewswire. comDale Chihuly's ' Glass House ' shines in Seattle publicbroadcasting. net

Glass is in widespread use largely due to the production of glass compositions that are transparent to visible wavelengths of light.

Glass does not contain the internal subdivisions associated with grain boundaries in polycrystals and hence does not scatter light in the same manner as a polycrystalline material.

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Glass or plastic between the bulb and the basking area will prohibit natural and artificial UVB light from entering the habitat.

Glass fiber or plastic optical fiber can be used to guide the light along a desired path.

Glass or ceramic coatings with high transmission in the visible and UV and effective absorption in the IR ( heat blocking ) trap metal absorbed low frequency light from radiation loss.

* Glass Lass – A crystalline superheroine with " glass " skin and power to amplify light into laser beams.

Their report, published in 1990, presented those events in a very different light, and Booker later published a lengthy analysis of the controversy in A Looking Glass Tragedy ( 1997 ).

Glass bricks provide visual obscuration while admitting light.

The phrase refers to both the abundant and winnable coal resources ( which can be burnt, to produce " light ") in addition to their use in local industry such as Glass ( through which light passes ).

Glass knives are used to slice sections for light microscopy and to slice very thin sections for electron microscopy.

* Greenhouse effect: Glass transmits visible light but blocks infrared thermal radiation from escaping.

The Nova laser as a whole was capable of delivering approximately 100 kilojoules of infrared light at 1054 nm, or 40-45 kilojoules of frequency tripled light at 351 nm ( the third harmonic of the Nd: Glass fundamental line at 1054 nm ) in a pulse duration of about 2 to 4 nanoseconds and thus was capable of producing a UV pulse in the range of 16 trillion watts.