* Contrast ratio is the ratio of the luminosity of the brightest color ( white ) to that of the darkest color ( black ) that the monitor is capable of producing.

It is considered one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies.

Zero intensity for each component gives the darkest color ( no light, considered the black ), and full intensity of each gives a white ; the quality of this white depends on the nature of the primary light sources, but if they are properly balanced, the result is a neutral white matching the system's white point.

They will see that Popery is now, what it has ever been, a system of the darkest political intrigue and despotism, cloaking itself to avoid attack under the sacred name of religion.

* The central umbra, which is the darkest part, where the magnetic field is approximately vertical ( normal to the Sun's surface ).

Saul eventually enters the cave in which David had been hiding, but as David is in the darkest recesses Saul doesn't spot him.

A distant member of the Local Group, it is about 2. 3 million light years away, and at magnitude 5. 8, it is bright enough to be seen by the naked eye under the darkest skies.

There is a similar great legend in Prague which says that when the Motherland is in danger or in its darkest times and close to ruin, the equestrian statue of King Wenceslaus in Wenceslaus Square will come to life, raise the army sleeping in Blaník, and upon crossing the Charles Bridge his horse will stumble and trip over a stone, revealing the legendary sword of Bruncvík.

Medievalist and historian of technology Lynn White said that " to the modern eye, it is very nearly the darkest of the Dark Ages ", but concluded that ".

Eastwood directed and starred in the fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact, which was shot in the spring and summer of 1983 and is considered the darkest and most violent of the series.

It is the darkest chapter in the history of Tórshavn.

In her book, Arendt wrote that: " To a Jew this role of the Jewish leaders in the destruction of their own people is undoubtedly the darkest chapter of the whole dark story.

It is considered Flintheart's darkest appearance and among his strongest and most memorable ones.

The dramatic is the deepest, darkest, and heaviest contralto voice, usually having a heavier tone and more power than the others.

Given this inherent distortion, it is not unusual for a television or video projector to truthfully claim a linear contrast ratio ( difference between darkest and brightest output levels ) of 1000: 1 or greater, equivalent to 10 bits of audio precision even though it may only accept signals with 8-bit precision and use an LCD panel that only represents 6 or 7 bits per channel.

The umbra ( Latin for " shadow ") is the innermost and darkest part of a shadow, where the light source is completely blocked by the occluding body.

This can be seen well in North America, where the northernmost subspecies, the Peary caribou, is the whitest and smallest subspecies of the continent, while the southernmost subspecies, the Woodland Caribou, is the darkest and largest.

This resulted in a heartfelt discussion in which aunt and nephew confess their darkest secrets, and each learned that the other is far stronger than they had imagined.

The opera is set in the Tower of London, during the 16th century, and is the darkest, and perhaps most emotionally engaging, of the Savoy Operas, ending with a broken-hearted main character and two very reluctant engagements, rather than the usual numerous marriages.

It is possible that especially large anacondas will prove to belong to subspecies limited to a small area.

In snakes difference in size is a common characteristic of subspecies.

The Mexican tetra has been treated as a subspecies of A. fasciatus, the banded tetra, but this is not widely accepted.

It is usually resident all year, except in the coldest parts of its range, and in the case of one subspecies.

However, the Californian, North African ( Atlas bear ), and Mexican subspecies were hunted to extinction in the 1870s, 1922, and more recently, respectively, and the not officially recognized Marsican brown bear in central Italy is believed to have a population of just 30 to 40 bears.

Two other subspecies are described from West and Central Africa, but taxonomic clarification is required.

One subspecies, the Masked Bobwhite ( Colinus virginianus ridgewayi ), is listed as endangered with wild populations located in Sonora, Mexico and a reintroduced population in Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in Southern Arizona.

1 subspecies is extinct:

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

Other terrestrial mammals include subspecies of the Cretan marten, the Cretan weasel, the Cretan badger, the long-eared hedgehog, the edible dormouse, and the Cretan shrew, a unique endemic species of mammal in Greece, that is unfortunately threatened with extinction.

Currently, the domestic dog is listed as a subspecies of Canis lupus, C. l. familiaris, and the dingo ( also considered a domestic dog ) as C. l. dingo, provisionally a separate subspecies from C. l. familiaris ; the red wolf, eastern Canadian wolf, and Indian wolf are recognized as subspecies.

The nominate subspecies is Canis lupus lupus.

The current categorization of subspecies of Canis lupus is shown below.

However, it is worth noting that the Gand are divided into two subspecies, only one of which breathes at all, the other drawing all their required sustenance from food intake and producing speech by essentially modulated flatulence.

The African elephant genus contains two living species ; whereas the Asian elephant species is the only surviving member of the Asian elephant genus, but can be divided into four subspecies.

The island is home to an endemic subspecies of White-tailed Tropicbird ( Phaethon lepturus europae ).

There are three species of landbirds present, one of which is an endemic subspecies of the Malagasy White-eye ( Zosterops maderaspatanus voeltzkowi ).

There is not yet a consensus as to which of these groups should count as separate species and which as subspecies.

Often the early phase, from 1. 8 to 1. 25 Ma, is considered to be a separate species, Homo ergaster, or it is seen as a subspecies of Homo erectus, Homo erectus ergaster.

The island is home to an endemic subspecies of Eurasian Wren, the Fair Isle Wren Troglodytes troglodytes fridariensis.

The genus is divided into two species and either four or five subspecies.

Clayton is with him, takin him out of the valley.

His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.

`` Exterminatin' cow thieves is just a business proposition with me '', he'd blandly announce.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.

One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

It is nothing you can put your fingers on but the air suddenly fills with a high charge of electricity.

It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

That place is crawling with Bill Doolin and his gang ''.

The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.

`` What is with this vow jazz ''??

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;

In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.

It has nothing of the proud stride of the trained runner about it, it is not a lope, it is not done with style or verve.