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[4] [5] The Coca-Cola bottle's contour bottle was not designed by famous industrial designer Raymond Loewy. [6] [7] The common image of Santa Claus (Father Christmas) as a jolly large man in red garments was not created by the Coca-Cola Company as an advertising tool. Santa Claus had already taken this form in American popular culture by the ...
To circumvent such issues, white emission devices with 4-sub-pixel color filters (white, red, green and blue) have been used for large televisions. In spite of the light absorption by the color filter, state-of-the-art OLED televisions can reproduce color very well, such as 100% NTSC , and consume little power at the same time.
Operational (4/5) 2021 [63] Firefly MLV: Light rocket 2 LEO Development 2026 (planned) [64] Galactic Energy: Ceres-1: Light Rocket 4 LEO Operational (13/14) 2020 [65] General Astronautics Urania Medium rocket 3 LEO Cancelled — [66] [67] Gilmour Space Technologies: RASTA Sounding rocket 1 Suborbital Retired (1/1) 2016 [68] Eris: Light rocket 3 ...
CERN, a research center in Switzerland, created the first website. [4] The Web was publicly announced with a post to the Usenet newsgroup alt.hypertext on August 6, 1991. [5] There is a snapshot of the site from November 1992 at The World Wide Web project. [4]
The Sun is 1.4 million kilometers (4.643 light-seconds) wide, about 109 times wider than Earth, or four times the Lunar distance, and contains 99.86% of all Solar System mass. The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star that makes up about 99.86% of the mass of the Solar System. [26]
Prior to that point classical economics had either denied the existence of business cycles, [3] blamed them on external factors, notably war, [4] or only studied the long term. Sismondi found vindication in the Panic of 1825 , which was the first unarguably international economic crisis, occurring in peacetime.
Human impact on the environment. From top left, clockwise: satellite image of Southeast Asian haze; IAEA experts investigate the Fukushima disaster; a seabird during an oil spill; depiction of deforestation of Brazil's Atlantic forest by Portuguese settlers, c. 1820 –25; acid mine drainage in the Rio Tinto; industrial fishing in 1997, a practice that has led to overfishing.