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Venetian Blinds is a simulation video game developed by Activision co-founders David Crane and Bob Whitehead for the Atari 2600.The game simulates the raising and lowering of Venetian blinds on a window, and was facetiously presented as a technology demonstration of Whitehead's graphical programming technique of the same name, although it does not use the technique.
"Venetian blinds were introduced around 1770, possibly in Venice, Italy" is probably from the Unabridged OED which gives dates and points out that the word Venetian means Venice, Italy. Yet, in my opinion Venetian sounds similar to Phoenician, a person from coastal lands in Syria during pre-Christian times.
The slats of a mini blind. A mini blind is a type of horizontal window blind made of long, narrow slats held together by string. Its slats are less than half the width of a regular venetian blind, and are often made of aluminium, measuring 15 millimetres (0.59 in) or 25 millimetres (0.98 in).
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Bill McCartney, the Hall of Fame college football coach who led the Colorado Buffaloes to their only national championship title in 1990, has died. He was 84. McCartney, better known to fans as ...
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