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  2. Raised pavement marker - Wikipedia

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    The orange markers separate opposing traffic lanes. The blue marker denotes a fire hydrant on the left sidewalk. A raised pavement marker is a safety device used on roads. These devices are usually made with plastic, ceramic, thermoplastic paint, glass or occasionally metal, and come in a variety of shapes and colors.

  3. Room divider - Wikipedia

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    Casa Loma, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Room-divider/screen, (Ethnographic Museum, Belgrade) A room divider for a conference hall. A room divider is a screen or piece of furniture placed in a way that divides a room into separate areas. [1] [2] Room dividers are used by interior designers and architects as means to divide space into separate ...

  4. Botts' dots - Wikipedia

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    Today, there are more than 25 million Botts' dots in use in California, [6] though they have started falling out of favor. In 2017, Caltrans announced that it would stop using Botts' dots as the sole indicator of lane division, due to cost and worker safety, and in order to make roadways more compatible with self-driving cars.

  5. Sheldon tapestries - Wikipedia

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    Every tapestry had the arms of Queen Elizabeth in the upper left corner, a panel of text inspired by William Camden's Britannia in the upper right and a scale and dividers in the lower left corner. Each right-hand corner of the tapestry had a coat of arms, representing different generations of the Sheldon family.

  6. Current divider - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1: Schematic of an electrical circuit illustrating current division. Notation R T refers to the total resistance of the circuit to the right of resistor R X.. In electronics, a current divider is a simple linear circuit that produces an output current (I X) that is a fraction of its input current (I T).

  7. Section (typography) - Wikipedia

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    An ornamental symbol used as section break does not have a generally accepted name. Such a typographic device can be referred to as a dinkus, a space break symbol, a paragraph separator, a paragraph divider, a horizontal divider, a thought break, or as an instance of filigree or flourish.

  8. Cruel and All-Too-Usual - The Huffington Post

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    2 Following Kalief Browder’s death, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul observed that “white kids don’t get the same justice” —and when it comes to sentencing practices, this is empirically true. One national study found that in a single year, almost 10 times more black kids were committed to adult facilities than white kids.

  9. Single-room occupancy - Wikipedia

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    Single-room occupancy (SRO) is a type of low-cost housing typically aimed at residents with low or minimal incomes, or single adults who like a minimalist lifestyle, who rent small, furnished single rooms with a bed, chair, and sometimes a small desk. [1]