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  2. Logo of the BBC - Wikipedia

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    This logo shows a rotating globe with a rounded mirror behind giving a illusion of a map behind the globe. The model is actually Black and White, but colored blue and yellow on the TV. Below the globes there is a line and the words BBC1 COLOUR. The word 'colour' was included to remind viewers still watching in black and white to purchase a ...

  3. History of BBC television idents - Wikipedia

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    On 15 November 1969, BBC1 began transmitting in colour, and introduced the first version of the "mirror globe" ident. The word "Colour", identifying this new feature, was included in the station ident, and separate, more expensive colour television licences were offered. Originally, the mirror globe had a blue logo and landmasses to enhance the ...

  4. BBC One pre-1969 idents - Wikipedia

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    The first Globe symbol. The, now famous, symbol of BBC Television, and later BBC One was the globe. The very first incarnation was introduced on 30 September 1963 and featured a large globe on its axis with the new slanted BBC logo with a background of black and white, split down the axis of the globe. The globe, like all that followed, spun.

  5. Noddy (camera) - Wikipedia

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    The system consisted of an internally lit, rotating globe in front of a concave mirror. The oceans were painted onto the globe in metallic black paint, leaving the land masses as unpainted patches. [2] The original globe ident introduced on 15 November 1969 featured blue continents and logo against a black background.

  6. Unisphere - Wikipedia

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    The globe was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Commissioned to celebrate the beginning of the space age, the Unisphere was conceived and constructed as the theme symbol of the World's Fair. The theme of the World's Fair was "Peace Through Understanding", and the Unisphere represented the theme of global ...

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  8. Wikipedia logo - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia's first true logo was an image originally submitted by Bjørn Smestad – under the username Bjornsm – for a Nupedia logo competition which took place in 2000. [5] It was used provisionally as Wikipedia's logo until the end of 2001. [6] The logo included a quote from the preface of the 1879 book Euclid and his Modern Rivals by Lewis ...

  9. Cloud Gate - Wikipedia

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    Buffed and polished the surface to a mirror-like finish Cloud Gate was finally completed on August 28, 2005, and officially unveiled on May 15, 2006. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] The cost for the piece was first estimated at $6 million; this had escalated to $11.5 million by the time the park opened in 2004, [ 41 ] with the final figure standing at $23 ...