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  2. Tara Brooch - Wikipedia

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    Reverse of the brooch. The Tara Brooch is an Irish Celtic brooch, dated to the late-7th or early-8th century.It is of the pseudo-penannular type (with a fully closed head or hoop), [n 1] and made from bronze, silver and gold.

  3. Broach (nautical) - Wikipedia

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    A broach is an abrupt, involuntary change in a vessel's course, towards the wind, resulting from loss of directional control, when the vessel's rudder becomes ineffective. This can be caused by wind or wave action. A wind gust can heel (lean) a sailing vessel, lifting its rudder out of the water. Both power and sailing vessels can broach when ...

  4. Three-Piece No. 3: Vertebrae (Working Model) - Wikipedia

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    It is in the Nasher Sculpture Center. [4] The sculpture refers to bones, which Moore collected. [5]Each of the forms, although different, has the same basic shape. Just as in a backbone which may be made up of twenty segments where each one is roughly like the others but not exactly the same…This is why I call these sculptures Vertebrae.

  5. Lagrange point - Wikipedia

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    The L 4 and L 5 points lie at the third vertices of the two equilateral triangles in the plane of orbit whose common base is the line between the centers of the two masses, such that the point lies 60° ahead of (L 4) or behind (L 5) the smaller mass with regard to its orbit around the larger mass.

  6. Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae - Wikipedia

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    The working model was scaled up in 1968–69 into a full-size bronze sculpture, measuring 9 feet (2.7 m) x 24 feet (7.3 m) x 10 feet 7 inches (3.23 m) (LH 580). The full-size sculpture was cast in edition of three (plus one for the artist). One example is installed outside the Safeco Plaza (1001 4th Avenue) in Seattle, Washington. [11]

  7. TerraTrike - Wikipedia

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    December 3, 2012 – TerraTrike featured on CNN iReport [22] November 25, 2012 – Racing with ALS [23] May 11, 2012 – Bike designed on napkin turning into big hit for Kentwood company [4] May 24, 2011 – Late night host Jimmy Fallon races Queen Latifah in studio on TerraTrikes [24] June 20, 2008 – TerraTrike featured on CNN iReport [22]

  8. Standard Model - Wikipedia

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    scheme (point) Value 1 m e: Electron mass 0.511 MeV 2 m μ: Muon mass 105.7 MeV 3 m τ: Tau mass 1.78 GeV 4 m u: Up quark mass μ MS = 2 GeV 1.9 MeV 5 m d: Down quark mass μ MS = 2 GeV 4.4 MeV 6 m s: Strange quark mass μ MS = 2 GeV 87 MeV 7 m c: Charm quark mass μ MS = m c: 1.32 GeV 8 m b: Bottom quark mass μ MS = m b: 4.24 GeV 9 m t: Top ...

  9. Viola da terra - Wikipedia

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    Scale length is about 540mm (about 21.3 inches), shorter than the modern classical guitar scale of about 655mm (about 25.8 inches). 22-24 metal frets are set into the fingerboard. One unusual distinguishing feature of the viola da terra is that the portion of the fingerboard which passes over the instrument's body is set flush with the top face ...