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  2. Marvin Heemeyer - Wikipedia

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    Marvin Heemeyer was born on October 28, 1951, on a dairy farm in South Dakota.In 1974, he moved to Colorado because he was stationed at Lowry Air Force Base. [3] In 1989, [3] he moved to Grand Lake, Colorado, about 16 miles (26 km) away from Granby.

  3. Kentucky Electrical Lamp Company - Wikipedia

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    Founded in 1899, the Kentucky Electrical Lamp Company began operations at 817 Lewis Street (later renamed J. R. Miller Blvd., in the 1980s) in Owensboro, Kentucky. [1] The company was sold to Roy Burlew in 1918 who used it to create the Kentucky Radio Corporation, later known as Ken-Rad, which operated out of the same building.

  4. Yellow goods (construction and agriculture) - Wikipedia

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    Yellow goods are material for construction and earth-moving equipment, quarrying equipment, and fork-lift trucks. [1] The term is also used to encompass agricultural equipment, such as tractors. The term "yellow goods" originated from the distinctive yellow colour commonly used on these types of machinery.

  5. Stack light - Wikipedia

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    Stack light in automated production for in-line quality inspection. Stack lights (also known as signal tower lights, indicator lights, andon lights, warning lights, industrial signal lights, or tower lights) are commonly used on equipment in industrial manufacturing and process control environments to provide visual and audible indicators of a machine's status to machine operators, technicians ...

  6. Electric light - Wikipedia

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    An electric light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical component that produces light. It is the most common form of artificial lighting . Lamps usually have a base made of ceramic , metal, glass, or plastic which secures the lamp in the socket of a light fixture , which is often called a "lamp" as well.

  7. Halogen lamp - Wikipedia

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    To reduce unintentional ultraviolet (UV) exposure, and to contain hot bulb fragments in the event of explosive bulb failure, general-purpose lamps usually have a UV-absorbing glass filter over or around the bulb. Alternatively, lamp bulbs may be doped or coated to filter out the UV radiation. With adequate filtering, a halogen lamp exposes ...

  8. Glow stick - Wikipedia

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    A glow stick, also known as a light stick, chem light, light wand, light rod, and rave light, is a self-contained, short-term light-source. It consists of a translucent plastic tube containing isolated substances that, when combined, make light through chemiluminescence. [1] The light cannot be turned off and can be used only once.

  9. Toxicoscordion venenosum - Wikipedia

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    Toxicoscordion venenosum is a bulb plant 20–70 centimeters tall when flowering in the spring or early summer. The underground bulbs are egg-shaped (ovoid) and made of up of multiple layers protected by dried outer layers (tunicate) like an onion. [5] The plant's leaves appear very early in the spring and are narrow. [6]