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  2. Pan and scan - Wikipedia

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    A 2.35:1 film still panned and scanned to smaller sizes. At the smallest, 1.33:1 (4:3), nearly half of the original image has been cropped. Pan and scan is a method of adjusting widescreen film images for fullscreen proportions of a standard-definition, 4:3 aspect ratio television screen.

  3. Barack Obama on mass surveillance - Wikipedia

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    In June 2013, reports from a cache of top secret documents leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its international partners had created a global system of surveillance that was responsible for the mass collection of information on American and foreign citizens.

  4. Sound effect - Wikipedia

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    A live rooster in the Yle recording studio in 1930s Finland. The term sound effect dates back to the early days of radio. In its Year Book 1931 the BBC published a major article about "The Use of Sound Effects".

  5. COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    The COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

  6. Thermoelectric effect - Wikipedia

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    At the atomic scale, a temperature gradient causes charge carriers in the material to diffuse from the hot side to the cold side. This is due to charge carrier particles having higher mean velocities (and thus kinetic energy) at higher temperatures, leading them to migrate on average towards the colder side, in the process carrying heat across the material.