Kirlian photography - shape, and size of the resulting image. The accepted explanation amongst scientists is that the images produced are those typically caused by a high voltage corona effect, similar to those seen from other high voltage sources such as van der Graaf generators. In a darkened room, this is visible as faint glow; but because of the high voltages, the film is affected in a slightly different way than usual. Color photographic film is calibrated to faithfully produce colors when exposed to normal light. The corona discharge has a somewhat different effect on the different layers of dye used to accomplish this result, resulting in various colors depending on the local intensity of the discharge. In addition to living material, inanimate objects such as coins will also produce images on the film.
Exposure (photography) - amount of light allowed to fall on the film during the process of taking a photograph. Exposure is measured in ev, with higher values denoting more light. The correct exposure for a photograph is determined by the sensitivity of the film used. Film sensitivity is referred to as 'speed' and is measured as an ISO rating. Faster film requires less exposure and has a higher ISO rating. Exposure is controlled in a camera by shutter speed and lens aperture. Slower shutter speeds and greater lens apertures produce greater exposures. An approximately correct exposure will be obtained on a sunny day using ISO 125 film, an aperture of f/16 and a shutter speed of 1/125th of a second. This is called the sunny f/16 rule. The Zone System is another method of.
Digital photography - available from a digital camera of a given price is still inferior to that available from a film camera, and the quality of images taken on medium format film is near-impossible to match at any price with a digital camera. Some have expressed a concern that changing computer technology may make digital photographs inaccessible in the future while printed images have a very long lifespan. Digital photography was used in astronomy long before its use by the general public and had almost completely displaced photographic plates by the early-1980's. Not only are CCD's more sensitive to light than plates, but the information can be downloaded onto a computer for data analysis. The CCD's used in astronomy are similar to those used by the general public, but are cooled to liquid nitrogen.
Venus (planet) - celestial body observed by the Maya, who called it Chak ek, "the Great Star", and considered it a representation of Quetzalcoatl; they apparently did not worship any of the other planets. (See also Maya calendar.) Early Greeks thought that the evening and morning appearances of Venus represented two different objects, calling it Hesperus when it appeared in the western evening sky and Phosphorus when it appeared in the eastern morning sky. They soon came to recognize that both objects represented the same planet, however; Pythagoras is given credit for this realization. In the 4th century BC, Heraclides Ponticus proposed that both Venus and Mercury orbited the Sun rather than Earth. The name Venus comes from the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Because its orbit takes it between the Earth and.
Kent State University - Conference. The university is best known, outside Ohio, for a single event: The Kent State massacre, when four students were shot by the National Guard on May 4, 1970. A photograph of a 14-year-old runaway girl, kneeling over one of the bodies as she cried, is one of the most enduring images of the event, and it won a Pulitzer Prize for photographer John Filo..
Kent State shootings - volley of rifle fire. Only one of the four students killed was participating in the protest. Ironically one of the students killed, William Schroeder, who was not even involved in the demonstration, was a member of the campus ROTC chapter. Several other students were also wounded in the shooting. Killed were Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder. A monument to their memory was erected on the campus near the site where they died. A photograph of a 14-year-old runaway girl, identified as Mary Vecchio, kneeling over Jeffrey Miller's body as she cried, is one of the most enduring images of the tragedy, and it won a Pulitzer Prize for photographer John Filo. The shootings led to protests on college campuses throughout the United States, causing many campuses to.
Kim Phuc Phan Thi - of napalm-burned Thi running naked from her village became one of the most remembered images of the Vietnam War. The photograph earned Nick Ut a Pulitzer Prize. Ut took Thi to a hospital where it was determined that her burns were so severe that she would not survive. However, after 14 months of medical attention, she returned home. Having moved to Toronto, Canada, she has since dedicated her life to promoting peace. On November 10, 1997, Thi was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador..
Koi photo with six types - Koi photo with six types This photograph depicts six koi of a collection of ten living in a private outdoor pond in San Jose, California. The pond is about 45 cm (18 in) deep, which is shallower than ideal - it was not originally designed for koi. The largest fish seen is the yellow ogon at about 50 cm (20 in) long; it was four years old at the time of the photo. Fish types in this picture, from top to bottom: shusui (blue with red streaks) a goldfish (the small red and white fish) diamond platinum ogon (white) ogon (yellow) kohaku (red on white) bekko (black on white) asagi(?) (silvery black on white).
KV62 - adapted for a royal occupant during its excavation. This is supported by the fact that only the burial chamber walls were decorated, unlike royal tombs in which nearly all walls were painted with scenes from the Book of the Dead. The tomb was literally packed with items, but they were in great disarray. And yet, Carter was able to photograph garlands of flowers, which of course disintregated when touched. Due to the state of the tomb, and to Carter's meticulous recording technique, the tomb took nearly a decade to empty, the contents all being transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Even though Tutankhamun was a minor Pharaoh, for the first time, it was possible to get an idea of the riches which were buried with an Egyptian king, and they.
James Clerk Maxwell - observations and experiments in a better way. Maxwell's work on thermodynamics led him to develop the thought experiment, Maxwell's demon. Electromagnetism The great work of Maxwell's life was devoted to electricity. Maxwell's most important contribution was the extension and mathematical formulation of earlier work on electricity and magnetism by Michael Faraday, André-Marie Ampère, and others into a linked set of twenty differential equations in quaternions. Between 1864 and 1873, Maxwell conducted research and demonstrated that the equations could express the behavior of electromagnetic fields and their interrelated nature. Maxwell began by reading, with the most profound admiration and attention, the whole of Faraday’s extraordinary self-revelations, and proceeded to translate the ideas of that master into the succinct and expressive notation of the mathematician. The equations allow for the existence of a.
January 10 - - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens (Paddington to Farringdon Street). 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil. 1901 - The first great Texas gusher, oil discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas. 1911 - Major Jimmie Erickson takes the first aerial photograph (over San Diego, California). 1920 - League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I. 1922 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State. 1923 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel. 1927 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiers. 1929 - The comic book character of Tintin was created by Hergé who went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages and loved across the world. 1941 -.
January 12 - 1838 - In order to avoid anti-Mormon persecution, Joseph Smith and his followers flee Ohio for Missouri. 1866 - Royal Aeronautical Society is formed (London). 1875 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. 1896 - H.L. Smith takes the first x-ray photograph. 1898 - Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan. 1908 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time. 1915 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of Congress. 1915 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote. 1926 - Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program Sam 'n' Henry, in which the two white performers portrayed two black characters; some consider the show the first situation.
Jane Bown - a chart corrector, which included a role in plotting the D-Day invasion. She studied photography at Guildford College. She started out as a child portrait photographer, but got her big break when she received a telegram in 1949 from an Observer editor, asking her to photograph the philosopher Bertrand Russell. In 1985, she was awarded an MBE and in 1995, she was "upgraded" to the CBE..
Vivien Leigh - having a tuberculosis patch on her left lung. Though she continued her career with such plays as Thornton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth, and the 1946 film Caesar and Cleopatra, her illness was getting worse. In 1951, however, Leigh won a second Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. By the early 1960s, Leigh had suffered two miscarriages and the severity of the tuberculosis was incapacitating. She had also been plagued by manic-depression for some time. In 1960, she and Olivier divorced on supposedly friendly terms. Leigh continued to keep a framed photograph of him on her bedside table, even while living with her companion, actor John Merivale. Joan Plowright, third wife and widow of Olivier, claimed that for much of Olivier's marriage to Leigh,.
Jigsaw puzzle - flat, rectangular piece of wood, and then cutting that picture into small pieces with a jigsaw, hence the name. Most modern jigsaw puzzles are made out of cardboard, since they are easier and cheaper to mass produce. An enlarged photograph or printed reproduction of a painting or other 2D artwork is then glued onto the cardboard before cutting. The pieces are punch-cut with complex metal dies. Typical images found on jigsaw puzzles include scenes from nature, buildings, and repetitive designs. Castles and mountains have long been two of the most favorite subjects. Many people solve jigsaw puzzles as a hobby. Children's jigsaw puzzles come in a great variety of sizes, rated by the number of pieces. Adult jigsaw puzzles typically come in 500-piece and 1,000-piece sizes, and sometimes in 750 pieces,.
Jimmy Yancey - every performance. Most of his recordings were of solo piano, but late in his career he also recorded with vocals by his wife, Estelle Yancey, under the billing Jimmy and Mama Yancey. They recorded the first album ever made by Atlantic Records. Throughout his life, Yancey kept a job as groundskeeper for the Chicago White Sox. Yancey died in Chicago on September 17, 1951. External Link Short biography of Jimmy Yancey with photograph.
Viking program - Viking 1 and Viking 2. Each mission had a satellite designed to photograph the surface of Mars from orbit, and to act as a communication relay for the Viking lander that each mission carried. Viking 1 was launched on August 20, 1975, and the second craft, Viking 2, was launched on September 9, 1975. Each spacecraft consisted of an orbiter and a lander. After orbiting Mars and returning images used for landing site selection, the orbiter and lander detached and the lander entered the Martian atmosphere and soft-landed at the selected site. The orbiters continued imaging and other scientific operations from orbit while the landers deployed instrumentss on the surface. The fully fueled orbiter-lander pair had a mass of 3527 kg. After separation and landing, the lander had a mass of.
Joe Orton - into regional repertory work but soon returned to London, moving into a small and austere flat in Islington in 1959. They lived on Halliwell's money and the dole, working occasionally. They collaborated on a number of unpublished novels. Lack of substantial work led them to curious acts. In one bizarre episode he and Halliwell borrowed books from the local library, and would subtly modify the cover art, or the blurbs. A volume of poems by John Betjeman, for example, was returned to the library with a new dustjacket featuring a photograph of a nearly naked, heavily tattooed middle-aged man. Starting in 1959 they were eventually discovered, and prosecuted for this in May, 1962, it was reported in the national newspaper the Mirror as "Gorilla in the Roses". They were charged with.
John Dillinger - positively identified as John Dillinger by his sister Audrey, by a scar on his leg received in childhood.) The corpse has brown eyes. - Dillinger's were grey, according to police files. (This was no doubt an error on the part of the coroner, probably resulting from eye discoloration caused by a traumatic head wound.) The body showed signs of some childhood illness, which Dillinger never had. (This is another error. The dead man had a rheumatic heart condition. So did John Dillinger, according to the later testimony of Dr. Patrick Weeks, who had been Dillinger's physician at the Indiana State Prison.) In 1969 the newspaper Indianapolis Star received a letter from a person called 'John Dillinger'. The letter contained a photo of a man who looked like a more aged Dillinger..
John Oswald - both. At least, she seems to be what she's not. He released a compact disc collection of his manipulations and collages, which was sued out of existence by Michael Jackson's lawyers and a Canadian record industry group. The cover art of the disc was an altered photograph of a nude woman's body with Mr. Jackson's head, which was the provocation for the lawsuit. If creativity is a field, copyright is the fence - John Oswald.
