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  2. Tilaka - Wikipedia

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    Tilaka. In Hinduism, the tilaka ( Sanskrit: तिलक ), colloquially known as a tika, is a mark worn usually on the forehead, at the point of the ajna chakra (third eye or spiritual eye) and sometimes other parts of the body such as the neck, hand, chest, or the arm. [1] The tilaka may be worn daily for decorative purposes, as a symbol for ...

  3. Tripundra - Wikipedia

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    Tripundra Applying Tripundra on the forehead is termed as "Bhasma dharana". The word Bhasma means calcined ash. Those who wear Tripundra on their forehead, often recite the mantras of the Lord while remembering its spiritual meaning and it is not just a sign of culture or identification. [citation needed] Regional nomenclature

  4. Aerial photography - Wikipedia

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    Air photo of a military target used to evaluate the effect of bombing. Air photography from flight. Aerial photography (or airborne imagery) is the taking of photographs from an aircraft or other airborne platforms. [1] When taking motion pictures, it is also known as aerial videography .

  5. English language - Wikipedia

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    English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.

  6. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    Devanāgarī is formed by the addition of the word deva ( देव) to the word nāgarī ( नागरी ). Nāgarī is an adjective derived from nagara ( नगर ), a Sanskrit word meaning "town" or "city," and literally means "urban" or "urbane". [21] The word Nāgarī (implicitly modifying lipi, "script") was used on its own to refer to ...

  7. Saccidānanda - Wikipedia

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  8. Geoid - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The geoid ( / ˈdʒiː.ɔɪd / JEE-oyd) is the shape that the ocean surface would take under the influence of the gravity of Earth, including gravitational attraction and Earth's rotation, if other influences such as winds and tides were absent. This surface is extended through the continents (such as might be approximated with very ...

  9. Triband (flag) - Wikipedia

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    The Indian independence movement in 1931 also adopted a tricolour (loan-translated as Hindi, तिरंगा Tiraṅgā) in the traditional symbolism of "national unification" and republican "self-rule" (Purna Swaraj), adopted as the flag of the Indian Republic in 1947. In 1999, a red, green, and blue tricolour was proposed as the Flag of Mars.