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  2. The surprising — and deadly — history of wallpaper - AOL

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    The act of decorating walls can be traced back to our early ancestors, but modern wallpaper has a macabre past. The surprising — and deadly — history of wallpaper Skip to main content

  3. Wallpaper (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles A wallpaper from fractal. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.

  4. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the rights ...

  5. Wallpaper - Wikipedia

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    Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects, "textured", plain with a regular repeating pattern design, or with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets. The smallest wallpaper rectangle that can be tiled to form the whole pattern is known as the pattern repeat.

  6. Les Horribles Cernettes - Wikipedia

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    Les Horribles Cernettes (French pronunciation: [le.z‿ɔʁiblə sɛʁnɛt], "The Horrible CERN Girls") was an all-female parody pop group, self-labelled "the one and only High Energy Rock Band", which was founded by employees of CERN and performed at CERN and other HEP -related events. Their main claim to fame is that a photograph of them was ...

  7. Yin and yang - Wikipedia

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    Yin and yang (English: / jɪn /, / jæŋ /), also yinyang[1][2] or yin-yang, [3][2] is a concept that originated in Chinese philosophy, describing an opposite but interconnected, self-perpetuating cycle. Yin and yang can be thought of as complementary and at the same time opposing forces that interact to form a dynamic system in which the whole ...

  8. Zahro Express disaster - Wikipedia

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    disaster. 5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi) off Muara Angke, Jakarta, Indonesia. /  6.053167°N 106.7769833°E  / 6.053167; 106.7769833. The Zahro Express disaster occurred on the morning of 1 January 2017 when an Indonesian-flagged wooden passenger vessel caught fire in the waters of Thousands Islands Regency, off the coast of Jakarta.

  9. What to know about the battle to control the next US Congress

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    Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., delivers her concession speech during a primary election watch party on Aug. 6, 2024, in St Louis.