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Micarta is a brand name for composites of linen, canvas, paper, fiberglass, carbon fiber, or other fabric in a thermosetting plastic. It was originally used in electrical and decorative applications. Micarta was developed by George Westinghouse at least as early as 1910 using phenolic resins invented by Leo Baekeland.
Tarpaulin. An improvised tent using polytarp as a fly. Abandoned homeless shelter using plastic tarp. A tarpaulin ( / tɑːrˈpɔːlɪn / tar-PAW-lin, [1] also US: / ˈtɑːrpəlɪn / [2]) or tarp is a large sheet of strong, flexible, water-resistant or waterproof material, often cloth such as canvas or polyester coated with polyurethane, or ...
WOMAN PEELING APPLES. de G. 55. [1] In the right-hand corner of a room sits a woman, facing the spectator. She wears a black velvet jacket trimmed with fur, a red skirt, and a white apron. In her lap she holds a basket of apples which she is peeling. She holds out a long rind in her right hand to a little girl standing to the left and seen in ...
Image map. In HTML and XHTML, an image map is a list of coordinates relating to a specific image, created in order to hyperlink areas of the image to different destinations (as opposed to a normal image link, in which the entire area of the image links to a single destination). For example, a map of the world may have each country hyperlinked ...
The court also concluded that URLs themselves were not copyrightable, writing: "A URL is simply an address, open to the public, like the street address of a building, which, if known, can enable the user to reach the building. There is nothing sufficiently original to make the URL a copyrightable item, especially the way it is used.
Harvest near Auvers (1890), a size 30 canvas, by Vincent van Gogh. French standard sizes for oil paintings refers to a series of different sized canvases for use by artists. The sizes were fixed in the 19th century. Most artists [weasel words] —not only French—used this standard, as it was supported by the main suppliers of artist materials ...
Rabbit-skin glue. Rabbit-skin glue, in pellet form (left) and partially dissolved in water (right) Rabbit-skin glue is a sizing that also acts as an adhesive. It is a type of animal glue that is essentially refined rabbit collagen. The glue has been used for centuries for stretching and priming canvases for oil painting.
A country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs.