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The history of glass-making dates back to at least 3,600 years ago in Mesopotamia. However, most writers claim that they may have been producing copies of glass objects from Egypt. [1] Other archaeological evidence suggests that the first true glass was made in coastal north Syria, Mesopotamia or Egypt. [2]
Heritiera littoralis is an evergreen tree growing up to 25 m (82 ft) in height with very prominent, sinuous buttress roots that may be up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tall. [3] [4] [5] It is usually low-branching and the crown is untidy-looking with gnarled branches. [5] The trunk is light grey or grey-brown in appearance, smooth when young but ...
A Small Town in Germany. The Looking Glass War is a 1965 spy novel by John le Carré. Written in response to the positive public reaction to his previous novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, the book explores the unglamorous nature of espionage and the danger of nostalgia. The book tells the story of an incompetent British military ...
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966), was a live action musical film made for television, directed by Alan Handley, [2] and based on Lewis Carroll 's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass. The show aired November 6, 1966 on NBC television in the United States. [1] Bob Mackie and Ray Aghayan worked together on the costume designs, which won ...
Glass is a 2019 superhero film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who also produced with Jason Blum, Marc Bienstock, and Ashwin Rajan. The film is a crossover and sequel to Shyamalan's previous films Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016) and the third and final installment in the Unbreakable trilogy . [8]
Looking Glass is a desktop environment for computers running the UNIX operating system. Developed by Visix Software, it was sold commercially until Visix went out of business. [1] Looking Glass was used as the desktop software bundled with INTERACTIVE UNIX System and Caldera OpenLinux. [2]
Nicholas Pooran. Nicholas Pooran ( / ˌpuːrɑːn /; born 2 October 1995) is a Trinidadian cricketer who currently plays for the West Indies cricket team in limited overs cricket, and he is an occasional captain of the limited overs formats. He also plays for Trinidad and Tobago in West Indian domestic matches and for Lucknow Super Giants in IPL.
Glassblowing is a glassforming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble (or parison) with the aid of a blowpipe (or blow tube). A person who blows glass is called a glassblower, glassmith, or gaffer. A lampworker (often also called a glassblower or glassworker) manipulates glass with the use of a torch on a smaller scale ...