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colour of sky
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...During this long passage the dominant blue wavelengths of light are scattered and blocked, leaving the longer, unobstructed red wavelengths to reach the Earth and lend their tints to the sky at dawn and dusk.
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colour of sky sunlight
...During this long passage the dominant blue wavelengths of light are scattered and blocked, leaving the longer, unobstructed red wavelengths to reach the Earth and lend their tints to the sky at dawn and dusk.
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discussed in biography Sender, Ramón José
...and the realities of war, was first published in Mexico because his work had been banned in Spain under the Franco regime. From the mid-1960s Sender’s work could once more be published in Spain. Crónica del alba (1966; Before Noon), a series of nine novels published over more than two decades, explores the relationship between social and individual needs. In Las...
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discussed in biography Herzog, Werner
...(2005), an account of Timothy Treadwell, an American who studied and lived among grizzly bears in Alaska but was mauled to death along with his girlfriend. The feature film Rescue Dawn (2007) centred on a German-American pilot shot down in the jungle during the Vietnam War; it was inspired by Herzog’s documentary Little Dieter Needs to...
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Macedonian literature Macedonian literature
...by Kosta Racin, who wrote mainly poetry in Macedonian and propagated its use through the literary journals of the 1930s. Racin’s poems in Beli mugri (1939; White Dawns), which include many elements of oral folk poetry, were prohibited by the government of pre-World War II Yugoslavia because of their realistic and powerful portrayal of the...
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discussed in biography Michelangelo
...perhaps implies inner fire. Both female figures have the tall, slim proportions and small feet considered beautiful at the time, but otherwise they form a contrast: Dawn, a virginal figure, strains upward along her curve as if trying to emerge into life; Night is asleep, but in a posture suggesting stressful dreams.
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Medici tombs Western sculpture
...the Madonna and Christ Child with the Medici patron saints, Cosmas and Damian; and beneath the two sarcophagi respectively lie the recumbent figures of “Night” and “Day,” and “Dawn” and “Dusk.”
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