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The most commonly seen consequence of dispersion in optics is the separation of white light into a color spectrum by a prism. From Snell's law it can be seen that the angle of refraction of light in a prism depends on the refractive index of the prism material.
During the 1980s, DEC planned to replace the VAX platform and the VMS operating system with the PRISM architecture and the MICA operating system. [52] When these projects were cancelled in 1988, a team was set up to design new VAX/VMS systems of comparable performance to RISC -based Unix systems. [ 53 ]
Barry Manilow was born Barry Alan Pincus on June 17, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, [10] the son of Edna Manilow and Harold Kelliher, a truck driver of Irish descent. Barry's mother made his father change his name to Pincus, which was the name of a Jewish uncle of his father from the 1800s.
Amarillo (/ ˌ æ m ə ˈ r ɪ l oʊ / [6] AM-ə-RIL-oh; Spanish for "yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County.It is the 14th-most populous city in Texas and the most populous city in the Texas panhandle. [7]
An encyclopedia page about Han Chinese, the majority ethnic group in the Greater China region, and their global distribution.
Full-scale war broke out in autumn 129 BC, when 40,000 Han cavalry made a surprise attack on the Xiongnu at the border markets. In 127 BC, the Han general Wei Qing retook the Ordos. In 121 BC, the Xiongnu suffered another setback when Huo Qubing led a force of light cavalry westward out of Longxi and within six days fought his way through five ...