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    Prince Rupert's drops (also known as Dutch tears or Batavian tears) are toughened glass beads created by dripping molten glass into cold water, which...
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    as Rupert's Land from 1670 until 1870. The Anglican Diocese of Rupert's Land, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is the relic of this period, as are Prince Rupert...
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  • little girl living in Australia, Lucinda Leplastrier is given a Prince Rupert's Drop which sparks a lifelong obsession with glass. Lucinda's parents die...
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  • Prize for Best First Collection 1997, and her first full collection Prince Rupert's Drop (1999), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection...
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    management of natural hazards. Apache tears Limu o Pele Pele's hair Prince Rupert's drop Shimozuru, Daisuke (1994). "Physical parameters governing the formation...
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  • Company vessels Prince Rupert (1887 HBC vessel), operated by the HBC from 1887 to 1891, see Hudson's Bay Company vessels Prince Rupert's drop, glass objects...
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    pre-stressed concrete. A demonstration of glass toughening is provided by Prince Rupert's Drop. Brittle polymers can be toughened by using metal particles to initiate...
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  • practical applications. List of bottle types, brands and companies Prince Rupert's Drop Cooley, Arnold James (1854). A cyclopaedia of six thousand practical...
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    power to traditional laminated glass. Transparent Armor Gun Shield Prince Rupert's Drop "How Ballistic Glass Is Made". Insulgard Security Products. 2020-07-08...
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    outer surface is broken. A demonstration of the effect is shown by Prince Rupert's Drop, a material-science novelty in which a molten glass globule is quenched...
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  • Pitot tube – Henri Pitot Plimsoll line – Samuel Plimsoll Prince Rupert's DropPrince Rupert of the Rhine Pulaski – Ed Pulaski Pupin coil – Mihajlo Idvorski...
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    Fire glass Flexible glass Glass in green buildings Kimberley points Prince Rupert's drop Smart glass ASTM definition of glass from 1945 Zallen, R. (1983)...
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    Toledo (SSN-769), the effects of hypoxia on the human brain, the Prince Rupert's drop, the physics of potato guns, the usefulness of snatch blocks, and...
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  • trick — demonstrates spinors and the double cover of SO(3) by SU(2) Prince Rupert's Drop — demonstrates supercooling and tensile stress Self-siphoning beads...
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  • Rhine, German prince and inventor – Rupert's Land, Prince Rupert's drop, Prince metal or Prince Rupert metal. Procrustes, Greek mythological character –...
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  • Rupert, Quebec, a village Rupert Bay, a large bay located on the south-east shore of James Bay Rupert River, Quebec Rupert's Land, a former territory in...
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  • trooper. One day Gary tells Rupert he sees himself as the king of Pennsylvania, his wife as the queen, and Rupert as the prince who will inherit his kingdom...
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  • of BAT before unbundling. Rupert's eldest son, Johann Rupert, is now the CEO of Richemont and chairman of Remgro. The Rupert family is also deeply involved...
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    Prince Rupert School was a secondary school in Rinteln, Lower Saxony, Germany, and was operated by the Service Children's Education for children of military...
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    set of cascades dropping 18 m (59 ft)) and "The Fours" near the end of the river (a 24 m (79 ft) drop).[citation needed] The Rupert has long been an...
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    retrieved 18 December 2013 Ziegler, p. 385 Godfrey, Rupert, ed. (1998), "11 July 1920", Letters From a Prince: Edward to Mrs. Freda Dudley Ward 1918–1921, Little...
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  • The Frog Prince (released on home video as Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince) is a 1971 musical fantasy comedy television special directed by Jim...
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  • Passage: Port Hardy (via Bear Cove) to Prince Rupert (on Kaien Island) Route 11 – Hecate Strait (Highway 16): Prince Rupert (on Kaien Island) to Haida Gwaii...
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    Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein; February 24, 1947), is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, dramatist and author. He is widely known for...
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    and Duke Michael all dead (with Rupert's assistance), the two of them would have all the spoils to themselves. Rupert reveals a contributing motive; he...
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  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a 2009 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves, based on the 2005 novel of the...
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  • located in downtown Prince Rupert. The campus is home to the world-renowned Applied Coastal Ecology program. The CMTN Prince Rupert campus doubles as a...
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    Great Eastern Railway was halted, creating a massive drop in population. Many men enlisted in Prince George from the surrounding communities and were primarily...
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    is a 719-kilometre (447 mi) corridor of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia, Canada, which has been the location of...
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    Mary of Teck (category Wives of British princes)
    to her second cousin once removed Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales and second in line to the...
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