Its large plate glass windows frame perfect picture postcard views of Prague Castle and the Charles Bridge.
He was recently thrown through the plate glass window of a restaurant by a group of Austrian businessmen based in the town.
Dozens of skyscrapers crowd the model from end to end, plate glass is everywhere suggesting that city planners see the Khartoum of the future shimmering like a giant chandelier over the desert.
After a brief stop at the bank, he leads us to the edge of a vast, weed-choked parcel that for 100 years was home to a plate glass factory, Crystal City's economic raison d'etre.
As well as black-and-white photographs there are some snippets of film and rare colour transparencies, rescued from the sinking Endurance by Hurley, who plunged into the icy water to grab the plate glass negatives.
If someone throws something through a plate glass window you can get those shards of glass, blind or killed, it does seem to me, it doesn't show very much concern for Londoners or for shop workers frankly.
In our house, every plate, glass and fork was from some Brooklyn flea market.
The vendor, part of the exhibit, roamed in front of a plate-glass window with mannequins depicting black characters from famous paintings in museums throughout Venice.
Overall it has undecorated flat surfaces with a plate of glass on the front all the way out to a very thin rim and a blank back.
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The top mirror, made up of a stack of thin, partially reflective films, is attached to a plate of glass that forms the front of the display.
We are driven around a site with an interesting collection of buildings, from standard plate-glass towers, to lakeside villas where customers are entertained, and on to what appears to be a replica of the White House.
Then, too, the sort of people who torch cars and smash plate-glass windows to get at the jewelry and televisions inside are not, we suspect, highly correlated with those most put out by the reduced hours at the local library.
You had merely to lead them to the plate-glass porch door and point out a squirrel or a cat running on the railing, or the automatic pool vacuum flipping its tail in the water as it carried on, side to side, end to end.
We are sitting in the chipper one day, waiting for Billy to get off the phone to his mother she is in for maybe her third chemo session, and he is outside the plate-glass window trying to get good reception and his face looks so difficult, so old and childish at the same time, that the sight of him is like a pain for each of us.
Layers of material which work as filters, electrodes, transistors and the liquid crystal itself are deposited onto a thin glass plate to form a sandwich that is covered with another pane of glass.
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The result was to convert the surface of a glass plate into the shape of a spiral staircase with 16 steps.
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After all, the tablet computer is covered with a glass plate and is large and heavy enough (1.5 lbs) to easily slip out of a one-handed grasp.
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Hawkins paces out just one square foot of foreshore and picks up Victorian plate, modern glass, oyster shell, medieval roof tile, granite ballast from merchant ships and clay pipe stems.
The image of Photo 51 is tiny - just a few centimetres across - and holding the glass plate in my hands felt like handling a piece of history.
The autochrome achieved its color through a single glass plate smeared with millions of grains of potato starch, which were dyed red, green or violet and thus acted as tiny color filters.
The nanotubes are mixed into a compound called "bucky gel" to prevent clumping, and after some rubber-like flourinated copolymer is mixed in and it's all poured onto a glass plate, holes are punched in the material to better flexibility.
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He became fascinated with photography and wondered: Wasn't there an easier way to do it than with heavy, glass-plate negatives that had to be dipped in silver nitrate and processed on the spot?
It is rather like one of the buffet dinners so favoured by global gatherings, where you have to balance a wine glass and a plate in one hand, feed yourself with the other, try and have a sensible conversation and exchange cards with three people at the same time.
The chef waits all year for their arrival, which he never fails to mark with his ritual glass of Bordeaux and plate of truffle pasta.
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The stylish design of the ZT60 Series is based on the concept of "one sheet of glass", which accentuates the superiority of the panel's picture quality and the unique pedestal structure with a thin metal plate gives the TV an elegant glass and metal aesthetics.
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With wet-plate photography, you had to prep the glass just before exposing it and then develop it right after.
Each time Clarisse came around to fill my glass, I kept my eyes on my plate, unable to look at her.
This was also a triode: a glass tube containing a heated metal filament which emits electrons, a plate that collects them once they have accelerated through the tube, and a metal grid in between.
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