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  IPod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An iPod formatted with HFS Plus is able to serve as a boot disk for a Macintosh computer, allowing one to have a usable, portable operating system installed on their iPod.
When the iPod Mini was introduced, it did not come with an AC power adapter, and this has continued for later models.
An iPod Hi-Fi with its box and with its speaker grill removed and an Apple Remote beside it.
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 ACHOO syndrome: Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders
The syndrome is usually more intense if the person with the condition moves suddenly from darkness into an area with bright lights or sunlight.
When a person with the syndrome is exposed to a bright light, the same mechanism in the body that triggers a sneeze due to an irritant such as pollen somehow confuses light with that irritant and causes a sneeze to occur.
The sneeze reflex of the syndrome can then be thought of as an involuntary defense reaction against bright light; when the person sneezes, they automatically close their eyes.
health.enotes.com /genetic-disorders-encyclopedia/achoo-syndrome   (738 words)

  
 dark, darkest, darker, darks- WordWeb dictionary definition
"he was in the dark concerning their intentions"
"Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"
"the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education"
www.wordwebonline.com /en/DARK   (232 words)

  
 Bionicle™ - BZPower News, Reference and Discussion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Dark Hunters are nearby, and fly up to the airship, break in, and fight the Toa Metru.
He learns of an impenetrable layer of material beneath the mines, which the sundial rests on.
(BC#4: Tales of the Masks) An earthquake shatters the roof of the cave the Hau Nuva is in.
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 eclipse: Lunar Eclipses
Since the earth and moon shine only by the reflected light of the sun, each casts a shadow into space in the direction away from the sun.
The shadow consists of a cone-shaped area of darkness called the umbra, where all light from the sun is cut off, and a larger area of partial darkness called the penumbra, which surrounds the umbra and receives light from a part of the sun's disk.
Lunar eclipses can occur only when the moon is in its full phase, i.e., when the earth is between the sun and the moon.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0857875.html   (362 words)

  
 Naipaul, V. S. - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Writing with increasing irony and pessimism, he has often bleakly detailed the dual problems of the Third World: the oppressions of colonialism and the chaos of postcolonialism.
Among Naipaul's works of international analysis are The Middle Passage (1962), about the West Indies and South America, and an Indian trilogy: An Area of Darkness (1964), India: A Wounded Civilization (1977), and India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990).
His novels include The Mystic Masseur (1957), A House for Mr.
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