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  2. Take a Picture (Filter song) - Wikipedia

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    "Take a Picture" is a song by American rock band Filter, released to radio in September 1999 as the second single from their second studio album, Title of Record (1999). The song became a hit at the start of 2000 following its January 18 retail release, peaking at number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number three in Canada.

  3. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    one-shot film. Also one-shot cinema, one-take film, single-take film, continuous-shot film, or oner. A feature-length motion picture filmed in one long, uninterrupted take by a single camera, or edited in such a way as to give the impression that it was. opening credits (for a film) opening shot (for a scene) over cranking over the shoulder ...

  4. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    The formal Hindi standard, from which much of the Persian, Arabic and English vocabulary has been replaced by neologisms compounding tatsam words, is called Śuddh Hindi (pure Hindi), and is viewed as a more prestigious dialect over other more colloquial forms of Hindi. Excessive use of tatsam words sometimes creates problems for native ...

  5. No Country for Old Men - Wikipedia

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    —Critic Rob Mackie of The Guardian on the many genres he believes are reflected in the film. Although Paul Arendt of the BBC finds that " No Country... can be enjoyed as a straightforward genre thriller" with "suspense sequences... that rival the best of Hitchcock ", in other respects the film can be described as a western, and the question remains unsettled. For Richard Gillmore, it "is ...

  6. Cyanide poisoning - Wikipedia

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    Cyanide is a potent cytochrome c oxidase (COX, a.k.a. Complex IV) inhibitor, causing asphyxiation of cells. As such, cyanide poisoning is a form of histotoxic hypoxia, because it interferes with the ability of cells to take or use oxygen via oxidative phosphorylation. [ 25]: 1475. Specifically, cyanide binds to the heme a3-CuB binuclear center ...

  7. List of songs recorded by Kelly Clarkson - Wikipedia

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    Subsequent singles, "Behind These Hazel Eyes" (2005), "Because of You" (2005), and "Walk Away" (2006), became successful hits. [8] Clarkson's third studio album, My December , was released in 2007. The album became a subject of a dispute with then RCA Music Group chairman Clive Davis , who criticized the album and suggested that Clarkson ...

  8. Brass monkey (colloquialism) - Wikipedia

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    Brass monkey (colloquialism) "Cold enough to freeze the balls off (or on) a brass monkey " is a colloquial expression used by some English speakers to describe extremely cold weather. The reference to the testes (as the term balls is commonly understood to mean) of the brass monkey appears to be a 20th-century variant on the expression ...

  9. Computer vision syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Computer vision syndrome. Computer vision syndrome ( CVS) is a condition resulting from focusing the eyes on a computer or other display device for protracted, uninterrupted periods of time and the eye's muscles being unable to recover from the constant tension required to maintain focus on a close object.