• Dixon's own brand has yielded quite a few internationally lauded hits, among them the Mirror Ball light (2003), Fresh Fat Chair (2004) and Wingback Chair (2007).

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  • When in 1883 Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, arrayed for a fancy-dress ball as Electric Light, topped off her satin and diamonds with a large incandescent bulb, it subtracted nothing from the elegance of the scheme.

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  • He shows a light brown ball with a splatter of raised quill marks.

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  • If you do choose the latter option though, for the love of humanity do not allow those taped episodes of Dragon Ball Z to ever see the light of day.

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  • There was time for just one more ball before play was halted for bad light, with 34 overs still to be bowled.

    BBC: Steyn triggers New Zealand slump

  • Over by the street-vendors, setting up their food stalls to tempt the hungry and exhausted, young men kick a ball about until the last of the light fades, scuffing up a cloud of dust with every footfall.

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  • On the first play, he brushed off tackles by D'Arcy and McFadden before flipping the ball to Davies, who touched down after a light jog to the tryline.

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  • With the light fading, and after a previous short delay for bad light, Vaughan opted to take the new ball.

    BBC: Sloppy England on course for win

  • Only two deliveries had been sent down after the re-start when bad light stopped play but Sidebottom's first ball after the resumption knocked back Tim Southee's middle stump - the 19-year-old playing across the line to a full-pitch ball that swung back at him a touch.

    BBC: Sidebottom puts England in charge

  • McIntosh struck a six and 10 fours during his four-and-a-half-hour innings but missed out on a second Test hundred when he edged a ball from Hauritz to Simon Katich shortly before the umpires offered the light.

    BBC: Australia poised for Test victory in New Zealand

  • "Greg only returned to light gym work this week and until he starts hitting a ball we'll not know whether he'll play (against Australia), " she said.

    BBC: Britain wait on Rusedski

  • Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott both fell to the new ball and Andrew Strauss became Wayne Parnell's first Test victim before bad light halted play.

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  • Despite his hopes for Saturday's first session, Finn said it was "obviously frustrating" that England were not able to take the new ball with thick cloud cover overhead on Friday evening as the umpires ruled the light had become too poor.

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  • Amateur video show by Russian television depicted a white streak of light like the cloud from a jetliner quickly expanding to a large white ball that eventually sent shock waves throughout the city of Chelyabinsk.

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  • But the visitors made relatively light work of their reply, largely thanks to Trott, whose 50-ball knock contained three fours and a six.

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  • The object of the game: To bounce the ball off whatever surfaces you can manage, and then into the cup, which will light up and make noises.

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  • "Alongside there will be many other minor intrigues, some of which will one day find the light of day, " it added, likening the occasion to the first ball of Tolstoy's War and Peace heroine Natasha Rostov.

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  • Australia took two more wickets but with dark clouds gathering and causing the light to deteriorate rapidly Ponting turned to leg-spinner Smith, whose second ball was smashed for six by Umar Akmal as Pakistan continued their domination.

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  • Neutrons ejected from a watery surface move much more slowly than those from a rocky one, because the hydrogen nuclei in water are light enough for an exiting neutron to knock around much like one billiard ball hitting another a process that slows the neutron down.

    ECONOMIST: Divining water

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