"It's going to have a lot of natural stonework and horizontal lines, " says Richard Rizzo, chairman of Perini Building Co.

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The "1080" part indicates that 1, 080 horizontal lines of resolution are displayed.

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Eliseg's great-grandson, Cyngen (died 854), commemorated the achievements of his ancestor by raising the cross and written in Latin in 31 horizontal lines, the inscription was broken into paragraphs separated by small crosses.

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That is similar to the way the human visual system works, with particular clusters of nerve cells in the brain adapted to respond to, say, horizontal lines, or to lines that run on diagonals.

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In fact, it's 256 horizontal vertical lines shy of HDTV, so what gives?

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The Lipsky home in Parker County, Texas sits atop an area in the vicinity of horizontal fracking lines from two gas wells about a mile below the surface.

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Tim Probert, president of global business lines, says that horizontal drilling, a process in which a well is drilled down vertically and then angled around a curve to reach reservoirs from a horizontal angle that increases the well's exposure, is now 55% of Halliburton's total activity.

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