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Thermography

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Infrared thermography (IRT), also known as thermal imaging, is a measurement and imaging technique in which a thermal camera detects infrared radiation originating from the surface of objects. This radiation has two main components: thermal emission from the object's surface, which depends on its temperature and emissi…

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Antoine Griezmann is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for La Liga club At…

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On This Day

10 events
2016
United_States_Army_Reserve
A U.S. Army Reserve veteran ambushed and shot at police officers (memorial service pictured) in Dallas, killing five of them and injuring nine others, before being killed by a bomb attached to a police robot.
1991
Yugoslav_Wars
Yugoslav Wars: The signing of the Brioni Agreement ended the Ten-Day War between SFR Yugoslavia and Slovenia.
1983
Yuri_Andropov
After writing a letter to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith visited the Soviet Union as Andropov's personal guest, becoming known as "America's Youngest Ambassador".
1974
Germany_national_football_team
West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against the Netherlands at the Munich Olympiastadion.
1963
Ngô_Đình_Nhu
The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest during the Buddhist crisis.
1937
Peel_Commission
The Peel Commission published a report stating that the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine had become unworkable and recommended the partition of British-administered Mandatory Palestine into two states.
1911
North_Pacific_Fur_Seal_Convention_of_1911
Four countries signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, which banned the hunting of seals in the pelagic zone.
1907
Folies_Bergère
Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, American impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (pictured) staged the first of his Ziegfeld Follies.
1898
William_McKinley
US president William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1800
War_of_the_Second_Coalition
War of the Second Coalition: The British Royal Navy force attacked the well-defended French anchorage of Dunkirk (depicted), capturing a French frigate.

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