Reality Checkpoint, the Glossary
Reality Checkpoint is a large cast-iron lamppost in the middle of Parker's Piece, Cambridge, England, at the intersection of the park's diagonal paths.[1]
Table of Contents
38 relations: A Separate Reality, Anglia Ruskin University, BBC Two, Ben Miller, Cambridge, Cambridge City Council, Cambridge News, Carlos Castaneda, Cast iron, Checkpoint Charlie, Cold War, Comfortably Numb, Commemorative plaque, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, Eric S. Raymond, Google Maps, Graffiti, Grantchester Meadows, Horizon (British TV series), Jargon File, King's College, Cambridge, Listed building, Parker's Piece, Pink Floyd, Professor T. (British TV series), Sandy Cairncross, Scroll (art), Situationist International, Street light, The London Magazine, The Wall, Tom Raworth, University of Cambridge, Verdigris, Victory over Japan Day, Waterleaf (architecture), Wrought iron.
- Culture in Cambridge
- Grade II listed buildings in Cambridge
- Graffiti in England
- Individual lamps
- Street lighting
- Terminology of the University of Cambridge
A Separate Reality
A Separate Reality: Further Conversations With Don Juan is a book written by anthropologist/author Carlos Castaneda, published in 1971, concerning the events that took place during his apprenticeship with a Yaqui Indian Sorcerer, Don Juan Matus, between 1960 and 1965.
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Anglia Ruskin University
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public university in East Anglia, United Kingdom.
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BBC Two
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
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Ben Miller
Bennet Evan Miller (born 24 February 1966) is an English comedian, actor and author.
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Cambridge
Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.
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Cambridge City Council
Cambridge City Council is the local authority for Cambridge, a non-metropolitan district with city status in Cambridgeshire, England.
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Cambridge News
The Cambridge News (formerly the Cambridge Evening News) is a British daily newspaper.
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Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was an American anthropologist and writer.
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Cast iron
Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%.
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Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War (1947–1991), as named by the Western Allies.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Comfortably Numb
"Comfortably Numb" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on their eleventh studio album, The Wall (1979).
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Commemorative plaque
A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, or in other places referred to as a historical marker, historic marker, or historic plaque, is a plate of metal, ceramic, stone, wood, or other material, typically attached to a wall, stone, or other vertical surface, and bearing text or an image in relief, or both, to commemorate one or more persons, an event, a former use of the place, or some other thing.
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Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
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Google Maps
Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google.
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Graffiti
Graffiti (plural; singular graffiti or graffito, the latter rarely used except in archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view.
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Grantchester Meadows
Grantchester Meadows is an open space in Grantchester, to the south of the city of Cambridge, England.
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Horizon (British TV series)
Horizon is an ongoing and long-running British documentary television series on BBC Two that covers science and philosophy.
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Jargon File
The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers.
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King's College, Cambridge
King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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Listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.
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Parker's Piece
Parker's Piece is a flat and roughly square green common located near the centre of Cambridge, England, regarded by some as the birthplace of the rules of association football.
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Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965.
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Professor T. (British TV series)
Professor T. is a British crime drama television series starring Ben Miller as Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius University of Cambridge criminologist with obsessive compulsive disorder, Emma Naomi, Barney White, and Frances de la Tour.
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Sandy Cairncross
Alexander "Sandy" Messent Cairncross OBE (born 8 March 1948) is an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
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The scroll in art is an element of ornament and graphic design featuring spirals and rolling incomplete circle motifs, some of which resemble the edge-on view of a book or document in scroll form, though many types are plant-scrolls, which loosely represent plant forms such as vines, with leaves or flowers attached.
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Situationist International
The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists.
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Street light
A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. Reality Checkpoint and street light are street lighting.
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The London Magazine
The London Magazine is the title of six different publications that have appeared in succession since 1732.
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The Wall
The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest/EMI and Columbia/CBS Records.
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Tom Raworth
Thomas Moore Raworth (19 July 1938 – 8 February 2017) was an English-Irish poet, publisher, editor, and teacher who published over 40 books of poetry and prose during his life.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Reality Checkpoint and university of Cambridge are Culture in Cambridge.
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Verdigris
Verdigris is a common name for any of a variety of somewhat poisonousKarmakar, Rabindra N. (2015).
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Victory over Japan Day
Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.
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Waterleaf (architecture)
In architecture, a waterleaf is a distinctive sculptural motif used on the capitals of columns and pilasters in European buildings during the late twelfth century.
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Wrought iron
Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.05%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4.5%).
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See also
Culture in Cambridge
- Cambridge Guildhall
- Cambridge Ritualists
- Cantabrigian
- Museums in Cambridge
- Pembroke Players
- Period Piece (book)
- Pound's Artists
- Primavera Gallery
- Punt (boat)
- Reality Checkpoint
- Society of Cambridge Youths
- Stourbridge fair
- Town and gown
- University of Cambridge
Grade II listed buildings in Cambridge
- 31 Madingley Road
- Abbey House, Cambridge
- Cambridge Guildhall
- Cambridge University Library
- Cambridge University Real Tennis Club
- Cambridge War Memorial
- Cambridge railway station
- Castle Street Methodist Church
- County Hall, Cambridge
- Highsett
- Marshall House, Cambridge
- Mathematical Bridge
- Reality Checkpoint
- Salix, Conduit Head Road
- Selwyn College Library
- St Edmund's College, Cambridge
- St Edward's Passage
- The Bull Hotel, Cambridge
- The Champion of the Thames
- University Pitt Club
- White House, Cambridge
Graffiti in England
- Art Buff
- Blackhall Road, Oxford
- Bristol underground scene
- Chalfont Viaduct
- Gorilla in a Pink Mask
- Goulston Street graffito
- I Love You Will U Marry Me
- Leake Street
- Mandela Way T-34 Tank
- Reality Checkpoint
- See No Evil (artwork)
- Spy Booth
- St Mary's Church, Ashwell, Hertfordshire
- St Nicholas, Blakeney
- Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?
Individual lamps
- Azelin chandelier
- Barbarossa Chandelier
- Centennial Light
- Hezilo chandelier
- Lamp of Brotherhood
- Luxo Jr. (character)
- Montastruc decorated stone (Palart 518)
- Reality Checkpoint
- Rothschild Lamp
- York Minster Lamp Standard
Street lighting
- Brush Electric Illuminating Company
- Cincinnati Street Gas Lamps
- Dolphin lamp standard
- History of street lighting in the United States
- Intelligent street lighting
- LED street light
- Lamplighter
- Moonlight tower
- Moonlight towers (Austin, Texas)
- NEMA wattage label
- Phosco P107
- Reality Checkpoint
- Simeon Monument
- Sodium-vapor lamp
- Solar street light
- Street Light (painting)
- Street light
- Street light interference phenomenon
- Street lighting in Stockholm
- Street lighting in Washington, D.C.
- Street lights in New Zealand
- Urban Light
- Vermonica
Terminology of the University of Cambridge
- Alumni Cantabrigienses
- Another place
- Ante-chapel
- Bedder
- Blue (university sport)
- Bumps race
- Cantabrigian
- College family (university)
- Common room (university)
- Commoner (academia)
- Congregation (university)
- Cuppers
- Don (academia)
- Easter term
- Exhibition (scholarship)
- Formal (university)
- Full Term
- Head of college
- High Steward (academia)
- High table
- Informal hall
- June Event
- Lent term
- Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)
- May Ball in Cambridge
- May Week
- Michaelmas term
- Oxbridge
- Pantsing
- Porter (college)
- Porters' lodge
- Praelector
- Proctor
- Public Orator
- Reality Checkpoint
- Rustication (academia)
- Sister college
- Sizar
- Snob
- Steamboat ladies
- Taxor
- Ten-year man
- Tripos
- Tutorial system
- University Chest
- Warden (college)
- Wrangler (University of Cambridge)