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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]

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  1. 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.

  2. Culture in Cambridge
  3. Grade II listed buildings in Cambridge
  4. Graffiti in England
  5. Individual lamps
  6. Street lighting
  7. 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

Grade II listed buildings in Cambridge

Graffiti in England

Individual lamps

Street lighting

Terminology of the University of Cambridge

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Checkpoint