Congreve
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Dan Congreve and colleagues at Stanford University are working on LEDs made with perovskite crystals, a material often used in solar cells.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023
The quote about Alexander the Great that they use in Die Hard is actually bastardised from dramatist William Congreve.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2017
She excelled at comedy and tragedy, acting in plays by Congreve, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Noël Coward and contemporary English playwrights such as Peter Shaffer.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2015
Also on hand is a model of a British Congreve rocket used in the assault.
From Reuters ● Jul. 1, 2012
Sterne, Fielding, Smollett, Swift, must all be flung into the dusthole after Congreve, Wycherley, Jonson; Dryden, of course, follows these without delay, and Spencer, with his “Faerie Queene,” is the next victim.
From Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature by Annie Besant
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