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The Lantern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lantern is the name of the student-published university newspaper at The Ohio State University. It is one of the largest campus newspapers in the United States. The paper was chartered in 1881 ...
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The magic-lantern -- the first projector -- was invented in the 1650s, probably by a prominent Dutch scientist, Christiaan Huygens, and soon became a showman's instrument. By the end of the century, wandering lanternists were putting on small-scale shows in inns and castles, using a lantern lit with a feeble candle.
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Lantern blogger Ariel Kohane reveals that the way you walk could attract or detract the opposite sex ... BREAKING NEWS: Student arrested for posting fake threat on Lantern web site...
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Now as with many other inventions, for instance the art of printing, it is not known exactly who invented the magic lantern. The 'Laterna Magica' had already been described in an old writing by a German Jesuit priest and scientist, Athanasius Kircher.
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