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Flicker Film Festival
Flicker may refer to: * Flickers, woodpeckers of the subgenus ''Colaptes'' * Flicker (screen), a change in brightness between frames that occurs on a cathode-ray screen at low refresh rates * Flicker (light), a directly visible change in brightness of a light source * Power-line flicker, a fluctuation in the voltage of AC power lines, whose compliance is regulated by IEC61000-3-3 * Flicker noise, electrical noise with a 1/f spectrum. * Flicker, a guitar tremolo made by ESP Guitars in the late 1970s and early 1980s People * Tal Flicker (born 1992), Israeli judoka * Theodore Flicker (1930–2014), American playwright * Yuval Flicker (born 1955), American mathematician Popular culture * ''Flicker'', the sophomore album by Ayria * Flicker, the original bass guitarist for the band Manic Street Preachers * Flicker, a character in the cartoon and video game ''Blazing Dragons'' * ''Flicker'' (novel), by Theodore Roszak * Flicker, a candle maker transformed into a candle man appearing in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colaptes
''Colaptes'' is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. The 14 species are found across the Americas. ''Colaptes'' woodpeckers typically have a brown or green back and wings with black barring, and a beige to yellowish underside, with black spotting or barring. There are usually colorful markings on the head. Many of these birds – particularly the northerly species – are more terrestrial than usual among woodpeckers. Historically, there has been considerable uncertainty in assigning woodpecker species to genera and it is only by comparing DNA sequences that it has become possible to confidently place many of the species. Taxonomy The genus ''Colaptes'' was introduced by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825 with the northern flicker (''Colaptes auratus'') as the type species. The name is from the Ancient Greek κολάπτης (''kolaptēs'') meaning "chiseller". The genus forms part of the woodpecker subfamily Picinae and has a sister r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
