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Orb Weavers
Orb or Orbs may refer to: * Sphere * Globus Cruciger Ceremonial Orb Places and rivers * Orb (river), in southern France * Orb (Kinzig), a tributary of the Kinzig river in Germany * Bad Orb, a town in Hesse, Germany Literature, radio, film, television * Orb Kaftan, a character from the ''Incarnations of Immortality'' novel series by Piers Anthony * Orb (comics), a Marvel Comics villain * "Orb" (''Adventure Time''), a television episode * Orb Publications, an Australian publishing company ** ''Orb Speculative Fiction'', an Australian magazine * Orbs, sacred objects of the Bajoran species in the TV series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' * Orbing, a magical form of teleportation in the television show ''Charmed'' * ''Ultraman Orb'', a 2016 Japanese ''tokusatsu'' television series * Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg, a former German public broadcasting organization Music * The Orb, a British electronic music group * O.R.B. (band) (formerly The Original Rude Boys), an Irish acous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sphere
A sphere () is a Geometry, geometrical object that is a solid geometry, three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle. A sphere is the Locus (mathematics), set of points that are all at the same distance from a given point in three-dimensional space.. That given point is the centre (geometry), centre of the sphere, and is the sphere's radius. The earliest known mentions of spheres appear in the work of the Greek mathematics, ancient Greek mathematicians. The sphere is a fundamental object in many fields of mathematics. Spheres and nearly-spherical shapes also appear in nature and industry. Bubble (physics), Bubbles such as soap bubbles take a spherical shape in equilibrium. spherical Earth, The Earth is often approximated as a sphere in geography, and the celestial sphere is an important concept in astronomy. Manufactured items including pressure vessels and most curved mirrors and lenses are based on spheres. Spheres rolling, roll smoothly in any direction, so mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orb (Alastair Galbraith Album)
Alastair Galbraith (born 1965) is a New Zealand musician and sound artist from Dunedin. Career Galbraith's first band was The Rip, which he formed with Robbie Muir, and Mathew Ransome and later Jeff Harford (of Bored Games). They released two EPs on the Flying Nun label. Later he formed Plagal Grind, with Robbie Muir, Jono Lonie, David Mitchell (of Goblin Mix and The 3Ds) and Peter Jefferies (of This Kind Of Punishment and Nocturnal Projections). Galbraith's solo career has included numerous early cassettes and 7"s on Bruce Russell's (The Dead C) Xpressway label, as well as albums on labels such as Siltbreeze, Emperor Jones, Time Lag, Feel Good All Over and Table of the Elements. He has also recorded ten albums with Bruce Russell under the name A Handful of Dust. In 1999, he began a collaboration with Matt De Gennaro when the two toured New Zealand Public Art Galleries converting them into giant soundboxes by stroking tensioned wires fixed to the buildings' structural sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ORB International
On Friday, 14 September 2007, ORB International, an independent polling agency located in London, published estimates of the total war casualties in Iraq since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003."More than 1,000,000 Iraqis murdered" September 2007. Opinion Research Business. At over 1.2 million deaths (1,220,580), this estimate is the highest number published so far. From the poll margin of error of +/-2.5% ORB calculated a range of 733,158 to 1,446,063 deaths. The ORB estimate was performed by a random survey of 1,720 adults aged 18+, out of which 1,499 responded, in fifteen of the eighteen governorates within Iraq, between August 12 and August 19, 2007. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baghdad International Airport
Baghdad International Airport , previously Saddam International Airport ( ar, مطار بغداد الدولي, Maṭār Baġdād ad-Dawaliyy) is Iraq's largest international airport, located in a suburb about west of downtown Baghdad in the Baghdad Governorate. It is the home base for Iraq's national airline, Iraqi Airways. History Pre-1982 The airport was developed under a consortium led by French company Spie Batignolles under an agreement made in 1979. The Iran-Iraq war delayed full opening of the airport until 1982. It opened as Saddam International Airport, bearing the name of then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. 1991–2003 Most of Baghdad's civilian flights stopped in 1991, when the United Nations imposed restrictions on Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait. After the Persian Gulf War, a no-fly zone imposed on Iraq by the United States and the United Kingdom meant that Iraqi Airways was only able to continue domestic flights for limited periods. Internationally, Baghda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Orchard Beach (Amtrak Station)
Old Orchard Beach station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. It features a covered platform, and is served by Amtrak's ''Downeaster (train), Downeaster'' service seasonally between May and October. The station is located next to the Pan Am Railways mainline, formerly the Western Route mainline of the Boston and Maine Corporation, Boston & Maine Railroad. Notable places nearby The station is within walking distance of the following notable places: * Old Orchard Beach * Ocean Park Historic Buildings * Palace Playland amusement park * Numerous hotels, motels, shops, and restaurants References External links Old Orchard Beach Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web) Amtrak stations in Maine Stations along Boston and Maine Railroad lines Old Orchard Beach, Maine Transportation buildings and structures in York County, Maine Railway stations in the United States opened in 2003 {{Maine-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orr Regional Airport
Orr Regional Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Orr, a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned ORB by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned ORB to Örebro Airport in Örebro, Sweden). Facilities and aircraft Orr Regional Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 1,311 feet (400 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,000 by 75 feet (1,220 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending May 31, 2014, the airport had 2,500 general aviation aircraft operations; an average of 208 per month. In March 2017, there were 10 aircraft based at this airport; all 10 single-engine. References External links Orr Regional AirportAerial photo as of 10 May 1992from USGS ''The National M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Örebro Airport
Örebro Airport is located 10 kilometers southwest of Örebro and is Sweden's 23rd-largest passenger airport and the fourth-largest cargo airport. It was opened in 1979. The airport handled 101,669 passengers in 2013. Airlines and destinations Passenger The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter services to and from Örebro: Cargo Statistics Ground transportation A coach service is operated by Let's Go By Bus Örebro between the airport and Örebro Central, with services timed to coincide with the Ryanair flights to and from London Stanstead on Mondays and Fridays. Tickets can be bought on the bus or on the FlixBus website. The nearest public bus stop, (about 2 km away) has services to and from the centre of Örebro. It is served by bus 620 on weekdays and bus 600 at weekends. Other transport alternatives will likely involve a car or taxi. Most flights are tourist charter which attracts child families who mostly use their car for transport. There a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celestial Orb
The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and others. In these celestial models, the apparent motions of the fixed stars and planets are accounted for by treating them as embedded in rotating spheres made of an aetherial, transparent fifth element ( quintessence), like jewels set in orbs. Since it was believed that the fixed stars did not change their positions relative to one another, it was argued that they must be on the surface of a single starry sphere. In modern thought, the orbits of the planets are viewed as the paths of those planets through mostly empty space. Ancient and medieval thinkers, however, considered the celestial orbs to be thick spheres of rarefied matter nested one within the other, each one in complete contact with the sphere above it and the sphere below.Lindberg, ''Beginnings of Western Science'', p. 251. When scholars applied Ptole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orb (astrology)
Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that claim to discern information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects. Different cultures have employed forms of astrology since at least the 2nd millennium BCE, these practices having originated in calendrical systems used to predict seasonal shifts and to interpret celestial cycles as signs of divine communications. Most, if not all, cultures have attached importance to what they observed in the sky, and some—such as the Hindus, Chinese, and the Maya—developed elaborate systems for predicting terrestrial events from celestial observations. Western astrology, one of the oldest astrological systems still in use, can trace its roots to 19th–17th century BCE Mesopotamia, from where it spread to Ancient Greece, Rome, the Islamic world, and eventually Central and Western Europe. Contemporary Western astrology i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Relay Behavior-modification System
Open Relay Behavior-modification System (ORBS), created and run by Alan Brown in New Zealand, was one of the first DNS-based Blackhole Lists (DNSBL), a means by which an internet domain may publish a list of IP addresses, in a database which can be easily queried automatically by other computer programs on the Internet. The ORBS list was used to blacklist IP addresses that were open mail relays, third-party mail servers through which spammers can relay their messages and thus attempt to obfuscate the source of the spam. Controversy The ORBS list was controversial for a number of reasons. Many people felt that the methods ORBS employed to scan the Internet for open mail servers could be abusive. ORBS used probes to test for open relays without permission, sometimes over and over again. Some claimed that testing of their networks continued even after they asked ORBS to stop, others claimed that relayed spam didn't stop either. In some cases the tests interfered with mail servers, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriented FAST And Rotated BRIEF
Oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF (ORB) is a fast robust local feature detector, first presented by Ethan Rublee et al. in 2011, that can be used in computer vision tasks like object recognition or 3D reconstruction. It is based on the FAST keypoint detector and a modified version of the visual descriptor BRIEF (Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features). Its aim is to provide a fast and efficient alternative to SIFT. See also * Scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) * Gradient Location and Orientation Histogram * LESH - Local Energy based Shape Histogram * Blob detection * Feature detection (computer vision) In computer vision and image processing, a feature is a piece of information about the content of an image; typically about whether a certain region of the image has certain properties. Features may be specific structures in the image such as poi ... References {{ reflist, refs {{cite conference , author = Rublee, Ethan , author2 = Rabaud, Vincent , a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castlewood Orb Drive
The Orb Drive is a 3.5-inch removable hard-disk drive introduced by Castlewood Systems in 1999. Its original capacity was 2.2 GB. A later version of the drive was introduced in 2001 with a capacity of 5.7 GB. Manufacturing of this product ceased in 2004. Castlewood Systems The manufacturer of the Orb Drive was Castlewood Systems. It was formed by several former employees of SyQuest Technologies. Shortly after the Orb Drive was released, SyQuest brought a lawsuit against Castlewood. Castlewood filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and ceased operation in 2004. Computer History Museum, November 1, 2006 Interfaces The Orb Drive was available in internal and external versions. The internal version was available with[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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