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* Phaenomena, a treatise on spherical astronomy, survives in Greek ; it is quite similar to On the Moving Sphere by Autolycus of Pitane, who flourished around 310 BC.
Obviously, this Sphere tends to do the most damage and is the most flashy and vulgar.
The Sphere is referred to as Dimensional Science by the Technocratic Union.
Because Mage's themes are potentially quite complex and esoteric, and because its Sphere system rules are relatively open-ended, Mage is often daunting, particularly to novice roleplayers and those accustomed to other games whose rules govern the use of magic with greater precision but less flexibility ( e. g., games with catalogs of established " spells ").
The Union Watersphere is a water tower topped with a sphere-shaped water tank in Union, New Jersey and characterized as the World's Tallest Water Sphere.
In works of art, this Atlas is represented as carrying the heavens or the Celestial Sphere, on his shoulders.
The containment vessel — which housed both the primary ( nuclear reactor ) and secondary ( steam plant ) systems — is referred to as the " DIG-ball " due to its unique shape: a Horton Sphere.
* Religion in the Public Sphere: goal is to " increase the presence and effectiveness of diverse religious perspectives dedicated to social justice ".
McClintic Sphere is a fictional character in the novel V. by Thomas Pynchon.
* 1965 The Sky is Crying ( Sphere Sound 7002 )
The Inner Sphere is home to many private military companies.
The Public Sphere, or bourgeois public, is according to Habermas, where " something approaching public opinion can be formed " ( 2004, p. 351 ).
In today's ingame theory Tharun is a so-called " Globule ", a place in another Sphere of reality – or an alternate dimension ( although this explanation is very simplified ).
After recovering from a mental breakdown caused by Glory's kidnapping of Dawn, Buffy decides to attack Glory with everything she has: Willow's magic spell to restore Tara's sanity stolen by Glory, at the same time weakening Glory's mind ; the Dagon Sphere ( a weapon created by the monks that causes physical pain to Glory ); Buffy's robot double ( the " Buffybot ") originally Spike's sex toy ; Olaf, The Troll God's Hammer ( with which Buffy is able beat Glory in battle and severely weaken her albeit temporarily, due to the hammer being a weapon of the gods ); and eventually a wrecking ball, commandeered by Xander.
With the exception of Autolycus ' On the Moving Sphere, the Elements is one of the oldest extant Greek mathematical treatises and it is the oldest extant axiomatic deductive treatment of mathematics.
The term " Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere " is remembered largely as a front for the Japanese control of occupied countries during World War II, in which puppet governments manipulated local populations and economies for the benefit of Imperial Japan.
For example the time travel vortex the Borg use in First Contact is given to them by the Sphere Builders in an attempt to prevent the Federation from ever existing.
The Sphere 1980 edition is dedicated to various staff of Savoy Books including Michael Butterworth, John Mottershead and David Britton.
However, it is translated as " United Nations Earth " and " Earth Sphere Federation ", respectively.

Sphere and innovative
An innovative addition was the Thinker's Sphere.
The Thinker's Sphere fosters innovation and innovative ways of learning through the use of mathematical games, resources and hands-on experiences.

Sphere and player
The player assumes the role of the commander of Zulu company from the Federated Commonwealth's First Davion Guards, a member of the Inner Sphere ( IS ).
Once again, the player starts with inferior Inner Sphere mechs ( pilots and mechs from original campaign cannot be exported into expansion ), though both mechs and pilots are better than in the start of the original campaign.
The components available to the player can vary greatly, from emergency supply components that, when used, will be destroyed but will allow a ship to continue moving for a longer time, ship bridges, long-range scanners and shield generators to weapons of various kinds, boarding parties, cloaking devices right up to Dyson Sphere construction material and star-destroying devices.
Prey is a first-person shooter with the player in control of Tommy as he explores the Sphere and fights the inhabitants aboard the craft.
Small planetoids inside The Sphere can also exhibit their own gravity fields, allowing the player to walk completely around the outside of it.
Normally " space " was shown as black, but if a player was patient and continued towards the Crystal sphere space would turn dark grey, light grey, the stars would spread out, and eventually the ship would crash into the Crystal Sphere.

Sphere and on
The Australian War Crimes Section of the Tokyo tribunal, led by prosecutor William Webb ( the future Judge-in-Chief ), collected numerous written reports and testimonies that documented Japanese soldiers ' acts of cannibalism among their own troops, on enemy dead, and on Allied prisoners of war in many parts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
In the distant future, Mankind has colonized space ( with clusters of space colonies at each of the five Earth-Moon Lagrange points ), and, down on the Earth, the nations have united as the United Earth Sphere Alliance.
Given that spinning a Dyson Sphere would result in the atmosphere pooling around the equator, the Ringworld removes all the extraneous parts of the structure, leaving a spinning band landscaped on the sun-facing side, with the atmosphere and inhabitants kept in place through centrifugal force and 1000 mile high perimeter walls ( rim walls ).
During the Word of Blake's jihad against the rest of the Inner Sphere the mercenary command Wolf's Dragoons launched a failed assault on Mars which resulted in the nuclear scouring of their base planet of Outreach.
* SSRC Blog on Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere
* In the movie based on Michael Crichton's novel Sphere, the eponymous object would reflect everything in its presence except people.
* Opinion on Video Surveillance in Public Places by Public Authorities and the Protection of Human Rights and Opinion on Video Surveillance by Private Operators in the Public and Private Spheres and by Public Authorities in the Private Sphere and the Protection of Human Rights, Venice Commission, 2007
The AEUG eventually launch a full-scale attack on the Earth Federation's assembly at Dakar, leading to an Earth Sphere civil war.
This axis intersects the Celestial Sphere at the North and South Celestial poles, which appear to the observer to lie directly above due North and South respectively on the horizon.
Axis returned to the Earth Sphere on October 12, U. C.
The " Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere " could thus be quite easily drawn on a map of the Pacific Ocean as a large " bubble " surrounding the islands of Japan and the Asian and Pacific nations it controlled .</ font >
The Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yosuke formally announced the idea of the Co-Prosperity Sphere on August 1, 1940, in a press interview, but it had existed in other forms for many years.
The took place in Tokyo on 5 – 6 November 1943: Japan hosted the heads of state of various component members of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
A reasonably accurate indication as to the geographic dimensions of the Co-Prosperity Sphere are elaborated on in a Japanese wartime document prepared in December 1941 by the Research Department of the Imperial Ministry of War.
An Axis powers conference on 18 January 1942 placed a proposed north-south running demarcation line at 70 ° east longitude, going southwards through the Ob River's Arctic estuary, southwards to just east of Khost in Afghanistan and heading into the Indian Ocean just west of Rajkot in India comprising the land area of Eurasia that it crossed, to split the Lebensraum land holdings of Nazi Germany and the similar spazio vitale areas of Fascist Italy to the west of it, and the Empire of Japan ( and the Co-Prosperity Sphere ) to the east of it, after a complete defeat of the Soviet Union by the Third Reich.
The Seven Heavens are loosely based on the Nine Spheres of Heaven ( skipping the Seventh Sphere and combining the Eighth and Ninth ) in Dante's The Divine Comedy, in the same way that the Nine Hells of Baator are based on his Nine Circles of Hell.
Various shape models have been tried for Mueller emitters ; the best seems to be the " Sphere on Orthogonal Cone " ( SOC ) model introduced by Dyke, Trolan.
Some ( limited ) light has been thrown on Kapuściński's lifelong visceral anti-Americanism by Monroe Edwin Price ( b. 1938 ), professor in the University of Pennsylvania, in his book Television, the Public Sphere, and National Identity published in 1995, but in general nowhere in his writings does Kapuściński respond to or engage in any remotely sophisticated way with the classic exposition of the reasons for anti-Americanism formulated in various publications by the French philosopher, Jean-François Revel ( for whom Kapuściński would seem to have served as a case study ).

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