* Oculus ( in the form of their device the Oculus Rift )

Oculus ( plural oculi ) is the Latin word for eye, and the word remains in use in certain contexts, as the name of the round opening in the top of the dome of the Pantheon in Rome, and in reference to other round windows, openings, and skylights.

The Oculus in the Pantheon, Rome, has always been open to the weather, allowing rain to enter and fall to the floor, where it is carried away through drains.

Oculus was funded by American Express Company in partnership with the World Monuments Fund, J. P.

Image: Mantegna. jpg | Oculus on the ceiling of the Spouses Chamber, castle of San Giorgio in Mantua, Italy, by Andrea Mantegna

The Citizen Lab has benefited by generous donations of software and support from Palantir Technologies and Oculus Info Inc

An anonymous writer composed a short guide for the would-be podestà ( though it would be unseemly to appear openly to run for the office ), Oculus pastoralis, of about 1222 ; in six simple and brief chapters it guides the novice through the requirements of the office, the salary, the address of welcome given by the retiring podestà to the new one, the choice of counsellors, the handling of money accounts.

* Lt. Linderman Oculus ( Monitor Division Director )-Observed Alpha Flight for signs of regression from brainwashing.

In Oculus Enoch et Eliae, besides describing one of his inventions, an eyepiece for a Keplerian telescope, which left the image reverted, it also contained a long section on binocular telescopes, which greatly influenced other telescope-makers and opticians in the next century.

The short stories " Melville on Iapetus " ( 1983 ), " Promises to Keep " ( 1984 ), " Oculus " ( 2002 ), " The Big Downtown " ( 2005 ), " Kaminsky at War " ( 2006 ), and " Maiden Voyage " ( 2012 ) are also set in the Academy universe.

Johann Zahn's " Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium, which was published in 1685, contains many descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches of both the camera obscura and of the magic lantern.

In 2010, the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's opened St Paul's Oculus, a 270 ° film experience that brings 1400 years of history to life.

File: Oculus of the Phanteon. JPG | Oculus of the Pantheon.

File: Nationalgalleryoculus. jpg | Oculus of the West Building dome

Oculus means eye.

auch Heinrich Meyer zu Ermgassen, Bearb., Der Oculus Memorie ein Güterverzeichnis von 1211 aus Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau, Teil 2: Edition, Wiesbaden 1984 (= Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Nassau, Bd.

Image: Oculus of mercury. jpg | Detail of oculus set in a cartouche with the head of Mercury ( Beaux-Arts New York and New Jersey Telephone Company Building, Brooklyn )

File: Oculus Santa Maria Assunta di Collemaggio. jpg | Italy, L ' Aquila, Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio ( 1287 ).

He collected his poems in 1720, and wrote another university satire, Oculus Britanniæ, in 1724.

In 1645, he published Oculus Enoch et Eliae, siue, Radius sidereomysticus, a very influential work on optics and astronomy.

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

The Great Rift, a series of dark patches in the Milky Way, is more visible and striking in the southern hemisphere than in the northern.

It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.

The Dead Sea is an endorheic lake located in the Jordan Rift Valley, a geographic feature formed by the Dead Sea Transform ( DST ).

The older hypothesis is that it lies in a true rift zone, an extension of the Red Sea Rift, or even of the Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa.

The Dead Sea basin is another part of the Great Rift Valley.

The earliest known catarrhine is Kamoyapithecus from uppermost Oligocene at Eragaleit in the northern Kenya Rift Valley, dated to 24 million years ago.

For example, the El Niño cycle is associated with increased risks of some of the diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, such as malaria, dengue, and Rift Valley fever.

The Great Rift Valley is a name given in the late 19th century by British explorer John Walter Gregory to the continuous geographic trench, approximately in length, that runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in South East Africa.

Today, the term is most often used to refer to the valley of the East African Rift, the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward across eastern Africa, and is in the process of splitting the African Plate into two new separate plates.

From the Dead Sea southwards, the Rift is occupied by the Wadi Arabah, then the Gulf of Aqaba, and then the Red Sea.

The Western Rift, also called the Albertine Rift, is edged by some of the highest mountains in Africa, including the Virunga Mountains, Mitumba Mountains, and Ruwenzori Range.

The oldest is Yiron in the northern portion of the Israeli Rift, with flint artifacts in a fluviatile deposit below a basalt layer dated at 2. 4 million years old, the oldest stone tools found anywhere outside Africa.

Bedrock on Isle Royale is basalt or sandstone and conglomerates on the 1100 million year old Midcontinent Rift.

Central and Western Kenya is characterized by the Kenyan Rift Valley home to two of Africa's highest mountains, Mount Kenya and Mount Elgon. The Kakamega Forest in western Kenya is relic of an East African rainforest.

The recent geology of western Kenya is dominated by the volcanism and rift tectonics of the East African Rift.

Thus, the Beqaa Valley is part of the Great Rift system, which stretches from southern Turkey to Mozambique in Africa.

The western border is the Esoit ( Siria ) Escarpment of the East African Rift, which is a system of rifts some long, from Ethiopia's Red Sea through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and into Mozambique.

Rift Valley fever ( RVF ) is a viral zoonosis ( affects primarily domestic livestock, but can be passed to humans ) causing fever.

An ongoing outbreak of Rift Valley fever virus ( RVFV ) infection is affecting sheep, goats, cattle and wildlife on farms within Free State, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Mpumalanga, North West, and Gauteng provinces.

In the valley created by the fault, called the Great Rift, the Red Sea was formed.

Several new districts have been created since 2007 in Kenya, also in Rift Valley Province:

The rift created during the eruption extends 17 km across the mountain, Lake Rotomahana and through the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley.

The planet was, in fact, destroyed by the Shadowraiths, who had poured through the Landspire and the Rift system that had been created by the ambitious Astani in order to access other worlds.

To keep the peace between the First, and to keep them separated until they could one day agree to be united, Altwaal created the Eidolon Rift, a vast chasm nearly uncrossable even by the gods.

The opening of the Great Rift Valley split the dome of the Ethiopian Highlands into three parts ; the mountains of the southern Arabian Peninsula are geologically part of the ancient Ethiopian Highlands, separated by the rifting which created the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and separated Africa from Arabia.