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Orange M600 The Orange SPV M600 is a combined Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and mobile telephone. The latest in a series of SPV telephones manufactured exclusively for Orange, it was released onto the UK market in April 2006.
Orange Mound, Memphis Orange Mound is an impoverished neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee and was the first African-American neighborhood in the United States to be built by African-Americans. It is bounded by Lamar/Kimball on the south, Southern on the north, Airways on the west and Semmes on the east.
Orange Order in Canada The Orange Order in Canada played an important role in the history of Canada, especially since 1830 when the grand Orange Lodge of British North America was established (this was date is often given as the beginning of Canadian Orangeism, however there is evidence of Orangeism earlier in Canada, with definite records of Orangemen involved in the War of 1812). Most early members of the Orange Institution were from Ireland, but later many English, Scots, and other Protestant Europeans joined the Order.
Orange peel (music) The "Orange Peel" effect on vinyl records is caused by worn moulds (USA: molds) Rather than having the proper mirror-like finish, the surface of the record will have what looks like an orange peel texture. This introduces noise into the record, particularly in the lower frequency range.
Orange pekoe Orange pekoe is a term mainly used to describe a grade found in the grading system of the same name used for sorting Black teas . The system is based solely upon the size of the processed and dried black tea leaves.
Orange Park Negro Elementary School The Orange Park Negro Elementary School (also known as the Teresa Miller School or Neighborhood Service Center) is a historic school in Orange Park, Florida, United States. It is located at 440 McIntosh Avenue.
Orange Pavilion The Orange Pavilion is a multi-purpose arena on the grounds of the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California. It seats 5,000 spectators, is best known for hosting the National Orange Show, and is home to the San Bernardino Bucking Bulls of the National Indoor Football League.
Orange Peel (event) In 1995, a group of students, faculty and alumni from Oklahoma State University traveled to the University of Florida to witness its annual pep rally known as the Gator Growl," which would become the inspiration for Oklahoma State's "Orange Peel" event.
Orange Prize for Fiction The Orange Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, awarded annually for the best original full-length novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK in the preceding year.
Orange Public Transportation The Orange Public Transportation program, a division of the Orange County Department on Aging, offers van and bus service outside the Chapel Hill-Carrboro city limits including planning and coordinating for county residents with transportation needs. It serves the general public and the clients of community service agencies, primarily in rural areas of Orange County, NC.
Orange roughy The orange roughy or red roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus, is a relatively large deep-sea fish belonging to the slimehead family (Trachichthyidae). This fish is categorized as vulnerable to exploitation by the Marine Conservation Society.
Orange Record Label Orange Record Label is a Canadian independent record label, located in Toronto, Ontario. Orange recordings are distributed in Canada by Universal Music Canada, which is also a minority stakeholder in the label.
Orange Revolution The Orange Revolution () was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which was compromised by massive corruption, voter intimidation and direct electoral fraud. The Ukrainian capital was the focal point of the movement with thousands of protesters demonstrating daily in Kiev (Kyiv).
Orange Rhyming Dictionary Orange Rhyming Dictionary is the debut album by American rock band Jets to Brazil, released October 27, 1998 on Jade Tree Records. The name of the album is a play on the common misconception that, in the English language, there is no word that rhymes with "orange.
Orange River The Orange River (Afrikaans: Oranjerivier, German: Oranjefluss or just Oranje), in the past also sometimes known as the Gariep or as the Grootrivier, is the major river of South Africa. The river was first discovered by indigenous people but only explored by Europeans in 1760 and named by Colonel Robert Gordon after the House of Orange, which was the Stadhouder of Holland between 1777-79.
Orange River Colony The Orange River Colony was a British colony created by the annexation of the Orange Free State in 1900, after the Boer War, till its 1910 transformation into the South African constitutive Orange Free State Province.
Orange River Convention The Orange River Convention (sometimes also called the Bloemfontein Convention) was a convention whereby Great Britain formally recognised the independence of the Boers in the area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, which had previously been known as the Orange River Sovereignty. This resulted in the formation of the independent Boer Republic of the Orange Free State (OFS).
Orange River Sovereignty The Orange River Sovereignty (1848-1854) was a short-lived political entity between the Orange and Vaal rivers in southern Africa. in 1854 it became the Orange Free State, and is now the Free State province of South Africa.
Orange România Orange România is Romania's largest GSM network operator, the subsidiary of Orange SA. It is now fully owned by the France Télécom Group (who owns Orange SA), the biggest initial investor, who graduatly increased its ownership.
Orange Roughies Orange Roughies is the name of a New Zealand drama television show created by Auckland-based film company Screenworks, the first season of which screened on TV ONE from May to July 2006. The second season has recently finished filming and is, according to TVNZ, due to screen sometime between October 2006 and January 2007.
Orange skunk clownfish The orange skunk clownfish, Amphiprion sandaracinos, also known as the skunk-striped anemonefish is a type of clownfish that is very bright orange with a white stripe that comes between the eyes and to the dorsal fin. It grows to about 5.
Orange Smoothie Productions Orange Smoothie Productions (OSP) is a PC game mod team which started programming modifications in February of 1998 at the University of Kansas by releasing King of the Hill for Quake II. Although first created for Quake II, OSP is probably best known for modding games based on the Quake III engine.
Orange Springs Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery The Orange Springs Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery (also known as Orange Springs Community Church and Cemetery) is a historic church in Orange Springs, Florida, United States. It is located at SR 315 and Church Street.
Orange SPV The original Orange SPV Smartphone was built by HTC for the European mobile operator, Orange. Powered by Microsoft Smartphone 2002, and launched late 2002, SPV stood for Sound, Pictures, Video, with the emphasis being on the devices multimedia capabilities and potential.
Orange SPV M3100 The Orange SPV M3100 is a combined Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and mobile telephone. It is a rebadged HTC TyTN, which is also available (on other networks) as the Vodafone PDA 9600, O2 XDA Trion, T-Mobile MDA Vario II, i-mate JASJAM, Qtek 9600, HTC TyTN, Dopod CHT9000, Vodafone 1605, SoftBank X01HT, Dopod 838Pro, and the Cingular 8525.
Orange Star Orange Star (Chinese: 暂译：橘星) is a holding company formed on 24th July 2005 when Jetstar Asia and Valuair announced their merger in the light of growing competition from other Low Cost Carriers, price wars and rising fuel prices. Ken Ryan, then CEO of Jetstar Asia became the CEO of Orange Star and said the two airlines would stay separate for the time being largely due to their different operating systems.
Orange Stinger The Orange Stinger is an off the shelf Zierer Wave Swinger swing spinner in Paradise Pier at Disney's California Adventure. Themed to bees in an orange, the original bumblebee seats were removed within the first year due to extreme damage to the bee shells.
Orange Sulphur Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme) also know as the Alfalfa Butterfly and in its' larval stage, Alfalfa Caterpillar, is a butterfly of the Family Pieridae, which includes yellows and whites. It is found throughout North America and is a serious pest to Alfalfa crops.
Orange Twin Field Works: Volume I Orange Twin Field Works: Volume I is a collection of Bulgarian folk music released by Jeff Mangum, previously of Neutral Milk Hotel. The album contains one track, about a half hour of different segments from a single festival.
Orange wrasse The orange wrasse, Pseudolabrus luculentus, is a wrasse of the genus Pseudolabrus, found in eastern Australia including Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, and around New Zealand, including the Kermadec Islands, in reef areas at depths of between 5 and 50 m. Its length is between 30 and 60 cm.
Orange Walk District Orange Walk District is a district in the northwest of the nation of Belize, with its district capital in Orange Walk Town. Other towns and significant villages in Orange Walk District include Carmelita, Guinea Grass Town, San Estevan,Yo Creek, San Jose, San Pablo, Shipyard, Indian Church, San Carlos Trial Farm,San Felipe, August Pine Ridge, San Lazaro, Trinidad and San Roman.
Orange Walk People's Stadium Orange Walk People's Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Orange Walk, Belize. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium to Juventus in the Belize Premier Football League (BPFL) of the Football Federation of Belize.
Orange Wednesdays Orange Wednesdays refers to the two-for-one cinema tickets offer that is available to residents of the UK on Wednesdays. It allows users to buy two cinema tickets for the price of one at most cinemas across the country.
Orange-bellied Leafbird The Orange-Bellied Leafbird, Chloropsis hardwickii, is a bird native to the eastern Himalayas and south China to the Malay Peninsula. It is brightly colored with an orange belly, a green back, a blue tail and flight feathers, and a black and blue patch over its throat and chest.
Orange-fin anemonefish The orange-fin anemonefish or orange-fin clownfish, Amphiprion chrysopterus, is a clownfish, found in the Western Pacific north of the Great Barrier Reef from the surface to 20 m. It can grow to 16 cm in length.
Orange-thighed Frog The Orange-thighed Frog (Litoria xanthomera) is a tree frog native to a small area in tropical northern Queensland, Australia. It is a green frog with distinctly orange eyes, and is very similar in appearance to the Red-eyed Tree Frog (Litoria chloris).
Orange-throated whiptail The Orange-throated whiptail (Cnemidophorus hyperythrus) is a distinctive species of lizard with five or six light colored stripes down a black, brown, or grey dorsal side. The middle stripe may be forked at both ends.
Orange, California The City of Orange is located in Orange County, California. It is approximately 3 miles (6 kilometers) north of the County seat in Santa Ana, California, and approximately 32 miles (52 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles.
Orangeburg massacre On February 8, 1968, around 200 protesters had gathered on the campus of South Carolina State University (located in the city of Orangeburg) to protest the segregation of All Star Bowling Lane (now called All-Star Triangle Bowl), a bowling alley on Russell Street (then US 301, now SC 33), owned by local businessman, the late Harry K. Floyd.
Orangelo An orangelo is a hybrid citrus fruit believed to have originated in Puerto Rico. The fruit, a cross between a grapefruit and an orange, had spontaneously appeared in the shade-providing trees grown on coffee plantations in the Puerto Rican highlands.
Orangery An Orangery was a feature of royal and aristocratic residences from the 17th to the 19th centuries. A type of greenhouse, with citrus trees being grown in tubs and wintering under cover, it originated from the Renaissance gardens of Italy, when glass-making technology enabled sufficient expanses of clear glass to be produced.
Oranges & Lemons Oranges & Lemons is a Japanese band formed by a duo of music composers and performers, and . The duo is most notable for performing the opening theme (Soramimi Cake), and closing theme (Raspberry Heaven) to the television anime Azumanga Daioh.
Oranges and Lemons Oranges and Lemons is an English nursery rhyme which refers to the bells of several churches, all within or close to the City of London. In its common version, the lyrics refer to, in turn, St Clement Eastcheap, St Martin Orgar, St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, St Leonard's, Shoreditch, St Dunstan's, Stepney, and St Mary-le-Bow.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel by Jeanette Winterson published in 1985, which she subsequently adapted into a BBC television drama. It is about a lesbian girl who grows up in an extremely religious community.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (TV serial) Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit was a critically acclaimed 1990 BBC television drama mini-series, directed by Beeban Kidron. Jeanette Winterson wrote the screenplay, adapting her semi-autobiographical first novel of the same name (published 1985).
Orangeville-Brampton Railway The Orangeville-Brampton Railway is a 55 kilometre (34 mile) long short line railway between Orangeville and Streetsville Junction in Mississauga, Ontario. It passes through the City of Brampton and the Town of Caledon.
Orangey Orangey, a red tabby cat, was a talented animal actor owned and trained by the well-known cinematic animal handler Frank Inn. Orangey (credited under various names), had a prolific career in film and television in the 1950s and early 1960s and was the only cat to win two Patsy Awards (Picture Animal Top Star of the Year, an animal actor's version of an Oscar)--the first for the title role in "Rhubarb", a story about a cat who inherits a fortune, and the second for his portrayal of "Cat", Audrey Hepburn's "poor slob without a name" in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).
Orangi Pilot Project The Orangi Pilot Project refers to a project carried out in the slum areas of Orangi, Karachi, Pakistan. It was initiated by Akhtar Hameed Khan, and involved the local residents solving their own sanitation problems.
Orangi Town Orangi Town is a small densely populated town in the northwestern part of Karachi, bordered by New Karachi Town to the north across the Shahrah-e-Zahid Hussain, Gulberg Town to the east across the Gujar Nala stream, Liaquatabad Town to the south, and SITE Town to the west. The population of Orangi Town was estimated to be more than 720,000 at the 1998 census.
Orangina Orangina is a carbonated soft drink made from oranges and lemons. According to its English website, "The exact formula is a closely guarded secret, but Orangina is made up of a high content of orange juice and pulp: The bottle claims 12% juice, and 2% pulp.
Orangism Orangism is a form of royalistic loyalty to the House of Orange-Nassau of the Netherlands. Most people in the Netherlands are Orangists (only 15% of them want a republic and no significant group supports another house).
Orangist An Orangist was a person who supported the election of William III, Prince of Orange, the posthumously-born son of William II, Prince of Orange, to the office of stadtholder of the Netherlands. The office had been vacant since the death of William II in 1650.
Orania Orania is a South African town that is located along the Orange River in the arid Karoo region of its Northern Cape province. It is the first existing realisation of the Volkstaat concept (indeed, Orania is at the easternmost point of an earlier proposed Volkstaat area in the Northern Cape province) and is unique among South African towns in being the only all-Afrikaner enclave in South Africa.
Oranienburger Strasse Oranienburger Strasse (Oranienburger StraĂźe: see Ăź) is a street in central Berlin, the capital of Germany. The street is in the borough of Mitte, north of the River Spree, and runs south-east from Friedrichstrasse to Hackescher Markt.
Oranje Nassau IV The Oranje Nassau IV (located in Heerlerheide, Heerlen), the last and smallest mine exploted by the Oranje Nassau Mijnen, started its life as a ventilationshaft for Oranje Nassau III, in 1910 the construction of a mine shaft was started. However the construction was halted and only reassumed in 1919.
Oranje Nassau Mijnen The Oranje Nassau Mijnen was established in 1893 by Friedriech Honingmann (1841-1913) and Carl Honingmann (1842-1903 to exploit the rich coal deposits in and around Heerlen. That there were coal deposits around Heerlen was already known for centuries (coal had been dug up since the 13th century around Rolduc), but efficient transportation was lacking.
Oranjegekte Oranjegekte (orange folly) is a phenomenon in the Netherlands that occurs during queen’s day, international football championships and sometimes at other sporting events. The most important characteristic is the colour orange that dominates the street sight with flags and banners, clothing and even ordinary consumer goods.
Oranjemund Oranjemund ("Orange mouth" in German) is a town situated in the extreme southwest of Namibia, on the northern bank of the Orange River mouth. It exists purely to service the diamond industry and has a population of approximately 11,000.
Oranjerivier-Afrikaans Oranjerivier-Afrikaans ("Afrikaans of the Orange River") is a non-standard dialect of Afrikaans, which is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in northwestern South Africa and southern Namibia. Oranjerivier-Afrikaans has come into existence as a result of contact of Dutch settlers with Khoi-Khoi in South Africa.
Oranjestad, Aruba Oranjestad (English: "Orange City"), with a population of 26,355 (2000), is the capital and most important city of Aruba located on the southern coast near the western end of the island. In the local language, Papiamento, Oranjestad is often referred to simply as "playa".
Oranjeville Oranjeville is a small town situated on the banks of the Wilge River in the Free State Province of South Africa. It was established as a halfway house for wagonners travelling between Heilbron, Frankfort and Vereeniging.
Orans Orans (Latin, praying) is a bodily attitude of prayer, usually standing, with the elbows close to the sides of the body and with the hands outstretched sideways, palms up. It is common in Christian art as early as the wall paintings in the Catacombs of Rome and is still used in both private and communal prayer by both clergy] and [[laity] also [[Panagia] and [[worship
Orant Orant is a type of gesture during prayer in which the hands are raised, set apart, and the palms face outward. It was once common in early Christianity, and can frequently be seen in early Christian art, but has since become quite rare.
Oranyan Oranyan (also known as Oranmiyan) was a Yoruba king from the city of Ife, Nigeria and the son of the mythical Oduduwa. According to Yoruba history, he founded Oyo around 1400, and his son, Eweka I, was the first Oba of the Benin Empire.
Oraon The Oraon, or Uraon, people inhabit various states across central and eastern India as well as Bangladesh. Traditionally they depended on the forest for their ritual and economic livelihood, but in recent times they have become mainly settled agriculturalists.
Orari School Orari School (St Canterbury - New Zealand) was foundered in 1878 and was a fully operating year 1 to 6 primary school in the small rural settlement of Orari until it was shut by the then Labour government during a network review of schools in the South Canterbury schooling district in 2004. Most pupils of Orari School would have progressed to the year 7 to 13 high school in the nearby town of Geraldine (Geraldine high school).
Orarion The Orarion (Greek: ; Slavonic: Ораръ, orar) is the distinguishing vestment of the deacon in the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is a narrow stole, usually four to five inches wide and about ten feet long, made of brocade with seven crosses embroidered or appliquéd along its length.
Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) Orascom Construction Industries or Orascom Construction Industries SAE(OCI) ()is construction company established in Egypt in 1950 and owned by Onsi Sawiris. The first multinational Egyptian corporation, it is one of the core Orascom Group companies.
Orascom group Orascom is an Egyptian business group. It holds a portfolio of business activities ranging from contracting to railways and navigation services to manufacturing, and also maintains significant holdings in telecommunications, information technology, and networking.
Orate Fratres The exhortation Orate Fratres (the original Latin) "Pray brethren that my sacrifice and yours be acceptable to God the Father almighty" is addressed by the celebrant to the people before the Secrets in the Roman Mass. It is answered: "May the Lord receive the sacrifice from thy hands to the praise and glory of his name, and for our benefit also and for that of all his holy Church.
Oratorical Interpretation Oratorical Interpretation (often shortened to Oral Interp, Oratorical Interp, Oratorical, or abbreviated to OI) is an event in competitive high school forensics. Similar to Original Oratory, Oratorical differs in that the speeches performed must be published material, not original material.
Oratorio del Gonfalone The Oratorio del Gonfalone or Oratory of the Banner is a building in Central Rome which once housed a Catholic fraternity. Founded in 1264 under the name of the Accomandati di Madonna Santa Maria, over the centuries the group dedicated itself to various activities, including the participation in religious processions as banner carriers (wearing white gowns with peaked blue hoods), and also of putting on a yearly passion play.
Oratory of Saint Philip Neri The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri is a congregation of Roman Catholic priests and lay-brothers who live together in community bound together by no formal vows but only with the bond of charity. They are commonly referred to as Oratorians.
Oratory Preparatory School Oratory Preparatory School, commonly known as Oratory Prep, is a Roman Catholic college preparatory day school for boys, located in Summit, New Jersey, United States, approximately 19 miles west of Manhattan. The school was founded in 1907 as Carlton Academy, with grades 4-12.
Oratory status In the Roman Catholic church, Oratory Status is a special status that a church building may be placed in. In oratory status the parish has been closed and the church building and grounds become the responsibility of a neighboring parish.
Oratory Tennis Club The Oratory Tennis Club plays on the real tennis court of the Oratory School in Woodcote, South Oxfordshire. It was the first school in the United Kingdom to construct a court for 80 years, finishing the building in 1990.
Orava (castle) Orava Castle (Slovak: OravskĂ˝ hrad) is the name of a castle situated on a high rock (520m), which was constructed in the 13th century, considered to be one of the most interesting castles in Slovakia. The first black-and-white famous film (1922) about Dracula (until recently thought to be made in Romania) shows this castle and its surroundings as the castle of Nosferatu.
Orava (county) Orava (-Slovak, Latin: Arva, Hungarian: Árva, German: Arwa, Polish: Orawa) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in northern Slovakia and southern Poland.
Orazio Benevoli Orazio Benevoli (1605 in Rome – 1672 in Rome) was a significant composer of large scaled polychoral sacred choral works, one work featured 48 vocal and instrumental lines. He was Italian by birth, with a French ancestry.
Orazio Gentileschi Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (1563 - 1639) was an Italian Baroque painter, one of more important painters influenced by Caravaggio (the so-called Caravaggisti). He was the father of the painter Artemisia Gentileschi.
Orazio Marinali Orazio Marinali was an Italian Late-baroque sculptor (1643-1720), active mainly in the Venetian mainland. He is best known for over 150 statues produced by him and his studio for the estate and gardens of a single villa in Vicenza, the Villa Lampertico (also known as Villa Conti or La Deliziosa).
Orígenes Lessa Orígenes Lessa, journalist, short story writer, novelist, and a writer of essays, was born in Lençóis Paulista, SP, on July 12, 1903, and died in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, on July 13, 1986. He was elected, on July 9, 1981 for the Chair number 10 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, succeeding Osvaldo Orico, and was received on November 20, 1981, by the Academy Member Francisco de Assis Barbosa.
Orán, Salta San Ramón de la Nueva Orán (usually referred to simply as Orán) is a city in the north-west of the , about 270 km from the provincial capital. It is the head town of the Orán Department and it has about 73,000 inhabitants as per the , which makes it the second most populated in the province.
Orb (comics) The Orb (Drake Shannon) is a Marvel Comics supervillain, primarily an adversary of Ghost Rider. Created by writer Len Wein, penciller Ross Andru, and inker Don Perlin, he first appeared in Marvel Team-Up #15 (November 1973).
Orb River The Orb is a 145 km long river in the Hérault département of Southern France that flows into the Mediterranean Sea, in Valras-Plage. The river flows through the towns Bédarieux and Béziers, where it is crossed by the canal du Midi.
Orb-weaver spider The orb-weaver spiders (family Araneidae) are the builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields and forests. The family is a large one, including over 2800 species in over 160 genera worldwide, making it the third largest family of spiders known (behind Salticidae and Linyphiidae).
Orba (Irish mythology) In Irish mythology Orba son of Eber Finn was joint High King of Ireland with his brothers Ir, Fearon and Ferga, after they overthrew Muimne, Luigne and Laigne, sons of Eremon. They ruled for half a year before being overthrown by Irial Fáith, son of Eremon.
Orba (river) The Orba is a river in Italy which is approximatly 70 km long from its spring in the Apennines to its confluence with the Bormida. It flows through Piedmont from South to North, until it joins with the Bormida and then the Po.
Orbcomm ORBCOMM is a company that offers global asset monitoring and messaging services from its constellation of 30 LEO communications satellites orbiting at 775 km. Like its competitors Iridium and Globalstar, it filed for Chapter 11 protection, in September, 2000.
Orber Moreno Orber Moreno [mo-RAY-noh] (born April 27, 1977 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a middle relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays with the New York Mets (2003-present). Previously, Moreno played for the Kansas City Royals (1999).
Orbicular jasper Orbicular jasper is a variety of jasper which contains variably-colored orbicules or spherical inclusions or zones. In highly silicified rhyolite or tuff, quartz and feldspar crystallize in radial aggregates of needle-like crystals which provide the basis or seed for the orbicular structure seen in this kind of jasperThe material is quite attractive when polished and is used as an ornamental stone or gemstone].
Orbirail Orbirail is a name for a suggested orbital railway route around London. It would involve connecting the extended East London Line, the North London Line, the West London Line, the South London Line and (possibly) the Gospel Oak to Barking Line to form a route that would orbit London in Zone 2, Zone 3 and (possibly) Zone 4.
Orbis Pictus Orbis Pictus, or Orbis Sensualium Pictus (The Visible World in Pictures) is a textbook for children written by Czech educator Jan Ámos Komenský. It is something of a children's encyclopedia and is considered to be the first picture book intended for children.
Orbison illusion The Orbison illusion is an optical illusion that was first described by the psychologist William Orbison in 1939. The bounding rectangle and inner square both appear distorted in the presence of the radiating lines.
Orbit Award Holographic ‘Orbit Award’ crystal created by international artist, Eileen Borgeson and holography pioneer, Jeff Allen. ‘Orbit Awards’ were co-sponsored by EArt Gallery and Interior Systems, and were received by: Buzz Aldrin, Richard Branson, Paul Allen, Rick Searfoss, Robert Bigelow, The X-Prize Foundation, Scaled Composites, Zero Gravity Corporation, Eric Anderson and Anousheh Ansari.
Orbit determination Orbit determination is a branch of astronomy specialised in calculating, and hence predicting, the orbits of objects, primarily around the Earth. Amongst other uses, it is critical for making use of GPS signals.
Orbit insertion Orbit insertion is a maneuver performed by an inter-planetary spacecraft designed to allow the spacecraft to be captured into orbit around a planet or other body such as a moon. The spacecraft approaches the planet at a speed greater than the escape velocity of the planet.
Orbit Irrigation Products Orbit Irrigation Products, Inc, located in North Salt Lake, UT, is a manufacturer and supplier of irrigation products for residential and commercial markets and has been in business for over 30 years. It distributes over 2,000 products to 40 countries on five continents.
Orbit Jet The Orbit Jet was a fictional spaceship in the 1954 TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. It strongly resembled a V-2 rocket in overall form, with a very prominent exhaust plume when flying, but had wings in addition to tailfins (even its radio callsign, "XV-2" relates it that seminal World War II design).
Orbit News Orbit News is a 24 hour satellite and cable channel offering American news programming to viewers abroad, primarily geared towards an Arab audience. The network is available on digital satellite and cable in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

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