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3 unusual facts about Orb


Orb-3D

The game is noteworthy for employing the Pulfrich effect, an optical trick created with the use of "3-D" glasses (of which one lens is clear and the other tinted) that come with the game.

Pulfrich effect

The videogame Orb-3D for the Nintendo Entertainment System used the effect (by having the player's ship always moving) and came packed with a pair of glasses.

The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns and Textures

The soundtrack was also included as a bonus disk on a limited edition of the initial UK vinyl pressings of U.F.Orb.


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Stalag IX-B, a World War II German Army POW camp at Wegscheide close to Bad Orb

Åre Old Church

The statue does not show him as usual with an orb in his left hand and a war axe in his right wearing a crown, but only with an orb in his left hand wearing a tricorne uniform hat of the Caroleans.

Bad Orb

Bad Orb was the site of a POW camp during WWII named Stalag IX-B.

Being a Green Mother

Orb sings a section of the Llano (the Song of Evening—also known as the Song of Love) which is meant to evoke romantic love, but Satan, surprising everyone, sings a variation of the hymn Amazing Grace—and vanishes.

Charles E. Fipke

His horse Golden Soul, which was a longshot in the 2013 Kentucky Derby, finished second and had a payout more than three times higher than the winner Orb (38.60 vs. 12.80).

Cosmos: War of the Planets

The blue orb that separates them has the same geometric shape as the Death Star in the Star Wars series.

Crown of Augustus II the Strong

Two monks Aleksander Wyhowski, prior of Czerwińsk and Mikołaj Wyżycki, prior of the Holy Cross made a hole in the castle's wall and got to the vault from which they stole the crown, scepter, sword and orb.

Cygnus CRS Orb-1

Orb-1 is the first of eight contracted flights by Orbital Sciences under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services program.

Darwin's bark spider

According to professor Ingi Agnarsson, director of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Puerto Rico, the spider's web occupies a unique biological niche: "They build their web with the orb suspended directly above a river or the water body of a lake, a habitat that no other spider can use".

Dragon's Gate

Dragon's Gate was originally developed by Mark Jacobs and Darrin Hyrup, who had joined AUSI from Simutronics where he had been a programmer on GemStone II and lead programmer on Orb Wars.

Earth vs. the Spider

In the cave they fall onto the gigantic orb web of an enormous spider, a Mexican redleg tarantula, which emerges from behind some rocks to get them.

Eduardo Condorcet

In 2001, he finished his Master of Arts at the Northern School of Film and Television, with a thesis dedicated to interactive narrative, and released Masken a short Dogma film, for German and French TV channels ARTE, MDR and ORB.

Electric Counterpoint

As with other pieces by Reich, this piece has influenced many modern musical artists, such as the Orb, which sampled the third movement of the Pat Metheny recording as one of the hooks of "Little Fluffy Clouds," and RJD2, who sampled the piece's opening of his song "The Proxy" from his first release, Deadringer. In 2008 Joby Burgess' Powerplant arranged the work for xylosynth, taking influence from Metheny and the Orb.

Endangered spiders

This species makes large orb shaped webs at the entrance of caves and as of 2001 has only been found in caves located in Santa Cruz, California (Ubick, 2001).

Magic Shop Books

The orb turns out to be a dragon egg, which hatches into a female dragon that Jeremy develops an unusually strong empathic/telepathic connection with and whom he names Tiamat.

While running from two bullies and a girl who wants to kiss him, Jeremy Thatcher finds the Magic Shop and leaves with a mysterious, magical crystal orb.

Moebius: The Orb of Celestial Harmony

The player's objective, as disciple of the Headmaster, is to recover the Orb of Celestial Harmony from disciple-turned-badguy Kaimen.

Nikolai Obukhov

These projects included the development of an electronic instrument, the croix sonore, a device similar to the theremin but built in the shape of a cross, with the electronics hidden inside a brass orb to which the cross was affixed.

Not George Washington

For example, from 1904 to 1909 Wodehouse edited the "By the Way" column for the now-defunct The Globe newspaper, while the book's main character, James Orlebar Cloyster, writes the "On Your Way" column for the Orb newspaper.

Plexippus paykulli

Prey species that have been recorded as being part of the diet include Diptera, Homoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Odonata, Orthoptera and Aranea.

Principality of Aschaffenburg

Along with the city of Aschaffenburg, the Principality of Aschaffenburg also consisted of Klingenberg, Lohr, Aufenau, Stadtprozelten, Orb, and Aura.

T and O map

A T and O map or O-T or T-O map (orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands; with the letter T inside an O), is a type of medieval world map, sometimes also called a Beatine map or a Beatus map because one of the earliest known representations of this sort is attributed to Beatus of Liébana, an 8th-century Spanish monk.

The Harris Tweed Authority

When this trade mark, the Orb, was eventually granted, the Board insisted that it should be granted to all the islands of the Outer Hebrides i.e. to Lewis, North and South Uist, Benbecula and Barra, as well as to Harris, the rationale for this decision being that the tweed was made in exactly the same way in all those islands.

The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns and Textures

The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns and Textures is a 1992 (see 1992 in music) video by the UK electronic music collective The Orb.

Toxygene

As the Orb's highest charting single, the band appeared on Top of the Pops to promote the song.

Ulrich I, Lord of Hanau

Several properties could be temporarily added under mortgage arrangenments: Ortenberg with its Castle, Birstein Castle, Orb and Besen-Kassel.

WAU! Mr. Modo Recordings

Their sublabel, Inter-Modo, also released records from Juno Reactor and The Orb's collaborative side-project FFWD.

They released several early albums by The Orb that were mainly distributed by record labels such as Big Life.

Way of the Tiger

The world of Orb was originally drawn up by Mark Smith for a Dungeons and Dragons game he dungeon-mastered while a pupil at Brighton College in the mid-1970s.


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