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Swan Sequence

She longs for fish, but is unable to catch them; she looks up longingly at Orion.

The Three Marys

In Spanish-speaking countries, the Orion's Belt asterism is called Las Tres Marías (The Three Marys).

Thornborough Henges

The 'dogleg' in the layout appears to cause the layout of the henges to mirror the three stars of Orion's Belt.


Alan Weisman

His reports from around the world have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Orion, Audubon, Mother Jones, Discover, Condé Nast Traveler, Resurgence, and several anthologies, including The Best American Science Writing 2006.

Alnitak

In the Star Trek episode The City on the Edge of Forever, Captain James T. Kirk references Alnitak by pointing it out as "that far left star in Orion's belt—see?"

April in Quahog

Having learned of the impending doomsday, Mayor Adam West angrily writes an angry letter to outer space, expressing his intention of punching the constellation Orion.

Aurvandil

Guesses as to the identity of this star have included the polestar, the planet Venus, Sirius and the star Rigel which forms the toe of the constellation Orion, though if Aurvandil is to be identified with the constellation Orion one would expect to find Aurvandil himself being translated into the sky, not just his toe.

Berthon Boat

When, on the 29th June 1849, the SS Orion was wrecked off Portpatrick, the Reverend Clark, a survivor, wrote to the Reverend Edward Lyon Berthon: "Can not you think of a way in which boats, enough for all on board, be stowed on a passenger steamer without inconvenience?".

Charles Goodsell

Goodsell is also known for his work as a co-author of the Blacksburg Manifesto, written with Gary Wamsley, Robert Bacher, Philip Kronenberg, John Rohr, Camilla Stivers, Orion White, and James Wolf—all of whom were at Virginia Tech during the 1980s.

Château d'Orion

Week of reflection with Julian Nida-Rümelin: Nachdenken über Rationalität, Freiheit und Verantwortung (Moderation: Ulrike Schneiberg) (2005)

Chuck Versus the Predator

When the team goes to retrieve the computer Orion sent to Chuck, they run into a Fulcrum agent named Vincent (Arnold Vosloo).

Durabrand

Durabrand is chained with Lenoxx Sound, Alco, Funai (which would also include Emerson, Sylvania, and Symphonic), Orion, Maxell, Resonance, Initial Technology, and many other different companies.

German auxiliary cruiser Komet

Cooperating with the Orion, she sank two more British ships in August 1941 and captured the Dutch 7,300 ton freighter Kota Nopan which was sent as a prize to Bordeaux.

Hans Peter Anvin

Previous employers include Transmeta, where he performed as architect and technical director; Orion Multisystems, working on CPU architecture and code morphing software; and rPath.

Hugh Raffles

His writing has appeared in academic and popular venues, including Granta, Public Culture, Natural History, Orion, American Ethnologist, the New York Times, and The Best American Essays.

Invasion Orion

After Starfleet Orion had been completed the authors, Jon Freeman and Jim Connelly, decided that the original placed too many demands on the players.

John Atkinson Pendlington

Bill Frindall in his book Bearders (Orion, London, 2006, page 70-71) also acknowledges Pendlington as the inventor and mentions other evidence of it pre-dating Ferguson.

Julien Cosmao

From February 1791, he served aboard the Orion of the squadron of Laurent Jean François Truguet in Toulon.

KGCW

KGCW can also be seen on KLJB's second digital subchannel (UHF channel 49.2 or virtual channel 18.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter in the Orion village of Western Township, Illinois.

KLJB

Licensed to Davenport, Iowa, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 49 (or virtual channel 18.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter along US 150 in Orion of Western Township, Illinois.

KWQC-TV

KWQC-TV is owned by Media General, with studios in downtown Davenport and transmitter located in Orion, Illinois.

Lockheed CP-140 Aurora

In Greek mythology, Aurora is the Greek goddess who restored Orion's eyesight, and also the Aurora Borealis are the "northern lights" that are prominent over northern Canada and the Arctic Ocean.

Lockheed Model 9 Orion

Some time in the 1960s it was purchased by Swiss Air and rebuilt to flying status by the famous "Fokker" restoration team and is on display at the Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne, Switzerland in the livery of the original Swiss Air Orion.

MGM-134 Midgetman

The legacy of its lighter graphite-wound solid rocket motor technology lived on in the GEM side boosters used on the Delta rockets, and the Orion stages of the Pegasus air-launched rocket.

Mini-Mag Orion

Mini-Mag Orion (MMO), or Miniature Magnetic Orion, is a proposed type of spacecraft propulsion, based on the Project Orion nuclear propulsion system.

Mitsubishi Starion

The "Starion" name is claimed by Mitsubishi to be a contraction of "Star of Orion", although an urban legend claims that it was intended to be stallion, as a result of an "Engrish" mistranslation.

Orion abort modes

Unlike the Apollo Launch Escape System, which used a pair of "canards" and the weight of the spacecraft to flip the vehicle over for landing, the Orion LAS has a set of steering rockets that will steer the spacecraft away from the malfunctioning SLS, as well as prepare the spacecraft for both separation and splashdown.

Orion Abort Test Booster

The Orion Abort Test Booster (ATB) is a small solid rocket launcher which will be developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation under contract by U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Space Development and Test Directorate (SDTD).

Orion Airways

Orion Airways (known simply as 'Orion') was an airline based in the United Kingdom with its head office on the grounds of East Midlands Airport in Castle Donington, North West Leicestershire.

Orion Confectionery

Products produced by Orion include biscuits, cookies, crackers, pies, gum, snacks, chocolate, and candy; and its most famous product is Choco Pie.

Orion Electric

Its primary, previous, long-time brands were produced within Memorex, Otake, Orion, and Sansui.

For the North American market, Orion used to manufacture many televisions and VCRs for Emerson Radio during the 80s and 90s for 10 years, but Emerson Radio went bankrupt, and it was brought up by Funai in 2000, which Funai still owns today.

Orion also operates Orion Sales, headquartered in Olney, Illinois, for the North American market, under its private-owned Sansui brand and, recently licensed, JVC television brand.

In 2011, Orion licensed the JVC name for televisions, and all JVC televisions are now designed, produced, and supported by Orion.

Orion Lite

The intention of designing Orion Lite would be to provide a stripped down version of the Orion that will be available for missions to the International Space Station earlier than the more capable Orion, which is designed for longer duration missions to the Moon, Mars, Lagrange points, and Near Earth asteroids.

Osiris

Through the hope of new life after death, Osiris began to be associated with the cycles observed in nature, in particular vegetation and the annual flooding of the Nile, through his links with Orion and Sirius at the start of the new year.

RayStorm

Humans explored space, and within 100 years Earth established a twenty-colony Star Federation extending to Orion, with each colony kept under martial law.

Sam Toy

Toy also led Ford UK through the difficult introduction of the Sierra in 1982, the MK3 Granada and the Orion.

Santa Claus Is Back in Town

Jonny Lang, the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Billy Idol, Joe Bonamassa, the Jordanaires, Canned Heat, James Durbin, .38 Special, Orion, Australian Crawl, My Morning Jacket, The Creepshow, The Boppers, David Gogo, Trisha Yearwood, Brian Hyland, Raul Malo, Straight No Chaser, Frantic Flintstones, Rick Saucedo, 45 R.P.M., Tom Green, and Wynonna Judd have also recorded the song.

Skinny Lister

"Plough and Orion" - This features the band preparing a meal on a trig point at the top of some moorland as a surprise for two recently engaged friends of the band, who are led there by a series of treasure hunt type clues.

Sothis

Gods who ride such animals, notably Shiva and Dionysos, or who have canine servants, notably Orion and Osiris (with Anubis his gatekeeper and embalmer), were also regarded by Kerenyi as partly derived from Iachen, the sublimator, or an even older myth.

St Enodoc's Church, Trebetherick

Adam Nicolson and Nick Meers, Panoramas of England, 1997, London: Orion (p. 57)

Star Fleet Battle Force

Star Fleet Battle Force is a card-based starship combat game system, produced and developed by Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. It allows fast-paced multiplayer combat between vessels of various factions in the Star Fleet Universe, such as the Federation, the Klingon and Romulan Empires, the Gorn Confederation, Kzinti Hegemony, Tholian Holdfast and Orion Pirates.

Star lore

One example of star lore is the inventing of the story of Orion the Hunter and the Scorpius the Scorpion by the ancient Greeks.

Starfleet Orion

Jerry Pournelle praised the Orion games' realism: "Classical principles of fleet warfare work, and strategy and tactics are more important than luck".

Telstar 12

Telstar 12, previously known as Orion 2, is a Canadian communications satellite which is operated by Telesat.

Todd Levy

An active chamber musician, he has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Cleveland, Orion, Mendelssohn, Ying and Miami Quartets, the Beaux Arts Trio, Pinchas Zuckerman, James Levine, Carol Wincenc, Paula Robison, Nancy Allen, Christoph Eschenbach, Richard Goode, Mitsuko Uchida, and Marc Neikrug.

Wasdale Head

Adam Nicolson and Nick Meers, Panoramas of England, 1997, London: Orion (p. 102)

WMWC-TV

Licensed to Galesburg, Illinois, it broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 (virtual channel 53.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Orion, Illinois that is also occupied by KWQC-TV, KLJB and WQAD-TV.

WQAD-DT3

Over-the-air, the station airs a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel 38.3 (or virtual channel 8.3 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Orion, a village of Western Township, Illinois.


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