X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Tellus


Galactic Patrol

The first three positions generally operated from Prime Base on Tellus.

It was built to be even tougher than Prime Base on Tellus, and has considerably better defenses.

Prime Base is the tremendous military base that first grew from "The Hill", a man-made, flat-topped, steel sheathed mountain that was the main base of first, the Triplanetary Service, and then of the new Galactic Patrol on Tellus.

Volkshalle

The globe on the dome's lantern was enhanced and emphasized by two monumental sculptures by Breker, each 15 metres high, which flanked the north façade of the building: at its west end Atlas supporting the heavens, at its east end Tellus supporting the Earth.


New Scandinavian Cooking

New Scandinavian Cooking is a Scandinavian cooking show which, over the course of ten seasons, was hosted by Andreas Viestad, Tina Nordström and Claus Meyer, produced by the Norwegian production company Tellus Works in collaboration with American Public Television (APT).

The Book of Aspirations

The resulting document was structured in nine chapters and had, among others, contributions by Rebekah Jorgensen, Ph.D. (film producer), Bernice Dubois (French Coordination for European Women's Lobby), Shabbir A. Khan (President, Rashid Memorial Welfare Organization), Richard L Brolin (Director of World Economic Processing Zones Association), James Goldstein (Senior Research Director, Tellus Institute, Massachusetts), Roberta Beach Jacobson, Ph.D. (journalist), Felix.A.


see also