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3 unusual facts about The Oracle


Eden, High Wycombe

Moreover, the town was seen as being overshadowed by nearby towns with larger shopping centres, such as the Queensmere Observatory (Slough), The Oracle (Reading), The Chimes (Uxbridge), Harlequin Shopping Centre (Watford) and Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre (Milton Keynes).

Reading Central Library

The Holy Brook runs underneath the Library and it is near The Oracle to the south west and to the north lies the beautiful Forbury Gardens.

The Oracle, Reading

It was developed by, and is owned by, a joint venture of Hammerson and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.


Information broker

An example of an information broker in contemporary fiction would be DC Comics' superheroine, the Oracle, Edward G. Robinson's character Sol in the film Soylent Green, the Shadow Broker in the video game series Mass Effect, Nicholas Wayne, Rachel, Elean Duga, Gustav St. Germain, Carol, and the President of the Daily Days newspaper company in Baccano!, or Izaya Orihara in the anime Durarara!!.


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1660 in poetry

John Phillips, Montelion, 1660; or, The Proheticall Almanack, published under the pen name "Montelion, knight of the oracle, a well-wisher to the mathematicks", a verse satire on William Lilly's almanacs

Aristomachus

He led an attempt to capture Mycenae during the reign of Tisamenus, but, having misinterpreted the oracle, failed and fell in the battle.

Baltasar Gracián

Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1647), translated as The Art of Worldly Wisdom (by Joseph Jacobs, 1892), The Oracle, a Manual of the Art of Discretion (by L.B. Walton), Practical Wisdom for Perilous Times (in selections by J. Leonard Kaye), or The Science of Success and the Art of Prudence, his most famous book, some 300 aphorisms with comments.

Barbara Knox

In 1989 she won the Oracle Teletext Best Actress award for her part in the Alan Bradley storyline.

Doubling the cube

The problem owes its name to a story concerning the citizens of Delos, who consulted the oracle at Delphi in order to learn how to defeat a plague sent by Apollo.

Gloria Foster

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)- Gloria Foster continued to act the role of the Oracle, but died during the filming and Mary Alice continued the role in The Matrix Revolutions and Enter the Matrix.

Jao Tsung-I

For instance, he is the first scholar to render the Babylonian epic Enûma Elish into Chinese, after learning the Akkadian language from Jean Bottéro while he was a visiting scholar in Paris (see his work Jindong kaipi shishi 近東開闢史詩 "Creation Epic of the Near East"), and the first one to make a comparative study of the oracle bone script and the Indus script (see his essay Tan Yindu Hegu tuxing wenzi 談印度河谷圖形文字 "On the Indus Valley Pictorial Characters").

Know thyself

Lana and Andy Wachowski used one of the Latin versions (temet nosce) of this aphorism as inscription over the Oracle's door in their movies The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).

Luo Zhenyu

He helped published Liu E's Tieyun Canggui (鐵雲藏龜), the first collection of oracle bones, and Sun Yirang's Qiwen Juli (契文舉例), the first work of decipherment of the oracle bone script.

Nicholaus Contreraz

The Oracle facility is closed, but the Queen Creek facility is now in operation again, under the name Canyon State Academy.

Oracle bone script

Luo Zhenyu collected over 30,000 oracle bones and published several volumes, identified the names of the Shang kings, and thus positively identified the oracle bones as being artifacts from the Shang reign.

Oracle C++ Call Interface

The Oracle C++ Call Interface (OCCI), as defined by the database company Oracle Corporation, offers C++ programmers a comfortable interface to access Oracle databases.

Oracle Fusion

Oracle Fusion Applications (OFA), Oracle applications built on top of the Oracle Fusion Middleware technology stack using Oracle Fusion Architecture as blueprint

Oracle Media Objects

However, the Oracle Card team was led by two Oracle employees who have gone on to form their own, successful, technology companies: Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com, and Evan Goldberg, founder of NetSuite.

Oracle OLAP

The Oracle database tablespace CWMLITE stores OLAPSYS schema objects and integrates Oracle Database OLAP Option with the Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB).

Rise of the Argonauts

Traveling to Delphi, Jason learns from the Oracle that the only way to tread the road to the Fleece is to find three descendants of three of his patron gods: Hermes, Ares and Athena.

Scripting for the Java Platform

There is no requirement for a given JVM to include any engines by default, but the Oracle JVM (Java 6 and later) includes a JavaScript engine based on Rhino JavaScript for Java version 1.6R2.

Tomb of Alexander the Great

According to Plutarch, who visited Alexandria, Python of Catana and Seleucus were sent to a serapeum to ask the oracle whether Alexander's body should be sent to Alexandria and the oracle answered positively.

Turid Balke

After close to 30 movies her film-career finished off on a high-note, appearing in a small but prominent role as the oracle woman in The 13th Warrior opposite Antonio Banderas.