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GLOBUS is a radar system in the town of Vardø in Vardø Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway. It is operated by the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) and its official uses are primarily space observation and Arctic airspace monitoring for Norway's national interest, though the site's close proximity to known Russian naval bases as well as U.S. involvement in construction and funding have ...
Krzysztof Maria Globisz (born 16 January 1957 in Siemianowice Śląskie) is a Polish theatre and film actor.His best-known role is as Piotr Balicki, the newly qualified barrister whose opinion of capital punishment undergoes a radical change in A Short Film About Killing (1988) directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski.
The Virtual Globes Museum (VGM) is an on-line museum founded and maintained at the Eötvös Loránd University 's Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics. It's considered to be one of the largest projects related to globe digitization. [1] Its primary purpose is to present the terrestrial and celestial globes made in or related to Hungary ...
Adelaide of Brunswick. Margaret, nicknamed Maultasch (1318 – 3 October 1369), was the last Countess of Tyrol from the House of Gorizia ( Meinhardiner ), and an unsuccessful claimant to the Duchy of Carinthia. Upon her death, Tyrol became united with the Austrian hereditary lands of the Habsburg dynasty.
Contents. Jane Stirling. Jean ("Jane") Wilhelmina Stirling [1] [2] (15 July 1804 – 6 February 1859) was a Scottish amateur pianist who is best known as a student and later friend of Frédéric Chopin, who dedicated Nocturnes, Op. 55 to her. She took him on a tour of England and Scotland in 1848, and took charge of the disposal of his effects ...
Clive Wood. Clive Wood (born 8 May 1954) is a British actor, known for his television roles in Press Gang (1989–93), The Bill (1990), London's Burning (1996–99), and as King Henry I in The Pillars of the Earth (2010). His stage roles include playing Stephano in The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe (2011) and Antony in Antony and Cleopatra at ...
Poor Dionis or Poor Dionysus ( Romanian: Sărmanul Dionis, originally spelled Sermanul Dionisie; [ 1][ 2] also translated as Wretched Dionysus or The Sorrowful Dionis) is an 1872 prose work by Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, classified by scholars as either a novel, a novella or a modern fairy tale. It is a liberal interpretation of contemporary ...
Pre-19th century. Eunuchus ( The Eunuch) is a comedy by the Roman playwright Terence. Several tales of the Arabian Nights focus on eunuchs. [1] The character of the Pardoner in Geoffrey Chaucer 's The Canterbury Tales (late 14th century), is implied to be a eunuch or homosexual.