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  2. Orb - Wikipedia

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    The Orb, a British electronic music group; O.R.B. (band) (formerly The Original Rude Boys), an Irish acoustic group Orbs (band), a rock group featuring members of Between the Buried and Me and Fear Before the March of Flames

  3. Common Object Request Broker Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Non-standard mappings exist for C#, Erlang, Perl, Tcl, and Visual Basic implemented by object request brokers (ORBs) written for those languages. Versions of IDL have changed significantly with annotations replacing some pragmas. The CORBA specification dictates there shall be an ORB through which an application would interact with other objects.

  4. Crystal ball - Wikipedia

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    Other names for the thing include crystal sphere, orbuculum, scrying ball, shew/show(ing) stone, pondering orb, and more variants by dialect. History This ...

  5. What Are the Orb and Sceptre? Objects Adorning the ... - AOL

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    The orb is presented to British monarchs during their coronation. Dating back to Charles II’s coronation in 1661, the piece of regalia is golden and has a cross perched on top to symbolize ...

  6. Object request broker - Wikipedia

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    In distributed computing, an object request broker (ORB) is a concept of a middleware, which allows program calls to be made from one computer to another via a computer network, providing location transparency through remote procedure calls. ORBs promote interoperability of distributed object systems, enabling such systems to be built by ...

  7. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    A simple smiley. This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons.Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art.

  8. Globus cruciger - Wikipedia

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    The globus cruciger (Latin for 'cross-bearing orb'), also known as stavroforos sphaira (Greek: σταυροφόρος σφαίρα) [1] or "the orb and cross", is an orb surmounted by a cross. It has been a Christian symbol of authority since the Middle Ages , used on coins , in iconography , and with a sceptre as royal regalia .

  9. Astrological symbols - Wikipedia

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    An orb with a monogram H for the discoverer's last name, Herschel ⛢ U+26E2 Derived from the alchemical symbols of the planetary metals gold (Sun) and iron (Mars) to create a symbol for platinum, then applied to the planet Neptune ♆ U+2646 Neptune's trident Pluto ⯓ U+2BD3 Pluto's orb and a bident ♇ U+2647 PL monogram for Pluto and ...