Машина для уничтожения крепостей «Обой» (под таким обозначением значилась в документах, также известна, как Аппарат Семчишина и «Катающаяся крепость») — проект гипотетической боевой машины колоссальных размеров, разработанный русским инженером И. Ф. Семчишиным в 1915 году. Представлял собой бронированный эллипсоид диаметром несколько сот метров, который, двигаясь со скоростью до 500 км/ч, сминал бы неприятельские крепости. Явно утопический проект был отклонён техническим отделом ГВТУ в том же году. == История создания == В июне 1915 года один из чинов технического отдела ГВТУ отправил начальнику...

Namma Metro ("Our Metro" in Kannada), also known as Bengaluru Metro, is a rapid transit system serving the city of Bengaluru, India. It is the 3rd largest operational metro network in India after Delhi and Hyderabad metro. Upon its inauguration, it became the first underground metro system in South India. Namma Metro has a mix of underground, at grade, and elevated stations. Out of the operational 52 metro stations of Namma Metro as of November 2022, there are 43 elevated stations, 8 underground stations and 1 at-grade station. The system runs on standard-gauge tracks. Bengaluru Metro Rail ...

My Old School is a 2022 documentary directed by Jono McLeod on the subject of the Brandon Lee scandal. In 1995 it was discovered that "Brandon Lee" – who had a year earlier enrolled as a fifth-year student at Bearsden Academy secondary school in Bearsden, Scotland – had actually been a 30-year-old former student, Brian MacKinnon, posing as a 16-year-old. The story attracted widespread and sensational news coverage at the time.McLeod, the film's director, was one of MacKinnon's peers at Bearsden Academy. The story of MacKinnon's time at Bearsden and his unmasking are told through a combination of...

Ubu Roi ([yby ʁwa]; "Ubu the King" or "King Ubu") is a play by French writer Alfred Jarry, then 23 years old. It was first performed in Paris in 1896, by Aurélien Lugné-Poe's Théâtre de l'Œuvre at the Nouveau-Théâtre (today, the Théâtre de Paris). The production's single public performance baffled and offended audiences with its unruliness and obscenity. Considered to be a wild, bizarre and comic play, significant for the way it overturns cultural rules, norms and conventions, it is seen by 20th- and 21st-century scholars to have opened the door for what became known as modernism in the 20th century...

The Rite of Spring (French: Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich. When first performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a sensation. Many have called the first-night reaction a "riot" or "near-riot", though this wording did not come about until reviews of later performances...

The Little King is a 1930-1975 American gag-a-day comic strip created by Otto Soglow, telling its stories in a style using images and very few words, as in pantomime. == Publication history == Soglow's character first appeared on June 7, 1930, in The New Yorker and soon showed signs of becoming a successful strip. The Little King began publications in comic book issues from 1933, was licensed for a 1933–34 series of animated cartoons by Van Beuren Studios and featured in advertising campaigns for Standard Oil and Royal Pudding (1955). It became evident early on that William Randolph Hearst was...

The Venus de Milo (; Greek: Ἀφροδίτη τῆς Μήλου, romanized: Aphrodítē tēs Mḗlou) is an ancient Greek sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period, sometime between 150 and 125 BC. It is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture, having been prominently displayed at the Louvre Museum since shortly after the statue was rediscovered on the island of Milos, Greece, in 1820. The Venus de Milo is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, whose Roman counterpart was Venus. The sculpture is sometimes called the Aphrodite de Milos, due to the imprecision of naming...

The razorbill, razor-billed auk, or lesser auk (Alca torda) is a colonial seabird and the only extant member of the genus Alca of the family Alcidae, the auks. It is the closest living relative of the extinct great auk (Pinguinis impennis). Wild populations live in the subarctic waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Razorbills are primarily black with a white underside. The male and female are identical in plumage; however, males are generally larger than females. This agile bird, which is capable of both flight and diving, has a predominantly aquatic lifestyle and only comes to land in order to breed...

== Ancien français == === Étymologie === Mot dérivé de fisique, avec le suffixe -ien. === Nom commun === fisicien masculin Médecin. Nostre Dame plus d'enfers cure Que tuit li grant fisicienNe tuit li bon cyrurgienDe Montpellier ne de Salerne. — (Jean le Marchant; Miracles de Notre-Dame de Chartres -XIIIe siècle) Apres fist venir devant lui les fisiciens latins et leur requist ce meismes et bien dist que se il i avoit peril sur lui fust qui le fesoit faire et ne mie sur eus. — (Guillaume de Tyr; Li vintiesmes livres -XIIIe siècle) ==== Variantes orthographiques ==== fuisicien === R...