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In Neuchâtel, a 90-foot wooden sphere called the Palais de l'Équilibre, by Groupe H architects, contains an exhibition on climate change.

I had eaten at Barca once before, and a heavenly sphere called chocolate velvet, a ball of smooth deep dark chocolate wrapped in an intensely chocolate coverlet, lingered in my memory.

The necessary theorems on the geometry of the sphere (called spherics) were compiled into textbooks, such as the one by Theodosius (3rd or 2nd century bc) that consolidated the earlier work by Euclid and the work of Autolycus of Pitane (flourished c. 300 bc) on spherical astronomy.

Thus, since σT4eff is the rate of radiation per unit area for a perfectly radiating sphere and if L is the total radiation (i.e., luminosity) of a star considered to be a sphere of radius R, such a sphere (called a blackbody) would emit a total amount of energy equal to its surface area, 4πR2, multiplied by its energy per unit area.

On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, a 184-pound sphere called Sputnik 1. Moving at 18,000 miles per hour, it circled the Earth every 96 minutes, which, for a local perspective, is about how long it takes the A train to run from northern Manhattan to Far Rockaway.

Except for the too obvious and too John Miller-like fecal brown sphere called "Bad Planet," all these works are interesting and impressive; but a flat-footed conceptual literalism keeps them from being as surprising or funny as they could be.

His first homily adhered closely to Roman Catholic doctrine — offering only indirect signs of the activist role he has hinted he will take as an advocate of the church's agenda in the public sphere — calling on those in his flock to build their faith on "trust in what cannot be seen," and not only "on empirical, scientific evidence".

Classically, the mass of this body would be totally concentrated within the radius of the sphere, call it r.

In particular, group-related behavior and the ever-increasing willingness to share rich user-generated contents, also pertaining to the personal sphere, calls for a user-centric communication paradigm shift, where the ad-hoc interconnection of portable devices plays a central role.

Some theory requires selecting a fixed point on the sphere, calling the pair (sphere, point) a pointed sphere.

The moon's reflected blue sphere calls to them from each segment of polished glass.