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Engagement ring. Two engagement rings, as traditionally worn on the ring finger of the left hand. An engagement ring, also known as a betrothal ring, is a ring indicating that the person wearing it is engaged to be married, especially in Western cultures. A ring is presented as an engagement gift by a partner to their prospective spouse when ...
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ( Latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs au̯ˈreːliʊs antoːˈniːnʊs]; English: / ɔːˈriːliəs / aw-REE-lee-əs; [2] 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was a member of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty, the last of the rulers later known as the Five Good Emperors and the last ...
Idaho National Laboratory. Experimental Breeder Reactor Number 1 in Idaho, the first reactor to generate a usable amount of electricity. Idaho National Laboratory ( INL) is one of the national laboratories of the United States Department of Energy and is managed by the Battelle Energy Alliance. Historically, the lab has been involved with ...
"Inel plurispiralic cu palmete" (in Romanian). Cimec; Mobile Cultural Objects Classified in the National Cultural Heritage. Archived from the original on 2011-08-13. Mirea, Pavel (January 2009). "Un tezaur de epoca Geto-Daca descoperit la Magura Jud. Teleorman".
AR Aurigae (AR Aur), also known by its Flamsteed designation 17 Aurigae, is a binary star in the constellation Auriga. Based on parallax measurements made by the Hipparcos spacecraft, it is approximately 461 light-years from Earth. Both components are blue-white B-type main-sequence stars that do not fill their Roche lobes.
An aurora [a] ( pl. aurorae or auroras ), [b] also commonly known as the northern lights ( aurora borealis) or southern lights ( aurora australis ), [c] is a natural light display in Earth 's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic ).
The Kingdom of the Aurès ( Latin: Regnum Aurasium) was an independent Christian Berber kingdom primarily located in the Aurès Mountains of present-day north-eastern Algeria. [1] Established in the 480s by King Masties following a series of Berber revolts against the Vandalic Kingdom, which had conquered the Roman province of Africa in 435 AD ...
1 Aurigae. 1 Aurigae is the original name for a star now in the constellation Perseus. It was the first entry in John Flamsteed 's catalogue of stars in Auriga. When Eugène Joseph Delporte drew up simplified boundaries for the constellations on behalf of the International Astronomical Union in 1930, 1 Aurigae ended up over the border in Perseus.