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Robur Porto
Robur is Latin language, Latin for "hard timber" or "oak", and, by metaphorical extension, "strength". It can refer to: * ''Robur the Conqueror'', an 1886 novel by Jules Verne, also known as ''The Clipper of the Clouds'' ** ''Master of the World (novel)'', Verne's sequel novel, starring the same character * Robur (truck), an East German truck brand * ''Robur Carolinum'' (Latin for Charles' oak), a constellation named by the English astronomer Sir Edmond Halley in 1679 * Robur (company), a wholesale coal merchant See also * Robor, the Gaulish god {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Language
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robur The Conqueror
''Robur the Conqueror'' () is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne, published in 1886. It is also known as ''The Clipper of the Clouds''. It has a sequel, '' Master of the World'', which was published in 1904. Plot summary The story begins with strange lights and sounds, including blaring trumpet music, reported in the skies all over the world. Then black flags with gold suns mysteriously appear atop tall historic landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty in New York, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. These events are all the work of the mysterious Robur (the specific epithet for the English oak (''Quercus robur'') and figuratively taken to mean "strength"), a brilliant inventor who intrudes on a meeting of a flight-enthusiasts' club called the Weldon Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Members of the Weldon Institute are all firm believers that mankind shall master the skies using "lighter than air" craft, and that "heavier than air" c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Of The World (novel)
''Master of the World'' (), published in 1904, is one of the last novels by French pioneer science fiction writer, Jules Verne. At the time Verne wrote the novel, his health was failing. ''Master of the World'' is a "black novel," filled with foreboding and fear of the rise of tyrants such as the novel's villain, Robur, and totalitarianism. ''Master of the World'' contains a number of scientific ideas, current to Verne's time, which are now widely known to be errors. For example, traveling at high speed does not reduce a vehicle's weight. Plot outline Set in the summer of 1903, a series of unexplained events occur across the Eastern United States, caused by objects moving with such great speed that they are nearly invisible. The first-person narrator, John Strock, 'Head inspector in the federal police department' in Washington, D.C., travels to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to investigate. He discovers that all the phenomena are being caused by Robur, a brilliant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robur (truck)
Robur was a marque of the Volkseigener Betrieb ''VEB Robur-Werke Zittau'' of East Germany (GDR). It mainly produced 3-ton trucks. The vehicles were mainly produced in the town of Zittau in what now is South-East Saxony. Until 1946, company produced under the marque ''Phänomen'' (English: Phenomenon), and until 1957 under the name ''VEB Phänomen Zittau''. History In 1888, Gustav Hiller, Karl Gustav Hiller founded a company for the distribution of a pom-pon machine that he had invented and would receive a patent for in 1894. On a trip to England he obtained an exclusive license to import and build Rover Safety Bicycles. He became shareholder and later owner of the Zittau machine factory "Müller & Preußger", refined the Rover bicycles and began to distribute them under the name "Phänomen-Rover" in 1894. In 1900 the company began to produce Phänomen motorcycles. At first the motorcycles were fitted with Fafnir (automobile), Fafnir engines, but from 1903 onwards sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robur Carolinum
Robur Carolinum (Latin for ''Charles' oak'') is a former constellation created by the English astronomer Edmond Halley in 1679. The name refers to the Royal Oak where Halley's patron, King Charles II of Britain, was said to have hidden from the troops of Oliver Cromwell after the Battle of Worcester. It was located in the southern skies, between Centaurus and Carina, extending into half of Vela. Robur Carolinum was included in some star atlases for over a century, but it was eventually retired. Nicolas Louis de Lacaille complained that it took some of the finest stars from Argo Navis Argo Navis (the Ship Argo), or simply Argo, is one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations, now a grouping of three IAU constellations. It is formerly a single large constellation in the southern sky. The genitive is "Argus Navis", abbreviated "Arg". ....Richard Hinckley Allen, ''Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning'', Vol. 1 (New York: Dover Publications, 1899, p. 349.) Its brightest star was Beta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robur (company)
Związek Kopalń Górnośląskich Robur (English: Association of Upper Silesian Coal Mines Robur), was a wholesale coal merchant, which cooperated with a number of mines located in Second Polish Republic's Silesian Voivodeship. Its main office was located in Katowice. Robur was founded in 1921 by a company named Emanuel Friedländer Co. Since 1928, it was turned into a limited partnership, which belonged to three companies: Alfred Falter, M. A. Goldschmidt-Rotschild and F. Oppenheimer. Robur cooperated with several Upper Silesian coal mines and coal associations, such as: * Rybnik Coal Mining Consortium, * Charlotte Coal Mining Consortium from Rybnik, * mines and steelworks of the Donnersmarck family, * East Upper Silesian Works of Count Nicolas von Ballestrem (since 1931: Ruda Śląska Coal Mining Consortium), * Godulla S.A. from Chebzie, * Waterloo Coal Mining Consortium from Zaleze, * Pokoj Steel Mill from Nowy Bytom, * Wirek S.A. from Wirek. Robur was the wholesale coal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
