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The name Celsius is a latinization of the estate's name (Latin celsus 'mound'). As the son of an astronomy professor, Nils Celsius, nephew of botanist Olof Celsius and the grandson of the mathematician Magnus Celsius and the astronomer Anders Spole, [3] [4] [page needed] Celsius chose a career in science. He was a talented mathematician from an ...
Kontroll is a 2003 Hungarian comedy–thriller film. Shown internationally, mainly in art house theatres, the film is set on a fictionalized version of the Budapest Metro system. "Kontroll" in Hungarian refers to the ticket inspectors checking to ensure a rider has paid their fare. The story revolves around the ticket inspectors, riders, and a ...
Magyar vándor (English: The Hungarian Strayer [1] or Hungarian Vagabond [2]) is a 2004 Hungarian action comedy film directed by Gábor Herendi and starring Károly Gesztesi, János Gyuriska and Gyula Bodrogi. The plot contains elements of time travel fiction.
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. The Delisle scale is a temperature scale invented in 1732 by the French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768). [1] The Delisle scale is notable as one of the few temperature scales that are inverted from the amount of thermal energy they measure; unlike most other temperature scales, higher measurements in degrees Delisle are colder, while lower measurements ...
Ambiancé was an unreleased experimental film directed by Swedish director Anders Weberg. [1] [2] The film was expected to have a running time of 720 hours (or 30 days) and initially had a projected release date of 31 December 2020. [3] [4] Once the film's initial screening was completed, Weberg would destroy the only existent copy of the ...
Post-mortem photograph of a dead girl and her parents. In 1918, towards the end of First World War, on a battlefield, the German soldier Tomás is left for dead after an artillery explosion, being thrown into the mass grave; however, an older soldier sees him still breathing in the pile of corpses and pulls him out of the pile of bodies, where in a semi-conscious state due to the explosion, he ...
Anders (Dragon Age), a character in the Dragon Age video game series; Andurs, a Nord priest of Arkay, and Anders (deceased bandit), characters in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a game heavily influenced by Scandinavian culture; Captain Leslie Anders, supporting character in the 1968 movie ”Ice Station Zebra”, played by the actor Jim Brown
The Poor Rich (Hungarian: Szegény gazdagok) is a 1959 Hungarian historical drama film directed by Frigyes Bán and starring Gyula Benkö, Marianne Krencsey and Margit Bara. [1] [2] [3] It is based on the 1860 novel of the same title by Mór Jókai which had previously been adapted into a 1938 film version The Poor Rich.