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A Lazarus Soul is an Irish post-punk band formed in Dublin 2001. The band is known for its focus on social issues in Ireland. Its name derives from the nickname "Lazarus" given to lead singer Brian Brannigan by his mother due to him overcoming multiple severe illnesses in childhood. [1]
Brannigan (also known as Joe Battle) is a 1975 British action thriller film directed by Douglas Hickox [1] and starring John Wayne and Richard Attenborough. [3] It was filmed in Panavision and DeLuxe Color .
Instead, Brannigan's mother concocted a ruse, in which the doctor at the clinic in which he was born informed the Brannigan family that Tim had been a stillbirth. The second part of the ruse involved Brannigan being kept at an orphanage for a year before his birth mother "adopted" him on the pretence that he would be a replacement for the ...
Andy Branigan (1922–1995), Canadian ice-hockey player; James Christopher Branigan (1910–1986), a member of the Garda Síochána (Irish Police Force) Laura Branigan (1952–2004), American singer Branigan, debut album by Branigan in 1982; Sir Patrick Branigan (1906–2000), Irish-born barrister and colonial administrator
Find a globe in your local library or classroom and try this: Close the eyes, spin it and drop a finger randomly on its curved, glossy surface. In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate ...
Originally made from hemispheres of plaster of Paris glued together, [19] the company's small globes are now made from resin and the larger from composite materials. [20] The company employs three cartographers and uses a modern map of their own design that customers are invited to customise. The maps are printed onto paper gores and cut by
Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.
Terrestrial globes are known to have been made from antiquity, such as The Globe of Crates. None are known to have survived, even as fragments. A celestial globe, part of the Farnese Atlas, has survived from the second century AD. In 2023, Erdapfel was admitted to UNESCO's Memory of the World. [5]