International Peace Bureau
International Peace Bureau (IPB), organization est. 1891 in Bern, Switerland, by Fredrik Bajer and other members of the third World Peace Congress. Dedicated to promoting world peace, it brought together various European pacifist groups and coordinated their activities. It advocated disarmament and took positions on international conflicts. Extremely influential, the IPB was the voice of the world peace movement in the 1890s and early 1900s, and in 1910 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. After World War I, with the formation of the League of Nations (which the IPB promoted) and other peace organizations, the IPB waned in importance, and it ceased operation during World War II. Shortly thereafter, some of its former members founded the Liaison Committee of Organizations for Peace (ILCOP), which later was granted the IPB's assets and took the name International Peace Bureau in 1964. It merged with the International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace in 1984. Based in Geneva, the organization has a membership that now includes 265 international, national, and local peace organizations from more than 60 countries and many individuals.
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WHIRLED AWAY ON A RIVER OF LIGHT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/24/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...England. Canopus lifted its light above the horizon at Orion...winter Milky Way is lost in the lights of Boston. Here it was prominent...glow. We were seeing the zodiacal light, brighter than I ever remember seeing it before. The zodiacal light is caused by sunlight...are the best ...
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By the light of many moons, he meets the millennium
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/12/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...sun setting and stars coming out and zodiacal arches and the auroras, and beautiful...you don't know what's going on, zodiacal arches which are these peaks of color in different places in the sky, light like no other place in the Georges Banks...form, from the very darkest to the lightest," said ...
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Washed away in a sea of light
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/15/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...island to itself with few lights. Far away to the south one...Beehive in Cancer, a blur of light from a cluster of stars too...another blur, elongated, the light from two adjacent star clusters. The zodiacal light streaming vertically from...
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BLINDED BY THE NIGHT LIGHTS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/25/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...States as a splotch of artificial light, like a spreading phosphorescent...the winter Milky Way, the zodiacal light, the Andromeda Nebula...satellite photographs; its lights are visible from space. And...resort development puts enough light into the sky to turn my northern...
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DEBAUCHED ON LIGHT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/12/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...way: Marcel Minnaert's "Light and Color in the Outdoors...something of a connoisseur of light and color. I had trained my...Glories, sun dogs, the zodiacal light, mirages, moon bows, noctilucent...Minnaert catalogs a feast of lights such as I hardly knew existed...
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THE NORTHERN LIGHTS.(book reviews)(Brief Article)(Review)
Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...wildly agitated strips of light twisting and juggling...Earth, too, wears these lights, the northern manifestation...expedition, in THE NORTHERN LIGHTS (Knopf, $24), is...electric cannon, charting "zodiacal light" (a wispy counterpart...malleable for shaping, and lights the dark. It ...
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Celestial light display nice touch for holiday
Newspaper article from: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA; 12/10/2005; ; 626 words
; ...by the beauty of Christmas lights adorning homes along the road...seemingly mirroring the points of light decorating the landscape below...in the gleam of surrounding lights. Scanning the celestial field...than the more well-known zodiacal constellation, Pisces, the...Between these supernal gifts ...
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Jago, Lucy. The Northern Lights; the true story of the man who unlocked the secrets of the aurora borealis.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...a Norwegian, who would have gazed in awe at the northern lights that flick like magnificent curtains across the arctic winter...He constructed a series of vacuum chambers and studied the Zodiacal light from the deserts of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He accomplished...
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City lights obscure the stars. (UK).(report from the Council for the Protection of Rural England)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Geographical; 8/1/2003; ; 668 words
; Light pollution is on the increase, according to a report from...limited to only the brightest of stars, with five out of the 12 Zodiacal constellations being completely obscured. The report calls...wasteful lighting and advocates the use of more uni-directional lights, beamed groundwards rather than ...
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Reading the Human Body: Physiognomics and Astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic-Early Roman Period Judaism
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the division of parts of light and darkness is intrinsically...which 4Ql 86 refers to a "zodiacal spirit," that is, a spirit...that is assigned to each zodiacal sign and dominates the person...exact blend of good and bad zodiacal spirits assigned to a person...
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Zodiacal Light
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Zodiacal Light The term zodiacal light is used to describe a faint...than in summer. The ghostly zodiacal light is not visible every night, and it...dust continues to gather within the zodiacal light, as it has in the distant past...
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zodiacal light
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
zodiacal light A faint diffuse glow, comparable in intensity...produced by the reflection of sunlight from zodiacal dust particles in the ecliptic plane. From temperate latitudes, the zodiacal light is best seen on spring evenings...
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zodiacal dust
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
...mainly by Jupiter's gravitational influence. Reflection of sunlight from the zodiacal dust gives rise to the gegenschein and zodiacal light . The total mass of zodiacal dust is estimated to be similar to that of an average comet nucleus.
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zodiacal band
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
zodiacal band see zodiacal light .
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Hansky, Aleksey Pavlovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...expeditions to the Crimea and Central Asia to study zodiacal light stimulated his desire to create in southern Russia...coal mine on Spitsbergen, conducted research on the zodiacal light, and made observations of Jupiter and the meteors...
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