Orbis
Appearance
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Orbis may refer to:
Companies
[edit]- Orbis Business Intelligence, a British private intelligence firm
- Orbis Technology, a British bookmaker software company now called OpenBet
- Orbis (Polish travel agency), a Polish travel agency, established in 1920
Entertainment
[edit]- Orbis (audio drama), a Doctor Who audio play
- Orbis Pictus (film), a 1997 Slovak film
Historical
[edit]- The "Orbis Terrarum", a map of the world created by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in 20 A.D.
- Orbis, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- Orbis Pictus, a 1658 children's book by Czech educator Jan Ámos Komenský
Publishing
[edit]- Orbis Books, a U.S. publishing imprint of the Maryknoll order
- Orbis Publishing, a British publisher of partworks and books
- Orbis Pictus Award, awarded by the National Council of Teachers of English for outstanding children's nonfiction literature
- Orbis, a 2002 alternative history novel by Scott Mackay
Periodicals
[edit]- Orbis (journal), a quarterly journal of international affairs published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Orbis Litterarum, a bimonthly literary journal published by Wiley-Blackwell
- Vanderbilt Orbis, a progressive student newspaper at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
Other uses
[edit]- Orbis Cascade Alliance, an academic library consortia in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho
- Orbis International (the "Flying Eye Hospital"), a charitable organization devoted to treating and preventing blindness
- a development kit for PlayStation 4
- Orbis OS, the proprietary operating system used by PlayStation 4
- Orbiting Binary Black Hole Investigation Satellite (ORBIS), a space telescope in development by Japan
- ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World, an interactive site co-developed by Walter Scheidel
- a company database provided by Bureau van Dijk
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles containing Orbis
- Orb (disambiguation)
- Orbiso, a village in Montaña Alavesa, Spain
- Orbit (disambiguation)