Crossword clues for borealis
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shortening of aurora borealis (q.v.).
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Borealis (Latin for northern or of the north) may also refer to:
In astronomy:
- Borealis Basin or North Polar Basin, a basin on the planet Mars
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Borealis quadrangle, an area on the planet Mercury
- Borealis Planitia, a basin within the quadrangle
In commerce:
- Borealis AG, an international company based in Vienna, Austria, which produces polyethylene and polypropylene
- Borealis Alliance, an alliance among the north-west European Air Navigation Service Providers
- Borealis Exploration Limited, a Gibraltar-based research and development company
- Borealis, a configuration of the Canadian NAACO Brigadier pistol
- Borealis Infrastructure, an investment division of OMERS (Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System)
In media:
- Borealis (band), a power metal band from Ontario, Canada
- Borealis (film), a 2008 documentary by Frank Wolf
- Borealis, a 2009 single by American trance producer DJ Eco
- Borealis (TV series), a 2012 sci-fi/thriller series set in the Canadian Arctic in 2045
- Borealis Records, a Canadian record label
- Borealis, a fictional ship in the Half-Life and Portal video game series
Borealis AG is Europe's second and world`s eighth largest producer of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
Borealis is a 2008 documentary film by Frank Wolf that follows two friends on a 3,100 km canoe adventure through the northern Boreal forest of Manitoba and Ontario. The film looks at the industrial threats to the pristine, vast wilderness north of the 51st parallel from the perspective of those who live in the region. The film is notable for its quirky and humorous tone in spite of the subject matter. It won the Grand Prize as well as Prize for Best Canadian Film at the 2009 Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival and was one of the Top Ten Most Popular Canadian Films at the 2008 Vancouver International Film Festival. It aired multiple times on CBC's documentary in Canada in 2009-10.
Borealis is a Canadian power/ progressive metal band from Orangeville, Ontario. Their music features soaring vocals, a focus on guitar riffs, as well as a bass-heavy backing rhythm. Their sound is likened to the more melodic realms of power metal, however, with each album they have introduced progressive elements to the mix. They are known for performing in an outstanding manner live; their first album was recorded in light of a well received opening performance for Sonata Arctica. In an interview, the band explained the origin of their name: "we were all hanging out one night and the northern lights ( Aurora Borealis) could be seen above. We thought it would be a cool name, but with Aurora Borealis already being a successful band, we shortened it to Borealis".
When the band began in 2005, they originally employed a female opera style vocalist Siobhan O'Brian as their lead vocals frontrunner. In 2006 they recorded a demo Eyes of a Dream. Siobhan left the band between 2006-2007. Matt Marinelli became the vocalist along with continuing to play guitar in September 2007, and 2008 marked the year Borealis released their first full-length album, World of Silence. In order to play this album properly live, they needed another guitarist, thus hiring Ken Fobert. In 2011 they recorded their second album, Fall from Grace, including Ken Fobert as a true member of the band. Michael Briguglio replaced Ken between 2011-2013 and continued as a part of the band, the current guitarist. They were signed by AFM Records in 2015 and released their third album, Purgatory.
Usage examples of "borealis".
Sometimes her glimmer rises in the twilight, but it is in the black night of revolutions and of wars that her resplendence blazes forth, and her aurorean dawn becomes the Aurora Borealis.
Faint coruscations of the Aurora Borealis appeared one evening, but their presence did not in the least affect the electrometer or the compass.
High above the tattered clouds, the aurora borealis forms a veil across the sky, a garish mother-of-pearl haze riddled with thousands of long, lurid scintillations, like giant shooting stars.
Law of the Cyclone which he surprised in darkness and cold at the foot of the overarching throne of the Aurora Borealis.
December 1927, Professor Carl Stormer of Oslo, an expert on the aurora borealis, chanced to meet a telegraphic engineer named Hals, to whom he mentioned the Taylor-Young puzzle.
Ataensic, an Iroquois deity, 123, 131, 170 Ataguju, or Atachuchu, 152 Atatarho, mythical Iroquois chief, 118 Athapascan tribes, 24 myths, 104, 150, 195, 205, 229, 248, 257 Atl, an Aztec deity, 131 Aurora borealis, 245 Aymaras, 31, 34, 177 Aztecs, their books and characters, 10 divisions, 29 names of God, 48, 50, 58 n.
Vastitas Borealis, skirting the scarp of the big Lomonsov crater and navigating the rolling dune sea to the mouth of Chasma Boreale.
Ann and Nadia and Simon took rover Three and drove back down Chasma Borealis and around to the west, where one of the glaciers curling away from the cap thinned to a perfect rampway.
It had been spotted at the water station in Chasma Borealis last year, during an ice fall and subsequent power outage.
On Mangalavid they saw programs about a fusion prototype in Chasma Borealis.
At that point Nadia turned her attention to other matters, programming toolmakers, starting robot linemen along the broken pipelines from Chasma Borealis.
Rockets and geysers and Roman candles, glittering anemones blooming in the sky, Aurora Borealis on a psychedelic trip, a thousand shooting stars streaking the night, dazzling trails of colored fire, ruby and emerald and amethyst dreams, aerial torches, blinding celestial fountains, man-made comets hurtling high, brilliant and bright, whistlers and screamers and hot colored streamers all raining down in a heated shower of riotous color mixed with glass, wood, and mortar.
As a result, the color index she had created to display the wormhole's bursts of high-energy radiation on the main viewscreen kept shifting from an angry bruiselike red-violet to an icy borealis shimmer of translucent blue to a deep electric indigo sparked with hot white highlights.
Then he seated himself at the pilot console awaiting touchdown on Tania Borealis.
A blaze of stars backlights a sky-spanning display of aurora borealis.