The Beyonder is a fictional cosmic entity appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Jim Shooter and artist Mike Zeck, the Beyonder first appeared in Secret Wars #1 as an unseen, claimed to be omnipotent being who kidnapped the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe and had them do battle on another planet called Battleworld.
A camera obscura is a darkened room with a small hole or lens at one side through which an image is projected onto the wall opposite the hole.
The Soyuz programme is a human spaceflight programme initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. It was the third Soviet human spaceflight programme after the Vostok and Voskhod programmes.
Kosmos is a designation given to many satellites operated by the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia. Kosmos 1, the first spacecraft to be given a Kosmos designation, was launched on 16 March 1962.
Titanoecidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967. It is fairly widespread in the New World and Eurasia with five genera and more than 50 species worldwide. These are mostly dark-colored builders of "woolly" (cribellate) silk webs. Several species are found at relatively high altitudes in mountain ranges and may be very common in such habitats.
Philaeus chrysops is a species of jumping spider (Salticidae).
Ballus chalybeius is a jumping spider. It is the type species of the genus Ballus.
Titanoeca is a genus of spiders that occurs mainly in Eurasia, with three species found only in North America. One species has a holarctic distribution, and T. guayaquilensis is endemic to Ecuador.
Talavera aequipes is a small jumping spider that is found in Eurasia. It is very hard to distinguish from several very similar species, but is the most frequent of these spiders in Central Europe. It is small enough to reside comfortably in snail shells of down to 5 mm length during winter, where they also lay their eggs. Sometimes it shares a larger shell with Pellenes tripunctatus, where T. aequipes lives deep inside, and P. tripunctatus is found in the larger opening.
Evarcha arcuata is a species of jumping spiders with a palearctic distribution.
Titanoeca quadriguttata is a species of spider in the family Titanoecidae. It is widespread in Europe, though absent from Great Britain, and is found in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ukraine.
Titanoeca tristis is a species of araneomorph spider in the family Titanoecidae. It is found from Europe to Central Asia.
Titanoeca nivalis is a species of araneomorph spider in the family Titanoecidae. It has a Holarctic distribution.
Titanoeca spominima is a spider species found in Poland.
Titanoeca nigrella is a species of true spider in the family Titanoecidae. It is found in North America.
Titanoeca brunnea is a species of true spider in the family Titanoecidae. It is found in the United States and Canada.
Titanoeca americana is a species of true spider in the family Titanoecidae. It is found in North America.
