Glory (optical phenomenon)
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A glory is an optical phenomenon, resembling an iconic saint's halo around the shadow of the observer's head, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the tiny water droplets that comprise mis
Glory around the shadow of a plane. The position of the glory's centre shows that the observer was in front of the wings.
A solar glory and Brocken spectre
Illustration from Jorge Juan's and Antonio de Ulloa's, Voyage to South America (1748), depicting three separate scenes: (1) on the left, an erupting volcano; (2) on the upper right, optical glories surrounded by a fog bow; and (3) on the lower right, arcs of white light near a mountaintop
A solar glory and Brocken spectre from Crib Goch in 2008
The Great Seal of the United States is the seal of the United States of America. The phrase is used both for the impression device itself, which is kept by the United States secretary of state, and mo
Glory (optical phenomenon)
…personal enlightenment (associated with Buddha or divinity). Stylized glories appear occasionally in Western heraldry. Two glories appear on the Great Seal of the United States: A glory breaking through clouds surrounding a cluster of 13 stars on the obverse, and a glory surrounding the Eye of Providence surmounting an unfinished…
United States passport
The arms as held by Columbia in the war scene of the United States Capitol's 1865 Apotheosis of Washington by Constantino Brumidi
A hatched rendering of the coat of arms being used at the Department of State headquarters at Harry S Truman Building.
The press and cabinet, made in 1903