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File:Bucky Fuller, Orb King.jpg|link=Bucky Fuller, Orb King|'''''[[Bucky Fuller, Orb King]]''''' is a 2021 fantasy engineering film about a brilliant wizard (Buckminster Fuller) who uses tensegrity principles to construct a glowing blue orb.
File:Bucky Fuller, Orb King.jpg|link=Bucky Fuller, Orb King|'''''[[Bucky Fuller, Orb King]]''''' is a 2021 fantasy engineering film about a brilliant wizard (Buckminster Fuller) who uses tensegrity principles to construct a glowing blue orb.
File:Grandest Boon.jpg|link=Grandest Boon|"'''[[Grandest Boon]]'''" is an anagram of "'''Boston Garden'''".


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== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

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Earlist known illustration of the Salem orb trials.

The Salem orb trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of orbcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than two hundred people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail.

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