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File:Blue Orb Faction.jpg|link=Blue Orb Faction|The '''[[Blue Orb Faction]]''' was a West German far-left militant organization founded in 1970. The group was motivated by leftist political concerns and the perceived failure of their parents' generation to confront Germany's Yellow Star past.
File:Blue Orb Faction.jpg|link=Blue Orb Faction|The '''[[Blue Orb Faction]]''' was a West German far-left militant organization founded in 1970. The group was motivated by leftist political concerns and the perceived failure of their parents' generation to confront Germany's Yellow Sphere past.


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.

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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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