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File:Shall we live without a plan for Eternity.jpg|link=Shall we live without a plan for Eternity?|'''[[Shall we live without a plan for Eternity?]]'''
 
File:All we have to sphere is sphere itself.jpg|link=All we have to sphere is sphere itself|"'''[[All we have to sphere is sphere itself]]'''" is popular catch-phrase from the mid-1930s, widely but incorrectly attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 
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:Gigantic obsidian sphere believed responsible for strange cable car behavior.jpg|link=San Francisco sphere|The '''[[San Francisco sphere]]''' is an unnatural feature of San Francisco Bay, known since at least 2022.
 
File:All we have to sphere is sphere itself.jpg|link=All we have to sphere is sphere itself|"'''[[All we have to sphere is sphere itself]]'''" is popular catch-phrase from the mid-1930s, widely but incorrectly attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 
File:Only the sphere is not a phallic symbol.jpg|link=Only the sphere is not a phallic symbol|Sphere and circumscribed cylinder, demonstrating how '''[[only the sphere is not a phallic symbol]]'''.
 
File:Salem orb trials.jpg|link=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.
 
File:Dyson_Sphere_War_(tweet).jpg|link=Dyson Sphere War|The '''[[Dyson Sphere War]]''' is an ongoing military and paradigmatic conflict between Earth-based civilizations and Dyson sphere civilizations.


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