Voices of Nakba Interview with survivors of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe), where over 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. They now reside in Yibna refugee camp (named after their home town) in the southern Gaza Strip. The film was produced by the Palestine UK twinning group Islington Friends of Yibna.
The goldwork technique seen here is called granulation, in which the
goldsmith uses minute spheres of gold to create texture and pattern.
This method was adopted by the Greeks from the Eastern Mediterranean in
the 8th and 7th century BC. This piece has affinities with a group of
objects from the island of Rhodes dating to 650-600 BC.
Eris is the most massive and second-largest dwarf planet in the known Solar System. Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory-based team led by Mike Brown, and its identity was verified later that year.
In September 2006 it was named after Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord. Eris is the ninth most massive object directly orbiting the Sun, and the 16th most massive overall, because seven moons are more massive than all known dwarf planets.
Eris is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) and a member of a high-eccentricity population known as the scattered disk. It has one known moon, Dysnomia. (Eris and Dysnomia are seen in the first image).
