Roland – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Roland
n.
male first name; family name; town in Iowa (USA)
Roland
Philae (spacecraft)
Philae ( or ) is a
robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanied the
Rosetta spacecraft until it landed on
comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, more than ten years after departing Earth. On 12 November 2014, the probe achieved the first-ever soft landing on a
comet nucleus. Its instruments obtained the first images from a comet's surface.
Philae is monitored and operated from
DLR's Lander Control Center in
Cologne, Germany. Several of the instruments on
Philae made the first direct analysis of a comet, sending back data that will be analysed to determine the composition of the surface.
Roland
nm.
Roland, male first name; family name; town in Iowa (USA)
Roland
[Folklore] When in 778 the rearguard of Charlemagne's army was withdrawing from a campaign in Spain to battle a rising among the recently conquered Saxons of Germany, they were attacked at Roncesvalles by the Basques and the Gascons. The Basques and the Gascons annihilated them, and among the fallen was the Frankish commander Roland. Legend embroidered the defeat and in the eleventh century Chanson de Roland, the warrior emerged as a Christian hero overwhelmed by the forces of Islam. Proud and brave, he refused to sound his horn Olifant for reinforcements until it was too late. When he finally did sound the horn, the effort caused 'blood to flow from his mouth and burst from his forehead'. A deep cleft in the Pyrenees, some three hundred feet wide, is called Brèche de Roland. Legend has it that he cut the rocks in two with his sword Durandal when he was set upon by the Basques and the Gascons at Roncesvalles.
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