Praise or distinction extended by common consent; more often than not a quality seeked by those who are vain. Those who are truly moral, noble, and with honour, do not seek out glory but instead achieve it through courage and valour.

A movie which came out in 1989, and starred Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, and Morgan Freeman. It is the story of the first Black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War.

It is told from the point-of-view of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, portrayed by Broderick, who commanded the Massachusetts 54th.

The film was nominated for five Oscars and won three, including Best Supporting Actor to Denzel Washington.

The movie itself was very intense, especially in the attack on Fort Wagner at the end. The musical score, with the Harlem Boys Choir, made the emotional impact that much more severe. Yeah, I was a cry-baby by the end.

Several atmospheric effects are formed by backward-scattering refraction of light while looking directly away from the sun. The particular optics that form these effects ensure that they are always centered around the head of the observer's cast shadow.

They are the heiligenschein, the dewbow, the glory, and the opposition effect.

A glory is a series of continuous spectral rings that spread outward a few degrees from the head of the observer's shadow.

To see a glory you must be facing the antisolar point, and have your shadow cast against a water vapor wall such as fog, mist, or clouds. Your shadow forms a spectre of the Brocken, and around the head of your shadow you may see a glory. From a plane, where glories are commonly seen, the spectre may disappear altogether as the umbra converges to nothing.

As with a rainbow and aureole, blues are towards the inside of the glory and continue in the rainbow spectrum order outwards. As fog is rarely still and flat, the glory will seem to move, grow, and shrink of its own accord, even if you are standing still. Because the fog is a volume, the refractions appear quite deep and rich.

The radius of the effect is inversely proportional to water droplet size. The largest droplet size that can support a glory is around .025 m, which produces a radius of about 5°. Droplets of .0096 m form three complete concentrentric spectral rings with a maximum radius of 20°.

Interestingly, though most of the atmospheric effects can be accurately explained and modeled with ray path formulas and scattering theories, no such formula accurately predicts and explains the appearance of glories.

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Sources

• http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?p=1&query=glory
• http://www.meteoros.de/glorie/gloriee.htm
• http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/droplets/glofeat.htm
• http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/astro/glory.htm

Glo"ry (?), n. [OE. glorie, OF. glorie, gloire, F. gloire, fr. L. gloria; prob. akin to Gr. , Skr. ravas glory, praise, ru to hear. See Loud.]

1.

Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown.

Glory to God in the highest. Luke ii. 14.

Spread his glory through all countries wide. Spenser.

2.

That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honor; that which brings or gives renown; an object of pride or boast; the occasion of praise; excellency; brilliancy; splendor.

Think it no glory to swell in tyranny. Sir P. Sidney.

Jewels lose their glory if neglected. Shak.

Your sex's glory 't is to shine unknown. Young.

3.

Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.

In glory of thy fortunes. Chapman.

4.

The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven.

Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Ps. lxxiii. 24.

5.

An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.

This is the general term; when confined to the head it is properly called nimbus; when encircling the whole body, aureola or aureole.

Glory hole, an opening in the wall of a glass furnace, exposing the brilliant white light of the interior. Knight. -- Glory pea Bot., the name of two leguminous plants (Clianthus Dampieri and C. puniceus) of Australia and New Zeland. They have showy scarlet or crimson flowers. -- Glory tree Bot., a name given to several species of the verbenaceous genus Clerodendron, showy flowering shrubs of tropical regions.

 

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Glo"ry, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloried (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glorying.] [OE. glorien, OF. glorier, fr. L. gloriari, fr. gloria glory. See Glory, n.]

1.

To exult with joy; to rejoice.

Glory ye in his holy name. Ps. cv.

2.

To boast; to be proud.

God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Gal. vi. 14

No one . . . should glory in his prosperity. Richardson.

 

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