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Château de Montgeoffroy

The Château de Montgeoffroy is an 18th-century manor house located in the commune of Mazé (Maine-et-Loire), France.


2010: The Graphic Action Game

2010: The Graphic Action Game is a puzzle/maze game with elements from 2010: Odyssey Two where the player must save the Discovery from crashing onto the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io.

A Plumbing We Will Go

Curly would recreate the maze-of-pipes gag six year later in Swing Parade of 1946.

Austin Powers: Welcome to My Underground Lair!

There are a few mini-games included, such as Mojo Maze, a Pac-Man clone, Domination (an Austin Powers-themed version of Reversi), a digitalized version of Rock-Paper-Scissors, and 'Kin'-Evil, which is a motor bike racing game whose name is a play on Evel Knievel.

Basmanny District

In 1930s, Basmanny lost landmarks like Red Gates and Assumption Church in Pokrovka, but overall city fabric remains unchanged, with an irregular maze of lanes and two-story historical buildings.

Bill Maze

Born in Woodlake, California, Maze is a former Chairman and member of the Economic Development Corporation and Business Incentive Zone Council.

Curse of Chucky

In 2009, the franchise received its own maze, entitled Chucky's Fun House in Hollywood, a seasonal re-themeing of Universal Studios Hollywood's year-round attraction Universal's House of Horrors and Chucky: Friends Till the End at Universal Studios Florida, themed around the Good Guys factory and scenes featuring Chucky and other childhood toys gone bad.

David N. Cole

In the early 1980s David Cole began working as a Staff Engineer at the Capitol Tower, where he worked with a variety of talent, including Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, Maze, Steve Miller Band, as well as Richard Marx, and Tina Turner.

Devil World

He navigates through a series of mazes and touches Crosses to power up and summon the ability to breathe fire and eat the dots in the maze.

Dick's Picks Volume 13

Bob Weir dedicated "He's Gone" to Bobby Sands, a member of the British Parliament who died on a hunger strike while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze on May 5, 1981.

Hedge maze

In The Shinning, a parody of The Shining from The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror V, Bart cuts a new path through the hedge maze, rather than complete it fairly.

Internet and terrorism

This grooming leads the recruits to become more and more entangled in terrorist related discussions and are led through a maze of private chat-room’s until personal indoctrination occurs which is often through the use of the secure software Paltalk.

Iwamuro, Niigata

During the period of the Tokugawa shogunate, Maze was one of the ferry points to the banishment island of Sado.

J. K. Greye Software

They struck gold with the revolutionary 3D Monster Maze, the first 3D game for a home computer, which John Greye suggested they produce after seeing a basic 3D Maze that Evans had programmed in Z80 Assembler.

Lab Rats Challenge

This is similar in style to the maze on early 1990s Australian kids game show A*mazing and 1990s American show Legends of the Hidden Temple.

Lisburn telephone exchange code

The Lisburn telephone exchange code refers to the former 01846 area code, which until the 2000 Big Number Change, served Lisburn, Aghalee, Moira, Hillsborough, Dromore, Maze, Stoneyford and Baillies Mills, all of which are in Northern Ireland, a constituent part of the United Kingdom.

Mate Recordings

Until recently most releases on Mate Recordings were by Roger®, but the label's 2004 "England vs. Finland" compilation album Music is Better Volume One (Manchester vs Helsinki) features also such British and Finnish artists as Alcohell, A Maze, A.N.I.M.A.L., Boys of Scandinavia, Kompleksi, Nu Science and The Science Block.

Maze Jackson

Maze Jackson (1923–1996) was an American Independent Baptist evangelist, best known as Brother Maze to fellow preachers and friends.

Melting Stones

Because Evvy recognizes that if they break out, they will be so powerful that they may destroy the island, Luvo changes the maze to become like a Möbius strip, with no end to give the humans more time to escape.

Michael Ayrton

Beginning in 1961, Michael Ayrton wrote and created many works associated with the myths of the Minotaur and Daedalus, the legendary inventor and maze builder, including bronze sculpture and the pseudo-autobiographical novel "The Maze Maker" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967).

Michael McClure

He has made two television documentaries – The Maze and September Blackberries – and is featured in several films including The Last Waltz (dir. Martin Scorsese) where he reads from The Canterbury Tales; Beyond the Law (dir. Norman Mailer); and, most prominently, The Hired Hand (dir. Peter Fonda).

Mizmaze

Mizmaze (or Miz-Maze or Miz Maze) is the name given to two of England's eight surviving historic turf mazes, and also to a third, presumably once similar site (at Leigh in Dorset) that is now merely a relic .

Munster, Ontario

Munster has a convenience store, a restaurant, and is the site of Saunders Farm, which has outdoor mazes and a Halloween theme park.

Newquay Zoo

A Tarzan activity adventure Trail, Children's Play Area and the Dragon Maze (designed by mazemaker Adrian Fisher in 1983) are provided for children's entertainment.

Oxbow Regional Park

The two-day event draws up to 10,000 visitors who can see spawning salmon; enjoy music, food, art, storytelling, and a fish maze; and encounter a variety of traditional activities and cultural exhibits at Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum village hosted by the fishing tribes of the Columbia Basin, including the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Yakama, and Warm Springs tribes.

Pease Porridge Hot

In the 1966 Blake Edwards World War II comedy What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Major Pott (Harry Morgan) includes the last lines of the rhyme in his rantings after he is driven mad from getting lost in a maze of catacombs under the Sicilian village.

Picture maze

In 1975, the English maze designer Randoll Coate began his life's work of creating numerous "symbolic" mazes, which combined a distinctive outer image with further internal symbols and images.

Playtime

The Offices: M. Hulot arrives at one of the glass and steel buildings for an important meeting, but gets lost in a maze of disguised rooms and offices, eventually stumbling into a trade exhibition of lookalike business office designs and furniture nearly identical to those in the rest of the building.

Procedural generation

Other notable early examples include the 1985 game Rescue on Fractalus that used fractals to procedurally create in real time the craggy mountains of an alien planet and River Raid, the 1982 Activision game that used a pseudorandom number sequence generated by a linear feedback shift register in order to generate a scrolling maze of obstacles.

Regina Belle

Belle has appeared in concert with many other performers, including Ray Charles, Boney James, Paul Taylor, The Rippingtons, Gerald Albright, Will Downing, Maze, Frankie Beverly, Phil Perry, Al Jarreau, and Stephanie Mills.

Rimini Protokoll

"Call Cutta", one of their recent works, was based on outsourcing: The performers or 'experts', who were employees of a call center, were located in Salt Lake, Calcutta, India, providing the audience in Berlin, Germany with individual cell phone performances, with each call center agent guiding just one spectator solely through the remote maze of lanes of Kreuzberg, Berlin, narrating the story of Subhas Chandra Bose, an Indian revolutionarist freedom fighter.

Seaforde

Although the house itself is private, the Maze and Garden and Tropical Butterfly House in the grounds of the Demesne are open to the public.

Sir Thomas Copley

He was in constant correspondence with William Cecil and other ministers, and sometimes with the queen herself, desiring pardon and permission to return to England and to enjoy his estates; but at the same time he was acting as the leader of the English expatriate Catholics, and sometimes was in the service of the king of Spain, from whom he had a pension, and by whom he was created baron of Gatton and grand master of the Maze.

Skill with prize

Indeed, "quiz machine" is often used interchangeably with "SWP" for such counter-top machines, though not all games on these devices are quiz-based: other games include Crystal Maze, based on The Crystal Maze, and Word Up.

Stoke, Kent

The farmland descends to the Stoke Saltings – a maze of intricate channels and small islands beloved by wading birds.

Swing Parade of 1946

The scene where he recreates the maze of pipes from A Plumbing We Will Go (1940) has been described as sluggish and lethargic.

The Man in the Maze

I'itoi or Man in the Maze, a mischievous creator god in the tradition of the O'odham people

The Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale

The Vancouver Straight Newspaper included Yue Minjun's 'A-maze-ing Laughter' in their 2010 contributors' picks: Outdoors & landmarks.

Thomas Albert

Early works include A Maze (With Grace) (1975, after "Amazing Grace") and Devil’s Rain (1977) both of which were recorded by the ensemble Relâche for Mode Records.

Trevor King

Loyalist bands paraded and laid floral wreaths at the base, and Billy Hutchinson of the Progressive Unionist Party (and King's former Maze Officer Commanding) made a speech honouring King's memory.

Trollie Wallie

The map design and graphics style in Trollie Wallie is very surreal, with ladders, slides and conveyor belts forming a devilish maze, and with nightmarish creatures wandering around inside the supermarket.

Tutankham

Tutankham is a combination of maze and shoot 'em up. Taking on the role of an explorer grave robbing Tutankhamun's tomb, the player is chased by creatures such as asps, vultures, parrots, bats, dragons, and even curses, all that kill the player on contact.

William B. Caldwell, III

Coming from a long line of soldiers, his great-great-great-great grandfather, Thomas Maze, fought in the Revolutionary War, his grandfather served in the Union Army during the Civil War, his father was an Army Colonel during World War II retiring after 37 years of military service, and his son is a serving lieutenant general with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wyck Rissington

Different points of the maze represented different Pilgrim Stations.


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