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5 unusual facts about Mirror


Mario Kart DS

The Grand Prix and Vs modes require that the player choose an engine class from among 50 cc, 100 cc, 150 cc and 150 cc Mirror.

Mirror, Mirror II

The main cast of the series were Simon James as Daniel McFarlane, Ben Revell as Fergus McFarlane, Antonia Prebble as Mandy McFarlane, Jovita Shaw as Constance de Lutrelle, Zoe Bertram as Violette de Lutrelle, Tina Regtien as Jenny McFarlane, Simon Ferry as Doug McFarlane, Barry Quinn as Gervaise de Lutrelle, Melanie Thompson as Mai Ling, and Denise O'Connell as Aunt Lily

Solar Fields

He has released twelve albums, and has also scored all interactive in-game music for the Electronic Arts game Mirror's Edge.

This led to Electronic Arts (EA) and DICE commissioning Solar Fields for the in-game score for Mirror's Edge, a first-person action adventure video game released worldwide on November 14, 2008.

Still Alive: The Remixes

It was released by Artwerk on 11 November 2008 to coincide with the North American release date of Mirror's Edge, an action-adventure video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE) for which "Still Alive" had been chosen as the main theme.


Alfred Atmore Pope

They bought majolica and frames in Venice, and a Roman bust from an Italian dealer; Whistler and Charles Méryon prints, a boulle inkstand, mahogany liquor case, Persian rugs and a William Morris tapestry based on Walter Crane's The Goose Girl in London; and in Paris a Venetian mirror, Antoine-Louis Barye bronzes, Japanese prints and three Monets from leading art dealers Boussoud, Valadon.

Ameritech Center

The Ohio Bell Building has a mirror-like southern glass exposure which reflects the nearby Galleria at Erieview and the One Cleveland Center building.

Anton Kutter

Kutter was awarded two golden medals at the Venice Biennale and he invented the well-known Schiefspiegler telescope which is a modified Cassegrain reflector featuring superb optical definition due to an off-axis secondary mirror.

BarBara Luna

Notable roles included Five Weeks in a Balloon and Lt. Marlena Moreau in the classic Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror".

Ben-To

Their names sound identical but spelled with different kanji; the elder twin is named with the kanji for 'bellflower' while the younger twin is named with the kanji for 'mirror'.

Black cat bone

A variation of this method is also practiced on the Sea Islands, where the one bone that doesn't reflect in the mirror is believed to be magical.

Bloody Mary folklore in popular culture

A season four episode of American Dad! ("Office Spaceman") shows a drunk Roger in a public bathroom chanting in a mirror "Bloody Mary", he is interrupted by Stan.

Bobby Orlando

His music appears in numerous motion pictures, including: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Wigstock: The Movie, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Valley Girl, Dark Mirror, Flying, High Risk, Rappin, Underground and others.

Brewster Island

It was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1950, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Sir David Brewster, Scottish natural philosopher who in 1844 improved the mirror stereoscope invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone by substituting prisms.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Although the game's story diverges in several places and features a completely different protagonist, several levels mirror passages from Lovecraft's novella The Shadow over Innsmouth.

Canon EOS 20D

The main differences between the 20Da and 20D are the replacement of the "hot mirror" infra-red (IR) filter which covers the CMOS sensor on the 20D and live view mode.

Conway polyhedron notation

For example, geometric artist George W. Hart created an operation he called a propellor, and another reflect to create mirror images of the rotated forms.

Costas Evangelatos

Kimon Friar translated in English, when Evangelatos was in the States, some emotional poems of him from the collection Alea Prosomoion published under the title In the small mirror (2003) in Greece (APOPEIRA editions).

David Gelernter

He helped found the company Mirror Worlds Technologies, which in 2001 released Scopeware software using ideas from his 1992 book Mirror Worlds.

Doremi Labs

In 2004, Doremi and Texas Instruments (TI), manufacturer of DLP digital micro-mirror imaging devices (DMDs), demonstrated cinema quality digital playback using TI's new 2K DMDs and a V1 DVR at IBC.

Ethiopian Person of the Year

The word Yeroo means "Time" or "Times" in the Oromo language of Ethiopia and its style was to mirror the American TIME news magazine which also publishes its annual "Person of the Year" selections.

Eye movements in reading

In 1879, the French ophthalmologist Louis Émile Javal used a mirror on one side of a page to observe eye movement in silent reading, and found that it involves a succession of discontinuous individual movements for which he coined the term saccades.

Friday to Sunday

As John and Lenny sing the first verse, Justice Crew appear in a three-by-three grid, similar to the opening title sequence in The Brady Bunch, with each member except Emmanuel who is asleep, looking at themselves in the mirror.

Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb

He is surprised to find that the Nazis, below Istanbul, have uncovered the ruins of Belisarius' sunken city in search for the final piece of the Mirror.

Ivan Pnin

The titles of Pnin's best-known poems, Man (1804) and God (1805), mirror Derzhavin's on purpose, as he sought to refute the great poet's idealism by taking up the Deist stance of Radishchev, Volney, and d'Holbach.

Jonathan Raban

Frequently, Raban’s autobiographical accounts of journeys taken mirror transformations in his own life or the world at large: Old Glory takes place during the buildup to Ronald Reagan’s victory in the 1980 presidential election, Coasting as the Falklands War begins, and Passage to Juneau as the failure of the author’s marriage becomes apparent.

KV17

KV17 was damaged when Jean-François Champollion, translator of the Rosetta Stone, removed a wall panel of 2.26 x 1.05 m in a corridor with mirror-image scenes during his 1828-29 expedition.

La Haine

He sees himself as a gangster ready to win respect by killing a cop, manically practising the role of Travis Bickle from the film Taxi Driver in the mirror secretly.

London 2012 Olympic Torch

The London 2012 Paralympic Torch is the same design, albeit with a mirror-finish.

Loughrigg Tarn

Loughrigg Tarn was a favoured place of William Wordsworth, who, in his Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont Bart, likened it to “Diana’s Looking-glass...round clear and bright as heaven", a reference to Lake Nemi, the mirror of Diana in Rome.

Maple Leaf Bar

Poems about it can be found in books and chapbooks such as Mirror Wars and Shards, by Nancy Harris; Body and Soul and Rhythm & Booze, by Julie Kane; and The Everette Maddox Song Book, Bar Scotch and American Waste by Everette Maddox.

Mark Haysom

During this period Piers Morgan reported to him in what was the most successful period of his editorship of the Daily Mirror.

Mirror image

In geometry, the mirror image of an object or two-dimensional figure is the virtual image formed by reflection in a plane mirror; it is of the same size as the original object, yet different, unless the object or figure has reflection symmetry (also known as a P-symmetry).

Mirror Mirror: a history of the human love affair with reflection

Mirror Mirror: A history of the human love affair with reflection is a 2003 nonfiction book written by American investigative journalist Mark Pendergrast.

Mirror of Llunet

The Mirror of Llunet is an oracular pool of water and the object of a quest in Lloyd Alexander's fantasy series The Chronicles of Prydain.

Münchweiler an der Rodalb

The main building on the base was a mirror image of the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.

Murder Ain't What it Used to Be

His trademark cigar, white hat and raucous laughter is stereotypical of a Chicago gangster of the 1920s, and he appears in the mirror several times to taunt Jeannie as she is taking care of her appearance.

PerkinElmer

Due to a miscalibrated null corrector, the primary mirror was also found to have a significant spherical aberration after reaching orbit on STS-31.

Pew Research Center

In 1990, Donald S. Kellermann was named to serve as the first director of what was initially known as the Times Mirror Center.

Rebecca Horn

In 2005 the Hayward Gallery in London held a comprehensive Rebecca Horn retrospective; in conjunction with this exhibition, St Paul's Cathedral shoed show Horn's installation Moon Mirror.

Rhye's and Fall of Civilization

Rhye's and Fall of Civilization is set on Earth and is designed to mirror a historical Earth as closely as possible.

Roger Oakley

He's most recent theatre productions being The NightWatchman, Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker and The Golden Dragon, by contemporary German Playwright, Roland Schimmelpfennig.

Shintai

Famous shintai include the mirror, part of the Imperial Regalia of Japan, Mount Miwa, Mount Nantai, the Nachi Falls, and the Meoto Iwa rocks.

Sitall

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) selected Sitall for the manufacture of its 91 primary mirror segments by Lytkarino Optical Glass Factory (LZOS).

Skrappys

As a music venue, Skrappy's saw the rise of many Tucson native bands such as The Bled, Versus the Mirror, Blues, The American Black Lung, Line of Fire, The Mean Reds, Beyond the Citadel of Coup de Grace and many others.

Sora No Kagami

Sora No Kagami (Mirror of the Sky) is the 1997 debut album of singer-actress Takako Matsu.

Stéphane Mallat

Specifically, he collaborated with Yves Meyer to develop the Multiresolution Analysis (MRA) construction for compactly supported wavelets, which made the implementation of wavelets practical for engineering applications by demonstrating the equivalence of wavelet bases and conjugate mirror filters used in discrete, multirate filter banks in signal processing.

The Bloody Mary Show

The plot follows Bloody Mary played by Hollie Taylor, who is based on the American legendary ghost 'Bloody Mary' who when summoned by saying her name three times, appears in the mirror to reveal the future, although in the show the Bloody Mary character is less interested in archetypal ghostly haunting and more interested in helping people.

The Coolangatta Gold

In the men's race, Caine Eckstein would mirror the events of the original race and the movie, running past his brother Shannon Eckstein, and defeating much more recognised ironmen in Zane Holmes, Dean Mercer and Jeremy Cotter.

The Filth and the Fury

The title of The Daily Mirror article was itself inspired by William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury which was in turn taken from a line in Shakespeare's Macbeth

Timeline of Electronic Frontier Foundation actions

December 2010: Following the United States diplomatic cables leak, the EFF offered support to WikiLeaks, with John Perry Barlow saying the EFF was 'trying to make sure they have plenty of mirror sites, back-ups, we're organising donations for them and generally doing everything we can to see that Wikileaks is not assailable by the methods that have been used against it so far'.

Trumeau

Trumeau mirror, a wall mirror originally manufactured in France in the 18th century.

Ukrainians

"When Was the Ukrainian Nation Born", Zerkalo Nedeli (the Mirror Weekly), April 23 – May 6, 2005.

'We are more "Russian" then them', the History of Myths and Sensations, Zerkalo Nedeli (the Mirror Weekly), January 27 – February 2, 2001.

William Gordon Perrin

From 1922 until his death Perrin was honorary editor of the Mariner's Mirror and honorary secretary of both the Navy Records Society (since 1912 : it owes to him its revival after the War) and, by appointment of the Admiralty, to the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum and MacPherson Collection at Greenwich.


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