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MIMIC

MIMIC, known in capitalized form only, is a former simulation computer language developed 1964 by H. E. Petersen, F. J. Sansom and L. M. Warshawsky of Systems Engineering Group within the Air Force Materiel Command at the Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, USA.


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Alice Dunning Lingard

Alice Dunning Lingard (July 29, 1847 - June 25, 1897) was an English actress who performed both in England and in the United States, and was the wife of mimic and comic William Lingard.

Allometric engineering

The fly Zonosemata vittigera has a banding pattern on its wings that was found to mimic movements of a jumping spider.

Boechera holboellii

The rust fungus Puccinia monoica infects the plant leading to pseudoflowers, which mimic those of yellow, early spring wildflowers (e.g. buttercups), not only in visible light but also in ultraviolet.

Bug Powder Dust

Burroughs' most famous work, Naked Lunch, made famous his cut-up style of composition, which, alongside the subject matter of his novels, sought to question reality, mimic the brutality of sensory overload in modern life, and reproduce the confusion of inner-logic smashed by drugs.

Cadaeic Cadenza

In addition to the main restriction, the author attempts to mimic portions, or entire works, of different types and pieces of literature (The Raven, Jabberwocky, the lyrics of Yes, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Rubaiyat, Hamlet, and Carl Sandburg's Grass) in story, structure, and rhyme.

Calling

Game call, a device that is used to mimic animal noises to attract or drive animals to a hunter

Combined sewer

Famous examples of sewer dwelling are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stephen King's It, Les Miserables, The Third Man, Ladyhawke, Mimic, The Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, and Jet Set Radio Future.

Deception in animals

Examples of Batesian mimicry are the several species of butterflies that mimic the toxic Heliconid butterflies.

Dioptis onega

It bears remarkable resemblance to its co-mimic Oleria onega.

Disguise

Also, the Clay Camel, one of Mandrake the Magician's foes is considered the Master of the Disguise, because he's able to mimic anyone and change his appearance in seconds.

Dudley Do-Right Emporium

The rotating statue of Bullwinkle holding Rocky was made to mimic the rotating statue of a Las Vegas showgirl on top of a giant billboard for the Stardust Hotel across Sunset Boulevard at the eastern side of the Sunset Strip.

Epicopeia

The species in this genus mimic butterflies of the agehana-group in the Papilio genus and Atrophaneura alcinous

Hello Kaun? Pehchaan Kaun

Every week eight artists are called upon to mimic well-known personalities (Johny Lever, Lal Krishna Advani, Manoj Kumar, Salman Khan etc.) and three best mimicry artists are chosen every week.

Henry Dalton

In 1893, African American surgeon Daniel Hale Williams would be the first on record to mimic Dalton's success and repaired the torn pericardium of a knife wound patient, James Cornish.

History of sign language

Sign language is composed of a system of conventional gestures, mimic, hand signs and finger spelling, plus the use of hand positions to represent the letters of the alphabet.

Hypolimnas dinarcha

The light morph may be a mimic of a day-flying moth, while the dark morph appears to be a mimic of Amauris vashti.

John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe

As a child in around 1775, he was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in a pose and costume which mimic the well-known portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger.

Labrisomus guppyi

Labrisomus guppyi, the Mimic blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea from south Florida to Fernando de Noronha where it inhabits such areas as reefs, near shore areas with rock or rubble covered in algae and beds of seagrass.

Lycopus

The plant's juice yields black dye, supposedly used by the Roma to tan their skin to mimic Egyptians in Europe, and hence the common name of Gypsywort for Lycopus europaeus.

Media Whores Online

Corresponding with Eric Alterman, MWO called its strategy "mimicking the tactics of the wingnuts," calling it an "easy" standard to uphold.

Microsoft Comic Chat

The algorithms used in Comic Chat attempted to mimic some basic illustration techniques of comic artists (particularly Jim Woodring).

Mike Christian

The duo tricked the hospital into releasing private medical information on the Duchess by using "bad accents" to mimic Queen Elizabeth II and the Prince of Wales in an attempt to talk with the Duchess.

Mimic 2

Mimic 2 is a 2001 science fiction horror film, directed by Jean de Segonzac, with a script inspired by a short story of the same name by Donald A. Wollheim.

Mimic 3: Sentinel

Mimic 3: Sentinel stars horror film veteran Lance Henriksen and takes a departure from the tone of the first two films, as it has a feel similar to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window rather than the action/horror tone of its predecessors.

Mirror neuron

However, if premotor neurons need to be trained by action in order to acquire mirror properties, it is unclear how newborn babies are able to mimic the facial gestures of another person (imitation of unseen actions), as suggested by the work of Meltzoff and Moore.

Natural language understanding

For example, Wayne Ratliff originally developed the Vulcan program with an English-like syntax to mimic the English speaking computer in Star Trek.

Parrotfish

Juveniles of some tropical species can alter their color temporarily to mimic other species.

Pseudacraea poggei

Adults mimic Danaus chrysippus and have a similar flight pattern, but it is slightly faster.

Regular expression

Starting in 1997, Philip Hazel developed PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions), which attempts to closely mimic Perl's regular expression functionality and is used by many modern tools including PHP and Apache HTTP Server.

Rowan Mayfair

Maybe even the most powerful as her abilities mimic those of the Mayfair's spirit Lasher, abilities which no other prior to her could wield without his aid.

Selters

Artificial "selters waters" with added minerals have been created to make competition, thus helping to establish the fame of the original water as an international reference of soda water, e.g. by Torbern Bergman who made thorough analyses of mineral waters and in 1775 presented how to make carbonated water to mimic genuine mineral waters.

Sonic black hole

The fact that so many systems mimic gravity is sometimes used as evidence for the theory of emergent gravity, which could help reconcile relativity and quantum mechanics.

Talking bird

Hill Mynahs (tropical members of the starling family of birds) are renowned for their ability to mimic the human voice.

Birds have varying degrees of talking ability: some, like the corvids, are able to mimic only a few words and phrases, while some budgerigars have been observed to have a vocabulary of almost 2,000 words.

The King of Rock 'n' Roll

Producer Thomas Dolby added a synth bass in the verses to mimic the sound of a bullfrog, tying them into the chorus.

The Quiet Life

“I wasn’t attempting to mimic anything, but instead of writing songs in the same vein as the last record I felt like the whole joy of being in your own project is to pursue your passion,” Christian says, citing groups like Empire of the Sun and M83.

The Voice in the Night

Weird fungi in the shape of animals or humans are a recurring theme in Hodgson's stories and novels; for example, in the novel The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" the survivors of a shipwreck come across tree-like plants that mimic (or, perhaps, have absorbed) birds and people.

Timimus

The generic name means "Tim's Mimic" and combines the name of both the discoverers' son Timothy Rich and palaeontologist Tim Flannery with a Latin mimus, "mimic", a reference to the presumed affinity of the species with the Ornithomimosauria.

Tucker, Utah

This rest area, which is designed to mimic an early 1900s era train depot and roundhouse, was voted one of the most beautiful buildings in Utah in a contest sponsored by the American Institute of Architects.

Tulip to Life

It is made from sections of sheeted stainless steel, overlapped and bolted together using brass bolts and acorn nuts, supported by rib-like structures on the underside, and curled to mimic the organic shape of a leaf.

Video game controversies

Contrary to certain rumors, however, neither student had made a Doom level mimicking the school's layout and there is no evidence the pair practiced the massacre in Doom.

Wagyu

Designed to mimic the diet that Japanese cattle were receiving, Wagyu cattle in the United States are fed a mixture of corn, alfalfa, barley and wheat straw.

Who Said

Chris William of Entertainment Weekly described "Who Said"'s style as a simultaneous mimic of the styles of Avril Lavigne, Ashlee Simpson, and Britney Spears, which he felt contracted its lyrical theme.

XGAM-71 Buck Duck

To mimic the radar cross-section of the B-36, it carried radar reflectors.


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