A mirror is a surface with good specular reflection that is smooth enough to form an image. The best known example is the plane mirror. The most common use is in the home for personal grooming but mirrors are also used in scientific apparatus such as telescopes and lasers, and in industrial machinery. Mirror - Effect. In a plane mirror, a parallel beam of light changes its direction as a whole, whilst still remaining parallel; the images formed by a plane mirror are virtual images, of the same size a ...

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• Mirror - Effect
• Mirror - Image in a mirror
• Mirror - Composition
• Mirror - Applications
• Mirror - Viewing one's own body
• Mirror - Instruments
• Mirror - Safety and easier viewing
• Mirror - One-way mirror
• Mirror - Decoration
• Mirror - Signaling
• Mirror - Entertainment
• Mirror - Mirrors in literature

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Mirror, Mirror - Effect, Mirror - Image in a mirror, Mirror - Composition, Mirror - Applications, Mirror - Viewing one's own body, Mirror - Instruments, Mirror - Safety and easier viewing, Mirror - One-way mirror, Mirror - Decoration, Mirror - Signaling, Mirror - Entertainment, Mirror - Mirrors in literature

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The Sunday Mirror is a Sunday newspaper with the same ownership as and a similar style to The Daily Mirror. The current editor is Tina Weaver. ...

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The Daily Mirror, The Daily Mirror - Early years, The Daily Mirror - The Mirror transformed, The Daily Mirror - Toppled by Murdoch, The Daily Mirror - The Mirror today, The Daily Mirror - The Sunday Mirror, The Daily Mirror - Fake abuse photos

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Mirror - Viewing one's own body. A mirror is used for inspecting parts of one's body which are difficult or impossible to see directly, such as the face, neck or the whole body. This may be to check physical appearance (including clothing, make-up, hair, etc.) or to control applying make-up, shaving, cutting hair, fixing one's tie, etc. Mirror - Instruments. Telescopes and other precision instruments use front silvered mirrors, where the reflecting surface is placed on t ...

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Mirror, Mirror - Effect, Mirror - Image in a mirror, Mirror - Composition, Mirror - Applications, Mirror - Viewing one's own body, Mirror - Instruments, Mirror - Safety and easier viewing, Mirror - One-way mirror, Mirror - Decoration, Mirror - Signaling, Mirror - Entertainment, Mirror - Mirrors in literature

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A cold mirror is a specialized dielectric mirror, a dichromatic interference filter that operates over a very wide temperature range to reflect the entire visible light spectrum while very efficiently transmitting infrared wavelengths. Similar to hot mirrors, cold mirrors can be designed for an incidence angle ranging between zero and 45 degrees, and are constructed with multi-layer dielectric coatings, in a manner similar to interference filters. Cold mirrors can be employed as dichromatic beamsplitters with laser systems to reflect visi ...

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The insights we attain come through the heart. Perhaps the intellect can be a vehicle for enlightenment, but for me and millions of others, the pathway through the heart is the most healing and beautiful way to learn and grow. Relationships with friends and family are filled with learning opportunities. They come in many forms, and could be intellectually discussed for many hours, though there is only one true lesson to learn. We learn to give service unselfishly to our partners or friends and others who may knock on our doors.

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Whatever else you say about emotions and feelings, you have to admit that you just "wouldn't be your self" (little 's') without your own, familiar feelings. That's why we think we're going crazy or becoming "possessed" when unfamiliar or "out of character" emotions or reactions show up in our lives. However, there is another, more positive way to look at these disturbing occurrences. Remember that anything that feels like it isn't "you" must be a part of your shadow, and when parts of your shadow start to show up in your "self's" experience, this is HEALING.

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The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid daily newspaper. For a period during the 1990s it was renamed The Mirror, but reverted to its original name in 2002. The Daily Mirror - Early years. The Daily Mirror was launched on November 2, 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) as a newspaper for women, run by women. It was not a success, and in 1904 he decided to turn it into a pictorial newspaper, firing the women journalists and appointing Hamilton Fyfe as ed ...

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• The Daily Mirror - Early years
• The Daily Mirror - The Mirror transformed
• The Daily Mirror - Toppled by Murdoch
• The Daily Mirror - The Mirror today
• The Daily Mirror - The Sunday Mirror
• The Daily Mirror - Fake abuse photos

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Kaleidoscope - Definition. The kaleidoscope is a tube of mirrors containing loose coloured beads or pebbles, or other small coloured objects. The viewer looks in one end and light enters the other end, reflecting off the mirrors. Typically there are two rectangular lengthways mirrors. Setting of the mirrors at 45 degrees creates eight duplicate images of the objects, six at 60 degrees, and four at 90 degrees. As the tube is rotated, the tumbling of the coloured objects presents the viewer with varyin ...

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• Kaleidoscope - History
• Kaleidoscope - Background

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There is a strong tradition of amateur telescope making within the amateur astronomy community. The classic amateur telescope is the Newtonian reflector with a dobsonian type mount, also known as a "Dobsonian telescope." Some also build refractors and a very few attempt compound designs such as the Maksutov telescope. Amateur telescope makers typically make the most critical parts of ...

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• Amateur telescope making - Telescope design
• Amateur telescope making - Mirror making
• Amateur telescope making - Grinding
• Amateur telescope making - Polishing
• Amateur telescope making - Mirror testing
• Amateur telescope making - Figuring the mirror
• Amateur telescope making - Aluminizing or silvering the mirror
• Amateur telescope making - Telescope construction
• Amateur telescope making - Tube
• Amateur telescope making - Mount
• Amateur telescope making - Telescope making books and other published information

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Boustrophedon is an ancient way of writing manuscripts and other inscriptions in which, rather than going from left to right as in modern English, or right to left as in Arabic, alternate lines must be read in opposite directions. The name is borrowed from the Greek language. Its etymology is from βους, "ox" + στρεφειν, "to turn" (cf. the etymology of strophe), because the hand of the writer goes back and forth, so that the resulting inscription resembles the path of an ox that draws a plow across a field and turns at the end of e ...

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This article is about the Star Trek race. For the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Cardassians", see Cardassians (DS9 episode).. Cardassians, a spacefaring race in the fictional Star Trek universe, and the Cardassian Union were introduced in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Wounded". Cardassians were one of the main parts of the storyline in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The Cardassian homeworld is Cardassia Prime in the Alpha Quadrant. Cardas ...

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• Cardassian - Culture
• Cardassian - Technology
• Cardassian - History
• Cardassian - Pre-Dominion membership
• Cardassian - Dominion membership
• Cardassian - Opposition to the Dominion
• Cardassian - Mirror universe Cardassians

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Trinity Mirror is based at One Canada Square — the focal building in London's Canary Wharf development. In 1978, the paper announced its support for a United Ireland. During the 1990s the paper was accused of dumbing-down in an attempt to poach readers from Rupert Murdoch's Sun, although judging by their relative sales figures this was unsuccessful. Also in 2002 the Mirror changed its logo from red to black (attempting to dissociate the paper from the term "red top", meaning a sensationalist mass-market tabloid, ...

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The Daily Mirror, The Daily Mirror - Early years, The Daily Mirror - The Mirror transformed, The Daily Mirror - Toppled by Murdoch, The Daily Mirror - The Mirror today, The Daily Mirror - The Sunday Mirror, The Daily Mirror - Fake abuse photos

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With Cecil King (Rothermere's nephew) in charge of the paper's business side and Guy Bartholomew in charge of the editorial side, the Mirror in the late 1930s transformed itself from a gently declining, respectable, right-wing, middle-class newspaper into a sensationalist left-wing paper for the working class that was a runaway business success. The Mirror was the first UK paper to adopt the appearance of the New York tabloids and the only popular paper to campaign consistently against the appeasement o ...

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The Daily Mirror, The Daily Mirror - Early years, The Daily Mirror - The Mirror transformed, The Daily Mirror - Toppled by Murdoch, The Daily Mirror - The Mirror today, The Daily Mirror - The Sunday Mirror, The Daily Mirror - Fake abuse photos

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Laser cavity end mirrors need very precise alignment. Due to their low divergence laser beams need precise steering mirrors. For rapid prototyping on a optical table mirror mounts can be used to hold other elements besides mirrors, for example lenses often need to be aligned for minimal coma. Sometimes prisms only need two axes alignment and can be mounted on a mirror mount rather than a three-axis prism table. Critical phase matched crystals can be aligned and tuned precisely with a standard mirror mount. The same is true for small e ...

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Mirror mount, Mirror mount - Types of mirror mount, Mirror mount - Operation, Mirror mount - Applications, Mirror mount - Related devices

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The most common type of mirror mount is the kinematic mount. This type of mount is designed according to the principles of kinematic determinacy. Typically, the movable frame that holds the mirror pivots on a ball bearing which is set into a hole in the fixed frame. Ideally this hole should be trihedral (pyramid-shaped). Often a conical hole is used due to easier manufacture. The frame is pivoted by means of two micrometers or fine-thread screws, tipped with steel ball bearings. One of these ball bearings rests in a V-groove, the other rests ...

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Mirror mount, Mirror mount - Types of mirror mount, Mirror mount - Operation, Mirror mount - Applications, Mirror mount - Related devices

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Mirroring is a common function found in enterprise storage and RAID devices. In particular, RAID 1 is a disk mirroring scheme. It is differentiated from a snapshot in that there are no remaining links between the original (or source) and the copy (or mirror). ...

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Disk mirror, Disk mirror - Explanation, Disk mirror - Other benefits of mirroring, Disk mirror - Other schemes

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In addition to providing an additional copy of the data for the purpose of redundancy in case of hardware failure, disk mirroring can allow each disk to be accessed separately for reading purposes. This effectively doubles the speed of disk read access (halves the seek time). This is an important consideration in hardware configurations that frequently access the data on the disk. The mirror disk can also be split off and used for data backup, allowing the first disk to remain active. However me ...

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Disk mirror, Disk mirror - Explanation, Disk mirror - Other benefits of mirroring, Disk mirror - Other schemes

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Trinity Mirror claims that over the course of one week around 20 million people read at least one Trinity Mirror newspaper - 42 per cent of the adult UK population. Titles it owns, some via its subsidiary 'Mirror Group Newspapers' include: Barking & Dagenham Yellow Advertiser Bexley Mercury Birmingham Post / Birmingham Mail / Sunday Mercury / The Birmingham News Bracknell News Brent & Wembley Leader Coventry Evening Te ...

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Trinity Mirror, Trinity Mirror - Titles, Trinity Mirror - Subsiduaries

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There has been much speculation about the evolution of mirror neurons, and in particular their relationship to the evolution of language. While mirror neurons are present in macaque monkeys, these monkeys do not imitate each other's behaviour, so it seems unlikely that mirror neurons evolved for imitation learning. Instead, they may allow the monkey to understand what another monkey is doing, or to recognise the other monkey's action. In humans, mirror neurons are found in the inferior frontal cortex, close to Broca's area, a language ...

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Mirror neuron, Mirror neuron - Introduction, Mirror neuron - Who discovered them?, Mirror neuron - Evolution, Mirror neuron - Technological, Mirror neuron - References:

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