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Mirror sites are often located in a different geographic region than the original, or upstream site. The purpose of mirrors is to reduce network traffic , improve access speed , ensure availability of the original site for technical [ 2 ] or political reasons, [ 3 ] or provide a real-time backup of the original site.
Scribd Inc. (pronounced / ˈ s k r ɪ b d /) operates three primary platforms: Scribd, Everand, and SlideShare. Scribd is a digital document library that hosts over 195 million documents. Everand is a digital content subscription service offering a wide selection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and sheet music.
Alexandra Elbakyan at a conference at Harvard (2010). Sci-Hub was created by Alexandra Elbakyan, who was born in Kazakhstan in 1988. [22] Elbakyan earned her undergraduate degree at Kazakh National Technical University [23] studying information technology, then worked for a year for a computer security firm in Moscow, then joined a research team at the University of Freiburg in Germany in 2010 ...
scrcpy (short for "screen copy") is a free and open-source screen mirroring application that allows control of an Android device from a desktop computer. [2] The software is developed by Genymobile SAS, a company which develops Android emulator Genymotion.
Vertical axis mirror ambigrams find clever applications in mirror writing (or specular writing), that is formed by writing in the direction that is the reverse of the natural way for a given language, such that the result is the mirror image of normal writing: it appears normal when it is reflected in a mirror. For example, the word "ambulance ...
In September 1969, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA, Paris, France) awarded N. Kozyrev a nominal gold medal "For remarkable telescopic and spectral observations of luminescent phenomena on the Moon, showing that the Moon remains a still active body, and stimulating development of the methods of luminescent researches world wide."
If the game was pre-ordered at certain retailers, buyers could gain access to a time trial portion of the demo and get a Mirror's Edge T-shirt by Fenchurch. [31] [32] Mirror's Edge was first released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles in North America on November 11, 2008, [23] followed by a European release on November 14, 2008. [31]
Meyer Howard Abrams (July 23, 1912 – April 21, 2015), usually cited as M. H. Abrams, was an American literary critic, known for works on romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp. Under Abrams's editorship, The Norton Anthology of English Literature became the standard text for undergraduate survey courses across the U.S ...