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The College Board's Advanced Placement Program is an extensive program that offers high school students the chance to participate in what the College Board describes as college-level classes, reportedly broadening students' intellectual horizons and preparing them for college work. It also plays a large part in the college admissions process ...
Big is an American picture book written and illustrated by Vashti Harrison. It was well received, winning the 2024 Caldecott Medal and a Coretta Scott King honor [2] for both its writing and illustrations. The book tells the story of a young black girl dealing with what it's like to be big.
A mirror image (in a plane mirror) is a reflected duplication of an object that appears almost identical, but is reversed in the direction perpendicular to the mirror surface. As an optical effect , it results from specular reflection off from surfaces of lustrous materials, especially a mirror or water .
The Cold War is over. And chaos is setting in. The new president of Russia is trying to create a democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian mafia, the right-wing nationalists, and those nefarious forces that will do whatever it takes to return Russia to the days of the Czar.
Therefore, the transparency is placed face up (toward the mirror and focusing lens), in contrast with a 35mm slide projector or film projector (which lack such a mirror) where the slide's image is non-reversed on the side opposite the focusing lens. A related invention for enlarging transparent images is the solar camera.
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 ...
Mirror Image is the 45th novel by Danielle Steel. It's about identical twins Victoria and Olivia Henderson, born in 1893. The novel is set during the First World War. [1] The book, considered historical fiction, was published by Delacorte on November 3, 1998. [1]
Piyush Goel (born 1967) also referred as Mirror Image Man [2] in the media, is an Indian writer, author, and world record holder, known for writing books in mirror image style. [1] [3] [4] [5] In 2012, he set the record by writing World's First Needle Book Madhushala of Harivansh Rai Bachchan by using needle in mirror image. [6]