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A house of mirrors or hall of mirrors is a traditional attraction at funfairs (carnivals) and amusement parks. The basic concept behind a house of mirrors is to be a maze-like puzzle (made out of a myriad of mirrors). [1] In addition to the maze, participants are also given mirrors as obstacles, and glass panes to parts of the maze they cannot ...
Another mirror from Petén, found at Topoxte, has a circular band of text on the back that includes the phrase u-nen, meaning "his mirror". [28] Mirrors with Maya glyphs on the back have been found as far away as Costa Rica, more than 850 kilometres (530 mi) from the Maya heartland. [24]
Hall of Mirrors, a hall in Golestan Palace; House of mirrors or hall of mirrors, a room full of mirrors often found as an attraction at carnivals or amusement parks; Ossian's Hall of Mirrors, a shrine and view-house in Scotland. Bonnington Pavilion, the ruines hall of mirrors at Corra Linn, Lanark.
from Spanish chocolate, from Nahuatl xocolatl meaning "hot water" or from a combination of the Mayan word chocol meaning "hot" and the Nahuatl word atl meaning "water." Choctaw from the native name Chahta of unknown meaning but also said to come from Spanish chato (="flattened") because of the tribe's custom of flattening the heads of male infants.
The Hall of Mirrors is flanked at the far ends by the Salon of War (Salon de la guerre) in the north and the Salon of Peace (Salon de la paix) in the south, respectively. The Hall of Mirrors connects to the two salons, which were assigned to and incorporated into the king's apartments in the north and the queen's apartments in the south.
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The mirrors, referred to as "girandoles" or "girandole mirrors", have projecting curved arms for holding candles and were designed to created a pleasantly distorted reflections of the rooms they were in. [31] These became popular in the Federal period (1790 to 1830) in the United States, where the mirrors were often topped with an eagle finial.
According to Chicano artist and writer José Antonio Burciaga: . Caló originally defined the Spanish gypsy dialect. But Chicano Caló is the combination of a few basic influences: Hispanicized English; Anglicized Spanish; and the use of archaic 15th-century Spanish words such as truje for traje (brought, past tense of verb 'to bring'), or haiga, for haya (from haber, to have).