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"Water mirror" glyph used in Aztec script. Water mirror may refer to: Water-based specular reflection. Reflecting pool, a shallow pool of water with a reflective surface, undisturbed by fountain jets Miroir d'eau, a reflecting pool located on the quay of the Garonne in front of the Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
The Miroir d'eau (Water mirror) on Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux, France. The Mughal garden reflecting pools at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India; Chehel Sotoun in Iran; The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and Capitol Reflecting Pool, in Washington, D.C. Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones Reflection Pool, Hermann Park, Houston, Texas, U.S.
A mirror reflecting the image of a vase A first-surface mirror coated with aluminium and enhanced with dielectric coatings. The angle of the incident light (represented by both the light in the mirror and the shadow behind it) exactly matches the angle of reflection (the reflected light shining on the table). 4.5-metre (15 ft)-tall acoustic mirror near Kilnsea Grange, East Yorkshire, UK, from ...
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The c. 1195 CE Mizukagami 水鏡 "Water Mirror", which is a collection of historical tales, confabulates the Nihongi legends about the tide jewels and Jingū conquering the Koreans. [15] This text uses some different names, Sāgara 沙竭羅 (one of the 8 Dragon Kings) for the Sea God, and Koryo 句麗 or Koma 蓋馬 for the Korean kingdom ...
from Hindi and Urdu panch پانچ, meaning "five". The drink was originally made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices. [15] [16] The original drink was named paantsch. Pundit from पण्डित Pandit, meaning a learned scholar or Priest. Pukka (UK slang: "genuine") from Pakkā पक्का, پکا ...
There are numerous Chinese names for the fire-producing "sun-mirror" and water-producing "moon-mirror". These two bronze implements are literary metaphors for yin and yang, associating the "yang-mirror" yangsui with the Sun (a.k.a. tàiyáng 太陽 "great yang"), fire, dry, and round, and the "yin-mirror" fangshu with the Moon (tàiyīn 太陰 "great yin"), water, wet, and square.
The Miroir d'eau in Bordeaux. The Miroir d'eau (Water Mirror) in Bordeaux is a reflecting pool covering 3,450 square metres (37,100 sq ft). Located on the quay of the Garonne in front of the Place de la Bourse, it was built in 2006.