" Mirrors to Japanese History ", Archeology 51. 3.

* G. J. Toomer, " Diocles On Burning Mirrors ", Sources in the History of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences 1 ( New York, 1976 ).

Fantasy / horror author Neil Gaiman uses the " Larry Talbot " character in two selections from his short story collection Smoke and Mirrors.

* Piano Sonata No. 4, Mirrors, Fantasy Variations ( Albany )

In They Do It with Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is revealed that, in her distant youth, Miss Marple spent time in Europe at a finishing school.

In They Do It With Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is mentioned that Miss Marple grew up in a cathedral close, and that she studied at an Italian finishing school with Americans Ruth Van Rydock and Caroline " Carrie " Louise Serrocold.

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

Coldcut returned with the single " Everything Is Under Control " at the end of 2005, followed in 2006 by their fifth studio album Sound Mirrors.

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

These include Gérard Pirès ( Riders, 2002 ), Pitof ( Catwoman, 2004 ), Jean-François Richet ( Assault on Precinct 13, 2005 ), Florent Emilio Siri ( Hostage, 2005 ), Christophe Gans ( Silent Hill, 2006 ), Mathieu Kassovitz ( Babylon A. D., 2008 ), Louis Leterrier ( The Transporter, 2002 ; Transporter 2, 2005 ; Olivier Megaton directed Transporter 3, 2008 ), Alexandre Aja ( Mirrors, 2008 ), and Pierre Morel ( Taken, 2009 ).

During the Siege of Paris on 18 January 1871, King Wilhelm I of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.

On 18 January 1871, the German Empire is proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles.

During the Siege of Paris, the German princes assembled in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles and proclaimed the Prussian King Wilhelm I as the " German Emperor " on 18 January 1871.

A Parade of Mirrors and Reflections, a novella by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, centers on the cloning of deceased Soviet premier Yuri Andropov.

* The line " bloody, but unbowed " was the Daily Mirrors headline the day after the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

* Charles R. Cross, Room Full Of Mirrors: A Biography Of Jimi Hendrix, 2005: ISBN 1-4013-0028-6

* 1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles ( France ) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War.

Michael A. Levine composed Divination By Mirrors for musical saw soloist and two string ensembles tuned a quarter tone apart, taking advantage of the saws ability to play in both tunings.

Mirrors are commonly used for personal grooming or admiring oneself ( in which case the archaic term looking-glass is sometimes still used ), decoration, and architecture.

Mirrors are also used in scientific apparatus such as telescopes and lasers, cameras, and industrial machinery.

Mirrors of polished copper were crafted in Mesopotamia from 4000 BC, and in ancient Egypt from around 3000 BC.

Mirrors made of other metal mixtures ( alloys ) such as copper and tin speculum metal may have also been produced in China and India.

Mirrors of speculum metal or any precious metal were hard to produce and were only owned by the wealthy.

Parabolic mirrors were described and studied in classical antiquity by the mathematician Diocles in his work On Burning Mirrors.

Mirrors are manufactured by applying a reflective coating to a suitable substrate.

Mirrors can also be used for rescue to attract the attention of search and rescue helicopters.

Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past.

* Launius, Roger D. "' We Can Lick Gravity, but Sometimes the Paperwork Is Overwhelming ': NASA, Oral History, and the Contemporary Past.

* Windshuttle, Keith ( 1996 ) The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past.

China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture ( Stanford University Press, 1995 ).

* Patrick Manning, Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past ( 2003 )

Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past ( 2003 ), an important guide to the entire field excerpt and text search ; online review

Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present.

* Forbes, Andrew, and Henley, David: Vietnam Past and Present: The North ( History of French colonialism in Tonkin ).

* Wood, W. Kirk, “ History and Recovery of the Past: John C. Calhoun and the Origins of Nullification in South Carolina, 1819 – 1828 ,” Southern Studies, 16 ( Spring – Summer 2009 ), 46 – 68.

A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England: Voices from Past and Present.

A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England: Voices from Past and Present.

" Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies.

One of his Future History stories, it originally appeared in Blue Book in December 1949 and was reprinted in his collection, The Green Hills of Earth ( and subsequently The Past Through Tomorrow ).

One of his Future History stories, it was first published in The Saturday Evening Post in the July 26, 1947 issue and later reprinted in The Green Hills of Earth ( and subsequently The Past Through Tomorrow )..

Part of his Future History series, it originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction ( March 1941 ), and was collected in The Green Hills of Earth ( and subsequently The Past Through Tomorrow ).

One of the earliest of his Future History stories, it was later included in the collections Revolt in 2100 and The Past Through Tomorrow.

Included as part of his Future History, it originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, January 10, 1948, and was collected in The Green Hills of Earth ( and subsequently The Past Through Tomorrow ).

One of his Future History stories, the short story originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post ( February 8, 1947 ), and it was collected in The Green Hills of Earth ( and subsequently in The Past Through Tomorrow ).

One of his Future History stories, it was first published in Astounding Science Fiction ( July 1941 as by Anson MacDonald ) and collected in The Green Hills of Earth ( and subsequently The Past Through Tomorrow ).

* Decoding the Past: Relics of the Passion, 2005 History Channel video documentary

* 2005 For the Love of History: Winners of the Pierre Berton Award Bring to Life Canada's Past

China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture.

" Revolution and Its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History ( Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall ), 2006, 162-180.

Aviezer Tucker has offered a range of criticism of this approach to the study of the past both in his review of Ferguson's Virtual History in History and Theory and in his book ‪ Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography ‬.