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 Mirage Speakers
Mirage loudspeakers are designed and manufactured by Audio Products International Corp. Founded in 1972, API is the third largest loudspeaker manufacturer in North America and one of the top ten largest speaker manufacturers in the world.
Mirage technology leadership has resulted in continuous growth year after year in a time when many speaker brands have faltered and eventually disappeared.
Mirage remains at the forefront of speaker design by continuing to re-invest in research and development to keep pace with changing market needs.
miragespeakers.com /api.shtml   (454 words)

  
 MIRAGE: Megacities Impacts on Regional and Global Environment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The goal of the MIRAGE program is to characterize the chemical/physical transformations and the ultimate fate of pollutants exported from urban areas, and to assess the current and future impacts of these exported pollutants on regional and global air quality, ecosystems, and climate.
MIRAGE is part of MILAGRO, a larger set of coordinated field campaigns that together enable investigation of megacity outflow chemistry on a variety of scales.
MIRAGE is a project of the Atmospheric Chemistry Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research
mirage-mex.acd.ucar.edu   (202 words)

  
 Mirage
Mirages are, in fact, a kind of optical illusion where the natural and reasonable assumptions of the visual sense are led astray, in this case by the curvature of light rays, which are so often straight lines from the object seen to the eye, as the eye always assumes, but here are not.
Mirages have been studied scientifically for a long while, and the literature is immense (although, unfortunately, inaccessible at the present time and place).
Mirages were well-known to the ancients, and this was the haunt of Scylla and Charybdis, malevolent haunters of the Straits who caused dangerous tidal currents there.
www.du.edu /~jcalvert/astro/mirage.htm   (4543 words)

  
 Weather Elements: The Inferior Mirage: Not Just For Deserts Anymore
Mirages are now known to be more common sights than most people believed a century ago, perhaps because of increasing human alteration of the landscape which favours their formation.
The inferior mirage forms when light rays passing through a relatively warm layer of air are bent upward from their path.
Inferior mirages may also form over heated vertical surfaces such as a rock face or wall, giving a surreal view of the surroundings appearing over this surface, including the "pool of water" illusion clinging to a vertical surface.
www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/elements/infmrge.htm   (1615 words)

  
 Air Force Technology - Mirage 2000 - Multi-role Combat Fighter
Mirage 2000 is a multi-role combat fighter from Dassault Aviation of France.
Mirage 2000 is also equipped to carry a range of air-to-surface missiles and weapons including laser-guided bombs.
Mirage 2000-5 is equipped with a multi-mode Thales RDY doppler radar which provides multi-targeting capability in the air defence role and the radar also has look down / shoot down mode of operation.
www.airforce-technology.com /projects/mirage   (997 words)

  
 Weather Elements: Mirages: A Primer
The terms inferior and superior are not commentaries on their quality of the mirage's appearance but refer to the perceived position of the image relative to the actual location of the object.
Mirages form when light rays emitted from a source or reflected off an object are bent as the path of the light ray crosses air layers of different densities.
Mirages are confined to small viewing angles even when they appear large, about half a degree in width -- the size of the solar disk -- and most portray objects located from half a kilometre to about five kilometres (about a quarter mile to three miles).
www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/elements/mirage1.htm   (2465 words)

  
 The UnMuseum - Mirages
Though we associate mirages with the illusion of distant water in a desert, the phantom oasis is actually just the simplest example of this bizarre effect.
Mirages in the sky may also be the source of many UFO reports.
Since the properties of the mirage change with the movement of the air masses, objects in the mirage may twinkle, jump around, seem to speed away or disappear.
www.unmuseum.mus.pa.us /mirage.htm   (1172 words)

  
 France Nuclear Forces
Mirage IV Developed in the wake of the Suez crisis (1956), the Mirage IV is a two-seater, twin-engine supersonic bomber having an effective range of up to 4,500 km with in-flight refueling.
The exterior similarity between this strategic bomber and the Mirage III is noteworthy, in particular the wing design, which is of the delta-type in the Mirage tradition.
In June 1964, it was decided to order 12 additional Mirage IV-A having in addition the strategic capacity; this was explained by the fact that the force Mirage IV was to remain in service at least until 1975, and that had consequently to be compensated for attrition.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/france/bomber/mirage-4.htm   (572 words)

  
 Mirage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The principal physical cause of a mirage, however, is refraction and not reflection.
A highway mirage (asphalt mirage, hot road mirage or road mirage) is an inferior mirage seen on hot roadways on sunny days.
Superior mirages are most common in polar regions, especially over large sheets of ice with an uniform low temperature.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mirage   (1437 words)

  
 Mirage (Transformers) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mirage was absent from the events of 2005 and 2006 without explanation; however, a storyboarded scene from Transformers: The Movie featuring Mirage was cut from the finished film, in which, amidst the transformation of Autobot City, Mirage ambushed the Insecticon Bombshell, and was then fired upon by Megatron.
Mirage made his debut with the rest of the Spychangers rescuing a plutonium generator from the clutches of the Predacons.
Mirage was brought to the Speed Planet under the protection of Hot Shot, where he quickly overcome his sadness at his separation from Downshift and Dirt Boss when he discovered the planet's perfect raceways.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mirage_(Transformers)   (3485 words)

  
 Mirage Speakers
OM Mirage integrates proprietary technologies, highest quality materials and beautiful finishes to guarantee that there is a Mirage speaker that will appeal to your tastes and fit your needs.
Mirage speakers can be the centerpiece and most beautiful furniture in the room, like the beautiful flagship OM-5, or, if you prefer, practically invisible, like the in-wall HDT-WM1.
Mirage speakers can easily be integrated virtually anywhere while maintaining optimum performance, providing instant entertainment in the family room, the kitchen, the bedroom, and even outdoors in the garden or patio.
www.miragespeakers.com /products.shtml   (108 words)

  
 Mirage
Only 3 Mirages were built and all are visible in this shot.
The second Mirage M.10002 clearly showing the narrow roof-line compared to that of a standard GT40.
Mirage M.10001 at the Nürburgring 1000km in 1967.
www.gt40.org.uk /Gallery/Mirage.htm   (209 words)

  
 Bauhaus Software Mirage Studio
Mirage is a powerful, creative environment for the production of 2D animation and special effects.
Mirage provides the same levels of control in the digital domain that artists are accustomed to with physical media.
Mirage also makes it easy to combine styles – cel animation on one layer, rotoscoped video on another, and cut-out animation on a third.
www.bauhaussoftware.com /products_mirage_studio.php   (591 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mirage: Music: Fleetwood Mac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
MIRAGE was also Stevie Nicks' first album with the band after releasing her Multi-Platinum solo debut, 1981's BELLA DONNA.
Impressively, Nicks' supplies MIRAGE with three of her best-written offerings, proving that her loyalty to the band was as strong as ever.
"Mirage" was the first FM album to be released after the exprimental "Tusk" and listening to this album you can clearly hear that the band still expriments with diffrent styles but tries to go back to the more accesable radio friendly pop music they did with "Fleetwood Mac" and the legendary "Rumours".
www.amazon.com /Mirage-Fleetwood-Mac/dp/B000002KXO   (2746 words)

  
 YOJOE.COM | Mirage
Mirage was released as part of the eighteenth series (2002), carded in a two-pack with Cobra Viper (v6).
Mirage came with a fl rifle, a silver rifle, a fl knife, a clear visor, and a fl figure stand.
Mirage was also available loose with the carded two-pack of Sure Fire (v2) and Slice (v4) as a K-Mart Exclusive Bonus Pack.
www.yojoe.com /action/02/mirage2.shtml   (168 words)

  
 Mirages and Green Flashes
Mirages are distinguished from other refraction phenomena such as looming (visibility of distant objects usually hidden below the apparent horizon), towering (exaggerated vertical size of images), sinking (disappearance below the horizon of objects usually seen), and stooping (images squashed together vertically), in which an object may appear distorted, but not inverted.
Nevertheless, it is so useful to regard the classical inferior and superior mirages as approximately due to internal reflection that we cannot avoid considering that point of view — but with the caveat that certain subtle phenomena, which turn out to be essential for green flashes, are not explained by the “reflection” approach.
Although many textbooks treat only what I might call the “classical” mirages — namely, the inferior and superior mirages — which are roughly describable in terms of total internal reflection of rays incident on a less-dense layer of air from a denser one, green flashes show that other mirage-like phenomena are equally important.
mintaka.sdsu.edu /GF/mirages/mirintro.html   (4907 words)

  
 MIRAGE 2000 (DASSAULT-BREGUET)
The Mirage 2000 is very similar to the Mirage III/5 and 50, though it is not a variant of the Mirage III/5 or 50 but an entirely new aircraft with advanced interceptor controls.
The Mirage 2000 D, derived from the Mirage 2000N operated by the French Air Force, is a two-seater air-to-ground attack aircraft.
The Mirage 2000 D geometrical characteristics and the main performance data are the same as those of the Mirage 2000-5.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/mirage-2000.htm   (837 words)

  
 Mirage - Magic: The Gathering
The four decks were created in four different ways: there was an online tournament (won by Markus Pettersson) for the right to create the first one; then Jay Moldenhauer-Salazar made one with the help of his readers.
The Mirage expansion, originally released in 1996, is a limited, 350 all-new, fl-bordered card set featuring 110 rares, 110 uncommons, 110 commons and 20 basic lands.
Mirage introduced two new abilities to the world of Magic: the Gathering: Phasing and Flanking.
www.wizards.com /magic/expert/Mirage/Mirage.asp   (249 words)

  
 Mirage Race and Sports Book Las Vegas Nevada - VEGAS.com
When it debuted in 1989, the Mirage was the first major hotel-casino to open in Las Vegas since the early 1970s, and an appropriate amount of fanfare greeted its arrival.
The Mirage offers betting lines and totals on WNBA games and is the only property in Las Vegas to hang numbers on every game in the NCAA women's basketball tournament -- including early round games.
Early in 2001, the Mirage caused some consternation among local gamblers when it announced it would carry a 20-cent line on baseball games, as opposed to the traditional -- and more advantageous for bettors -- 10-cent line.
www.vegas.com /gaming/sportsbooks/mirage.html   (717 words)

  
 VO Enabled Mirage
Mirage was developed at Bell Labs by Tin Kam Ho.
Mirage is a Java-based software tool for exploratory analysis and visualization of classification and proximity structures of multi-dimensional numerical data from an arbitrary domain of study.
In order for Mirage to detect the astronomical imaging module, this configuration file, "Property.dat", must be present in the directory from which Mirage is invoked.
skyservice.pha.jhu.edu /develop/vo/mirage   (1598 words)

  
 The Mirage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mirage is connected by a free tram to Treasure Island, its sister property immediately to the north.
The Mirage was built by developer Steve Wynn and opened in November 1989 on the former grounds of the Castaways, and was owned by Wynn's company Mirage Resorts (later MGM Mirage).
Prior to the Mirage's opening, the city was experiencing a decline in tourism that began in the 70's, especially around the time the state of New Jersey legalized gambling and tourists (in particular those on the East Coast) began to frequent the casinos of Atlantic City.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Mirage   (771 words)

  
 Mirage Las Vegas - Mirage Hotel - Mirage Casino | VEGAS.com
The 2,763 hotel rooms are nicely appointed, while the beautifully landscaped pool area is the ideal place to spend afternoons before heading inside, where a spa, impressionist extraordinaire Danny Gans and numerous restaurants -- including the delightful Carnegie Deli -- await.
True to its history as a pioneer in the gaming and hospitality industry, the Mirage casino is large, easy to navigate and home to thousands of slot machines, dozens of table games and one of the city's popular poker rooms.
The Mirage also is home to one of the best free attractions on the Strip: the mesmerizing volcano.
www.vegas.com /resorts/mirage   (614 words)

  
 Mirage (1965)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mirage was tough and suspenseful, and there was a nasty hit-man named Willard who was packing silenced heat (George Kennedy must have had fun shooting at Gregory Peck, almost hitting compatriot-in-crime Kevin McCarthy who whines, "You could have killed me!" Kennedy sneers, "So?").
I like Mirage because it's a nice, little snapshot into what the screenwriter(s) thought Americans had for deep-rooted anxieties in the mid-sixties.
To enjoy Mirage, you have to bring a certain amount of patience to the table.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0059448   (809 words)

  
 A World of Exhilarating Watersport Excitement
Mirage Boats is a sport boat manufacturer specializing in waterskiing, wakeboarding and performance sport boats.
Mirage boats will speed you across the water smoothly and easily.
When you compare Mirage Boats boats to their top of the line competitors you'll find Mirage Boats boats have the same high quality construction at lower prices.
www.mirageboats.com   (256 words)

  
 Mirage Sea Kayaks Australia
The full range of Mirage kayaks incorporate the most advanced features available today and are designed to ensure outstanding performance in ocean conditions.
Mirage kayaks are among the most popular and best selling sea kayaks available today.
Of particular interest to the kayaking enthusiast is their ability to handle a wide range of sea conditions including calm water touring, confused seas in tidal currents and large ocean swells with strong winds.
www.mirageseakayaks.com.au   (172 words)

  
 1997-2002 Mitsubishi Mirage Prices & Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mirage continued to be sold to rental fleets with no changes in 2003.
The Consumer Guide® 1997-2002 Mitsubishi Mirage road test gives consumers a quick snapshot of a vehicle's performance with pros, cons, and numeric ratings.
The 1997-2002 Mitsubishi Mirage photo gallery includes both exterior and interior photographs the vehicle.
auto.consumerguide.com /auto/used/reviews/full/index.cfm/id/2277   (823 words)

  
 Mirage Belly Dance Troupe - Austin, TX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mirage was founded in 1975 and is a highlight of Austin's vibrant and active belly dance community, continuing our proud history as one of the longest running belly dance performance venues in the country.
Mirage performs at 7:30 pm every other Thursday evening during the academic year at the Texas Union on the University of Texas at Austin campus.
Mirage members also teach belly dance classes held as part of the Texas Union's Informal Classes schedule.
www.troupemirage.com   (136 words)

  
 Vegas4Visitors Hotels - The Mirage
Before it opened in 1989, the city had descended into a sea of tackiness, known mostly as a place where faded entertainers sought a final stand before obscurity, which in and of itself became an analogy for Vegas as a whole.
I had a chance to revisit the hotel and I'm happy to report that while it is showing its age in certain ways, it's still a terrific place to stay and play.
Once I finally got to the desk, the agents were friendly but that was the last time I had any interaction with any hotel personnel, something that used to have a heavier emphasis.
www.vegas4visitors.com /hotels/detail/mirage.htm   (893 words)

  
 YOJOE.COM | Mirage
Mirage was released as part of the eighteenth series (2002), carded in a two-pack with Cobra Viper (v7).
Mirage came with a graphite gray machine gun, a graphite rifle, a graphite gray knife, a clear visor, and a graphite gray figure stand.
This mold was also used to create the original Mirage (1993), Mirage (v2) (2002) and Mirage (v4) (2003).
www.yojoe.com /action/02/mirage3.shtml   (98 words)

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