Instead of allowing any light to escape, the surface acts almost like a perfect mirror, sending all of the light back into the original material.
Total internal reflection is one of those fascinating tricks of nature that most people have experienced without realizing it. Imagine shining a flashlight through a window. Most of the light passes through the glass, while some bounces back toward you. Normally, whenever light travels from one material into another,
Four more losses to reflect on here as summer ends in 2026…
These individuals were an actress in movies and TV shows like The Donna Reed Show, One Day at a Time, and Coach; an actor in the movie Rocky Horror, The Hunt for Red October, and was Pennywise in It; was an actor in TV shows such as Heroes and Nashville; and was a writer for comics such as Daredevil, and other Marvel and DC releases.
This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite Keyboard players.
In Part One I chose; Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Eumir Deodato, Gershon Kingsley, Jon Lord, and Elton John. I’ll keep it going here with some more excellent ticklers of the ivories!
Glamorous Technicolor photography, witty dialogue, memorable songs, and the sparkling performances of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American musical comedy that has become one of the defining Hollywood films of the 1950s, remembered for its glamorous Technicolor photography, witty dialogue, memorable songs, and the sparkling performances of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. Released by 20th Century-Fox on July 16, 1953, the film was directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Sol C. Siegel from a screenplay by Charles Lederer. The screenplay was based on the successful
Her uncle Bill Owens recognized her extraordinary talent, gave her a guitar, helped her obtain early performing opportunities.
Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946, in Locust Ridge, Tennessee, near the Great Smoky Mountains, the fourth of twelve children born to Robert Lee Parton Sr., a sharecropper and laborer, and Avie Lee Owens Parton, who sang and played music for the family. The Partons lived in severe poverty in a small cabin, without many of the comforts that most families took for granted, but Dolly later
This “Stand Out Single” No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 13 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and No. 24 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.
Bobby Russell’s “Saturday Morning Confusion” was released as a single by United Artists Records in 1971, backed with “Little Ole Song About Love.” Russell wrote both songs, and Snuff Garrett produced the recordings, with Al Capps providing the arrangements. The single became Russell’s biggest success as a recording artist, reaching No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100,
Maxwell also entertained American troops during the Korean War as part of Bob Hope’s USO tours.
Marilyn Maxwell was an American actress and singer whose glamorous screen presence and versatile talents made her a familiar face in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. Although she never quite achieved the superstar status of some of her contemporaries, she enjoyed a long and successful career in motion pictures, radio, television, and live entertainment.
He sang in his church choir, learned to play harmonica, piano, and drums without formal instruction, and quickly demonstrated an uncanny ability to master nearly any instrument placed before him.
Stevie Wonder, born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, in Saginaw, Michigan, is one of the most extraordinary musical talents in popular music history. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Detroit, where he was raised by his mother, Lula Mae Hardaway, after his parents separated. Wonder was born six weeks premature, and the high concentration of oxygen used in
“Track” originally referred to footprints, trails, or paths left by people or animals.
The expression “back on track” is one of the most familiar idioms in the English language, used to describe returning to the correct course after a delay, mistake, distraction, or setback. Whether referring to a business recovering from financial problems, a student resuming productive study habits, or a sports team regaining its winning form, the phrase conveys the idea of getting back to a desired path or direction. Although it sounds perfectly natural today,
I’ll never forget the wicked witch and her hourglass in the Wizard of Oz.
The hourglass is one of the most recognizable instruments ever devised for measuring the passage of time, yet its origins are far more mysterious than those of the sundial or the water clock. Unlike those earlier devices, whose histories can be traced back to ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and China, the hourglass appears relatively late in the historical record. Despite frequent claims that the Romans or ancient Greeks invented it, no convincing archaeological or written evidence supports those assertions. Historians generally agree that the hourglass emerged in medieval Europe sometime between the eighth and fourteenth centuries,
