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For centuries, mankind’s only mirrors were pools of water or polished metal. It was a long journey to figure out how to make a good mirror.

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MAKING MIRRORS • The original glass mirror was made by covering the back of a piece of glass with thin tin sheets which were rubbed down smooth. Then the glass (with the tin on top) would be covered with mercury. A piece of woolen cloth would then be laid on top of the mercury and compressed with iron weights for more than a week.

Finally the excess mercury would be drained off and the mirror was complete. This method of mirror making was very dangerous to the craftsman because mercury vapors are poisonous.

• Craftsmen in Venice were the first to discover this method of mirror making in the 1300s. It remained a carefully guarded secret and for centuries Venice had a monopoly on mirrors.

Those who gave away the secret were subject to the death penalty. Mirrors were expensive and rare and people in France were jealous.

• In 1665, the French chief minister to Louis XIV went to Venice and - at the risk of death - bribed 18 Venetian mirrorsmiths, using huge sums of money to convince them to move to France.

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• Louis XIV was very pleased, purchasing some 700 mirrors and lining an entire hallway at the Palace of Versailles with them in a stunning display. Venice kindly offered to send some of their very best glassmakers to France to “help out” at the factories; France declined the offer, preferring to keep their secret.

• It had long been known that silver would make a better mirror than mercury and tin, but the problem was figuring out how to get the silver to stick to the glass. In 1835, German chemist Justus von Liebig invented a method of making mirrors that is still used today. In this method, the glass is flushed with silver salts and then covered with a solution of silver nitrate. After being heated and left undisturbed for an hour, a chemical reaction causes the metallic silver to separate and adhere to the glass. It’s then coated with shellac and painted with a black backing.

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HOW DO MIRRORS WORK? • Mirrors work because they reflect light. Most objects do not give off any light of their own. They can only be seen because light from other sources - the sun, a candle, a flashlight - hits them and bounces off, hitting your eye. When light strikes an object, some of the light is absorbed by the object, some is transmitted through the object, and some of the light bounces back. The part that bounces back is called reflection. Flat shiny surfaces like water, metal, and mirrors reflect light well because very little of the light is absorbed or transmitted, and most of it is reflected. When light hits a surface that is dull instead of shiny, the light bounces off in all directions and is scattered. There is no reflection. When light hits a mirror, the mirror sends the light back in exactly the same direction that it came from. This makes it appear as if the image is coming from behind the mirror.

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MIRROR SCIENCE (continued): • If the mirror is curved in a convex shape so that the reflecting surface faces away from the center of the mirror, light rays reflect away from each other and the reflection becomes smaller. This is handy for use in exterior rearview mirrors (“Objects are closer than they appear”) as well as the large fish-eye mirrors used in stores so clerks can keep an eye on customers.

• If the mirror is in a concave shape so the reflecting surface faces toward the center of the mirror, light rays are reflected towards each other and the reflection becomes very large.

Make-up mirrors and telescope mirrors are built this way. Funhouse mirrors, with their convoluted collection of convex and concave surfaces, twist the reflection into comical contortions.

• A one-way mirror uses dark colored glass, such as smoked glass, instead of clear glass.

The reflective backing is very, very thin - so thin that if the light is equally bright on each side of the mirror, it merely looks like a pane of glass. But if people behind the mirror are sitting in a dark room looking into a light room, it looks like a mirror.

• It’s the same principal with the interior rearview mirror in a car. There are two mirrors there. The daytime mirror reflects almost all of the light that hits it, but flip the little button and the nighttime mirror reflects only four percent of the light so the driver is not blinded by headlights.

• Another method of making mirrors involves using liquid metal such as mercury or gallium. The liquid is spun continuously, causing it to take on the parabolic shape needed for telescopes. This is a very inexpensive method of making a very large mirror. The Large Zenith Telescope located near Vancouver, BC is the largest liquid mirror in operation, with a diameter of about 20 feet (6 m).

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Moments in time • On Nov. 5, 1605, King James I of England learns of a plot to explode the Parliament building. Guy Fawkes had been found lurking in a cellar with 20 barrels of gunpowder.

Fawkes revealed that he was part of a conspiracy to annihilate England’s Protestant government and replace it with Catholic leadership.

• On Nov. 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.

Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates.

• On Nov. 8, 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen becomes the first person to observe X-rays, an advance that became an important diagnostic tool in medicine.

In 1897, X-rays were first used on a military battlefield to find bullets and broken bones inside patients.

• On Nov. 9, 1938, Jewish businesses and homes in Munich are destroyed, and Jewish men, women and children are beaten and murdered, in an exercise in terror. The

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• On Nov. 7, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office. FDR remains the only president to have served more than two terms. Roosevelt presided over two of the biggest crises in U.S. history: the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II. • On Nov. 10, 1964, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara says that the United States has no plans to send combat troops to Vietnam.

By 1969, more than 500,000 American troops were in South Vietnam.

• On Nov. 4, 1979, hundreds of Iranian students storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The students were demanding the return of Iran’s deposed leader, the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. After the student takeover, President Jimmy Carter ordered a complete embargo of Iranian oil. © 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.

MATA HARI (continued): • In 1916, the Germans asked her to spy for them.

At the time, she was having an affair with a German police officer and he may have been the one to talk her into it. By now she was pushing 40 and she needed money. Later the French also asked her to act as a spy for them, expecting her to use her womanly wiles to coax secrets out of German officers.

• She was a naive and inexperienced spy and was caught in short order. In January of 1917, the German military attaché in Madrid transmitted radio messages to Berlin describing the helpful activities of a German spy, code-named H-21.

French intelligence agents intercepted the messages and identified H-21 as Mata Hari. The messages were in a code that some claimed that German intelligence knew had already been broken by the French, leading to speculation that the Germans were tired of her and wanted her out of their way, but wanted France to do the dirty work for them.

• On February 13, 1917, Mata Hari was arrested in her room in Paris. She was put on trial in July, accused of spying for Germany and consequently causing the deaths of at least 50,000 soldiers. However, there was little clear evidence against her. She was not allowed to testify on her behalf during the trial, and her defense attorney was not allowed to cross-examine the prosecution’s witnesses or directly question his own witnesses. Under the circumstances, her conviction was a foregone conclusion. She was sentenced to death.

• She was executed by firing squad on October 15, 1917, at the age of 41. She refused a blindfold and stood facing the guns. Her final act was to blow a kiss to the firing squad.

• German documents unsealed in the 1970s proved that Mata Hari was truly a German agent.

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FRED ASTAIRE • Fred Astaire was born Frederick Austerlitz II in Omaha, Nebraska in 1899. He was very close in age to his older sister Adele, and he accompanied her to her ballet lessons because his parents didn’t want to pay for a babysitter.

Soon he was the best dancer in the class.

• He began performing with his sister at the age of 5. They toured the vaudeville circuit and made it to Broadway in 1917, eventually starring in the Gershwin musical “Funny Face.”

When Adele retired from dancing in order to get married in 1932, Fred was cast adrift, and decided to try to break into film.

• A studio executive wrote concerning his first screen test: “Can’t sing. Can’t act. Slightly balding. Can dance a little.”

• He landed a small role in the 1933 film “Dancing Lady” starring Joan Crawford, and shortly afterwards was cast with Ginger Rogers in “Flying Down to Rio.”

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• Fred Astaire was nearly as good at golfing as he was at dancing. In the 1938 film “Carefree,” he danced over tables, down the hallway, out onto the terrace, and onto a golf course. There he was to dance over to a golf club and hit - in rhythm and on cue - a dozen golfballs that were lined up on the fairway.

When the crew went to retrieve the golf balls, they found all twelve balls within eight feet of each other on the green.

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FRED ASTAIRE (continued): • Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced the DEERE. JOHNtoDEERE. (continued): number “Cheek Cheek” in the movie “Top •Hat” It was while living in Illinois while Rogers wore a dressthat thatJohn wasnocovticedwith the feathers. problems The that dress farmers ered hadfaced beenwhen made attempting tillassoil.

Because the her areaaround had rather hastily,toand Astaire whirled formerly been woodland, the soil was rich the dance floor, feathers came flying off till the hummus, andinclung to airwith looked like awhich pillowclumped fight was progress. the blades of the plows farmers were accusThe feather dress went back to the seamstressto using. repairing broken cires,tomed who used moreWhile glue and moreafeathers.

Durcular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea.

He ing the second take, fewer feathers flew off, yet his smith skills to fashion steel it employed was still quite noticeable.

By the the third take blade into the shape of a plow. He affixed enough glue had been used so that only a few two wooden spokes, then hitched the device feathers came loose and cameramen were able to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil tolike filma around charm. them.

In fact, a farmer who happened

• Intothe “Shall We run Dance” Fred Astaire be movie observing the test immediately put in an order for his own Johnroller Deereskates plow. while and Ginger Rogers wore the Deere song gave “Let’sup Call the Whole •dancing In shortto order, his blacksmith Thing Off.” shop and focused on making plows. The

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company grewissteadily and added many em• Ginger Rogers often quoted as having said, ployees.

In the late 1840s, John relocated “I did everything Fred did, only backwardsthe and operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed inentire high heels.” of his own lack of education, John sent his • Not only was hisstate’s singing dubbed in films, but children to the finest schools.

One of hishistap dancing was as well. proudest days occurred when son Charles earned equivalent of an MBA fromdollars.

Bell’s • His legs the were insured for one million Commercial College in Chicago.

• He was self-conscious about his hands, which •heWith sontoo Charles the company, felt his were large.managing When dancing with his Johnoutstretched, found time tohepursue arms wouldphilanthropic disguise the insize terests.

He co-founded both the First Nationof his hands by curling his two middle fingers al Bankhis andpalms. the First Congregational Church. towards He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873,

• Inwhere 1946 Astaire retired motion one of his first from actions – thepictures replace-to create a chain of dancing schools.

Later a petiment of the city’s open drains with a sewer tion fans lured him out pipesigned systemby– over saved10,000 countless lives by reducofing retirement. the spread of disease.

• received onlylogo, Academy Award •Astaire The original Johnhis Deere registered in nomination for his supporting in to theAfri1974 1876, depicted a deer that was role native ca. Thirty-six years later, inInferno.”

1912, it was redisaster film “The Towering

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