Majestic is one of the first alternate reality games (ARGs), a type of game that blurs the line between in-game and out-of-game experiences. It debuted on July 31, 2001. While noted for its unusual concept, it did not fare well commercially.
Gameplay
Majestic was a science fictionthriller based on a Majestic 12shadow governmentconspiracy theory. As an ARG, the game was played by phone, email, AOL Instant Messenger, BlackBerry messages, fax, and by visiting special websites. Gameplay frequently involved the player receiving clues that they would use to solve puzzles and unravel the story. All the messages were automated, with limited dialogue options, but AIM provided some interactive conversations. As an option to warn unsuspecting members in the same house you could enable a warning at the beginning of each phone call, and a small message on the top of all faxes. When this option was enabled, each phone call would begin with a woman saying "This is a phone call from the video game Majestic", before the regular, prerecorded message. Some of the clues were videos featuring the game's cast. One of the more widely recognized actors was Joe Pantoliano, who portrayed Tim Pritchard in the game's final episode.
Majestic is a historic riverboat in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was declared a National Historic Landmark on 20 December 1989, the last and oldest American floating theater.
History
The last of the original travelling showboats, Majestic was built in 1923 in Pittsburgh and plied the Ohio River for many years offering shows at towns along the way. Tom Reynolds and his family owned, lived on and ran her until the start of World War II.
From 1945 to 1960 there was an academic alliance between the Reynolds family and Hiram College, Kent State University, and Indiana University. These institutions ran summer theater experience for students on Majestic.
After resting in dry dock from 1965 to 1967, the City of Cincinnati purchased Majestic as part of its downtown Cincinnati Central Riverfront show case. She is now permanently docked at the Cincinnati Public Landing; the riverboat is a venue for comedies and musicals.
The riverboat is owned by the City of Cincinnati, and has been operated as a summer theatre since 1991 by Cincinnati Landmark Productions. It was announced on Sept 10th 2013 that Landmark Productions would no longer be presenting shows on the boat.
Majestic is the eighth full-length studio album from the Germanpower metal band Gamma Ray, released in 2005. The band also released an LP version through their website to complement the supporting tour, limited to 1500 copies worldwide.
Guitarist Henjo Ritcher was injured during the Majestic tour from falling down a flight of stairs on a ferry between Sweden and Finland. He was forced to sit out on half the tour due to his injury.
The song "Blood Religion", with lyrics about vampires, became a trademark song of Gamma Ray, with fans in concert chanting some of the main chorus lines during the song similar to how fans recited the main chorus to "Future World", a Helloween song.
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur eventually killed by the heroTheseus. Daedalus had so cunningly made the Labyrinth that he could barely escape it after he built it.
Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns, the single-path (unicursal) seven-course "Classical" design without branching or dead ends became associated with the Labyrinth on coins as early as 430 BC, and similar non-branching patterns became widely used as visual representations of the Labyrinth – even though both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze. Even as the designs became more elaborate, visual depictions of the mythological Labyrinth from Roman times until the Renaissance are almost invariably unicursal. Branching mazes were reintroduced only when garden mazes became popular during the Renaissance.
The bony labyrinth (also osseous labyrinth or otic capsule) is the rigid, bony outer wall of the inner ear in the temporal bone. It consists of three parts: the vestibule, semicircular canals, and cochlea. These are cavities hollowed out of the substance of the bone, and lined by periosteum. They contain a clear fluid, the perilymph, in which the membranous labyrinth is situated.
A fracture classification system in which temporal bone fractures detected on CT are delineated based on disruption of the otic capsule has been found to be predictive for complications of temporal bone trauma such as facial nerve injury, sensorineuraldeafness and cerebrospinal fluidotorrhea. On radiographic images, the otic capsule is the most dense portion of the temporal bone.
In otospongiosis, a leading cause of adult-onset hearing loss, the otic capsule is exclusively affected. This area normally undergoes no remodeling in adult life, and is extremely dense. With otospongiosis, the normally dense enchondral bone is replaced by haversian bone, a spongy and vascular matrix that results in sensorineural hearing loss due to compromise of the conductive capacity of the inner ear ossicles. This results in hypodensity on CT, with the portion first affected usually being the fissula ante fenestram.
Labyrinth is a 2013 artwork by the British artist Mark Wallinger that marks the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. The artwork consists of 270 enamel plaques of unique unicursal labyrinth designs, one for every London tube station, each will be numbered according to its position in the route taken by the contestants in the 2009 Guinness World RecordTube Challenge. In October 2014, Art/Books published Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Mark Wallinger, a comprehensive photographic book of all 270 labyrinth designs in situ in the Underground stations.
LabyrinthCanyon in southeastern Utah is renowned for its majestic red rock cliffs carved by the Green River — so much so that Congress decided the area merited a wilderness designation in 2019. .
While Old Delhi is a labyrinth of mysterious narrow lanes, haveli’s and majestic mosques, the imperial city of New Delhi is composed of spacious, tree-lined avenues and imposing government buildings.
Tilda Swinton, who starred in Torres’ recent movie Problemista, gives voice to a majestic toilet. Like Problemista, which applied its creator’s fantastical eye to the labyrinth of immigration and the ...
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For those looking to immerse themselves in bustling culture and centuries of history, Tangier in Morocco has souks, bazaars, the medina – a 15th Century fortress housing a labyrinth of alleyways – and beaches.
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