A Constellation, a Musical, and Somewhere in Italy
Good afternoon everyone!Yesterday my mom, dad, and I took my uncle out for his last day here in L.A. We decided to spend some time at the Griffith Observatory and I learned some new information that I thought I'd share with you.
If you haven't read my About page then you'll read now that my name is Mira. I've known for a while that my name is a star, and no, no one bought the star and named it after me, it just so happened that it was already scientifically named Mira. During my visit yesterday, I never really intended to find out information about the star. However, after spending some time with my mom and reciting lines for my performance class, a light bulb in my head and I remembered my star. It took me a while to find the right people who would help me but when I was directed to them, here's what I learned:
1. Mira, the star, is part of the constellation, Cetus- Mira being it's most notable star. To Cetus 's left are the constellations Orion and Eridanus. I hadn't gotten the names of lady and man who had helped but I do remember the lady having purple hair. She drew this little picture for me:
She told me that Mira was diagonally placed from Orion's knees (second arrow). After that information, the man who was with her also helped me find new information about my name.
2. Mira is a song in the 1953 film, Lili, which was then produced into a musical in 1961 called, Carnival! He even sang part of the song for me and he had an incredible voice!
In the film, Lili, Lili sings about being from a town called Mira and with great interest, we decided to look up if it was a real town... which leads me to my third point.
3. Mira is place in Italy- Mira, Venice, Veneto, Italy. We played around on Google Maps on the location and it was cool to see. Now it's added on my Bucket List to visit. Yay!
Those were three of the little miracles I found that happened to me yesterday. I hope you enjoyed reading about my discovery of my name as much as I had learning about them!
'Till the next miracles,
xoxo- Mira.
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