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Guqin 
 After the lacquer has dried (a qin will need several layers), the surface will be polished using oil stones.
Guqin 
 At the head end of the instrument is the "yue shan" 『岳山』 or bridge, and at the other end is the "long yin" 『龍齦』 (dragon's gums) or nut.
Guqin 
 There are 13 circular mother-of-pearl inlays which mark the harmonic positions, as well as a reference point to note position, called hui 『徽』 ("insignia").
Guqin 
 Until the Cultural Revolution, the guqin's strings were always made of various thicknesses of twisted silk 『絲』, but since then most players use modern nylon-flatwound steel strings 『鋼絲』.
Guqin 
 This was partly due to the scarcity of high quality silk strings and partly due to the newer strings' greater durability and louder tone.
Guqin 
 Silk strings are made by gathering a prescribed number of strands of silk thread, then twisting them tightly together.
Guqin 
 The twisted cord of strings is then wrapped around a frame and immersed in a vat of liquid of natural glue that binds the strands together.
Guqin 
 The top thicker strings (i.e. strings one to four) are further wrapped in a thin silk thread, coiled around the core to make it smoother.
Guqin 
 Recently in China, production of very good quality silk strings has resumed and more players are beginning to use them.
Guqin 
 Although most contemporary players use nylon-wrapped metal strings, some argue that nylon-wrapped metal strings cannot replace silk strings for their refinement of tone.
Guqin 
 Furthermore, it is the case that nylon-wrapped metal strings can cause damage to the wood of old qins.
Guqin 
 Many traditionalists feel that the sound of the fingers of the left hand sliding on the strings to be a distinctive feature of qin music.
Guqin 
 The modern nylon-wrapped metal strings were very smooth in the past, but are now slightly modified in order to capture these sliding sounds.
Guqin 
 To string a qin, one traditionally had to tie a butterfly knot (shengtou jie 『蠅頭結』) at one end of the string, and slip the string through the twisted cord (rongkou 『絨剅』) which goes into holes at the head of the qin and then out the bottom through the tuning pegs (zhen 『軫』).
Guqin 
 The string is dragged over the bridge (yueshan 『岳山』), across the surface board, over the nut (longyin 『龍齦』 dragon gums) to the back of the qin, where the end is wrapped around two legs (fengzu 『鳳足』 "phoenix feet" or yanzu 『雁足』 "geese feet").
Guqin 
 The most common tuning, "zheng diao" 〈正調〉, is pentatonic: 1245612 in the traditional Chinese number system or jianpu 〔簡譜〕.
Guqin 
 Today this is generally interpreted to mean C D F G A c d, but this should be considered do re fa so la do re, since historically the qin was not tuned to absolute pitch.
Guqin 
 Thus, except when accompanied by other instruments, only the pitch relations between the seven strings needs to be accurate.
Guqin 
 Other tunings are achieved by adjusting the tension of the strings using the tuning pegs at the head end.
Guqin 
 Thus manjiao diao 〈慢角調〉 (slackened third string) gives 1235612  and ruibin diao 〈蕤賔調〉 (raised fifth string) gives 1245712, which is transposed to 2356123.
Guqin 
 The guqin is nearly always used a solo single instrument, as its quietness of tone means that it cannot be heard over the sounds of most other instruments or an ensemble.
Guqin 
 It can, however, be played together with a xiao (end-blown bamboo flute), with other qin, or played while singing.
Guqin 
 In old times, the se (a long zither with movable bridges and 25 strings, similar to the Japanese koto) was frequently used in duets with the qin.
Guqin 
 In order for an instrument to accompany the qin, its sound must be mellow and not overwhelm the qin.
Guqin 
 Thus, the xiao generally used for this purpose is one pitched in the key of F, known as qin xiao, which is narrower than an ordinary xiao.
Guqin 
 If one sings to qin songs (which is rare nowadays) then one should not sing in an operatic or folk style as is common in China, but rather in a very low pitched and deep way; and the range in which one should sing should not exceed one and a half octaves.
Guqin 
 To enjoy qin songs, one must learn to become accustomed to the strange style some players may sing their songs to.
Guqin 
 Traditionally, the qin was played in a quiet studio or room by oneself, or with a few friends; or played outdoors in places of outstanding natural beauty.
Guqin 
 Nowadays, many qin players perform at concerts in large concert halls, almost always, out of necessity, using electronic pickups or microphones to amplify the sound.
Guqin 
 Many qin players attend yaji (『雅集』 literally "elegant gatherings"), at which a number of qin players, music lovers, or anyone with an interest in Chinese culture can come along to discuss and play the qin.
Guqin 
 North American Guqin Association Wang Fei's US based qin society, with a link to a store that sells good quality qins, CDs and books as well as other Chinese instruments, updates often and a library of qin music samples and other useful material
Guqin 
 London Youlan Qin Society Cheng Yu's UK based qin society with information about each yaji and regular updates on upcoming events
Guqin 
 New York Qin Society New York based qin society, with information of their previous yaji, now updated with new material.
Guqin 
 John Thompson's Silk-stringed Qin A host of information on the qin and silk strings for qins in English, including extensive study of Shenqi Mipu and analysis of playing style, plus useful section on qin sources
Guqin 
 Yugu Zhai Qinpu Jim Binkley's translation of the qin construction manual with links to other sources.
Guqin 
 Friends of Guqin : Amics del Guqin 古琴之友 A site by Qin players in Spain (English)/(Spanish)/(Catalan)
Ripuarian 
 Riparian water rights (or simply riparian rights) a system for allocating water among those who possess land along its path
Ripuarian 
 Riparian-zone restoration, the ecological restoration of riparian zone habitats of streams, rivers, springs, lakes, floodplains, and other hydrologic ecologies
Ripuarian 
 London Stone (riparian), the name given to a number of boundary stones which stand beside the rivers Thames and Medway, which formerly marked the limits of jurisdiction of the City of London
Vandal 
 The Vandals were a German tribe during the migration period (a time when groups of people moved around) in Europe.
São Paulo (state) 
 São Paulo is located in the south-east region of Brazil, with close to 248,000 square kilometers of area. (
São Paulo (state) 
 It borders the state of Minas Gerais to the north, the state of Rio de Janeiro and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the state of Paraná to the south and state of Mato Grosso do Sul to the west.
São Paulo (state) 
 It has the second highest per capita income of Brazil, second only to the Federal District, where Brasília is located.
São Paulo (state) 
 With the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul it shares the highest standard of living in Brazil, despite of pockets of blight poverty in its largest cities.
São Paulo (state) 
 The robust economy of São Paulo is based in industrial production, to include automobile and aviation, agriculture, services and tourism.
São Paulo (state) 
 São Paulo is the Brazilian state with the largest population and also is the most ethnically diverse.
São Paulo (state) 
 Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Arab, Asian and other descents chose São Paulo as their home, due to its thriving economy.
São Paulo (state) 
 Also migrants from other Brazilian states (especially from the Northeast Region) come to São Paulo in search of a better life.
São Paulo (state) 
 Harbors along the state's ocean front receive and ship a great share of Brazil's export and import goods.
São Paulo (state) 
 Football (soccer) is king but the state has human resources and facilities to produce some of the best athletes in the world in many other fields.
São Paulo (state) 
 São Paulo, Campinas, Guarulhos, Osasco, Ribeirão Preto, Santo André, Santos, São Bernardo do Campo, São Carlos, São José dos Campos and Sorocaba.
Trolley 
 There are shopping trolleys which are used in supermarkets and other large stores with self-service.
Trolley 
 Customers can put things they want to buy in the trolley and then pay for everything at the checkout.
Trolley 
 Usually they are then allowed to wheel the trolley with the things they have bought out to their car.
Trolley 
 The customer puts in a coin (in Britain a £1 coin) which he can have back again when he parks the trolley back in the trolley chain.
Trolley 
 Trolleys are used in airports and some large railway stations for passengers to carry their luggage.
Trolley 
 This is a small trolley used traditionally in the house for plates, cups, saucers and sandwiches and cakes for afternoon tea.
Trolley 
 This is not to be confused with a trolleybus which is a bus which uses electricity from an overhead cable (like a tram).
Mutant (Marvel) 
 Two main teams of mutants have been around since the 1960s: The X-Men (heroes) and the Brotherhood of Mutants (villains).
Mutant (Marvel) 
 Mutants may be born to human or mutant parents, though the odds of a mutant birth are much better for the latter.
Mutant (Marvel) 
 Likewise, it is rare but possible for mutant parents to have human children, termed "baseline" by characters within the Marvel Universe.
Mutant (Marvel) 
 Some baseline humans are genetically predisposed towards having mutant descendants such as the Guthrie family (see Cannonball, Husk, and Icarus).
Mutant (Marvel) 
 Mutant children born to mutant parent(s) will not necessarily have the same power(s) as their parent(s), nor will they necessarily have the same power(s) as any mutant siblings they may have; however, examples of children with the same power(s) as their parents and/or siblings are not uncommon.
Mutant (Marvel) 
 The Hayes (Runaways), telepathic mutant doctors, were unsure their mutant heritage could even produce a child; it did, however, take them several years to finally have a child: Molly Hayes.
Mutant (Marvel) 
 ALPHA: Alpha mutants have very powerful and useful mutant powers and no drawbacks such as changes in appearance.
Mutant (Marvel) 
 The characters allowed the writer to write stories that showed racism and bigotry without singling out a specific minority.
Mutant (Marvel) 
 Other mutants blend in so well that it nearly impossible to tell they are a mutant unless they use their powers (similar to how people in the LGBT community were thought of in society).
Mutant (Marvel) 
 Yet, the idea of mutants as a metaphor for real world minorities who face oppression is shown throughout the series.
Mutant (Marvel) 
 He became ruler of Genosha, a fictional island off the coast of Madagascar, recognized by the United Nations as a mutant state.
Mutant (Marvel) 
 This is very similar to McCarthyism and other acts of Congress that outlawed the American Communist Party.
Mutant (Marvel) 
 Its leader was inspired on Frank Collin, Chairman of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of America.
Mutant (Marvel) 
 This is similar to young gay people discovering their homosexuality in their teen years and the rejection they receive from their family.
Mutant (Marvel) 
 This is show very openly in the second X-Men movie with the line "Have you ever tried not being a mutant?"
Urethra 
 In male mammals, the urethra is also a part of the reproductive system, because males use it as a tube for sperm during sex.
Urethra 
 This means that women have bladder infections more often, because their bladders are closer to the outside.
Urethra 
 Because the male urethra is longer and is not straight, inserting a catheter (tube to help urination) is more difficult in men.
Urethra 
 In men, the urethra is about 20 cm (8 in) long and its opening to the outside of the body is at the end of the penis.
Stanislav Lem 
 Lem's writing is full of intelligent humor, puns, and neologisms, and Michael Kandel's translations into English have been praised by many for capturing Lem's style.
Hostage 
 Hostages are often taken (held captive) to force someone else to do something for their captors (the people who took them hostage).
Hostage 
 During some crimes, for example when robbing a bank, hostages may be taken to stop the police from attacking.
Hostage 
 The hostages are commonly used to help the thief escape by either stopping the police from shooting them or by freeing a hostage if the police will do something, for example, getting the robbers a car or a helicopter.
Intel 
 Intel Corporation (Integrated Electronics Corporation) is a microprocessor company that was set up in the 1960s.
Intel 
 Intel makes many different products, with their first dedicated consumer GPU scheduled to be released in late 2021.
Intel 
 Intel Corporation is traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker INTC and has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1999.
Nintendo Entertainment System 
 The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is the first video game console made by Nintendo in Japan, Europe, the United States.
Nintendo Entertainment System 
 Some famous games for the NES are Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Mega Man, Castlevania, Donkey Kong, and Final Fantasy.
Nintendo Entertainment System 
 The chip that contains the CPU also contains other electronics that generate sound for games and help with some other things.
Nintendo Entertainment System 
 There are two different versions of the chip called 2A03 and 2A07 that are used in different regions of the world (2A03 works with NTSC TVs, 2A07 with PAL TVs).
System of a Down 
 They started in 1995 in Los Angeles, California with four members of Armenian descent, Serj Tankian (lead singer, born August 21, 1967), Daron Malakian (lead guitar, singer, born July 18, 1975), Shavo Odadjian (bass, background singer, born April 22, 1974) and drummer Andy Khachaturian (but was replaced with John Dolmayan).
System of a Down 
 After the release of MEZMERIZE/Hypnotize, System of a Down went on a break, but they say they have not broken up.
System of a Down 
 Often described as very angry, Khachaturian was unhappy about his place as drummer, and wanted to lead the band.
System of a Down 
 Serj, Daron, and Shavo, went to the same school, Alex Pilibos School for Armenian Americans in Los Angeles, when they were young.
System of a Down 
 In 1995, they made their first demo tape, and had the songs: "Suite-Pee", "Sugar", "Dam", and "P.L.U.C.K.(Politically Lying Unholy Cowardly Killers)".
System of a Down 
 In 1996, another demo tape was released with the songs: Soil, and two songs that were not on the first album, "Honey" and "Temper".
System of a Down 
 This album was not as popular as the next album, but it made people aware of who and what System of a Down stood for.
System of a Down 
 It is also political; for example the opening track: "Prison Song" which has Serj speaking the lines.
System of a Down 
 It was more melodic than before, and included "B.Y.O.B" (Bring Your Own Bombs), and "Lost in Hollywood" - a song based on Daron's childhood about growing up in Hollywood, which he did not think was very glamorous.
Belarusian language 
 The Belarusian language (, biełaruskaja mova) is an Eastern Slavic language and an Indo-European language.
Belarusian language 
 It is also spoken by Belarusians who live in other countries of Europe, Australia, and North America.
Kevin Bacon 
 Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American movie actor who has starred in Stir of Echoes, Wild Things, JFK, Footloose and Apollo 13, among others.
Treaty of Versailles 
 The Treaty of Versailles () was a peace treaty between the nations of Japan, the United States, France, Germany and the United Kingdom in 1919, after World War I. Germany, Austria and Hungary did not participate in writing the treaty.
Treaty of Versailles 
 Germany had to reduce its armed forces from 6 million to 100,000 men and to get rid of its submarines and military aircraft and most of its artillery.
Treaty of Versailles 
 It also had to pay huge reparations for the damage that had been done to Allied countries, especially France, during the war by German troops.
Treaty of Versailles 
 The treaty set up the League of Nations, which was intended to make decisions and to keep the peace after the treaty had been signed.
Treaty of Versailles 
 The British economist John Maynard Keynes thought that it was a great mistake to force such harsh measures on the German people, but his advice was ignored.
Treaty of Versailles 
 Germany set up the democratic Weimar Republic, but it suffered an economic collapse that went with huge inflation of its currency, the Reichsmark.
Treaty of Versailles 
 The French also made Germany take its troops out of the Rhineland, the long stretch of land on Germany's border with France with the Rhine River, which was important since Germany had many factories and businesses there.
Treaty of Versailles 
 Germany also had to give parts to Poland, a country made out of Russian and Austrian parts and the Polish and Lithuanian people who lived in them.
Treaty of Versailles 
 Poland had been a big kingdom a few hundred years earlier, but Austria, Prussia and Russia, during the Partitions of Poland, taken parts of the kingdom and ended its existence.
Treaty of Versailles 
 US President Woodrow Wilson thought that was a very good idea because many people in Europe wanted to be free from the big empires.
Treaty of Versailles 
 In the separate Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye the same year, Austria-Hungary was split into many countries.
Treaty of Versailles 
 One was Austria, which was meant to be the homeland of the Austrians, who spoke German and had ruled Austria-Hungary.
Treaty of Versailles 
 One of the problems of the Treaty of Versailles was that most Austrians like Adolf Hitler thought that Austria should become part of Germany.
Treaty of Versailles 
 Many Germans lived near its borders in the Sudetenland and insisted for it to be part of Germany, which Hitler later got.
Treaty of Versailles 
 Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia (parts of Austria-Hungary), northern Macedonia (part of Bulgaria), Serbia, and Montenegro were made into one country, called Yugoslavia, meaning "Southern Slavic".
Treaty of Versailles 
 The new country was made to be a Southern Slavic homeland but had many religious, linguistic and national differences.
Treaty of Versailles 
 New countries by the Baltic Sea (Estonia, Finland, Latvia, and Lithuania) were also created in other treaties after World War I. The Russian Revolution had started during the war, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was killed and a communist state formed.
Treaty of Versailles 
 Russia had lost control of its western territory (Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Poland).
Treaty of Versailles 
 Later, during World War II, the Soviet Union took over Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and half of Poland.
Treaty of Versailles 
 Another treaty, the Treaty of Sèvres, gave parts the defeated Ottoman Empire to the various winners.
Treaty of Versailles 
 A big problem for Germany was to pay back a huge amount of money (£6000 million) for the all of the damage done to the Allied countries, mostly France, during World War I. That made Germany one of the poorest countries in Europe for almost 20 years and caused political fighting in Germany.
Treaty of Versailles 
 Two important parties, the Communist Party, which wanted a communist revolution like in Russia, and the Nazis, who thought that Germany should become the most powerful country in Europe, fought for many years.
Treaty of Versailles 
 However, both parties strongly opposed the treaty as one that had been forced by the Allies and had been unfair.
Treaty of Versailles 
 After all, Germans had to live in new countries even if they wanted to be part of Germany, but new countries were set up under the excuse of respecting the will the local populations.
Treaty of Versailles 
 As Germany owed a huge amount of money to the Allies, it started to get loans by the Americans such as under the Dawes Plan.
Treaty of Versailles 
 Also, the League of Nations, which had been created by the treaty, usually had too little power to stop wars from happening.
Treaty of Versailles 
 Italy invaded Ethiopia, the Ethiopian emperor begged the League to help him, but it did not do much.
Treaty of Versailles 
 Germany, Japan and Italy left the League, became the Axis powers, invaded many peaceful countries, and caused World War II.
Treaty of Versailles 
 The United States and for some time the Soviet Union did not even join the League even though US President Woodrow Wilson had pushed for his idea to go into the treaty.
Treaty of Versailles 
 The League was never taken seriously although it had been created partly to check that the treaty was being followed.
Treaty of Versailles 
 The treaty failed to keep peace in the end and helped Nazi Germany, led by Hitler, to win the support of many Germans to get rid of the "chains of Versailles", which led to World War II.
Treaty of Versailles 
 Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Treaty of Rapollo in 1922 in which both governments agreed to ignore previous treaties such as Versailles, co-operate "in a spirit of mutual goodwill" and help each other with their economic needs.
50 (number) 
 50 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of two squares in two distinct ways: 50=12+72=52+52.
Rzeszów 
 Rzeszów (, ) is city in the south-east part of Poland in Subcarpathian Voivodeship with a population of 170,722 (2008).
1604 
 January 14 – Hampton Court conference with James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of Puritans
1604 
 November 1 – At Whitehall Palace in London, the William Shakespeare tragedy Othello is presented for the first time.
Houston 
 Houston is known for having the largest medical center and complex in the world, the Texas Medical Center.
Houston 
 George Bush Intercontinental Airport is the main international airport serving Houston, and William P. Hobby Airport is the other international airport that is serving close to downtown Houston.
Houston 
 The Astros play baseball, the Rockets play basketball, the Texans play American Football, and the Houston Dynamo play soccer.
1138 
 Bavaria was taken away from the Welfen Duke Henry the Proud and given to the Austrian Margrave Leopold IV.
Polynesian people 
 Polynesians are native people from islands in Polynesia, including Hawaii, Tahiti, Samoa, and Maoris in New Zealand.
Colonialism 
 Colonialism occurs when a country or a nation takes control of other lands, regions, or territories outside of its borders (boundaries of the country) by turning those other lands, regions, or territories into a colony.
Colonialism 
 Usually, it is a more powerful, richer country that takes control of a smaller, less powerful region or territory.
Colonialism 
 In the 1700s and 1800s, many of the richer, more powerful European countries (such as Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands) established colonies in the continents of Africa, South America, Asia, and the Caribbean.
Colonialism 
 The local people living in the land or territories were usually moved away by using force and violence from armies.
Colonialism 
 To protect these settlers from the local residents who were pushed aside, colonial nations often set up a military fort or colonial police system.
Colonialism 
 Other countries use colonialism to get more land so that they can use the land for farming or to extract (take out) resources such as trees (wood), coal, or metals, or to create a local government or military fort.
Colonialism 
 Other countries use colonialism so that they can get workers from the poorer country to work in factories or farms (either in the richer country, or in the poorer country).
Colonialism 
 In the past, powerful countries that were colonizing poorer countries or regions often forced the people from the poorer countries to work as slaves.
Colonialism 
 Carthage was the largest and most famous colony, and also made other colonies including Cartagena in Spain.
Colonialism 
 Sometimes a new city had to pay some form of taxes to the mother city in exchange for protection, for example.
Colonialism 
 If the Greek settlers found a local tribe living in the new territory, they would fight to force them to leave.