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Cantopop is a colloquial abbreviation for "Cantonese pop music", a form of popular music that is a subgenre of C-pop. It is also known as HK-pop, short for "Hong Kong pop". Cantopop draws influence not only from other forms of Chinese music, but from a variety of international styles, including jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, electronic music, Western pop music and others. By definition, Cantopop songs are almost invariably performed in Cantonese. Although Cantopop boasts a multinational fanbase, Hong Kong is the most si ...

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• Cantopop - Early development
• Cantopop - Cantopop lyrics
• Cantopop - Characteristics of Cantopop
• Cantopop - The Golden age of Cantopop
• Cantopop - Cantopop market
• Cantopop - Cantopop stars
• Cantopop - Male artistes
• Cantopop - Female artistes
• Cantopop - Groups
• Cantopop - Recent developments in Cantopop
• Cantopop - Notes

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ZA may mean: Astair (Russia) (IATA airline designator) South Africa (ISO 3166 country code, from Zuid-Afrika) Zambia (FIPS 10-4 and obsolete NATO country code) Zettampere (also written zetta-ampere), an SI unit of electrical current Za may mean: A US colloquial term for pizza ("'za") A term of confusion, along the lines of "what" or "huh" Zettayear, an unit of time A Japanese term (座), usually meaning "seat" or "platform", but also referring to feudal trade guilds. za may mean: Zhuang langua ...

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The letter yogh (Ȝ ȝ; Middle English: ȝogh) was used in Middle English and Middle Scots, representing y (IPA: /j/) and various velar phonemes. Velars are sounds that are usually made when the back of the tongue is pressed against the soft palate. They include the k in cat, the g in girl, and the ng (IPA [ŋ]) in hang. Some Scot ...

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Moby-Dick – the hyphen in the title is present in the original edition – is a novel by Herman Melville. It was first published by Richard Bentley in expurgated form (in three volumes) as The Whale in London on 18 October 1851, and then in full, by Harper and Brothers, as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale in New York on 14 November 1851, in a single volume. Moby-Dick's style was revolutionary for its time: descriptions in intricate, imaginative, and varied prose of the methods of whale-hunting, the ...

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• Moby-Dick - Background
• Moby-Dick - Characters
• Moby-Dick - Ishmael
• Moby-Dick - Ahab
• Moby-Dick - Moby Dick
• Moby-Dick - Mates
• Moby-Dick - Harpooners
• Moby-Dick - Symbolism
• Moby-Dick - Selected adaptations and references

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A coconut shy (or coconut shie) is a traditional game frequently found as a sidestall at funfairs and fêtes. The game consists of throwing wooden balls at a row of coconuts balanced on posts. Typically a player buys three balls and wins each coconut successfully dislodged. In some cases other prizes may be won instead of the coconuts. The origins of the game are unclear, although the term is first listed in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1903. It probably derives from the game of Aunt Sally, with coconuts being seen as an exotic prize in the early 20th century. The word 'shy' in this context is a co ...

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• Coconut shy - Popular culture

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Verbification, or Verbing is a process in linguistics whereby nouns, adjectives, and other words are transformed into verbs. Often, a suffix is added, but often no morphological changes are made to the word. The word "verbify" is itself a product of verbification, and contains the suffix "-ify", which is frequently used for this process. Verbification may have a bad reputation with some English users because it is such a potent source of neologisms. Although most products of verbification are regarded as neologisms, and ...

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• Verbification - Popular culture

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According to extra-biblical sources Veronica from Jerusalem encountered Jesus on the way to Calvary. Upon wiping the sweat (Latin suda) off his face with her veil, his image was imprinted on the cloth. This event is commemorated by one of the Stations of the Cross. According to legend, Veronica later traveled to Rome to present the cloth to the Roman Emperor Tiberius. The story of Veronica and her veil does not occur in the Bible, though the apocryphal "Acts of Pilate" mentions a woman called Veronica who was cured by touching ...

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Written Cantonese refers to the written language used to write colloquial standard Cantonese using Chinese characters. Cantonese is usually referred to as a spoken variant, and not as a written variant. Spoken vernacular Cantonese differs from standard written Chinese. Written Chinese spoken word for word sounds overly formal and distant in Cantonese. As a result, the necessity of having a written script which matched the spoken verse increased over time. This resulted in the generation of additional Chinese characters to compl ...

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• Written Cantonese - History
• Written Cantonese - Cantonese characters
• Written Cantonese - Synonyms
• Written Cantonese - Cognates
• Written Cantonese - Native words
• Written Cantonese - Loanwords
• Written Cantonese - Particles
• Written Cantonese - Cantonese words
• Written Cantonese - Loanwords
• Written Cantonese - Cantonese character formation
• Written Cantonese - Borrowings
• Written Cantonese - Marked Phonetic Loans
• Written Cantonese - Derived characters
• Written Cantonese - Colloquial usage

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Life in the People's Republic of China Chinese art is art, whether modern or ancient, that originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists or performers. Early so-called "stone age art" dates back to 10,000 BC, mostly consisting of simple pottery and sculptures. This early period was followed by a series of art dynasties, most of which lasted several hundred years. The art of Taiwan and that of Chinese Emigrants can also be considered part of Chinese art where it is based in or draws on the heritage of Chines ...

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• Chinese art - Historical development to 221 BC
• Chinese art - Neolithic pottery
• Chinese art - Jade culture
• Chinese art - Bronze casting
• Chinese art - Early Chinese music
• Chinese art - Early Chinese poetry
• Chinese art - Chu and Southern culture
• Chinese art - Early imperial China 221 BC–AD 220
• Chinese art - Qin sculpture
• Chinese art - Pottery
• Chinese art - Han poetry
• Chinese art - Han architecture
• Chinese art - Other Han art
• Chinese art - Period of division 220–581
• Chinese art - Influence of Buddhism
• Chinese art - Secular culture
• Chinese art - Poetry
• Chinese art - Calligraphy
• Chinese art - Painting
• Chinese art - The Sui and Tang dynasties 581–960
• Chinese art - Buddhist architecture and sculpture
• Chinese art - Golden age of Chinese poetry
• Chinese art - Li Po and Du Fu
• Chinese art - Late Tang poetry
• Chinese art - Painting
• Chinese art - The Song and Yuan dynasties 960–1368
• Chinese art - Song poetry
• Chinese art - Song painting
• Chinese art - Yuan drama
• Chinese art - Yuan painting
• Chinese art - Late imperial China 1368–1895
• Chinese art - Ming Poetry
• Chinese art - Ming prose
• Chinese art - Ming painting
• Chinese art - Qing drama
• Chinese art - Qing poetry
• Chinese art - Early Qing painting
• Chinese art - Decorative arts
• Chinese art - Qing fiction
• Chinese art - Modern Chinese art
• Chinese art - Painting
• Chinese art - Poetry
• Chinese art - Influence of the West
• Chinese art - People's arts
• Chinese art - Contemporary art since 1979
• Chinese art - Performing arts
• Chinese art - Visual arts
• Chinese art - Unsorted
• Chinese art - Performing arts
• Chinese art - Visual arts

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Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Moloch | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw Adonai | El | Elohim | Elyon | Shaddai | Shekinah | YHWH Adad | Amurru | An/Anu | Anshar | Asshur | Abzu/Apsu | Enki/Ea | Enlil | Ereshkigal | Inanna/Ishtar | Kingu | Kishar | Lahmu & Lahamu | Marduk | Mummu | Nabu | Nammu | Nanna/Sin | Nerga ...

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• Tetragrammaton - Meaning
• Tetragrammaton - Using consonants as semi-vowels
• Tetragrammaton - Using the vowels of YHWH
• Tetragrammaton - Vowel marks
• Tetragrammaton - The Scholarly Reconstructed pronunciation יַהְוֶה i.e. Yahweh
• Tetragrammaton - Scholarly sources in which יַהְוֶה is found
• Tetragrammaton - Jewish use of the word
• Tetragrammaton - Possible effect on the Hebrew Language
• Tetragrammaton - Alternative names
• Tetragrammaton - Possible origins
• Tetragrammaton - Popular culture
• Tetragrammaton - Footnotes

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Shit is a vernacular word in Modern English denoting feces, the byproduct of digestion. It is an old and native English word, but following the Norman Conquest, Norman, Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin terms for many common objects and bodily functions began to be seen as more distinguished than native words, and thereafter feces became the accepted English noun, to defecate became the accepted English verb, and shi ...

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• Shit - Etymology
• Shit - Folk and/or Fake etymology
• Shit - Usage
• Shit - Acceptance
• Shit - More examples
• Shit - Insults
• Shit - Pure emotions ejaculations
• Shit - Slang
• Shit - Threat

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A prison is a place in which individuals are physically confined and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Prisons are conventionally institutions which form part of the criminal justice system of a country, such that imprisonment or incarceration is the penalty imposed by the state for the commission of a crime. Prisons may also be used as a tool of political repression to detain political prisoners, prisoners of conscience and "enemies of the state", particularly by authoritarian regimes. In times of war or ...

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• Prison - Characteristics of prisons
• Prison - Prisons in the criminal justice system
• Prison - Military prisons
• Prison - Political prisons
• Prison - World prison populations
• Prison - Prisons by country
• Prison - Prisons in Australia
• Prison - Prisons in Japan
• Prison - Prisons in the United Kingdom
• Prison - Prisons in the United States
• Prison - Prisons in history
• Prison - Cultural references to prisons and prison life
• Prison - Prisoner pen-pal services

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"As the crow flies" is a colloquial term used to describe the most direct route between two points on the Earth. It is most often used to differentiate distance along this route with that along a less direct route, such as a road or railroad, and is generally the same as the great circle route. Some people use the variation "by the crow flies". An example would be the distance between Key West and Pensacola, at the two opposite ends of Florida. Driving, the distance is approximately 792 miles or 1275 km, but directly across the Gulf of Mexico it is o ...

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A bistro is a familiar name for a café serving moderately priced simple meals in an unpretentious setting, especially in Paris; bistros have become increasingly popular with tourists. The term is possibly derived from the Russian word быстро (bystro) which means 'Hurry'. Russian soldiers occupying France after the Napoleonic Wars would frequently demand that French civilians serve their food quickly, shouting the word that evolved into the neologism 'Bistro' at them. The Russian etymology presented a ...

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Canadian poetry is poetry written in Canada, by Canadians. There are two distinct branches of Canadian poetry: French-Canadian poetry (mostly written by Québécois authors) and English-Canadian poetry. Canadian poetry - English-Canadian Poetry. Canadian poetry - Beginnings. The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience. One of the first works was Robert Hayman's Quodl ...

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• Canadian poetry - English-Canadian Poetry
• Canadian poetry - Beginnings
• Canadian poetry - Confederation
• Canadian poetry - Early 20th Century
• Canadian poetry - Post War
• Canadian poetry - Literary Prizes
• Canadian poetry - Uniquely Canadian Forms
• Canadian poetry - External link
• Canadian poetry - French-Canadian Poetry
• Canadian poetry - Early verse
• Canadian poetry - End of 19th century
• Canadian poetry - The Montreal School
• Canadian poetry - The terroir
• Canadian poetry - External link

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A curry is any of a great variety of distinctively spiced dishes, best-known in Indian and Thai cuisine, but curry has been adopted into all of the mainstream cuisines of the Asia-Pacific area, from Pakistan in the west and even eventually to Japan. Along with tea, curry is one of the few dishes or drinks that is truly "pan-Asian", although its roots are from India. Curry - Curries around the world. The term curry derives from kari, a Tamil word meaning sauce and referring to various kinds of ...

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• Curry - Curries around the world
• Curry - Tamil cuisine
• Curry - Malayali cuisine
• Curry - Other Indian cuisine
• Curry - Thai cuisine
• Curry - British cuisine
• Curry - Malaysian cuisine
• Curry - Elsewhere
• Curry - Curry addiction
• Curry - Ingredients
• Curry - Thickeners
• Curry - Spices
• Curry - Sour ingredients
• Curry - Fresh herbs and spices
• Curry - Other
• Curry - Curry powder
• Curry - Curry leaves

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Burlesque was originally a form of art that mocked by imitation, referring to everything from comic sketches to dance routines and usually lampooning the social attitudes of the upper classes. It was often ridiculous in that it imitated several styles, and combined imitations of authors and artists with absurd descriptions. In this, the term was often used interchangeably with "pastiche," "parody," and, at the turn of the 18th century, "mock-heroic." Possibly due to historical social tensions between the upper classes and lower classes of society, much of the humor and enter ...

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• Burlesque - History

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A congener (from Latin roots meaning born together or within the same race or kind) is applied in biology to mean organisms within the same genus; in chemistry to mean a chemical that is in some way related to another e.g., a derivative or an element in the same group of the periodic table; in the alcoholic beverage industry to impurities produced during fermentation; and in colloquial speech and literature to mean a perso ...

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• Congener - Biology
• Congener - Chemistry
• Congener - Fermentation

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In Zen Buddhism, keisaku (Japanese; kyosaku in the Soto school) is an attempt by a sensei to alert students to their mindlessness in zazen (sitting meditation), usually administered by a stick. An English translation is stick of compassion. In a more colloquial fashion, a keisaku is a "reality check", or something that alerts one to further contemplate their situatio ...

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