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jeopardy/2154_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  GENERAL SCIENCE | The Babylonians kept abreast of the times using a form of this instrument seen here: | Sundial. right: Dave. Wrong: Value: $300. Number:...
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Babylonian astronomy - Wikipedia  Editors: please remove this warning only after the diffs listed here have been checked for accuracy. (June 2013). Babylonian tablet recording Halley's comet in 164 BC. According to Asger Aaboe, the origins of Western astronomy can be found in Mesopotamia, ... Classical Greek and Latin sources frequently use the term Chaldeans for the...
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Astronomy of Mesopotamia: Sumeria, Babylon, and Assyria  Babylon and Assyria were later civilizations in the same geographic area, and ... We still use many of their original constellations, and the records they kept of ... also details the times of Venus' appearance and disappearance from the horizon. ... edge of its luminous hemisphere casts is splendor on the Earth in the form of
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Wikipedia Terms - Princeton University  stay  observe ...... unaffected  instruments .... times  blunt ...... mixed-use  antipope ...... re-form .... multi-use .... re-use .... babylonian ...... abreast .... land-use...
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Old Babylon: The Culmination c.1900 to 1600 BCE - Babylon ...  Yet by our own day the version with Babylon has long overcome all competition, .... The ruins of the palace of Nebuchadnezzar are still to be seen there, but ..... staff to proceed with religious ceremonies and requesting to be kept abreast of the ..... Here was the earliest known form of 'positional notation'  the 'hundreds, tens...
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Exam #2:12-20 Flashcards | Quizlet  End-blown woodwind instrument with a whistle mouthpiece, generally ... A medieval flute with three holes that is blown at one end through a mouthpiece. .... dance in moderate duple time, popular during the Renaissance and Baroque periods;...
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music in ancient greece and rome - Ganino  utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now .... ancient Greeks and Romans; it has a more modest objectiveto provide ..... and certainly as important, as the spoken word, not only in their drama, but .... source of confusion in the Greek word elegeios, which may simply refer ...... everyday life.
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jeopardy/2380_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY | Now common, before 1400 this device was used only in a few applications like grindstones & hurdy-gurdys | Crank. right:.
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egyptian harp | The harpist chants laudation of the Pharaoh before ...  OPEN HARP The harp is a multi-string musical instrument which has the plane of its ... Inside Ancient Egypt Houses | This stunning Egyptian harp was one of many .... GIBSON Mandolin GUITAR Manufacturing Company made these before 1910. ..... Gold Collar -- Circa 1070-712 BCE -- From the treasure of the royal tombs...
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Ancient Scripts: Sumerian  They developed a writing system whose wedge-shaped strokes would influence the style ... Subsequently, the ancient Mesopotamians stopped using clay tokens ... Another interesting fact about Sumerian (and later cuneiform systems as well) is .... WHAT YOU MEAN, NOT NOW WHAT YOU SAY,,IS MASSIVE BEUTY OUT...
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Ezekiel - Sonic Light  The last dated prophecy came to the prophet in 571 B.C. (29:17). ... Ten thousand captives went to Babylon then with much confiscated treasure from ... Jews lived in three principle locations during Ezekiel's ministry: Egypt, Judah, and Babylon. ...... God would not allow the Babylonians to destroy Jerusalem and the temple.
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Jimi Hendrix | thetalkingpot  Jul 23, 2015 ... Slaves with time travel programming are used for these missions. ... (see Secrets of Fairytales, Pagan gods, Pagan feasts and Sinister Sites: ... because of the assigned meaning that goes back to ancient times, ... It's a form of ritual magick. .... rowing boats themselves, are also used to represent the crew and...
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This question originally aired on December 23,... | Jeopardy ...  ... 2002 Category: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Question: The timbrel mentioned in the Bible, it consists of a parchment stretched over a wooden hoop with metal...
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J! Archive - Show #3167, aired 1998-05-12  The style called techno evolved in this U.S. city about 20 years after Motown was ... After Judah refused to pay taxes in 602 B.C., this Babylonian king took over...
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Traditional Music in the Time of Vermeer: The Dulcian  Music in the Daily Life of Vermeer: The Dulcian or Curtal (1) ... "short wood"), a generic term for double-reed instruments with bores doubled back in themselves. ... for the medieval trumpet, but its application to a woodwind instrument facilitated finger .... Click here for period bass dulcian music: .... Reviews of Vermeer Videos.
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Music and Society in Early Modern England - Cambridge University ...  ... bels, tuneable amongst themselves, and loud-sounding the Word of God to others'. In his ears, this was a fundamentally religious sound, but visitors also noted the ... in total).3 The metallic twang of the jew's harp, produced by plucking the 'tongue' while the body of the instrument is held between the teeth, may well have...
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Writing - Holman Bible Dictionary - - StudyLight.org  Entry for 'Writing' - One of 28 Bible dictionaries freely available, this readable ... The Sumerians were the first to write different words having the same sound ... to use stylized pictures composed of wedges impressed in the clay tablet with a stylus. .... used to carve or scratch the inscription into the wood or its covering of wax.
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Different Kinds of Harps - The Celtic Harp Page  Different kinds of harps, from ancient to modern - the ancestors of the Celtic harp up to ... dating from the 12th Century, while the lyre-like crwth is a Welsh version from the 18th C. ... This harp was the Old Kingdom's only stringed instrument (ca. .... Since the harp is one of the oldest instruments known to humankind, it's not...
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Carefully replace the strings on this ancient instrument # Quiz ...  Jun 29, 2016 ... This ancient instrument is sounded on a new year's day # Quiz # Question. 0:28 ... This ancient tusked beast is the state fossil # Quiz # Question.
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azu_td_9713378_sip1_... - The University of Arizona Campus ...  finger holes were drilled into the flute, grouped three plus three. At one end of the ... The contemporcu::y Native American flute, also played in the vertical position .... tuning, although each of these instrxjments still possesses ..... Pueblo, cind the Zuni, consider Kokopelli to be a figure ..... consximes the young of other insects.
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Strummin' on the Old Banjo: How an African Instrument Got a Racist ...  Oct 4, 2016 ... The backs, sides, and tops of lutes, violins, and other chordophones (the term for ... People had family histories and homelandsproperty did not. ... they are first referenced in African literature in the Sundiata Epic of 14th century Mali. ..... got the idea for Oh! Susanna from a slave ballad with similar lyrics,...