Japanese music

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woodcut: samisen player

Japanese music: melodic principles

taiko drum patterns

woman playing a kokyū

Edo koto tunings

musicians playing the shakuhachi

shakuhachi (end-blown flute)

female musicians

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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Demystified - Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide? illustration

Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide?

Lake Mead (the impounded Colorado River) at the Hoover Dam. The light-coloured band of rock above the shoreline shows the decrease in water level in the first few years of the 21st century.

6 Lakes That Are Drying Up

Scolex (head) of the tapeworm Taenia solium. The hooks of the scolex enable the tapeworm to attach to the intestinal wall.

Uninvited Guests: The 7 Worst Parasitic Worms

Artist interpretation of space asteroids impacting earth and moon. Meteoroids, meteor impact, end of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Doomsday Predictions, comet

Major Mass Extinctions

Middle East bee locator map

Are the Middle East and the Near East the Same Thing?

airplane in flight (plane, aircraft, flying)

7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances

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Photos

woodcut: samisen player

Japanese music: melodic principles

taiko drum patterns

woman playing a kokyū

Edo koto tunings

musicians playing the shakuhachi

shakuhachi (end-blown flute)

female musicians

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Quiz

Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)

Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz