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  2. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Alternative variants are easy from this tuning, but because several chords inherently omit the lowest string, it may leave some chords relatively thin or incomplete with the top string missing (the D chord, for instance, must be fretted 5-4-3-2-3 to include F♯, the tone a major third above D). Baroque guitar standard tuning – a–D–g–b–e

  3. The Fisher Space Pen was not commissioned by NASA at a cost of millions of dollars, while the Soviets used pencils. It was independently developed by Paul C. Fisher, founder of the Fisher Pen Company, with $1 million of his own funds. [19] NASA tested and approved the pen for space use, then purchased 400 pens at $6 per pen. [20]

  4. Writing implement - Wikipedia

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    A dip pen has a steel nib (the pen proper) and a pen-holder. Dip pens are very versatile, as the pen-holder can accommodate a wide variety of nibs that are specialized for different purposes: copperplate writing, mapping pens, and five-pointed nibs for drawing music staves. They can be used with most types of ink, some of which are incompatible ...

  5. Dixie (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Dixie" is structured into five two-measure groups of alternating verses and refrains, following an AABC pattern. [3]As originally performed, a soloist or small group stepped forward and sang the verses, and the whole company answered at different times; the repeated line "look away" was probably one part sung in unison like this.

  6. Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here - Wikipedia

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    It appears that the lyric "Hail, hail, the gang's all here" had unofficially been added to Sullivan's melody many years before 1917. It was referenced in American newspapers as a familiar song as early as 1898, sung at political and other gatherings.

  7. Quill - Wikipedia

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    Quill and a parchment. A quill is a writing tool made from a moulted flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird.Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen/metal-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen.

  8. Bob Dylan - Wikipedia

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    [184] [185] The 1976 half of the tour was documented by a TV concert special, Hard Rain, and the LP Hard Rain. Dylan performing in the De Kuip Stadium, Rotterdam, June 23, 1978. The 1975 tour with the Revue provided the backdrop to Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a sprawling narrative mixed with concert footage and reminiscences.

  9. Eton Boating Song - Wikipedia

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    Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees, Swing swing together, With your bodies between your knees, Swing swing together, With your bodies between your knees. Skirting past the rushes, Ruffling o'er the weeds, Where the lock stream gushes, Where the cygnet feeds,