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Turtle Dove Shoal is a dangerous shoal about three kilometres wide, [1] located at 2] in the Indian Ocean about fifty kilometres south of the Houtman Abrolhos, off the coast of Western Australia The shoal was first charted on a 1627 map by Hessel Gerritsz , where it was labelled as the "Tortelduyff" rocks.
Pipa pipa is an ambush predator, lying in-wait underwater for prey to inevitably wander too close, swiftly inhaling the unsuspecting creature using suction feeding. Additionally, the Surinam toad's rather flat body shape, combined with rather dark, dull coloration, serves as effective camouflage in the murky waters they inhabit, perfectly ...
In 2014, an industrial designer residing in the United States Xi Zheng (郑玺) designed and crafted an electric pipa – "E-pa" in New York. In 2015, pipa player Jiaju Shen (沈嘉琚) released a mini album composed and produced by Li Zong (宗立), [75] with E-pa music that has a strong Chinese flavor within a modern Western pop music mould.
"Pipa xing" (Chinese: 琵琶行), variously translated as "Song of the Pipa" or "Ballad of the Lute", is a Tang dynasty poem composed in 816 by the Chinese poet Bai Juyi, [1] one of the greatest poets in Chinese history. [2] [3] The poem contains a description of a pipa performance during a chance encounter with a performer near the Yangtze ...
While dang-bipa was a Tang-style pipa first introduced from the Chinese Tang dynasty and localized over time to have Korean characteristics, hyang-bipa was created in the Korean Kingdom of Silla. The instrument is also related to other derivatives such as Vietnamese đàn tỳ bà and the Japanese biwa. An old Korean bipa dated 1893.
The girl on the far right is playing the đàn tỳ bà. The đàn tỳ bà or đàn tì bà (Vietnamese: [ɗàːn tì ɓàː], Chữ Nôm: 彈琵琶) is a Vietnamese traditional plucked string instrument derived from the Chinese pipa, [1] That first gained popularity in China before spreading throughout East Asia, eventually reaching Vietnam sometime during the Trần dynasty.
The Sabana Surinam toad (Pipa parva), also known as the dwarf toad, is a species of frog in the family Pipidae. It is found in northwestern Venezuela and northeastern Colombia ( Norte de Santander and La Guajira Departments ), mainly in the Maracaibo Basin .
There are seven recognized species: [1] [2] Pipa arrabali Izecksohn, 1976 – Arrabal's Surinam toad; Pipa aspera Müller, 1924 – Albina Surinam toad; Pipa carvalhoi (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937) – Carvalho's Surinam toad; Pipa myersi Trueb, 1984 – Myers' Surinam toad; Pipa parva Ruthven and Gaige, 1923 – Sabana Surinam toad; Pipa pipa ...