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  2. Catgut - Wikipedia

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    A coil of catgut cello string. Catgut (also known as gut) is a type of cord [1] that is prepared from the natural fiber found in the walls of animal intestines. [2] Catgut makers usually use sheep or goat intestines, but occasionally use the intestines of cattle, [3] hogs, horses, mules, or donkeys. [4] Despite the name, catgut is not made from ...

  3. Suicide - Wikipedia

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    Genetics might influence rates of suicide. A family history of suicide, especially in the mother, affects children more than adolescents or adults. [78] Adoption studies have shown that this is the case for biological relatives, but not adopted relatives. This makes familial risk factors unlikely to be due to imitation. [36]

  4. History of suicide - Wikipedia

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    Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado musical satirized the illegality of suicide, with Ko-Ko deciding not to kill himself, as it would be a capital offence.. Attitudes towards suicide slowly began to shift during the Renaissance; Thomas More the English humanist, wrote in Utopia (1516) that a person afflicted with disease can "free himself from this bitter life…since by death he will put an end ...

  5. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    The hair is coated with rosin so it can grip the string; moving the hair across a string causes a stick-slip phenomenon, making the string vibrate, and prompting the instrument to emit sound. Darker grades of rosin grip well in cool, dry climates, but may be too sticky in warmer, more humid weather.

  6. Suicide terminology - Wikipedia

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    Suicide-related behaviors comprise self-harm, self-inflicted unintentional death, undetermined suicide-related behaviors, self-inflicted death with undetermined intent, suicide attempt, and suicide. Self-harm is self-inflicted, potentially injurious behavior for which there is evidence that the person had no intent to die.

  7. Cello - Wikipedia

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    Overall, the modern instrument has much higher string tension than the Baroque cello, [14] resulting in a louder, more projecting tone, with fewer overtones. In addition, the instrument was less standardized in size and number of strings; a smaller, five-string variant (the violoncello piccolo) was commonly used as a solo instrument and five ...

  8. Caroline Bosanquet - Wikipedia

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    In 1996 Bosanquet published "The Secret Life of Cello Strings: Harmonics for Cellists", a method book designed to aid cellists in playing harmonics. [5] In the introduction, Bosanquet stated that she was intrigued by the appearance of harmonics in places such as “the ethereal notes at the end of Bruch’s Kol Nidrei, the bell-like pentatonic notes in Dvorak’s Cello Concerto, the ...

  9. Suicidology - Wikipedia

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    Their definition of suicide had three different aspects. One was a murder involving hatred or the wish to kill. The second one was a murder by the self often involving guilt or the wish to be killed. The last one is the wish to die. They thought of suicide being a murderous death wish that was turned back upon one's own self.