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  2. California State University police departments - Wikipedia

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    The California State University Los Angeles Police Department is located at 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA. The Police Department has 21 authorized police officer positions. The Police Department has 21 authorized police officer positions.

  3. Whistling - Wikipedia

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    Finger whistling is harder to control but achieves a piercing volume. In Boito's opera Mefistofele the title character uses it to express his defiance of the Almighty. Whistling can also be produced by blowing air through enclosed, cupped hands or through an external instrument , such as a whistle or even a blade of grass or leaf.

  4. California State University, Bakersfield - Wikipedia

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    California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB, Cal State Bakersfield, or CSU Bakersfield) is a public university in Bakersfield, California.It was established in 1965 as Kern State College and officially in 1968 as California State College Bakersfield on a 375-acre (152 ha) campus, becoming the 20th school in the California State University system.

  5. Physics of whistles - Wikipedia

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    A trailing edge tone occurs when an exterior flow passes over a trailing edge. There is a whistle that is a combination of an edge tone and a trailing-edge tone and might be called a wake-edge tone. It occurs in rotating circular saws under idling conditions and may be called the circular-saw whistle. Under load conditions, blade vibration ...

  6. List of Foucault pendulums - Wikipedia

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    Arizona State University, Bateman Physical Sciences Center 70.5 ft (21.5 m) 238 lb (108 kg) 9.3 s Arkansas: Conway: Hendrix College: California: Bakersfield: California State University Bakersfield Physics Center Fresno: Fresno Pacific University: 41 ft (12.5 m) 235 7.1 s Long Beach: Sunnyside Mausoleum, Forest Lawn: Los Angeles: Griffith ...

  7. Whistled language - Wikipedia

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    Whistled languages are linguistic systems that use whistling as a form of speech and facilitate communication between individuals. More than 80 languages have been found to practice various degrees of whistling, most of them in rugged topography or dense forests, where whistling expands the area of communication while movement to carry messages is challenging. [1]

  8. Aztec death whistle - Wikipedia

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    The whistle's sounds, analyzed through its functioning mechanism, have been noted to resemble the sound of wind and fall within the human hearing sensitivity range. Experimental models of death whistles have been constructed and tested to explore hypotheses and for use in conferences and demonstrations, given that the original ancient ...

  9. International Whistlers Convention - Wikipedia

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    The International Whistlers Convention was an international competition for whistlers that originated from a folk festival in Louisburg, North Carolina.It was started in 1980 as the National Whistlers Convention, the first whistling convention in the world.