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  2. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    Acoustic guitar Before the invention of the solid-body electric guitar, all guitars amplified the sound of a plucked string with a resonating hollow body. Similarly: acoustic piano. [3] American Morse Code This was the original signaling alphabet, suggested by Samuel Morse's assistant, Alfred Vail. It has a variety of different units and timings.

  3. Music - Wikipedia

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    Meter animates time in regular pulse groupings, called measures or bars, which in Western classical, popular, and traditional music often group notes in sets of two (e.g., 2/4 time), three (e.g., 3/4 time, also known as Waltz time, or 3/8 time), or four (e.g., 4/4 time). Meters are made easier to hear because songs and pieces often (but not ...

  4. Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japan has a total fertility rate of 1.4, which is below the replacement rate of 2.1, and is among the world's lowest; [236] it has a median age of 48.4, the highest in the world. [237] As of 2020 [update] , over 28.7 percent of the population is over 65, or more than one in four out of the Japanese population. [ 234 ]

  5. Guitar Hero Live - Wikipedia

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    The updated Guitar Hero Live controller uses a 2 × 3 button fret system in contrast to previous games that uses a 1 × 5 button scheme.. Guitar Hero Live follows similar gameplay to previous installments in the series, requiring players to use a guitar-shaped controller with buttons and a strum bar to match notes on a scrolling "highway" corresponding to notes played in a song.

  6. Sega Genesis - Wikipedia

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    In a 1997 year-end review, a team of five EGM editors gave the Genesis scores of 4.5, 5.0, 4.0, 4.5, and 7.5 – for all five editors, the lowest score they gave to any of the five consoles reviewed in the issue. While their chief criticisms were the lack of upcoming game releases and dated hardware, they also concurred that the Genesis was ...

  7. Sweden - Wikipedia

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    The name for Sweden is generally agreed to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(w)e, meaning "one's own", referring to one's own tribe from the tribal period. [15] [16] [17] The native Swedish name, Sverige (a compound of the words Svea and rike, first recorded in the cognate SwÄ“orice in Beowulf), [18] translates as "realm of the Swedes", which excluded the Geats in Götaland.

  8. Culture of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Australian Content Standard requires all free-to-air commercial networks to broadcast an annual minimum of 55% Australian content for primary channels and 1460 hours for non-primary channels between 6 a.m. and midnight. [144] The Wiggles performing in the United States in 2007

  9. Algeria - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, Algeria had the highest numbers of physicians in the Maghreb region (1.72 per 1,000 people), nurses (2.23 per 1,000 people), and dentists (0.31 per 1,000 people). Access to "improved water sources" was around 97.4% of the population in urban areas and 98.7% of the population in the rural areas.