French Horn The modern orchestral brass French horn was an invention based on early hunting horns. Horns were first used as musical instruments during 16th century operas. During the 17th century‚ modifications to the bell end (larger and flared bells) of the horn were made and the cor de chasse‚ or French horn as the English called it was born.The horn has its origin in the pre-historic days‚ along with the trumpet that is considered anthropologically older. Men have blown through the horns of dead
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understand the strange desire for rhino horn‚ and even more probably don’t know that there is a market for such an item. This is in large part due to the fact that it’s not something you’d expect to be valuable like ivory or gold. It’s just a dirty old animal horn‚ but it’s still quite valuable being worth "more than $4‚500 a pound." In Bryan Christy’s article‚ "Special Investigation: Inside the Deadly Rhino Horn Trade" he discusses the poaching of rhino for their horn‚ how this is being fought‚ and some
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POW 9: Around the Horn Problem Statement During the time of crossing the overland trail‚ many people instead chose to take the ship route which went around Cape Horn at the tip of South America. The points that we are given to keep in mind are: -A ship leaves New York for San Francisco on the first of every month at noon‚ and vice versa for a ship coming from San Francisco. -Each ship arrives exactly six months after it leaves. With these things‚ we are also going to assume that:
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million years. They play a central role in the functioning of ecosystems‚ upon which the survival of thousands of other plant and animal species depend. They also drive eco tourism and safari industries for some of the poorest communities in Africa. Horns are the rhino’s glory and curse. Website http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10877076/ says that‚ "The rhinoceros population has declined by 90 percent since 1970‚ with five species remaining in the world today‚ all of which are endangered. The white and black
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IDIOMS Once upon a time there was a deer who had surprisingly grown a single horn on its forehead. He was quite unaware of this matter. But he knew that the other animals always gave him an icy stare when they saw him. They left him high and dry in jungle. He felt blue most of the time and looked like he has the weight of world on his shoulder‚ because he was so lonely. He decided to go it alone and went into the middle of the jungle where most of the animals live. He tried to be friend with them
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stocky animal. Their size is 5 to 6 feet tall at the shoulder and 10 to 12 feet long. Their weight can range in from 1‚000 to 3‚000 pounds. Rhinos are naturally gray in color but will often take on the color of the local soil. The horn of a rhino is not a true horn. It is not attached to the skull. It grows from the skin and is made up of keratin fibers‚ the same materials found in hair and finger nails. Black rhinos have a prehensile lip that is used much like a finger to select and pick the
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French Horn Assignment 4 http://www.soundjunction.org/thefrenchhornabriefhistory.aspa http://www.blackdiamondbrass.com/hrnhist/hornhist.htm History of French Horns In Europe‚ horns gained popularity in the trendy sport of hunting. As this aristocratic sport spread‚ horn-makers experimented with different shapes and sizes to increase the range of notes possible. In 1636‚ French musical scholar Marin Mersenne wrote of four different kinds of horns in his Harmonie Universelle: Le grand cor (the
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References: Rhino horn use: Fact vs. fiction. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/rhinoceros/rhino-horn-use-fact-vs-fiction/1178/ Bryson‚ D. (2012). Vietnam craves rhino horn; costs more than cocaine. Retrieved from http://news.yahoo.com/vietnam-craves-rhino-horn-costs-more-cocaine-062134928.html
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~303) w7-726a (303)977-8853(Fax) TMilligan@ieee.org (e-mall) Design of Corrugated Horns: A Primer Christophe Granet and Graeme L. James CSIRO ICT Centre‚ Electromagnetics & Antennas PO Box 76‚ Epping 1710‚ NSW‚ Australia E-mail: Christophe.Granet@csiro.au Keywords: Corrugated horn antennas; antenna feeds; reflector antenna feeds Slots 1. Introduction 0 ver the past 40 years‚ corrugated horns supporting so-called hybrid modes have become well established as feeds for reflector
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slaughtering of these creatures has been the result of fiendish poacher’s who callously murder these animals to retrieve their ivory horns‚ in order to profit off them. 80% of Africa’s black rhino population has been wiped out because of poaching. Poachers sell the horns to Yeman. There they are carved and decorated into daggers. While others are sold to parts of Southeast Asia‚ the horns are ground into powder‚ and used as a fever-reducing medicine. Experts have estimated that only about 2‚900 black rhino’s
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