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  2. Rhotacism - Wikipedia

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    Rhotacism ( / ˈroʊtəsɪzəm / ROH-tə-siz-əm) [ 1] or rhotacization is a sound change that converts one consonant (usually a voiced alveolar consonant: /z/, /d/, /l/, or /n/) to a rhotic consonant in a certain environment. The most common may be of /z/ to /r/. [ 2] When a dialect or member of a language family resists the change and keeps a ...

  3. Speidel - Wikipedia

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    speidel .com. Speidel is a manufacturer of watchbands and related items based in East Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It was originally founded in Germany by Friedrich Speidel in 1867 as a manufacturer of gold and silver chains. The Speidel Chain Company was formed in its modern state in the United States in 1904.

  4. Complication (horology) - Wikipedia

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    Complication (horology) In horology, a complication is any feature of a timepiece beyond the display of hours, minutes and seconds. A timepiece indicating only hours, minutes and seconds is known as a simple movement. Common complications include date or day-of-the-week indicators, alarms, chronographs (stopwatches), and automatic winding ...

  5. How to See Rarely-Captured Shadow Bands During the Solar ...

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    It makes sense when you think about it—the atmosphere affects our visual experience all the time. "If you're looking on the highway in the summer, you see shimmer in the air above the highway as ...

  6. Ray J - Wikipedia

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    Sanctuary. Atlantic. Elektra. EastWest. Musical artist. Website. rayj .com. William Ray Norwood Jr. (born January 17, 1981), [1] known professionally as Ray J, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, television presenter, and actor. Born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Carson, California, he is the younger brother of singer and actress Brandy.

  7. The Chocolate Watchband - Wikipedia

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    The Chocolate Watchband is an American garage rock [ 3 ] band that formed in 1965 in Los Altos, California. The band went through several lineup changes during its existence. Combining psychedelic and garage rock components, their sound was marked by David Aguilar's lead vocals, songwriting, as well as proto-punk musical arrangements. [ 4 ]

  8. It then presents a model, based around the fundamentals of set-up, instrument roles, sound and repertoire, designed to build a motivated and musically competent jazz big band. By summarising the literature, the article ultimately aims to equip directors with the knowledge to maximise the potential of jazz big bands in secondary schools ...

  9. Valence and conduction bands - Wikipedia

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    In semiconductors and insulators the two bands are separated by a band gap, while in conductors the bands overlap. A band gap is an energy range in a solid where no electron states can exist due to the quantization of energy. Within the concept of bands, the energy gap between the valence band and the conduction band is the band gap. [1]