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Talk box

A talk box is an effects device that allows artists to alter the sound of a musical instrument by changing the frequency content of the sound and applying spoken sounds to the instrument’s sounds. A talk box often sends sound from the instrument into the musician’s lips via a plastic tube next to a voice

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Dune (novel)

Dune is a 1965 science fiction book by American author Frank Herbert that was first published as two independent serials in Analog magazine. It shared the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1966 with Roger Zelazny’s This Immortal, and it won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. It is the first episode in the

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Gurinder Sandhu

Gurinder Singh Sandhu (born 14 June 1993) is an Australian international cricketer who currently plays for Queensland in the domestic league. He is a tall fast bowler of Indian ancestry. In the 2012 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, he was a member of Australia’s Under-19 cricket squad. During the 2011–12 Big Bash League season, Sandhu

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Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, often known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe that defines Eurasia’s westernmost boundary. It is mostly shared between Spain and Portugal, encompassing the majority of their land, as well as a minor portion of Southern France, Andorra, and Gibraltar. It is the second biggest European peninsula by size, after the

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Continental Portugal

Portugal’s mainland or continental Portugal constitutes the majority of the Portuguese Republic, especially that portion of the Iberian Peninsula and hence of Continental Europe, accounting for around 95 percent of the total population and 96.6 percent of the country’s area. Mainland Residents of the Portuguese archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira refer to Portugal as

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Quaker wedding

Quaker weddings are the religious society of Friends’ traditional wedding ceremony. Quaker weddings are done in a manner akin to normal Quaker meetings for worship, mostly in silence and without an officiant or a rigorous schedule of activities, and hence differ significantly from typical Western weddings.

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Boring Billion

The Boring Billion, otherwise known as the Barren Billion, the Dullest Time in Earth’s History, and Earth’s Middle Ages, is the time period between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago (Gya) spanning the middle Proterozoic eon, characterized by more or less tectonic stability, climatic stasis, and slow biological evolution. Summary It is bordered by two

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