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Castrati were rarely referred to as such: in the 18th century, the euphemism musico ( pl musici ) was much more generally used, although it usually carried derogatory implications ; another synonym was evirato ( literally meaning " emasculated ").
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Castrati first appeared in Italy in the mid-16th century, though at first the terms describing them were not always clear.
Castrati were already prominent by this date in Italian church choirs, replacing both falsettists and trebles ; the last soprano falsettist singing in Rome, Juan de Santos ( a Spaniard ), died in 1652.
Castrati and referred
Andres Castro Arms, often referred to as simply Castro, houses 56 residents ( known as " Castrati ", " Castonauts ," " Castruffles ," " Castromboli ," etc.
Castrati and usually
Castrati, adult males with a female singing voice ( usually produced by castration before puberty ), appeared in the earliest operas – initially in female roles.
Castrati and ;
*" Castrati, Balzac, and Barthes ' S / Z " By: Noble, Yvonne ; Comparative Drama, 1997 Spring ; 31 ( 1 ): 28-41.
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After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.
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When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.
Frequently a few isolated thick-walled cells or, rarely, groups of such cells in the xylem region, were also specifically stained, but there was no such staining in epidermis, cortex, most xylem cells, ray cells, or pith.
Because Holstein cattle weren't a beef breed, they were rarely seen on a ranch, though one might be found now and then for the milk supply.
His innovative methods, however, were controversial, and he rarely stayed in one place very long.
Carnegie believed that the sons of prosperous businesspersons were rarely as talented as their fathers.
Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.
The recordings of these bands and their songs were rarely heard or exported outside the originating countries but many can now be found on compilation albums and CDs from specialist record shops.
Boron compounds were relatively rarely used chemicals until the late 1800s when Francis Marion Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company first popularized these compounds and made them in volume and hence cheap.
As was common in the Victorian era, women of her class were privately educated and rarely sent to college.
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Democrats were rarely invited to speak at the university, in part because they took political and social positions ( especially support for abortion rights ) opposed by the Religious Right.
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Bundaberg Rum originated because the local sugar mills had a problem with what to do with the waste molasses after the sugar was extracted ( it was heavy, difficult to transport and the costs of converting it to stock feed were rarely worth the effort ).
While the men of the tribe ate the body of the deceased and rarely contracted the disease, the women and children, who ate the less desirable body parts, including the brain, were 8 times more likely than men to contract kuru from infected tissue.
As Lovecraft conceived the deities or forces of his mythos, there were, initially, the Elder Gods ... hese Elder Gods were benign deities, representing the forces of good, and existed peacefully ... very rarely stirring forth to intervene in the unceasing struggle between the powers of evil and the races of Earth.
Carbines were short enough to be loaded and fired from horseback but this was rarely done-a moving horse is a very unsteady platform, and once halted a soldier can load and fire more easily if dismounted, which also makes him a smaller target.
They were small, rarely exceeding 200 tons OM, and modelled after French luggers.
The ships had short-expected lifetimes and rarely outlasted two decades of use before they were broken up for salvage.
The parfaits only rarely recanted, and hundreds were burnt.
Prior to the invention of tension rods drum skins were attached and tuned by rope systems such as that used on the Djembe or pegs and ropes such as that used on Ewe Drums, a system rarely used today, although sometimes seen on regimental marching band snare drums.
Though his ambitions were great and he was able to buy both a country estate and a ship ( as well as civet cats to make perfume ), he was rarely out of debt.
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The single animal or a small bunch were referred to as `` strays '' ; ;
Cattle which died from them winter storms were referred to as the `` winter kill ''.
Them new to the country were referred to as `` pilgrims ''.
Though the prokaryotic cyanobacteria ( commonly referred to as blue-green algae ) were traditionally included as " algae " in older textbooks, many modern sources regard this as outdated as they are now considered to be bacteria.
The names were abandoned in Latin, which instead referred to the letters by adding a vowel ( usually e ) before or after the consonant ( the exception is zeta, which was retained from Greek ).
The Ancient Pueblo were one of four major prehistoric archaeological traditions recognized in the American Southwest, sometimes referred to as Oasisamerica.
The title of this book revived the Ashes legend and it was after this that England v Australia series were customarily referred to as " The Ashes ".
These were commonly referred to as " Arians " due to their rejection of the Trinity, though in fact the Socinians, as they were later known, went further than Arius to the position of Photinus.
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By the 6th century Alexander's commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was referred to as " the commentator " ().
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Antibacterial-resistant strains and species, sometimes referred to as " superbugs ", now contribute to the emergence of diseases that were for a while well controlled.
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This Doric limestone building, from which many relics survive, is referred to as the hekatompedon ( Greek for " hundred – footed "), Ur-Parthenon ( German for " primitive Parthenon "), H – Architecture or Bluebeard temple, after the pedimental three-bodied man-serpent sculpture, whose beards were painted dark blue.
Whereas Wozniak originally referred to his Integer BASIC as " Game BASIC ," having written it so he could write a Breakout clone for his new computer, few action games were written in Applesoft BASIC for several reasons:
These pits were also used to steam foods by adding heated rocks or embers and then seaweed or corn husks ( or other coverings ) placed on top to steam fish and shellfish as well as vegetables ; potatoes would be added while still in-skin and corn while in-husk, this would later be referred to as a clambake by the colonists.
Later, many AMPS networks were partially converted to D-AMPS, often referred to as TDMA ( though TDMA is a generic term that applies to many cellular systems ).
When debates polarise between techniques, the methods are often referred to by a colour code, based on the colours of the bindings of the two volumes from the first Oxford Conference, where the approaches were first distinguished.
They were commonly classified on a spectrum of low potency to high potency, where potency referred to the ability of the drug to bind to dopamine receptors, and not to the effectiveness of the drug.
In the past, many such afflictions, including ergotism, erysipelas, and shingles, were historically referred to as " St. Anthony's fire.
It is the 1924 tour that is credited as being the first in which the team were referred to as " the Lions ", the irony being that it was on this tour that the single lion-rampant crest was replaced with the forerunner of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions, that is still worn today.
Initially, balls of wool referred as ball badminton were preferred by the upper classes in windy or wet conditions, but ultimately the shuttlecock stuck.
( These are actually referred to in the translation as " balls "; however, they were clearly intended to be bubbles, since they pop, and are taken from Bubble Bobble.
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