A klopotec ( pronounced, ) is a wooden mechanical device on a high wooden pole, similar to a windmill.

In Slovene it is called klopotec and in some dialects klapoc.

* One of the meetings of Slovenian folk musicians that happens annually is called Veseli klopotec (" Happy Klopotec ").

The first written mentions of klopotec date to the second half of the 18th century, whereas its oldest depictions date to the first half of the 19th century.

A klopotec consists of different parts, each of which should ( ideally ) be made of a specific type of wood to produce a fine and melodic sound.

* The Post of Slovenia issued a stamp worth 13 Slovenian tolars in 1997 featuring klopotec.

* The Slovenian Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for the Protection of Copyright ( SAZAS ) yearly confers the Zlati klopotec (" Golden Klopotec ") award to the author of the best popular song in a Slovene dialect for that year.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

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Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

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Presupposed in Plato's system is a doctrine of levels of insight, in which a certain kind of detached understanding is alone capable of penetrating to the most sublime wisdom.

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And it is precisely in this poorer economic class that one finds, and has always found, the most racial friction.

It is something which most of us try to get out from under.

We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

He catches criminals not merely because he is paid to do so ( frequently he does not receive a fee at all ), but because he enjoys his work, because he firmly believes that murder must be punished.

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It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

Traditional crewel embroidery which seems to be appearing more frequently this fall than in the past few years is still available in this country.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

These problems frequently arise where a firm is making items for the Government not directly along the lines of its normal civilian business or where the Government specifications require operations that the firm did not understand when it undertook the contract.

For he knows that the first and sometimes most difficult job is to know what the question is -- that when it is accurately identified it sometimes answers itself, and that the way in which it is posed frequently shapes the answer.

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A president is frequently besieged to serve in non-academic civic and governmental capacities, to make speeches to lay groups, and to make numerous ceremonial appearances on and off campus.

Towards the end of an intermediate or major rise, while the top is forming on the price chart, it is frequently observed that the odd-lot buying increases sharply.

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Indeed, it is in the field of transportation that Congress has most frequently granted employers exemption from the anti-trust laws ; ;

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His normal specialty is playing the good-natured old man, frequently stupid or deluded but never mean or sly.