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The modern penny whistle is indigenous to the British Isles particularly England when factory-made " tin whistles " were produced by Robert Clarke from ( 1840 – 1882 ) in Manchester and later New Moston, England.
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In the 17th century whistles were called flageolets ; a term to describe a whistle with a French made fipple headpiece ( common to the modern penny whistle ) and such instruments are linked to the development of the English flageolet, French flageolet and recorders of the renaissance and baroque period.
The term flageolet is still preferred by some modern tin whistle who feel this better describes the instrument, as this characterises a wide variety of fipple flutes, including penny whistles.
Clarke whistles were sold for a nominal fee ( a British penny ) and the acquired names of penny and tin whistle have endured to modern times.
Amusement arcades developed out of penny arcades from the nineteenth century which had machines called bagatelles, a game with elements of billiards and modern pinball.
Later, penny arcade machines grew closer to modern pinball.
The earliest penny arcades from the nineteenth century had machines called bagatelles, a game with elements of billiards and modern pinball.
Later, penny arcade machines grew closer to modern pinball.
The first edition was published on 14 April 1931, with a price of one penny, and as of 2004 over one million copies of the modern code are sold each year.
Historically, the ancient shovelboard, about which little is known, appears to have diverged into modern shuffleboard and sjoelen, and with the former leading to the development of both table shuffleboard and shove ha ' penny.
The first building visitors see in the museum is the bank ( modelled on the still-standing Lloyds Bank branch in Broseley ), at which they can change modern coinage into token coinage that represents the predecimal farthings, halfpennies, pennies, threepenny bits and sixpences, at an exchange rate of 40 new pence to 1 old penny.
Frederic Hudson, one of the first to write about the history of American journalism, believed the rise of the penny press to be a key factor in the development of the modern newspaper.
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The tin whistle in its modern form is from a wider family of fipple flutes which have been seen in many forms and cultures throughout the world.
The Queen Mary 2, being 345 metres long, was given the lowest possible frequency ( 70 Hz ) for her regulation whistles which means she carries both 70 Hz modern whistles and a single vintage 55 Hz whistle.
In modern TV ads, Cap ’ n Crunch is often seen riding his ship through a wall as the whistle blares.
The modern slide whistle is perhaps most familiar in its use as a sound effect ( as in the sound tracks of animated cartoons, when a glissando can suggest something rapidly ascending or falling, or when a player hits a " Bankrupt " on Wheel of Fortune ), but it is also possible to play melodies on the slide whistle.
English flute maker and jazz musician Bernard Overton is credited with producing the first modern low whistle in late 1971, which he made for Finbar Furey after Furey's prized Indian bamboo whistle was destroyed while on tour.
Of particular note is Davy Spillane, whose work in fusing the sound of traditional instruments such as the low whistle with modern jazz or RnB, for example, has done much for the instrument's visibility.
When asked to describe their genre, Caroline Corr said it was a " blend of modern rhythms and technology with acoustic instruments, violin, tin whistle, drums, and of course the voices, the marrying of these instruments is our sound ".
Despite the advent of modern radio communication, many of these whistle signals are still used today.
In addition to releasing two solo albums, which aided the popularisation of modern traditional Irish tin whistle playing, and three albums with Dordán, she has taught hundreds of students, in Ireland, across Europe, and in the United States, to play the whistle.
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This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.
While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.
Neither is primary experience understood according to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received other than signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense organs.
Shakespeare's Shylock, too, is of dubious value in the modern world.
But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.
A characteristic expression of such concern and inquiry is found in Joseph P. Lyford's Introduction To The Agreeable Autocracies, a recent paperback study of the institutions of modern democratic society.
The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.
As Sandburg said at the time: `` It is as ancient as the medieval European ballads brought to the Appalachian Mountains, it is as modern as skyscrapers, the Volstead Act, and the latest oil well gusher ''.
Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.
The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.
Diplomatic is another area for which the dawn of the twentieth century marks the beginning of modern standards of scholarship.
This is certainly an irrational dogmatism, in which the modern mind attempts to understand the spirit of the sixteenth century on twentieth-century terms.
Rexroth is a longtime jazz buff, a name-dropper of jazz heroes, and a student of traditional as well as modern jazz.
In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.
This angry and exasperated stance which Patchen has maintained in his poetry for almost fifteen years has been successfully modulated into a kind of woe that is as effective as anger and still expresses his disapproval of the modern world.
But the firm has recognized the tight dollar and the tourist's desire to visit the `` smaller, less-traveled and relatively inexpensive countries '', and is now prepared to teach modern Greek and Portuguese through recordings.
Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.
The possibility of recall into the Army is part of the price that a modern American has to pay for the enviable heritage of liberty which he enjoys.
Under modern conditions, this is especially true of the ready reserve.
However, its modern one-story layout is designed to increase our production capacity, permit more efficient manufacturing, and substantially reduce current repair and maintenance costs.
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Australia has several indigenous plants which are popular among modern ayahuasqueros there, such as various DMT-rich species of Acacia.
However, the indigenous people have influenced modern Costa Rican culture to a relatively small degree, as most of these died from diseases such as smallpox and mistreatment by the Spaniards.
Kelly himself refused to categorize his style: " I don't have a name for my style of dancing ... It's certainly hybrid ... I've borrowed from the modern dance, from the classical, and certainly from the American folk dance – tap-dancing, jitterbugging ... But I have tried to develop a style which is indigenous to the environment in which I was reared.
Hong Kong makes strenuous law enforcement efforts, but faces serious challenges in controlling transit of heroin and methamphetamine to regional and world markets ; modern banking system provides a conduit for money laundering ; rising indigenous use of synthetic drugs, especially among young people.
Some modern authors consider them to be an indigenous people who were Celticized culturally and possibly also through intermarriage.
According to Lt. Paul Gratz's account from 1909, indigenous legends of the Congo River Basin in modern day Zambia spoke of a creature known by native people as the " Nsanga ", which was said to inhabit the Lake Bangweulu region.
Some include the classical Mesoamerican cultures, still in use today in the modern indigenous languages of their descendants, namely the Nahuatl and Mayan languages ( see Maya numerals ).
The extent to which contemporary Pagans use these sources differs ; many follow a spirituality which they accept is entirely modern, whilst others attempt to reconstruct or revive indigenous, ethnic religions as found in historical and folkloric sources as accurately as possible.
Although the unit's officers were originally all French, it was, in effect, the first indigenous modern Syrian army.
Uyghur activists identify with the Tarim mummies, but research into the genetics of ancient Tarim mummies and their links with modern Uyghurs remain controversial, both to Chinese government officials concerned with ethnic separatism, and to Uyghur activists concerned that research could affect their claims of being indigenous to the region.
All members of the genus Musa are indigenous to the tropical regions of Southeast Asia and Oceania, including the Malay Archipelago ( modern Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines ) and Northern Australia.
The idea of incentive conservation is a modern one but its practice has clearly defended some of the sub Arctic wildernesses and the wildlife in those regions for thousands of years, especially by indigenous peoples such as the Evenk, Yakut, Sami, Inuit and Cree.
Most indigenous forms of money ( wampum, shells, tally sticks and such ) and the modern fiat money is only a " symbolic " storage of value and not a real storage of value like commodity money.
Since Star Trek has consistently used alien interactions as an allegory for the real world, the Prime Directive has served as a template to tell stories which resemble those of real human societies and their interactions with less technologically advanced societies, such as the interaction between modern cultures and indigenous peoples.
The study also concluded that “ Estimates of colonial Greek vs. indigenous Celto-Ligurian demography predict a maximum of a 10 % Greek contribution, suggesting a Greek male elite-dominant input into the Iron Age Provence population .” This evidence supports the persistence of the gene pool of the Ancient Greeks among the modern southern French.
A fair number of Akkadian loan words survive in the Mesopotamian Neo Aramaic dialects spoken in and around modern Iraq by the indigenous Assyrian ( aka Chaldo-Assyrian ) Christians of the region, and the giving of Akkadian personal names, along with a number of Akkadian last names and tribal names, is still common amongst Assyrian people.
Scholars trace the origins of the modern Mexican holiday to indigenous observances dating back hundreds of years and to an Aztec festival dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl.
Characteristically, early modern English discourse on Ireland frequently resorted to comparisons with Scythians in order to confirm that the indigenous population of Ireland descended from these ancient " bogeymen ", and showed themselves as barbaric as their alleged ancestors.
One of the legacies of the indigenous peoples was the word Guiana, often used to describe the region encompassing modern Guyana as well as Suriname ( former Dutch Guiana ) and French Guiana.
Map of the Roman empire and contemporary indigenous Europe in AD 125, showing the location of the Thuringians in modern day Germany.
Since the modern manufacturing process is unknown to them, members, leaders, and prophets of the cults maintain that the manufactured goods of the non-native culture have been created by spiritual means, such as through their deities and ancestors, and are intended for the local indigenous people, but that the foreigners have unfairly gained control of these objects through malice or mistake.
The modern history of cargo cults seems to have begun before historical records in the countries of Melanesia, where an indigenous tradition of exchange of goods and objects of wealth was tied to a belief that the ancestors and deities had an influence over these things and would return at some time laden with these objects for the members of the tribes.
Since the multiregional evolution hypothesis ( MREH ) revolved around a belief that regional modern human populations evolved in situ in various regions ( Europe: Neandertals to Europeans, Asia: Homo erectus to East Asians, Australia: Sumatran erectines to indigenous Australians ), these results demonstrated that a pure MREH hypothesis could not explain one important genetic marker.
Although a large number of the indigenous Guaraní people have largely been assimilated into modern society and their belief system altered or replaced by Christianity ( due in large part to the work of Jesuit missionaries in the 16th century ), several of the core beliefs are still active in many rural areas in the Guaraní region.
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