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Pan pipes

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'''Pan pipes''' are an ancient musical instrument consisting of a set of bamboo pipes of different lengths, each of which plays a single note. The pipes are closed at the bottom end and have no fingering holes. They are played by blowing across the open end of the pipe, rather like sounding a note on a jug or pop bottle.

Variations on the pan pipes are found in many countries of the world. The pan pipes are used in the Andean music of Peru and Chile. In recent years the pan pipes were popularized by the Romanian musician Zamfir.

==In literature==
In Greek mythology, Pan, the goatlike god of Nature, is in love with the nymph Syrinx, who does not love him. He chases her, but river nymphs help her escape by changing Syrinx into river reeds. Pan makes his pipes out of the reeds. Pan pipes are also known as the ''Syrinx,'' which is also the name given to the sound-producing organ in birds.

[[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]]'s poem, ''A Musical Instrument,'' uses the mythical pipes of Pan as a metaphor, suggesting that great art is produced only at great personal cost to the artist. In the poem, Browning says, Pan creates his musical instrument only by muddying the river, killing lilies and driving away the dragonflies as he tears out a reed. He then "hack'd and hew'd" at the reed, "drew the pith, like the heart of a man" and "notch'd the poor dry empty thing in holes." The experiment is successful; the last two stanzas read

  Sweet, sweet, sweet, O Pan! 
    Piercing sweet by the river! 
  Blinding sweet, O great god Pan! 
  The sun on the hill forgot to die, 
  And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly 
    Came back to dream on the river. 

  Yet half a beast is the great god Pan, 
    To laugh as he sits by the river, 
  Making a poet out of a man: 
  The true gods sigh for the cost and pain— 
  For the reed which grows nevermore again 
    As a reed with the reeds of the river. 

==External links==
*[http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/ebbrowning/bl-ebbrown-music-1.htm A Musical Instrument] Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem, online

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Karyotype

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The figure produced when the [[chromosome]]s of a species during [[metaphase]] are arranged according to size.

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Algebraic variety

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[[Image:Sphere-wireframe.png|right|thumb|200px|The unit [[sphere]] is an ''algebraic variety'' over the [[real numbers]] because it is the set of all roots of the polynomial equation ''x2 + y2 +z2 -1 = 0''.]]
An '''algebraic variety''' ''V'' over the [[ring (mathematics)|ring]] ''K'' is defined as the set of all points in ''K'' satisfying a system of polynomial equations with coefficients in ''K''.

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Twenty-First Amendment

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Vandalism

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HAHAHA. THIS IS VANDALISM! *SNERK* BOOBIES!

Chicken

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A chicken is a [[bird]] that is commonly domesticated for [[food]]. Chickens are one of the few birds that cannot fly. Other notable exceptions include the [[emu]] and the [[penguin]]. Chickens lay [[egg]]s. Unlike other creatures, chickens are able to survive for some time without their heads.
Chickens are mentioned in the Bible:
:''O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!'' (Matthew 23:37)

[[Creation scientists]] haven't yet figured what came first: the [[chicken]] or the egg. This is known as the [[creation conundrum]]. [[Evolutionists]] maintain that the egg must have come first, since, a true chicken can only hatch from a true chicken egg, but two parent birds which were not quite 'genetically' chickens can in theory have fertilised and laid it, and given rise to the first true chicken. How one defines what is genetically a true chicken and what is not quite a chicken is, of course, open for debate. <--- Is this last sentence a joke? Really? I mean, seriously? Who thinks this is something relevant? Man. You people need jobs.

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Embryonic stem cells

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Cord blood stem cells

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Amniotic stem cells

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Human embryos in medical research

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