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  • 101Miami String Quartet — The Miami String Quartet is an American string quartet. The group was founded in 1988 at The New World School of the Arts by John de Lancie in Miami, Florida, and is now Quartet in Residence at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, where all four… …

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  • 102third string — Synonyms and related words: agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, back seat, backup, cast, change, changeling, company, comparison, complement, copy, counterfeit, crew, deputy, double, dummy, eight, eleven, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange,… …

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  • 103Twelve-string guitar — This article is about guitars with six courses. For guitars with more than six separate strings, see extended range classical guitar or ten string guitar. The twelve string guitar is an acoustic or electric guitar with twelve strings, which… …

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  • 104Alexander String Quartet — The Alexander String Quartet is the premier quartet of San Francisco. Formed in New York in 1981, the Alexander Quartet was the first American string quartet to win the London International String Quartet Competition, winning both the audience… …

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  • 105sec·ond-string — /ˌsɛkəndˈstrıŋ/ adj, always used before a noun chiefly US sports : not used as one of the regular players on a team a second string quarterback compare ↑first string second stringer noun, pl ⋯ ers [count] chiefly US …

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  • 106List of string quartet composers — Born before 1800= *Giovanni Battista Sammartini (ca. 1700 ndash;1775): wrote several quartets though as with many early works for the medium some of these could be played equally by a small string orchestra. *Christian Cannabich (1731 ndash;1798) …

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  • 107Cosmic string — Not to be confused with string in string theory. Cosmic strings are hypothetical 1 dimensional (spatially) topological defects which may have formed during a symmetry breaking phase transition in the early universe when the topology of the vacuum …

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  • 108History of string theory — 1943 1958: S Matrix String theory is an outgrowth of a research program begun by Werner Heisenberg in 1943, picked up and advocated by many prominent theorists starting in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, which was discarded and… …

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  • 109The Carlos Chavez String Quartet — is a Mexican based string quartet (previously known as The Russian American String Quartet ) founded by cellist Alain Durbecq in 1994. The quartet currently resides in Mexico City and performs a broad spectrum of mainstream classical music… …

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  • 110Query string — In the World Wide Web, a query string is the part of a URL that contains data to be passed to web applications such as CGI programs.When a web page is requested via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the server locates a file in its file system… …

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