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  • 1Coster Diamonds — is one of the oldest still operating diamond polishing factories in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. They were responsible for the creation of a few historical masterpieces, like the re polishing of the Koh i Noor, mounted in the Crown of Queen Mary,… …

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  • 2Timeline of music in the United States to 1819 — This is a timeline of music in the United States prior to 1819. NOTOC circa 500* Approximate : The oldest archeological remains of rasps, made from sheep horn, wood, deer bone, antelope scapula and elk rib, can be dated to approximately this… …

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  • 3Lining Out —    Practice of congregational singing whereby the precentor (song leader) sings one or two lines of the hymn or psalm, quite slowly, which then the congregation repeats, often with melodic elaboration. The precentor proceeds to the next one or… …

    Historical dictionary of sacred music

  • 4DUTCH LITERATURE — Influence of the Bible The arrival, on October 27, 2004, of the Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling, a completely new translation into Dutch of the Bible and the Christian Apocrypha, initiated a fierce debate in Dutch literary circles. At the core was the… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism