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    The common Surinam toad, the Suriname toad, or star-fingered toad (Pipa pipa), is a fully-aquatic species of frog, in the family Pipidae, with a widespread...
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    The pipa, pípá, or p'i-p'a (Chinese: 琵琶) is a traditional Chinese musical instrument belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called...
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    of pipa which refers only to the pear-shaped instrument. According to the Pipa Annals 《琵琶赋》 by Fu Xuan (傅玄) of the Western Jin dynasty, the pipa was...
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  • Lady White Snake, Ichchhadhari Nag and Yuxa (snake) Myrmidons (ant) Pipa Jing (jade pipa) Selkie (seal) Tanuki (racoon dog) Mujina (badger) Toyotama-hime...
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    The Pipa Lake (Chinese: 琵琶湖; pinyin: Pípá Hú) is a lake in Taitung City, Taitung County, Taiwan. The lake is named Pipa because it resembles the shape...
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    Loquat (redirect from Pipa (fruit))
    The loquat (Eriobotrya japonica, Chinese: 枇杷; Pinyin: pípá) is a large evergreen shrub or tree grown commercially for its orange fruit. It is also cultivated...
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    characteristics similar to trypophobic imagery. Furthermore, other animals such as the frog Pipa pipa have been known to be a trypophobia trigger. Because of this...
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    family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked...
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  • most common Chinese stringed instruments are the guqin, zheng, erhu, and pipa. These instruments were developed over thousands of years. Guqin is commonly...
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    Area (PIPA) is located in the Republic of Kiribati, an ocean nation in the central Pacific approximately midway between Australia and Hawaii. PIPA constitutes...
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    thin plectrums made from animal horn that are tied to the thumb and index finger; however, today players also use plastic pipa plectrums on all five fingers...
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    (named Pipa) used to be found at Disney's Animal Kingdom in the Rafiki's Planet Watch area. Pipa meant "container" in Swahili, fitting the Animal Kingdom...
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    Hymenochirus, Pseudhymenochirus and Pipa species: 439  Rolleston, George; Jackson, William Hatchett (1898). Forms of Animal Life : A Manual of Comparative...
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    eventually leaving as either large tadpoles (such as in Pipa parva) or as fully formed froglets (Pipa pipa). Female marsupial frogs (Hemiphractidae) will carry...
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  • meat from an animal killed by a single strike of a sword or axe to sever the head within the Dharmic Sikh religion, which kills the animal almost instantly...
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    1988, pp. 92, 95–97; Pipa 1993, p. 253; Tirta 2004, pp. 189–190, 230. Stipčević 2009, p. 506. Ushaku 1988, pp. 92, 95–97; Pipa 1993, p. 253; Elsie 2001a...
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    body with a fringe that breaks up its outline. Among amphibians, the Pipa pipa's brown coloration blends in with the murky waters of the Amazon Rainforest...
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    Egg incubation (category Reproduction in animals)
    with her pulsating throat. Some aquatic frogs such as the Surinam toad (Pipa pipa) have pouches in their skin into which the eggs are inserted. Other neotropical...
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    the haunting of hungry ghosts – "Pipa ghost" comes from this. "Pi" is a ghost, "Pa" is the name of a ghost, and "Pipa ghost" is a hungry ghost, which will...
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    the original on July 22, 2019. Retrieved July 22, 2019. Witmer, G. W.; Pipas, M. J.; Hayden, A. (1995). "Some observations on coyote food habits in Pennsylvania"...
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    States Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA)—by blacking out its pages for 24 hours. More than 162 million people viewed...
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    Fődi (February 23, 1882 – October 10, 1940), better known by her nickname Pipás Pista ("Pipe-smoking Steve"), was a Hungarian murderer and suspected serial...
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    introduced elements of Indian music. Instruments of Central Asian origin such as pipa were adopted in China, the Indian Heptatonic scale was introduced in the...
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    Sadhana Bhagat Bhikhan Bhagat Parmanand Bhagat Sain Bhagat Dhanna Bhagat Pipa Bhagat Surdas Bhagat Jaidev Bhagat Trilochan Bhatt Kalshar Bhatt Balh Bhatt...
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    am the very model of a modern Major-Gineral, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical...
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    tadpoles around in brood pouches on his hind legs. The aquatic Surinam toad (Pipa pipa) raises its young in pores on its back where they remain until metamorphosis...
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    order to precipitate the fall of his kingdom. Pipa Jing and Jiutou Zhiji Jing in Fengshen Yanyi, a magical pipa and a nine-headed pheasant who accompany Daji...
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    five fingers pluck on a string to produce a tremolo sound similar to the Pipa. Techniques can also vary in Northern and Southern China, producing different...
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  • Django Santalis (age 10) from Patterson, NY (eliminated after the entrée) Pipa Hardin (age 12) from Campbell, CA (eliminated after the dessert) Rachel Goldzal...
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  • Zana (mythology) (category Animal goddesses)
     269; Poghirc 1987, p. 179; Treimer 1971, p. 28. Doja 2005, pp. 456–457 Pipa 1993, p. 253. Lurker 2004, p. 207. Zymberi 1991, p. 142. Galaty et al. 2013...
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