The Horn family (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhuːɳ]) is a Swedish noble family from Finland, known since the 14th century. Its first known member, Olof Mattsson...
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Train horn Horn (anatomy), a pointed, bony projection on the head of various animals Horn (instrument), a family of musical instruments French horn, often...
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Rhinoceros (redirect from Rhinoceros horn)
ῥινόκερως (rhinókerōs) 'nose-horned'; from ῥίς (rhis) 'nose' and κέρας (kéras) 'horn'; pl.: rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member...
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The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with...
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The tenor horn (British English; alto horn in American English, Althorn in Germany; occasionally referred to as E♭ horn) is a brass instrument in the...
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The baritone horn, sometimes called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family. It is a piston-valve brass instrument with a bore...
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Bernhard Horn af Ekebyholm (6 April 1664 – 18 April 1742) was a Swedish general, diplomat and politician, a member of the noble Horn family. He served...
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A horn loudspeaker is a loudspeaker or loudspeaker element which uses an acoustic horn to increase the overall efficiency of the driving element(s). A...
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White Coffee Pot (redirect from Horn And Horn Smorgasbord)
Brooklyn Park, Maryland, in 1993. The company shared ownership with the Horn and Horn Smorgasbord Cafeteria chain, and some locations became Cactus Willie's...
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of his great-great-great-grandfather, Jacob Horn (died 1778), and other members of the Horn family. The Horn Papers first appeared publicly in 1932 in letters...
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A horn is any of a family of musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in various ways, with one narrow end into which...
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Gustav Evertsson Horn af Marienborg (1614–1666) was a member of the Privy Council of Sweden and Governor General of Finland. Horn family De la Gardie Campaign...
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born into the Swedish (geographically and ethnically Finnish) noble family Horn af Kankas and was educated extensively in European universities. He studied...
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of Decorah, Iowa, U.S. Horn family, a Swedish noble family from Finland, recognized by the Swedish House of Nobility Louis Horn House, Stafford–Olive Historic...
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Trevor Charles Horn CBE (born 15 July 1949) is an English record producer and musician. His influence on pop and electronic music in the 1980s was such...
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The basset horn (sometimes hyphenated as basset-horn) is a member of the clarinet family of musical instruments. Like the clarinet, the instrument is...
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Siegfried & Roy (redirect from Roy Horn)
Siegfried Fischbacher (June 13, 1939 – January 13, 2021) and Roy Horn (born Uwe Ludwig Horn; October 3, 1944 – May 8, 2020) were German-American magicians...
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Kaniehtiio Alexandra Jessie Horn (née Batt; Mohawk pronunciation: [ɡanjehˈdiːjo]; born November 8, 1986), sometimes credited as Tiio Horn, is a Canadian actress...
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Nickell's murder. Thomas Horn Jr., known as "Tom", was born in 1860 to Thomas S. Horn Sr. and Mary Ann Maricha (née Miller) on their family farm in rural northeastern...
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Look up horn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of...
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Lawrence Thomas "L.T." Horn (1939 – February 2017) was an American musician, record producer and chief recording engineer for Motown Records in Detroit...
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Cair Paravel, she is known as Queen Susan the Gentle or Queen Susan of the Horn. She was the only Pevensie that survived the train crash (because she was...
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of three types of horn, the other two being the French horn (in the less common, narrower meaning of the term) and the Vienna horn. Its use among professional...
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The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa. Located on the easternmost part...
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The Van Horn Mansion was built by Judge James Van Horn in 1823. It is the site of the Town of Newfane's first town meeting, April 6, 1824. The name for...
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Klasson Horn (c. 1512 – c. 1595), was a Swedish military officer and Governor-General of Finland. He was an ancestor of the noble Swedish family, Horn af Kanckas...
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Cape Horn (Spanish: Cabo de Hornos, pronounced [ˈkaβo ðe ˈoɾnos]) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and...
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have reported cutaneous horns arising from burn scars. As with many other wart-like skin conditions, a link to the HPV virus family, especially the HPV-2...
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A drinking horn is the horn of a bovid used as a drinking vessel. Drinking horns are known from Classical Antiquity, especially the Balkans, and remained...
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were no concrete highways or the solace of civilization. Mr. Christian Horn, family and party, heading west, after a brief detour to The Twilight Zone. The...
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