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unusual facts about Repetition


Repetition

"La reprise", 2001 novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated into English as Repetition


Applause

Comedian Fred Allen, in his book Much Ado about Me, wrote that one noted vaudeville house developed a rhythm ("clap, clap, clap clap clap"), the maddening repetition of which could completely unnerve a performer.

Assembly line

Sociological work has explored the social alienation and boredom that many workers feel because of the repetition of doing the same specialized task all day long.

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The book is divided into two roughly equal halves; the first, Simultaneita, contains 12 'simultaneous' poems laid out in standard typography; the second section, Chimismi Lirici, contains 10 poems that use multiple fonts, signs, adverts, brand names, repetition and onomatopoeiac devices that are contemporaneous to Marinetti's similar experiments in Zang Tumb Tumb, and prefigure Marinetti's later, more abstract Les Mots En Liberte Futuristes, 1919.

Big Brother Mouse

Taking inspiration from The Foot Book, by Dr. Seuss, the author used rhymes, repetition, and the pairing of opposite words, to create a book for very young readers.

Dull Boy

At the beginning of the song, Chad Gray repeats "All work and no play makes me a dull boy" four times, elevating his voice from a whisper to a scream with each repetition.

Epiphora

Epistrophe, also known as epiphora, the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences

Equatorial Guinean legislative election, 2008

On May 4, the Secretary-General of the opposition Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS), Plácido Micó Abogo, condemned the election as "a repetition of what the government has always done".

Fast of Gedalia

As with regular fast days, the cantor includes the prayer Aneinu in the repetition of the Amidah during Shacharit and Mincha as a separate Bracha between the prayers for redemption and healing, and in the private recitation of the Mincha amidah it is recited as an addition to Shema Koleinu (general prayer acceptance).

FOXP2 and human evolution

On the other hand, analysis of FOXP2, using the chromatin immunoprecipitation technique, revealed that it binds onto and directly down-regulates expression of CNTNAP2, a gene found to be associated with nonsense-word repetition, a major marker of SLI.

Hazlehead Academy

It also has Tutor Team Challenges for each yeargroup, cross country and a Just a Minute competition in which pupils have to speak for a minute on a given subject without hesitation, repetition or deviation.

I Feel for You

The repetition of Khan's name by Melle Mel at the beginning of the song was originally a mistake made by producer Arif Mardin (actually a sample of Melle Mel's song "Step Off"), who then decided to keep it.

Light scattering

Periodicity or structural repetition in the scattering medium will cause interference in the spectrum of scattered light.

Lorenz cipher

Tutte did this with the original teleprinter 5-bit Baudot codes, which led him to his initial breakthrough of recognising a 41 character repetition.

Magnus Mills

The same kind of skewed repetition occurs in Mills' later works All Quiet on the Orient Express and The Scheme for Full Employment.

One Nite Alone... Live!

Among the album's highlights are "Sometimes It Snows in April" and "Adore" at the piano, an extended "Joy in Repetition", and an energetic "When U Were Mine".

Private Members' Bills in the Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Labour Party politician Kerry McCarthy has compared the system to the BBC radio game show Just a Minute but in reverse stating that the more hesitation, deviation and repetition an MP makes the more likely they are to defeat a bill.

R4 assault rifle

The stamped sheet steel selector bar is present on both sides of the receiver and its positions are marked with letters: "S"— indicating the weapon is safe, "R"—single-fire mode ("R" is an abbreviation for "repetition"), and "A"—fully automatic fire.

Rex Joswig

Rex Joswig (*22 January 1962 in Anklam / East Germany), "The living repetition machine" & "Dubprotector", has produced wordsounds with Herbst in Peking, Column One, Babylon 23, Badphish and Bert Papenfuß.

Satiation

Semantic satiation, where repetition of a word or phrase causes it to temporarily lose meaning

Semantic satiation

The explanation for the phenomenon was that verbal repetition repeatedly aroused a specific neural pattern in the cortex which corresponds to the meaning of the word.

The Concept of Anxiety

Kierkegaard argued about this in both Repetition and Fear and Trembling where he said philosophy must not define faith.

The Stranger Left No Card

Incidental music was provided by Doreen Carwithen, though the soundtrack is most remembered for the incessant repetition of Hugo Alfvén's Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 (1903).

Time 4 Sum Aksion

Its chorus is a repetition of the phrase "Time 4 Sum Aksion" which is sampled from "How I Could Just Kill a Man" by Cypress Hill.

Viewpoints

In their book, The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition, Anne Bogart and Tina Landau identify the primary Viewpoints as those relating to Time - which are Tempo, Duration, Kinesthetic Response, and Repetition - and those relating to Space - which are Shape, Gesture, Architecture, Spatial Relationship and Topography.

W. T. Tutte

At his training course, Tutte had been taught the Kasiski examination technique of writing out a key on squared paper, starting a new row after a defined number of characters that was suspected of being the frequency of repetition of the key.


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