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  2. List of musician and band name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The Cure – The band's original name was Easy Cure, which was taken from the name of one of the group's early songs. The name was later shortened to The Cure because frontman Robert Smith felt the name was too American and "too hippyish". °C-ute (Cute) – The Japanese girl group was named by its producer Tsunku.

  3. Double-barrelled name - Wikipedia

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    Double-barrelled name. A double-barrelled name is a type of compound surname, typically featuring two words (occasionally more), often joined by a hyphen. Notable people with double-barrelled names include Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Sacha Baron Cohen and JuJu Smith-Schuster . In the Western tradition of surnames, there are several types of ...

  4. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (music) - Wikipedia

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    e. This page contains naming conventions for music-related articles, covering both classical musical works and popular bands, albums and songs. The first step for disambiguating classical compositions is rather a reference to their composer, while popular music is rather disambiguated by a type qualifier. Cross-over rather follows the popular ...

  5. The Star-Spangled Banner - Wikipedia

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    file. help. " The Star-Spangled Banner " is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the " Defence of Fort M'Henry ", [2] a poem written by American lawyer Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.

  6. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The longest English word typable using only the top row of letters has 11 letters: rupturewort. The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters).

  7. Musical cryptogram - Wikipedia

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    A musical cryptogram is a cryptogrammatic sequence of musical symbols which can be taken to refer to an extra-musical text by some 'logical' relationship, usually between note names and letters. The most common and best known examples result from composers using musically translated versions of their own or their friends' names (or initials) as ...

  8. Category:List of code names - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "List of code names" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.

  9. Secret Service code name - Wikipedia

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    Secret Service code name. President John F. Kennedy, codename "Lancer" with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, codename "Lace". The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. [1] The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when ...