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  2. Piccolo (Dragon Ball) - Wikipedia

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    Piccolo (Japanese: ピッコロ, Hepburn: Pikkoro) is a fictional character in the Japanese Dragon Ball media franchise created by Akira Toriyama.He made his appearance in chapter #161 "Son Goku Wins!!", published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on February 9, 1988, [2] as the reincarnation of the evil King Piccolo, who was positioned as a demonic antagonist of the series.

  3. List of A Different World characters - Wikipedia

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    Lena James (Jada Pinkett): native of Baltimore (Maryland), daughter of Grover James, originally an engineering major but later journalism major, named after singer Lena Horne, ended high school relationship with Piccolo, employed by Mr. Gaines at The Pit part-time, developed a brief crush on Dwayne, roommate of Gina and Charmaine at the start ...

  4. Piccolo - Wikipedia

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    The piccolo (/ ˈ p ɪ k ə l oʊ / PIK-ə-loh; Italian for 'small') [1] [2] is a smaller version of the western concert flute [a] and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. Sometimes referred to as a "baby flute" or piccolo flute , the modern piccolo has the same type of fingerings as the standard transverse flute , [ 3 ] but ...

  5. Piccolo trumpet - Wikipedia

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    The piccolo trumpet solo in the Beatles' "Penny Lane", which introduced the instrument to pop music, was played by David Mason. Paul McCartney was dissatisfied with the initial attempts at the song's instrumental fill (one of which is released on Anthology 2), and was inspired to use the instrument after seeing Mason's performance in a BBC television broadcast of the second Brandenburg ...

  6. Brian's Song - Wikipedia

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    In his 2016 book co-written with Alan Sepinwall titled TV (The Book), television critic Matt Zoller Seitz named Brian's Song as the fifth greatest American TV-movie of all time, stating that the film was "The dramatic and emotional template for a good number of sports films and male weepies (categories which tend to overlap a bit)", as well as ...

  7. List of musician and band name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Named after the J.D. Salinger book of short stories of that name; Loeb, an English major, wanted a literary moniker. [231] Nirvana – Before settling on a permanent name, the band had played under many different names including 'Throat Oyster' and 'Ted, Ed, Fred'. In Buddhism, nirvana means release from the cycle of rebirth and suffering.

  8. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    A male singer, castrated before puberty so as to be able to sing soprano (now sung by women, conventional countertenors, or sopranisti) Coloratura soprano: colouring soprano: A soprano specialised in complex, ornamented melody Contralto: against high: Alto, esp. a female alto Falsetto: little false: A vocal register immediately above the modal ...

  9. Piccolo (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Piccolo Teatro (Milan), Italy's first permanent theatre; Il Piccolo, the daily newspaper of the region of Trieste, Italy; Piccolo, a Yugoslavian film; Piccolo, an Indian Marathi-language film; Piccolo, a 1977 release by the Ron Carter Quartet; Piccolo Summit, a mountain in British Columbia, Canada; 1366 Piccolo, an asteroid