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  2. Ku Klux Klan - Wikipedia

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    The Ku Klux Klan (/ ˌ k uː k l ʌ k s ˈ k l æ n, ˌ k j uː-/), [e] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first ...

  3. Phonetic transcription - Wikipedia

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    Phonetic transcription (also known as phonetic script or phonetic notation) is the visual representation of speech sounds (or phones) by means of symbols. The most common type of phonetic transcription uses a phonetic alphabet, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet .

  4. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech . [ 1 ]

  5. Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Kloran of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Kanada. Ku Klux Klan (KKK) nomenclature has evolved over the order's nearly 160 years of existence. The titles and designations were first laid out in the 1920s Kloran, setting out KKK terms and traditions. Like many KKK terms, this is a portmanteau term, formed from Klan and Koran.

  6. How the Central Valley became a fertile land for Southerners ...

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    A year later, in 1925, the first junior KKK club in California was established at Fresno High, and Fresno Technical High School. Dr. Patrick Fontes is a professor of American history in Fresno.

  7. Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet ...

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    Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet refers to a set of letters and diacritics devised by the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association to augment the International Phonetic Alphabet for the phonetic transcription of disordered speech. Other systems that are extensions to the IPA are: Sinological phonetic notation

  8. Why is there a plaque with a hooded KKK figure at West ... - AOL

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    A bronze plaque at West Point, the United States Military Academy, shows a hooded figure and the words “Ku Klux Klan” underneath, according to a congressional commission’s report.

  9. Americanist phonetic notation - Wikipedia

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    Americanist phonetic notation, also known as the North American Phonetic Alphabet (NAPA), the Americanist Phonetic Alphabet or the American Phonetic Alphabet (APA), is a system of phonetic notation originally developed by European and American anthropologists and language scientists (many of whom were Neogrammarians) for the phonetic and phonemic transcription of indigenous languages of the ...