Alex James was a Scottish Association Football player. He was born in 190 and died in 1953. Alex James played for Raith Rovers, Preston North End and Arsenal as well as appearing for Scotland first in 1925 and subsequently on seven other occasions. In 1929 he transferred to Arsenal for £9000 and became the most successful goal-maker in the history of English Association Football, being the key player behind Arsenal's success over the next six seasons in which they won the championship four times and reached the final of the FA Cup three times. Research Alex James
Guido Aretino (also known as Guido D'Arezzo) was an Italian monk of the 11th century, celebrated for his skill in music. He was a native of Arezzo, became a Benedictinemonk, and finally prior of Avellana, where he died in 1050. He invented the musical staff of lines and spaces (or at least systematized their use), and he introduced the names of the first six notes of the scale, ut, re, mi, fa, sol,le. Research Guido Aretino
John Curwen was a British music reformer. He was born in 1816 at Heckmondwike and died in 1860. He entered the congregational ministry and was minister at Plaistow from 1844 until 1864 when he resigned. In 1841 he studied the tonicsol-fa system invented by Miss Glover, and in 1843 published his 'Grammar of Vocal Music'. In 1853 he founded the Tonic Sol fa Association and the college, of which he was the first principal, in 1869, and wrote several books on the teaching of music. Research John Curwen
Sir Stanley Matthews is an English Association Football player. He was born in 1915 at Hanley. The son of boxer Jack Matthews. Stanley Matthews started as a sprinter switching to Association Football and playing for Stoke City where he had worked as ground staff since he left school, as a winger in 1931. He left Stoke City to play for Blackpool in 1947, leaving Blackpool and returning to Stoke City in 1961. He played in 701 league and 86 FACupmatches and played 54 times for England.
Acoustics is the experimental and theoretical science of sound and hearing, and especially the phenomena of sound in space, such as buildings.
Acoustics teaches the cause, nature, and phenomena of such vibrations of elastic
bodies as affect the organ of hearing; the manner in which sound is produced, its transmission through air and other media, the doctrine of reflected sound or echoes, the properties and effects of different sounds, including musical sounds or notes, and the structure and action of the organ of hearing, etc. The propagation of sound is analogous to that of light, both being due to vibrations which produce successive waves, and Isaac Newton was the first to show that its propagation through any medium depended upon the elasticity of that medium. Regarding the intensity, reflection, and refraction of sound, much the same rules apply as in light. In ordinary cases of hearing the vibrating medium is air, but all substances capable of vibrating may be employed to propagate and convey sound. When a bell is struck its vibrations are communicated to the particles of air surrounding it, and from these to particles outside them, until they reach the ear of the listener. The intensity of sound varies inversely as the square of the distance of the body sounding from the ear. Sound travels through the air at the rate of about 332 metres per second; through water at the rate of about 1433 metres.
Sounds may be musical or non-musical. A musical sound is caused by a regular series of exactly similar pulses succeeding each other at precisely equal intervals of time. If these conditions are not fulfilled the sound is a noise. Musical sounds are comparatively simple, and are combined to give pleasing sensations according to easy numerical relations. The loudness of a note depends on the degree to which it affects the ear; the pitch of a note depends on the number of vibrations to the second which produce the note; the timbre, quality, or character of a note depends on the body or bodies whose vibrations produce the sound, and is due to the form of the paths of vibrating particles. The gamut is a series of eight notes, which are called by the names Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si, Do, and the numbers of vibrations which produce these notes are respectively proportional to 24, 27, 30, 32, 36, 40, 45, 48. The numerical value of the interval between any two notes is given by dividing one of the above numbers corresponding to the higher note by the number corresponding to the lower note. The intervals from Do to each of the others are called a second, a major third, a fourth, a, fifth, a sixth, a seventh, and an octave respectively. The interval from La to Do is a minor third. An interval of nine eights is a major tone; ten ninths is a minor tone; sixteen fifteenths is called a limma.
The Fuji FA-200 Aero Subaru is a range of Japanese four-seater light aircraft first flown in 1965. The FA-200 is a low-wing cantilever monoplane powered by a Lycoming O-320-D2A or Lycoming IO-360-B1B four-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine providing a top speed of 224 kmh and a range of 1190 km. The FA-200 range includes the FA-203 STOL research version and FA-204 agricultural version. Research FA-200
FA is an abbreviation for Football Association
FA is an abbreviation for Field Artillery
FA is an abbreviation for Fielding Average
FA is an abbreviation for Frequency Agility
FA is an abbreviation for Family Allowance
FA is an abbreviation for Faculty of Actuaries Research FA
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