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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Karaoke Revolution, Ultrastar, Karaoke World Championships, My Way Killings, Daisuke Inoue, Movieoke, the Karaoke King, Karaoke Circus, Karaoke Box, Beyoncé Karaoke Hits, Vol. I, Live Band Karaoke, Karafun, Open Mic Karaoke, Magic Sing, Golden Throats of the 20th Century. Excerpt: Karaoke , a portmanteau of Japanese kara "empty," and kesutora "orchestra") (English pronunciation: ; Japanese: ) is a form of interactive entertainment or video game in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music (and/or a music video) using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol or changing color and/or music video images, to guide the singer. In some countries, a karaoke box is called a KTV. Due to its English pronunciation, it is sometimes incorrectly spelled "kareoke". It is also a term used by recording engineers translated as "empty track" meaning there is no vocal track. Japanese karaoke display A karaoke bar in Wuhan, People's Republic of China.The concept of creating studio recordings that lack the lead vocal has been around for probably nearly as long as recording itself. Many artists, amateur and professional, perform in situations where a full band/orchestra is either logistically or financially impractical and so they use a "karaoke" recording, but they are actually the original artists. (This is not to be confused with "lip synching" in which a performer mimes to a previously produced studio recording with the lead vocal intact.) From 19611966, the American TV network NBC carried a karaoke-like series, Sing Along with Mitch, featuring host Mitch Miller and a chorus with the lyrics to their songs superimposed near the bottom of the TV scre... |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jokichi Takamine, Mikimoto Kōkichi, Momofuku Ando, Shuji Nakamura, Yasukichi Murakami, Daisuke Inoue, Ryōichi Yazu, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Hiraga Gennai, Chūhachi Ninomiya, Sakichi Toyoda, Shigeo Hirose, Shunpei Yamazaki, Taro Takemi, Umetaro Suzuki, Kunitomo Ikkansai, Mamoru Imura, Hidetsugu Yagi, Hino Kumazo, Kenji Kawakami, Fujio Masuoka, Kotaro Honda, Takayuki Ōhira, Kikunae Ikeda, Shintaro Uda, Shizuo Inoue, Tokuhichi Mishima, Kyota Sugimoto, Yasujiro Niwa. Excerpt: Ch hachi Ninomiya ( , Ninomiya Ch hachi ? , 20 June 1866 8 April 1936) was a Japanese aviation pioneer. In 1891 he made and, according to some, flew "Karasu-gata mokei hikouki" ("Crow-type model aircraft"). In 1893 he designed another airplane, "Tamamushi-gata hikouki" ("Jewel beetle type flyer"). Early life He was born in Yawatahama-ura, Uwa District , Iyo Province (now Yawatahama, Ehime ), as the fourth son of a merchant. When he was 12 years old, his father died. Ch hachi needed to get a job. While working at a printing office, drug store, and elsewhere, he taught himself physics and chemistry. He was also an expert at making kites . Selling his original kites earned him money for books. Idea for flying In 1887 Ch hachi was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army . In November 1889, during maneuvers, he saw crows gliding and noticed that they did not flap. He developed the idea of fixed wing aircraft. Ch hachi made his first model, "Karasu-gata mokei hikouki"( , "Crow-type model aircraft"). This was also the first model aircraft in Japan. It was a monoplane , with a wingspan of 45 centimetres. The wing was at a dihedral angle. The four-blade pusher propeller , inspired from a bamboo-copter , was driven by a rubber band. The model was equipped with a horizontal stabilizer at its tail, and a vertical stabilize... |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mao Asada, Fumie Suguri, Miki Ando, Nobunari Oda, Shizuka Arakawa, Daisuke Takahashi, Midori Ito, Rena Inoue, Takahiko Kozuka, Akiko Suzuki, Yuka Sato, Chris Reed, Cathy Reed, Yoshie Onda, Takeshi Honda, Nobuo Sato, Tomoaki Koyama, Kumiko Sato, Yosuke Takeuchi, Fumio Igarashi, Minoru Sano, Junko Yaginuma, Emi Watanabe, Masakazu Kagiyama, Etsuko Inada, Miwa Fukuhara, Junko Hiramatsu, Kazuyoshi Oimatsu, Kazumi Onishi, Hiroshi Nagakubo, Makoto Kano, Yamato Tamura, Masaru Ogawa, Tadayuki Takahashi, Tsuguhiko Kozuka, Noriko Sato, Mitsuru Matsumura, Shin Amano, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Yutaka Higuchi, Toshikazu Katayama, Masako Kato, Kotoe Nagasawa, Tomoko Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Murata, Haruko Okamoto, Fumihiro Oikawa, Hiroshi Tanaka, Aya Kawai, Ryuichi Obitani, Nozomi Watanabe, Akiyuki Kido, Marie Arai. Excerpt: Suzuki at the 2008 NHK Trophy Akiko Suzuki ( , Suzuki Akiko ? ) (born March 28, 1985 in Toyohashi, Aichi , Japan ) is a Japanese figure skater . She is the 2010 Japanese national silver medalist , the 2010 Four Continents silver medalist , the 2009 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist and the 2007 Winter University Games Champion . As of April 2010, she was ranked 7th in the world by the International Skating Union (ISU). Personal Life She suffered from anorexia nervosa and therefore missed the entire 2003-2004 season of skating. Career Suzuki won the bronze medal at the 2001-2002 Junior Grand Prix Final, and has competed at both the World Junior Figure Skating Championships and the Four Continents Championships . After having a successful junior career, Suzuki was hampered by her struggles with anorexia . She did not compete at all in the 2003-2004 season. She returned to competitive skating in the 2004-2005 season after being inspired by Shizuka Arakawa 's victory at the 2004 World Champio... |
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Kapitel: Mao Asada, Miki Andō, Daisuke Takahashi, Yoshie Onda, Nobunari Oda, Rena Inoue, Yukari Nakano, Juko Kawaguti, Takeshi Honda, Midori Itō, Fumie Suguri, Shizuka Arakawa, Minoru Sano, Takahiko Kozuka, Nobuo Satō, Yuka Satō, Alexander Markunzow. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Shizuka Arakawa Arakawa Shizuka, born December 29, 1981) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic Champion and the 2004 World Champion. Arakawa is the first person in Japan to win a gold Olympic medal for figure skating. She is the second Japanese skater to win any Olympic medal in figure skating, after Midori Ito, who won silver. She is also the second Japanese woman to win any gold medal at the Winter Olympics, after skier Tae Satoya. Her gold medal was the only medal for Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Arakawa retired from competitive skating following her Olympic win. Following her retirement, she began skating professionally in ice shows and exhibitions. She also works as a skating sportscaster for Japanese television. Arakawa was born in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, and grew up in Sendai, Miyagi, the largest city in the Tohoku region. She is the only child of Koichi and Sachi Arakawa. She was named Shizuka after Shizuka Gozen. She enrolled at Waseda University in March 2000, and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in social sciences in 2004, while still competing as a skater. She won the 2004 World Figure Skating Championships days after completing her graduation examinations at Waseda University. She lived and trained for a time at the International Skating Center of Connecticut in Simsbury, Connecticut in the United States after the closure of the Konami Sports Ice Rink in Sendai, where she began her career. Her figure skating idols are Kristi Yamaguchi and Yuka Sato. She listens to music by Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé and EXILE, and likes shopping, driving, swimming, golf and practising marine sports. Arakawa cites gour...http://booksllc.net/?l=de |
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