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Potpourri or Pot-Pourri (/ ˌ p oʊ p ʊ ˈ r iː /; French, literally "putrid pot") is a kind of musical form structured as ABCDEF..., the same as medley or ...
The word "potpourri" comes into English from the French word pot-pourri. The French term has two connotations. It is the French name for a Spanish stew with a wide variety of ingredients called olla podrida, a specialty of the city of Burgos. [citation needed] The word pot in French has the same meaning as it does in English (and as olla does ...
Platanus occidentalis. Platanus occidentalis, also known as American sycamore, American planetree, western plane, [ 2] occidental plane, buttonwood, and water beech, [ 3] is a species of Platanus native to the eastern and central United States, the mountains of northeastern Mexico, extreme southern Ontario, [ 4][ 5] and extreme southern Quebec ...
Medley (music) In music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces played one after another, sometimes overlapping. They are common in popular music, and most medleys are songs rather than instrumentals. A medley which is a remixed series is called a megamix, often done with tracks for a single artist, or for popular songs from ...
Populism is a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group with "the elite". [ 1] It is frequently associated with anti-establishment and anti-political sentiment. [ 2] The term developed in the late 19th century and has been applied to various politicians, parties and movements since that ...
The Turabay dynasty was a family of Bedouin emirs who governed the district of Lajjun in northern Palestine during Ottoman rule in the 16th–17th centuries. The family's forebears had served as chiefs of Jezreel Valley during Mamluk rule in the late 15th century. During the Ottoman conquest of the region in 1516–1517, the family aided ...
Example in the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, 1764 – front Pot-pourri en vaisseau en troisième grandeur – Vessel potpourri vase, third size – 1760, Louvre. Pot pourri à vaisseau or pot pourri en navire ("pot-pourri holder as a vessel/ship") is the shape used for a number of pot-pourri vases in the form of masted ships, first produced between the late 1750s to the early 1760s by the ...
Hypocrisy is the practice of feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not. [ 1] The word "hypocrisy" entered the English language c. 1200 with the meaning "the sin of pretending to virtue or goodness". [ 2] Today, "hypocrisy" often refers to advocating behaviors that one does not practice.