Word: beliefs
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...music lovers believe that prized string instruments are enriched by the generations of virtuosi who have played on them. In the case of the great Cremonese instrument maker Antonio Stradivari, whose violins and cellos have been the choice of the world's best musicians for three centuries, this belief is coupled with the theory that Stradivari was an inimitable genius on the scale of Mozart and Beethoven. What else could explain why Stradivari's instruments remain the best in the world so long after the death of their creator...
...Nagyvary believes this evidence upends the widespread belief among instrument makers that only the strongest wood can produce a lush, full sound. According to Nagyvary, the opposite is true. He also says it casts doubt on the working hypothesis of many scientists that Stradivari worked during Europe's "little ice age" of the 15th-17th centuries, in which low summer temperatures led to slow but uniform growth in the Spruce trees used for instruments, and that the wood's uniform density explains the instruments' high quality of sound. Last year, researchers in The Netherlands and the U.S. used medical imaging...
...human species has a prodigious power to litter, but the popular belief has been that the sheer enormousness of space prevents humans from doing too much damage. That's true enough - or at least it would be if we traveled throughout the entirety of the cosmos. But the fact is, the vast majority of our space exploration amounts to little more than wading offshore. The shuttle orbits at about 220 miles; the International Space Station stays at 270 miles. Our highest-flying satellites hang in space at about 22,000 miles - which sounds like a lot until you realize that...
Steele, Michael • strange belief of that a government-created...
...well, blame me,’” Bajwa said.“We keep telling ourselves that we have a team that anybody can be missing and we can still play well,” he added. “The girls have the ability and the belief to keep stepping up.”That is not to say that it was easy—six out of the nine matches went to a decisive fifth set.A thrilling 3-2 victory at No. 8 by junior Sandra Mumanachit was offset early...