Word: sextuplet
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...music with a roughly equal amount of secular songs, evolved from The Kuumba Singers' subgroup "Brothers." Since breaking its formal ties with The Kuumba Singers, the group has had several engagements, including performances at the Museum of African-American History and the Deer Island Correctional Facility. Last month, the sextuplet opened a concert on campus for The Call-backs, a Harvard a cappella group...
Members said the sextuplet did not break off from The Kuumba Singers due to any ill feeling against the group, but instead decided to form a separate unit because of their strong friendship...
...Philippe Boegner last week confessed that these sensations were no more authentic than the hoaxes annually perpetrated in the April Fool number of German Illustritre Zeitung (TIME, April 23, 1934). According to Vu, the Referee's gullible and light-fingered editors were not the only dupes of the sextuplet yarn, which had been illustrated with six views of the same infant. To an inquiring U. S. doctor, Vu solemnly replied that the six little boys now had a sister, born three months after the multiple delivery...
...Rule of 87: One twin birth occurs to approximately 87 single births; one triplet to about 7,569 singles (87 squared); one quadruplet to about 658,503 singles (87 cubed); one quintuplet to about 57 million singles (87 to fourth power); one sextuplet to about five billion singles (87 to fifth power...
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