Açık

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Aṣíkò

Aṣíkò (Ashiko) is a musical genre similar to sákárà music from Nigeria, West Africa. Aṣíkò was the Christian version of sákárà (Sakara). It developed originally as a type of syncretic street drumming in port towns throughout Anglophone West Africa. By the 1920s it was also played by musicians inland in Yoruba towns like Abęokuta and Ibadan. Isaac O. Delano gives a detailed description of an aṣíkò ensemble in the 1930s:

"Another popular native dance is the "Ashiko". It is not a Yoruba dance in its origin, but was imported from Sierra Leone or somewhere that way. The "Ashiko" dance is chiefly performed by Christian people, and has only one kind of music, rather quicker than the "Sakara" . . . and resembles a fox-trot. No stringed instruments are employed, only drums and carpenter's saw, used occasionally to make a kind of noise on its sharp edge, as an embellishment to "Ashiko" drum music. Sometimes a bottle is also used, a nail beating time on it, for the same purpose. The drummers, five in number, all beat similar drums, and produce a continuous volume of music. The dancing is done by pairs, two ladies and two gentlemen facing each other. The drummers sing as in the "Sakara" dance with chorus boys, but no one else sings with them (Delano [1937] 1973:157)."

Aşık

Aşık is a Turkish name and may refer to:

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A. K. Huntington

Professor Alfred Kirby Huntington (1852–1920) was a British professor of metallurgy, author and aviation pioneer. He flew balloons and an aircraft of his own design.

Early life

Alfred Kirby Huntington was born on 18 January 1852 in Ipswich, Suffolk to Francis Henry Huntington and Amelia Huntington (née Hemsworth). He had an elder brother, Francis D’Esterre Huntington, who was born in 1847 but died aged 10 in 1857.

Pioneer aviator

Prof A.K. Huntington was a founding and active committee member of the Royal Aero Club.

He originally was a keen balloonist and took part in the first Aero Club race, which took place at Ranelagh Club on 7 July 1906. His balloon Zenith was one of the seven balloons to ascend that day, the first time in England that seven balloons had ascended from one spot.

He also competed in the first Gordon-Bennett Cup race in 1906 along with the Hon. C. S. Rolls.

He moved on from balloons to aeroplanes and flew a plane of his own design, the Dunne-Huntington triplane. It was kept and flown on the Isle of Sheppy. Huntington is named on The Aviation Memorial in Eastchurch.