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ABN or Assholes by Nature is a American hip hop duo, composed of Houston, Texas-based rappers Trae and Z-Ro. They have so far released two studio albums, Assholes by Nature (2003) and It Is What It Is (2008).

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History [link]

The duo is a collaboration between Z-Ro and Trae, both of whom are well established solo recording artists within Texas' underground hip hop scene.[1] Their first collaboration was on Z-Ro's debut album Look What You Did to Me (1998), with them regularly appearing on each other's albums thereafter.[2]

Discography [link]

ABN's first release was 2003's the independent G-Maab records was produced by P.K. Johnson. Assholes by Nature was a double CD.[3]

In 2008 the duo released It Is What It Is which turned out to be the biggest commercial success for both artists. The album was released on Rap-a-Lot Records and produced by Brandon Crear.[4] The album reached number 62 on the Billboard 200, 10 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and 7 on the Top Rap Albums charts.[5] Previously the artists had 13 appearances on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart between them; this was the first in the top 10.[6]

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Hip Hop (mascot)

Hip Hop was the mascot of the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team. A rabbit character, Hip Hop usually entertained Sixers fans during halftime and time-outs by performing acrobatic slam dunks off of a trampoline, often over an item or person, such as a motorcycle, a Sixer Dancer, a fan, or a ladder.

Hip Hop also appeared at various Sixers publicity events and fundraisers. He has a sidekick named Lil Hip-Hop. He also has helpers named the Hare Raisers, who help him out at every home game.

It was revealed Hip-Hop would not be returning post lockout under new Sixers ownership. The decision was unanimous both from the new owners and the fan base.

References

  • Sixers say goodbye to Hip-Hop, 6ABC
  • 76ers' next mascot: a Philly-inspired animal, Philly.com
  • External links

  • Philadelphia 76ers official website
  • 76ers official My Space

  • Hexagonal prism

    In geometry, the hexagonal prism is a prism with hexagonal base. This polyhedron has 8 faces, 18 edges, and 12 vertices.

    Since it has eight faces, it is an octahedron. However, the term octahedron is primarily used to refer to the regular octahedron, which has eight triangular faces. Because of the ambiguity of the term octahedron and the dissimilarity of the various eight-sided figures, the term is rarely used without clarification.

    Before sharpening, many pencils take the shape of a long hexagonal prism.

    As a semiregular (or uniform) polyhedron

    If faces are all regular, the hexagonal prism is a semiregular polyhedron, more generally, a uniform polyhedron, and the fourth in an infinite set of prisms formed by square sides and two regular polygon caps. It can be seen as a truncated hexagonal hosohedron, represented by Schläfli symbol t{2,6}. Alternately it can be seen as the Cartesian product of a regular hexagon and a line segment, and represented by the product {6}×{}. The dual of a hexagonal prism is a hexagonal bipyramid.

    Hip (slang)

    Hip is a slang term sometimes defined as fashionably current, and in the know. It has also been defined as "an attitude, a stance" in opposition to the "unfree world", or to what is square, or prude.

    Hip, like cool, does not refer to one specific quality. What is considered hip is continuously changing.

    Origin of term

    The term hip is recorded in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the early 1900s. In the 1930s and 1940s, it had become a common slang term, particularly in the African-American dominated jazz scene.

    Research and speculation by both amateur and professional etymologists suggest that "hip" is derived from an earlier form hep but that is disputed. Many etymologists believe that the terms hip, hep and hepcat derive from the west African Wolof language word hepicat, which means "one who has his eyes open". Some etymologists reject this, however, tracing the origin of this putative etymology to David Dalby, a scholar of African languages who tentatively suggested the idea in the 1960s, and some have even adopted the denigration "to cry Wolof" as a general dismissal or belittlement of etymologies they believe to be based on "superficial similarities" rather than documented attribution.

    AB Pictoris

    AB Pictoris (abbreviated AB Pic, also catalogued as HD 44627) is a K-type star, approximately 148 light-years away in the constellation of Pictor. It has been identified as a member of the young (30 million years old) TucanaHorologium association. The star has also been classified as a BY Draconis variable. In 2005 it was announced that an astronomical object (AB Pictoris b, abbreviated AB Pic b) had been imaged in 2003 and 2004 close to and apparently in orbit around the star. Its mass suggests that it is at the borderline between being a brown dwarf or a planet.

    Possible planetary system

    In 2003 and 2004, an object (now catalogued as AB Pictoris b) was observed close to the star by a team of astronomers at the European Southern Observatory. Since it had common proper motion with AB Pictoris, it was concluded that it was physically close to the star. Its spectral type was estimated as between L0V and L3V. Using evolutionary models, its mass was estimated as from 13 to 14 Jupiter masses. However, because modelling such young objects is difficult, this estimate is very uncertain; some models give masses as low as 11 Jupiter masses or as high as 70 Jupiter masses. Temperature estimates range from 1600 K to 2400 K. As it is not known if the mass of the object exceeds the deuterium burning limit of 13 Jupiter masses, it is not clear whether the object should be classified as an extrasolar planet or a brown dwarf.

    Duo

    Duo may refer to:

    Arts

  • Comedy duo, also known as a double act
  • Duo (Mega Man), a fictional protagonist in the Capcom video game series Mega Man
  • Duo (film), a 1996 independent film
  • Duo Maxwell, a fictional protagonist in the television series Gundam Wing
  • Pas de deux (film), a 1969 Canadian film also known as Duo
  • Duo (novel), a novel by Colette
  • Duet or Duo, a musical piece performed by two musicians
  • Duo, a musical ensemble composed of two musicians
  • Duo (Kenny Drew and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen album), 1973
  • Duo 2, Kenny Drew and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen album, 1974
  • Duo (Hank Jones and Red Mitchell album), 1987
  • Duo (Marilyn Crispell and Gerry Hemingway album), 1992
  • Duo (Richard Marx and Matt Scannell album), 2008
  • Duo (Peter Ostroushko and Dean Magraw album), 1991
  • Duo (Merzbow album) box set, 2012.
  • Computing

  • Core 2 Duo, a computer processor from manufacturer Intel
  • PowerBook Duo, a laptop computer from computer maker Apple
  • Other uses

  • Duo, West Virginia, an unincorporated community and coal town in Greenbrier County, West Virginia
  • Duo (Peter Ostroushko and Dean Magraw album)

    Duo is the an album by fiddle and mandolin player Peter Ostroushko with guitarist Dean Magraw, released in 1991.

    Track listing

    All songs by Peter Ostroushko unless otherwise noted.

  • "The Whalebone Feathers" – 4:33
  • "Musette in a Minor" – 3:36
  • "Three Brazilian Melodies: Index One/Index Two/Index Three" – 8:21
  • "The Nightingale Medley: Index One/Index Two" – 5:38
  • "Unknowingly She Walked With Grace Amongst Tall Men" – 9:14
  • "The Prairie Suite" – 8:55
  • "Waltz for Hana" – 4:19
  • "Bukavina" – 3:35
  • "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" (James Austin Butterfield, George Washington Johnson) – 5:26
  • "Fiddle Tunes: Mesa de Esoeranza/The Edinburgh Jigs/Sarah Breaky's House, The London Road Jig, Clive Palmer's, The Easter Road)" – 8:44
  • Personnel

  • Peter Ostroushko – mandolin, fiddle, guitar, vocals
  • Dean Magraw – guitar
  • Production notes

  • Produced and mixed by Peter Ostroushko
  • Bob Feldman – executive producer
  • Tom Mudge – engineer, mixing
  • Craig Thorson – assistant engineer
  • Linda Beauvais – artwork, design
  • Podcasts:

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