Conjunction: less'n

1. (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) Unless.

Le cornet à pistons est un instrument de musique à vent de la famille des cuivres. == Origines == Littéralement, un cornet est un « petit cor ». Plus anciens, le cornet à bouquin et le cornet muet étaient des instruments virtuoses très répandus à la Renaissance et à l'époque baroque. Ce sont des instruments en bois dotés d'une embouchure et munis de trous comme une flûte à bec. Le cornet à pistons enroulé comme une trompette et fut, de ses origines jusqu'à l'apparition des pistons, même un peu après, enroulé comme un cor. Au début, ce petit cor connut un emploi de corne d'appel plus que ...

Pierre Michelot (3 March 1928 – 3 July 2005) was a French jazz double bass player and arranger. == Early life == Michelot was born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris on 3 March 1928. He studied piano from 1936 until 1938. He switched to playing bass at the age of sixteen. == Later life and career == He played and recorded with visiting American musicians in Paris. He "played with Rex Stewart (1948), performed at Frisco's in Paris with Kenny Clarke (summer 1949), and joined Clarke in a band accompanying Coleman Hawkins (winter 1949–50), with whom he recorded; in 1949 he also recorded with...

Verb: make fetch happen (third-person singular simple present makes fetch happen, present participle making fetch happen, simple past and past participle made fetch happen)

1. (slang, humorous) To try to make something catch on.

Queen Bees and Wannabes is a 2002 self-help book by Rosalind Wiseman. Written for parents of teenage girls, the book focuses on the ways in which girls in high schools form cliques, and on handling patterns of aggressive behavior. The book was, in large part, the basis for the teen comedy film Mean Girls (2004) starring Lindsay Lohan, its stage musical adaptation, and the 2024 film version of the latter. The book's third edition was published in 2016. == See also == Female intrasexual competition Queen bee (sociology) == Notes == == References == == Further reading == Chesney-Lind, ...

The Human Terrain System (HTS) was a United States Army, Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) support program employing personnel from the social science disciplines – such as archaeology, anthropology, sociology, political science, historians, regional studies, and linguistics – to provide military commanders and staff with an understanding of the local population (i.e. the "human terrain") in the regions in which they were deployed. The concept of HTS was first developed in a paper by Montgomery McFate and Andrea Jackson in 2005, which proposed a pilot version of the project as a response to...