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Encyclopedia > Bomba (disambiguation)

Bomba may refer to one of the following.

Bomba is a musical expression created in Puerto Rico. ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... Bomba is an African derived musical form from the Chota Rivera area of Ecuador. ... The bomba (plural bomby) was a special-purpose codebreaking machine designed by Polish cryptanalysts and used to crack the German Enigma machine prior to World War II. A bomba was designed to exploit an obscure but fatal weakness in the Enigma cipher. ... A three-rotor German military Enigma machine showing, from bottom to top, the plugboard, the keyboard, the lamps and the finger-wheels of the rotors emerging from the inner lid (version with labels). ... The Bombe replicated the action of several Enigma machines wired together. ... A three-rotor German military Enigma machine showing, from bottom to top, the plugboard, the keyboard, the lamps and the finger-wheels of the rotors emerging from the inner lid (version with labels). ... Tsar Bomba casing on display at Arzamas-16 Site of detonation Tsar Bomba (Russian: , literally Emperor of bombs) is the Western name for the largest, most powerful nuclear explosive ever detonated. ...

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Bomba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (509 words)
Bomba is described to be a challenge between the drummer and the dancer.
The main instruments used in bomba style music are any number of low pitched hand drums used to create a base rhythm, and a higher pitch drum which accentuates the beat with improvised patterns.
In bomba shows, the typical apparel worn by the dancers is what slaves may have used in social gatherings.
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For other usages, see Ultra (disambiguation) Ultra (sometimes capitalised ULTRA) was the name used by the British for intelligence resulting from decrypts of German communications in World War II (WWII); the term eventually became the common standard terminology for Britain and the United States for all intelligence from high-level cryptanalytic sources.
By 1938 much German Enigma traffic was being routinely deciphered by the Poles, but a change in German operations (greater rotor choice), and the impending war led the Poles to share their work on Enigma with France and England.
The number remaining was still huge, and due to the new rotors the Germans had added from time to time, that number was much larger than the Poles had been left with.
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