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a German Pseudo-Anglicism for a mobile phone; the term may have originated from the term 'hand held transceiver' or Motorola's Handie-Talkie, a World War II portable military radio; reappeared as a slang term for mobile phones in Germany in the mid-1980s, and was popularised there by advertising campaigns for miniature GSM phones in the 1990s.
Pseudo-Anglicisms are words in languages other than English which were borrowed from English but are used in a way native English speakers would not readily recognize or understand. ... A transceiver is a device that has both a transmitter and a receiver which are combined in to one. ... A walkie-talkie is a portable, bi-directional radio transceiver, first developed for military use. ... The Atari Lynx is Ataris only handheld game console, and the first such machine with a color display. ... Handy is an emulator for the Atari Lynx. ...
W.C. Handy photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was an African American blues composer and musician, often known as the Father of the Blues. ... Jack Handey (born 25 February 1949) is an American humorist. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Quantum chemistry is a branch of theoretical chemistry, which applies quantum mechanics and quantum field theory to address issues and problems in chemistry. ... The University of Cambridge (usually abbreviated as Cantab. ...
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Handy wrote in his 1941 autobiography "Father of the Blues," that he was born in the log cabin built by his grandfather William Wise Handy, who became a African Methodist Episcopal minister after Emancipation.
Handy was a deeply religious man, whose influences in his musical style were found in the church music he sang and played as a youth, and in the sounds of nature in his hometown, Florence, Alabama.
Handy felt he was underpaid and felt he could make more money touring with a minstrel group and after a dispute with AAMC President Councill, he resigned his teaching position to rejoin the Mahara Minstrels to tour the Midwest and Pacific Northwest.
Handy was an educated musician who used folk material Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people.
Handy wrote in his 1941 autobiography Autobiography (from the Greek auton, 'self', bios, 'life' and graphein, 'write') is biography, the writing of a life story, from the viewpoint of the subject.
Handy was a deeply religious man, whose influences in his musical style were found in the church music he sang and played as a youth, and in the sounds of nature in his hometown, Florence, Alabama Florence is a city in Lauderdale County which is situated in the northwest corner of Alabama.
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