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Sacred Harp Singing (225 words) |
 | Sacred Harp singing is a non-denominational community musical event emphasizing participation, not performance. |
| The singing is not accompanied by harps or any other instrument. |
| This style of singing stems from singing schools in the colonial period. |
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SCS: Harp Seal (Phoca groenlandica) (3070 words) |
| All three harp seal populations are commercially hunted, usually on their breeding grounds, and the current hunt in Canada has been described as the "largest slaughter of marine mammals in the world". |
| The actual number of harp seals killed by the hunt each year is believed to be much higher than the official figures due to seals "struck and lost", as well as those not reported and those illegally killed. |
| Harp seals are subjected to intensive commercial hunting during the spring at both their West and East Ice breeding grounds, hunt quotas for these populations being jointly managed by Norway and Russia. |
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