Secondary dominant

Secondary dominant is a type of musical chord used in harmony.

In Harmony 2 was a record I had when I was a kid, and it had "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" by Bruce Springsteen. It also had a song by Billy Joel about an imaginary friend. For a little while I thought Billy Joel was my imaginary friend. Turned out he's a real man.


Harmony.
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Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 3

Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 3 was a live digital download of a Grateful Dead concert, the third in a series. The live performance was recorded on October 26, 1971 at the University of Rochester in New York and released in 2005 as a bunch of ones and zeroes.

Who would've thought?


Housefly dead.
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Kaiser (lunar crater)

Kaiser (lunar crater) is a crater on the moon. Many of you know about my affection for the moon. The moon and I are good friends. So it's nice to learn something new about it. Thanks, Wikibloogia.

The Kaiser crater has a diameter of 52 kilometers and is 1.8 kilometers deep. It was named after Frederik Kaiser, a 19th-century Dutch astronomer. It's unclear if he also invented the Kaiser roll.

Having something named after you is a great way to live on in people's memories. I have already had a few things named after me, most famously an apple. A lot of people name their children after people who lived before. Like a grandparent.

In summary, if you want to be remembered after you die, you should give your name to a new baby, a part of the neck, a bread roll, or a crater.


Moon.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Ariano Irpino-Lacedonia

Roman Catholic Diocese of Ariano Irpino-Lacedonia is a diocese.

It is a combination of two other dioceses, the diocese of Ariano and the diocese of Lacedonia. They united in 1986 to form one big diocese. It's similar to Michael Bivins, Ricky Bell, and Ronnie DeVoe coming together in 1989 to form Bell Biv DeVoe.


Big bucks, no whammies, stop.
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Run-D.M.C.

Run-D.M.C. was some sort of hip hop group from New York.

Their cover of Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" was on the soundtrack to Ghostbusters II.


Run-DMC inspired an entire generation of hip hop artists.
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Dungeon Lords

Dungeon Lords is a fantasy computer role-playing game. It was released in 2005.

The initial release of the game was met with great anger by the gaming community, because of its many bugs and problems. Items would disappear from inventories, key quests would fail, and doors wouldn't work. Many gamers complained that the game should never have been released.

But to me, that's just life. Sometimes items disappear from my inventory. Sometimes key quests fail. Sometimes doors don't work. That's just the way life is. You don't see me blaming video game companies.

I blame God.


This man's door doesn't work.
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Jules Vuillemin

Jules Vuillemin was a French philosopher who did most of his best philosophizing from the 1960s onward. Jules was first interested in phenomenology and existentialism. Then he got into logic and science. Then he died.

According to Wikipedia, "Vuillemin himself vindicated the legacy of Martial Gueroult." Thank god for that. You'd think Martial Gueroult's legacy would've been permanently tarnished after what happened to him. But, in the world of French philosophy, one can always be reinvented.

I think each one of us has times when we wish we could be reinvented.


No toilet paper.
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