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Pipas (band)
Pipas may refer to: *The plural of pipa, a Chinese stringed instrument *A Mediterranean surname, also spelled Bibas **James Pipas, American virologist *Pipas Bay Pipas Bay ( pt, Baía das Pipas) is a bay in Angola. It is located in the Namibe Province, 30 km north of Moçâmedes. Geography Pipas Bay is an open bay of the South Atlantic Ocean. The bay is facing west, with the ''Ponta da Baia'' headland at ..., a bay in Angola See also * Pipa (other) {{dab, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pipa
The pipa, pípá, or p'i-p'a () is a traditional Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called the "Chinese lute", the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12 to 31. Another Chinese four-string plucked lute is the liuqin, which looks like a smaller version of the pipa. The pear-shaped instrument may have existed in China as early as the Han dynasty, and although historically the term ''pipa'' was once used to refer to a variety of plucked chordophones, its usage since the Song dynasty refers exclusively to the pear-shaped instrument. The pipa is one of the most popular Chinese instruments and has been played for almost two thousand years in China. Several related instruments are derived from the pipa, including the Japanese biwa and Korean bipa in East Asia, and the Vietnamese đàn tỳ bà in Southeast Asia. The Korean instrument is the only one of the three that is no longer wide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibas
Bibas or Peppas ( ar, بيباص; el, πέππας; he, ביבאס) is a Greek surname derived from the word παππάς or παπάς, and it means priest. the surname is used in Greece and various places in the Mediterranean, like Libya, Israel. for Israel, the surname is exists in Jews families of Greek origin where migrated to it. In Libya and due to the influence of Greek in the local dialect, someone nicknamed with this because of the similarity of his appearance to the "peppas" which is called for the Christian priests, thus it became a surname for extended families from him, residents in Janzur as well as in other places in Libya, also in Tunisia and Algeria. Also exists in the United States for families of Greek origin. People with the surname Notable people with the surname include: * Christos Peppas * Haim Bibas * James Pipas, American virologist * June Peppas * Nicholas A. Peppas * Stephanos Bibas * Yehuda Bibas Yehuda Aryeh Leon Bibas (or Judah Bibas) ( he, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Pipas
James M. Pipas is an American molecular virologist. He currently holds the Herbert W. and Grace Boyer Chair in Molecular Biology at the University of Pittsburgh. Pipas is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, and completed his Ph.D. in molecular biophysics at Florida State University in 1975, under the supervision of Robert H. Reeves. After postdoctoral research at Baylor College with John H. Wilson, and at Johns Hopkins University with Daniel Nathans Daniel Nathans (October 30, 1928 – November 16, 1999) was an American microbiologist. He shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application in restriction mapping. Early life a ..., he joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty in 1980. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Southern Mississippi alumni Florida State University alumni University of Pittsburgh faculty 21st-century American biolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pipas Bay
Pipas Bay ( pt, Baía das Pipas) is a bay in Angola. It is located in the Namibe Province, 30 km north of Moçâmedes. Geography Pipas Bay is an open bay of the South Atlantic Ocean. The bay is facing west, with the ''Ponta da Baia'' headland at the southwestern end and the ''Praia das Salinas'' beach stretching north towards the northern end of the bay. The small settlement of Pipas is located near the shore. See also * Geography of Angola Angola is located on the western Atlantic Coast of Southern Africa between Namibia and the Republic of the Congo. It also is bordered by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia to the east. The country consists of a sparsely watered and s ... References Bays of the Atlantic Ocean Bays of Angola {{angola-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
