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What tool can be used to go down the ski slopes in speed competitions?

In the 1970s, ski resort workers in New Mexico came up with a quick way to move between locations. They rolled down the slopes astride shovels, controlling the movement by tilting the handle in one direction or another. Over time, this fun began to attract more and more people, even becoming a sport included in the Winter Extreme Games. However, the high risk of injury, exacerbated by the modification of shovels to give them better speed characteristics, has led to the fact that competitions in descent with shovels have been banned almost everywhere.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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Imagine that you hit a wooden table with your hand. There was a sound. If you strike the bell, it will also sound. But this sound will be called a tone. Tone is a single musical sound. Music is an art form that combines tones into harmonious groups of sounds. We sometimes call music the language of sounds. Sometimes a melody consists of sounds following one after another. Sometimes they sound together, harmoniously. Sometimes sounds collide with each other. But very often these encounters are full of meaning.

The melody is determined by the rises, falls or smooth movement of the sound. It is also determined by the rhythm of beats, division into parts, speed of sound, or tempo, the volume and softness of sounds matter. All these sounds are mechanical, they are born purely technically. But we don't think about it when we enjoy music.

We cannot always put into words the state that music evokes in us. We simply feel that music evokes joy, sadness, fun, tenderness, love, resentment - all shades of feelings that cannot always be expressed in words.

We like music for its beauty, and not for what thoughts it embodies. We can enjoy even a single musical sound from a voice, violin, horn, or other instrument. A melody can be liked for a very long time, one can know it well, but every time one admires it as if we were hearing it for the first time. Music exists in various forms, from anthem to symphony, and in different forms, from folk melodies to operas.

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