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Gemini space program

(Encyclopedia)Gemini space program: see space exploration. ...

Ocean Drilling Program

(Encyclopedia)Ocean Drilling Program: see under Deep Sea Drilling Project. ...

Mariner space program

(Encyclopedia)Mariner space program: see space exploration. ...

Mercury space program

(Encyclopedia)Mercury space program: see space exploration. ...

World Food Program

(Encyclopedia)World Food Program (WFP), United Nations humanitarian organization devoted to combating hunger and establishing food security globally. Relying solely on donations, the WFP provides emergency food ass...

Point Four program

(Encyclopedia)Point Four program, U.S. foreign aid project aimed at providing technological skills, knowledge, and equipment to poor nations throughout the world. The program also encouraged the flow of private inv...

electronic music

(Encyclopedia)electronic music or electro-acoustic music, term for compositions that utilize the capacities of electronic media for creating and altering sounds. Initially, a distinction must be made between the te...

Doowop Music

(Encyclopedia) Doowop (also spelled doo-wop or doo wop) music, American popular vocal music style, c. late 1940s-early 1960s. Doowop is a form of vocal harmony mu...

concrete music

(Encyclopedia)concrete music: see electronic music. ...

country music

(Encyclopedia)country music, American popular music form originating in the Southern and Western United States. Country music is directly descended from the folk songs, ballads, and popular songs of the English, Sc...