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koto
Japanese musical instrument, a long zither with movable bridges and usually 13 strings. It lies on the ground or a low table, and the strings are plucked by plectra on the right hand's fingers while the left hand alters the pitch or ornaments the sound of individual strings by pressing or manipulating them on the other side of each bridge. It is played solo, in chamber ensembles (especially with the shakuhachi and samisen), and in gagaku music. The koto is Japan's national instrument.


Potok
U.S. rabbi and novelist. The son of Polish immigrants, he was reared in an Orthodox Jewish home and was ordained a Conservative rabbi. He taught until he began a career as an editor and writer of scholarly and popular articles and reviews in the 1960s. His novels, which have introduced to U.S. fiction the spiritual and cultural life of Orthodox Jews, include The Chosen (1967; film, 1981), The Promise (1969), My Name Is Asher Lev (1972), Davita's Harp (1985), and The Gift of Asher Lev (1990).


Bodoni
Italian typographer. Son of a printer, he served an apprenticeship at the press of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome. In 1768 he assumed management of the Royal Press of the duke of Parma. By the 1780s he was designing his own typefaces; the Bodoni typeface appeared in 1790, and is still in use today. He became internationally known and collectors sought his books. His many important works include fine editions of Horace (1791), Virgil (1793), and Homer's Iliad (1808).


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City (pop., 1994 est.: 5,132,000), capital of Colombia. The District Capital area is officially known as Santafé de Bogotá . It lies on a plateau east of the Andes. European settlement began in 1538 when Spanish conquistadores overran Bacatá , the main seat of the Chibcha Indians; the name was soon corrupted to Bogotá . It became the capital of the viceroyalty of New Granada and a center of Spanish colonial power in S. America. It was the scene of revolt against Spanish rule in 1810-11, and S. Bolí var took the city in 1819. It became the capital of the confederation of Gran Colombia; when that was dissolved in 1830, it remained the capital of New Granada (later Republic of Colombia). Today Bogotá is an industrial, commercial, educational, and cultural center.


Bohol
Island (pop., 1990 est.: 881,000), Philippine Islands. Located in the Visayan group north of Mindanao, it has an area of 1,492 sq mi (3,864 sq km). Visited by the Spanish in 1565, it remained under their rule until the late 19th cent. Its character is essentially rural and its economy agricultural. The chief settlements, incl. Loon and Talibon, are on the coast.


bonobo
Species (Pan paniscus) of great ape once considered a subspecies of the chimpanzee, which it closely resembles in size, appearance, and way of life. Its range, the lowland rain forests of central Congo (Zaire), is more restricted than that of the ...

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