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  • Question: How does a modest trumpet professor at the University of Louisville School of Music, playing an obscure instrument called the corno da caccia, get himself recorded and distributed on a commercial label?

    unknown title 2009

  • In fact I have yet to see an American or European come into a relationship in Brazil thinking he is in a position of absolute power who doesn´t turn into a whimpering, broke "corno".

    Home 2009

  • In fact I have yet to see an American or European come into a relationship in Brazil thinking he is in a position of absolute power who doesn´t turn into a whimpering, broke "corno".

    Home 2009

  • Porque a veces hay poemas que no comprendo, no sé realmente qué corno quiso decir su autor, y sin embargo me gustan, me atraen y mucho.

    veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2009

  • One eskimO è un gruppo indie londinese di quattro elementi: Kristian Leontiou (voce), Adam Falkner (batteria), Martin Waugh (chitarra), Jamie Sefton (basso e corno).

    No Fat Clips!!! : One eskimO – Hometime 2008

  • I used to wear a thin gold chain with a “corno,” or Italian Horn good luck pendant, but when the chain broke after twenty years, I never bothered to get it repaired.

    Male Jewelry « Whatever 2007

  • Guardian | Coming storm in Somalia threatens regional war O corno de Africa é o novo ponto quente internacional.

    Leituras Artur 2006

  • BBC | Secrets of ocean birth laid bare O nascimento de um oceano: um rift no corno de àfrica está a permitir aos cientistas estudarem o processo de formação de um mar.

    Leituras Artur 2006

  • Est inquietante situacin convoca a la accin militante por parte de los pases del Sur a fin de defender sus derechos as corno una accin internacional para asegurar que los preciosos recursos de plantas medicinales del Terce Mundo sean protegidos de la privatizacin monopolistica de las compaas farmacuticas internacionales, y a fin de perservarlos y desarrollarlos para el beneficio democrtico y equitativo de los pueblos del mundo.

    Chapter 11 1991

  • "Take it away," he said to his servant, handing him the linen cap worn beneath the ducal corno, "we shall not need it any more."

    A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

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