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 | | Mento is a style of Jamaican folk music that predates and has greatly influenced reggae music. | | | Mento typically features acoustic instruments, such as acoustic guitar, banjo, hand drums, and the rhumba box - a large mbira in the shape of a box that can be sat on while played. | | | Mento is often confused with Calypso, a musical form from Trinidad and Tobago. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Mento
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| | Jolly Boys and Mento |
| | Mento songs rarely made it to the radio and were quickly forgotten in the face of increasing Western/American musical influence as the 1950's came on. | | | The emphasis of mento musical structure is based on the a few key stylistic and structural elements - the upstroke of the guitar and rhythm and melody are tightly coupled in accent and delivery; the form of rhyming verses which tell a story and lastly a catchy chorus that was melodically different from the verse. | | | Similarly, the focus of early mento had a constrained geographic worldview to be relevant to the average mento listener (largely poor and uneducated non-whites). |
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http://www.furious.com/perfect/jollyboys.html
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| | Jamaica Gleaner - Mento music passion - Sunday June 10, 2001 |
| | Mento music has been described as the great-grand-parent of reggae. | | | Like all music forms, mento has had its stars and its controversies with some of the songs being banned because they were thought to be sexually explicit. | | | Patrick Christian of Peacemaker Band is one of the mento musicians who plays songs by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh on Mento rhythms. |
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http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20010610/ent/ent1.html
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| | Mento Music: The Jolly Boys |
| | The music is not at all mento, but instead reggae. | | | Unlike later releases from the mento resurgence, which were relentlessly upbeat, this LP features a number of tracks that are quite mournful by comparison. | | | "Pop and Mento" was re-released by British label Cooking Vinyl (www.cookingvinyl.com) in early 2004. |
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http://www.mentomusic.com/TheJollyBoys.htm
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| | The Evolution of Jamaican Folk Music - ReggaeFusion.com |
| | As mento music was first developing in Jamaica from a variety of influences, it is likely that the first lyrics used in mento music came from Jamaican folk songs. | | | Though not recorded as often as mento, non-mento Jamaican folk music does have a history on vinyl. | | | The Jamaican folk music tradition is entwined with that of mento. |
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http://www.reggaefusion.com/Evolution/Folk/Index.html
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| | Mento Music: What is Mento Music? |
| | This CD is comprised of classic mento tracks, a handful of Bob Marley songs mento-style and new mento renditions of some of Stanley's reggae-mento songs. | | | In the 1920s, a number of mento songs were put to vinyl by Caribbean jazz artists. | | | Mento music had its beginnings in Jamaica in the 19th century, and was uniquely Jamaican fusion of African and European musical traditions. |
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http://www.mentomusic.com/WhatIsMento.htm
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| | Mento Music: Welcome |
| | Mento is a vibrant and significant genre of music. | | | The Mento and Jazz page describes how the earliest mento recordings were on jazz records of the 1920s and 1930s and how mento-jazz has spanned the decades. | | | There is a page for mento lyrics and one for video of mento performances. |
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http://www.mentomusic.com
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| | One Bakersfield woman's blog to mankind: Norfolk, Mento Buru in a haunted downtown building |
| | Mento Buru’s wealth of musical talent and abundance of feel-good music makes for band-longevity and great entertainment. | | | Mento Buru reached out their hands through their unique blend of Latin and Ska music that borders on Salsa music at times and connected with the crowd. | | | Mento Buru has such a great musical history in Bakersfield. |
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http://matildakay.blogspot.com/2005/06/norfolk-mento-buru-in-haunted-downtown.html
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| | Jamaica Gleaner - Mento takes the spotlight - Saturday May 17, 2003 |
| | Taking its name from a popular Mento song, the exhibition will be titled 'Sly Mongoose'. | | | The concert will be held on the east lawn of Devon House and will feature five Mento bands, The Rod Dennis Band, The Happy Smilers, Freedom Mento Band and The Jolly Boys. | | | "Many Mento bands are now in the habit of playing to a purely tourist audience," he said. |
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http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20030517/ent/ent1.html
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| | The Beginning |
| | Mento was mostly a rural music because most of the bands were local bands. | | | So now the situation is the middle class is still listening to big band jazz, and the middle to lower class was listening to the new natioal rage Mento. | | | Typically a Mento band would play at weddings, local dances, fairs and concerts. |
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http://web.fccj.org/~ivanhoof/ska/TheBeginning.html
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| | Calypso: Jamaica |
| | Mento songs were often humorous and allusive—some commented on specific events, while others were lyrical expressions of general aspects of Jamaican life. | | | During the 1950s, mento artists often sang calypsos or called their mento songs "calypsos," in order to enhance their appeal to foreign audiences. | | | Urban dance bands, with horns and piano, also included mentos in their repertoires. |
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http://www.calypsoworld.org/noflash/cla-2.htm
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| | Mento Buru |
| | Mento Buru is an explosive 8-piece band that cleverly combines Jamaican SKA, rock, latin jazz, funk and reggae. | | | In addition to Mento Buru's own CD releases, the band has also been included on these domestic and international compilations: Cultivation '92 (A Kick Produkt), Cultivation No. 3 (BPAC Records), Experiments in Sonic Reaction (Maniclab Media), Skauthentic, Blackpool's Ska Comp. | | | The group regularly performs every musical function and their intense, high-energy concerts have made them one of the most popular live draws in the city. |
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http://www.mbus.com/bands/genadm/Mento.Buru.htm
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| | From Folk to Mento - Listen the History of Jamaican Music - MP3 - Jamaica Music - Reggae, Ska, Mento |
| | The first music that was recorded in Jamaica was Mento which drew heavily from these various forms of Folk music, not only with its repetoire, but also from the instrumentation. | | | From Folk to Mento - Listen the History of Jamaican Music - MP3 - Jamaica Music - Reggae, Ska, Mento | | | For example - the music of the Pocomania church, the fife and drum sound of Junkanoo, the European influence Quadrille and the plantation influence 'work songs'. |
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http://www.jamaicans.com/music/folk.htm
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| | Stanley Beckford brings Mento to France - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM |
| | On these tours he is the only Jamaica act, except for the Clarendon-based Blue Glade Mento Band which is a part of his entourage, being the lead singer and guitarist. | | | Syleain Taillet from France Universal/Barcley who was responsible for the executive production for the albums and who signed Beckford to the company for the first album two years ago in France said it is doing quite well. | | | IN Jamaica, Stanley Beckford is well known for his exploits in the Jamaica Popular Song (formerly Festival Song) contest both as a solo contestant and as the lead singer for the Turbines. |
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http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/html/20031120T210000-0500_51894_OBS_STANLEY_BECKFORD_BRINGS_MENTO_TO_FRANCE.asp
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| | Titans Tower: Steve Dayton |
| | Created by the deranged Steve "Mento" Dayton, the Hybrid was meant to be his version of the Doom Patrol. | | | But, whereas the Doom Patrol was made up of people who received their "conditions" accidentally, the Hybrid members got their powers from Dayton's experiments with Promethium, a substance which Dayton Industries perfected during the time that Mento was searching for Madame Rouge and General Zahl. | | | New Teen Titans (second series) #24-25 [1986]: The deranged Mento blames Changeling for the death of the original Doom Patrol and wants him dead. |
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http://www.titanstower.com/source/whoswho/dayton.html
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| | Mento pioneer Alerth Bedasse and the Night Food controversy - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM |
| | Long before the birth of popular music as we now know it today, there was a song recorded by mento pioneer Alerth Bedasse called Night Food that attracted the outrage of the first People's National Party (PNP) government of the late 1950s. | | | The lyrical content of dancehall has long been a source of much concern mainly because of its lewdness. | | | So intense was the controversy over Night Food, Bedasse was forced to reply in a letter to the press about his song, which compared to todays raunchy offerings could be considered a lullaby of virtue. |
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http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/html/20051029T220000-0500_91385_OBS_MENTO_PIONEER_ALERTH_BEDASSE_AND_THE_NIGHT_FOOD_CONTROVERSY_.asp
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| | NPR : Music Review: 'Mento Madness' from Various Artists |
| | All Things Considered, April 19, 2004 · Chris Nickson reviews the CD Mento Madness: Motta's Jamaican Mento 1951-56. | | | The disc is a compilation of material from the Jamaican "MRS" label founded by Kingston business man Stanley Motta. | | | NPR : Music Review: 'Mento Madness' from Various Artists |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1842828
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| | fRoots Netrooting |
| | Jamaica's mento music is the roots of reggae. | | | Maintained by John Potter, author of the book of the same name about the music and culture of the Ryukyu Islands. |
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http://www.frootsmag.com/content/issue/netroot
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| | Mento Fruit Crate t-shirt and apparel from Zazzle.com |
| | MENTO fruit reggae ska music jamaica garnice www.mentomusic.com jolly | | | Mento Fruit Crate t-shirt and apparel from Zazzle.com |
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http://www.zazzle.com/link.asp?associate_id=238889854862394568&redirect=product&product_id=235954487860141680
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| | Review - Various : Rhythm Choice Vol. 7 ~ Mento |
| | Throughout the development of Jamaican popular music mento has influenced the sound and popular dancehall deejays such as Lieutenant Stitchie and Admiral Bailey drew freely from mento imagery. | | | Mosiah Levi's Mento Megimix features all tracks once again, but now presented in a nice mix of 4:09 minutes. | | | Mento is often described as the Jamaican variant of calypso. |
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http://www.reggae-vibes.com/rev_var/rcmento.htm
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| | Utility Feature: Birds of a Feather |
| | They told us what they liked and what they didn't, and we narrowed it down to a couple of manufacturers," Mento said. | | | The track is gone now, but Mento still likes cars, trucks, and all sorts of other vehicles. | | | "They are made up mostly of first-class mechanics that do anything from hydraulics to motor work," Mento said. |
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http://www.ttnews.com/lmt/UFMMar05/birds.asp
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| | The Evolution of Jamaica's Mento Music - ReggaeFusion.com |
| | The Evolution of Jamaica's Mento Music - ReggaeFusion.com | | | Mento is a dance of social significance, objectively and minimally, in Jamaica. | | | Mento is used to ridicule members of the social group or censure them for some misdeed. |
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http://www.reggaefusion.com/Evolution/Mento/Index.html
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| | Mento photo album - Photobucket.com |
| | current album: bwo4ever > Mento - 26 pics | | | If you haven't seen a Mini-Book yet, Click PrintIt! |
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http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v456/bwo4ever/Mento
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| | Mento - Wiki Gonzalez |
| | An example of a 'mento' can be found in this thread (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/primer/discussion/24261/), when Repoz refers to musical 'girl groups' as 'girl gropes'. | | | In addition, there are those who believe that 'mento' is the singular for Mentos, The Freshmaker! | | | (http://www.mentos.com/mentossite/), while others insist that the singular of Mentos is 'Mentos', as in, "Thank you, Hans, for helping me drive Turkish immigrants from our quaint Bavarian town. |
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http://digamma.net/btfwiki/index.php/Mento
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| | Mike's Reggae Shirts: The Mento Poster shirt |
| | A faux concert poster, circa 1957, for "Mento Time" the greatest mento concert that never really happened. | | | The poster featured on the back lists all the top stars of that era. | | | See the home page for more on Zazzle.com's role in buying one of my designs. |
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http://www.mikesreggaeshirts.com/mentoPoster.htm
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| | Politico recounts talk - PittsburghLIVE.com |
| | Castagna said everyone laughed when security director Jerry Waldorf unwrapped the doll and that no sexual remarks were made. | | | Montour school board members and candidates talked about replacing Superintendent Ron Mento shortly after the 2003 primary election, according to testimony Wednesday at Mento's ongoing dismissal hearing. | | | At the December party, in a private room at a Kennedy restaurant, Mento blew up an inflatable doll exchanged between two other administrators as a gag gift. |
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http://www.pittsburghlive.com:8000/x/tribune-review/news/s_196039.html
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| | Calypso: Resources |
| | An in-depth chapter by Kenneth Bilby on Jamaican musical traditions includes material on mento. | | | Includes a lengthy chapter on the court battle over the copyright for the music of the calypso "Rum and Coca Cola," written by Lord Invader. | | | Overview of Jamaican mento and its connections with calypso. |
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http://calypsoworld.org/noflash/resources.htm
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| | Doom Patrol online |
| | Guest Stars: Mento (marries Elasti-Girl in this story), Superman, Batman, Flash, and Wonder Woman (the Justice League of America), Robin, Wonder Girl, and Kid Flash (the Teen Titans), Beast-Boy, Super-Hip | | | The "Mento" was actually a disguised Madame Rouge, carrying out a plan of the Brotherhood of Evil to put the Doom Patrol and Mento at each other's throats. | | | The refusal of Rita to marry Mento on pg. |
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http://www.rpi.edu/~bulloj/Doom_Patrol/dp104.html
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| | Files included in this album (these files can also be purchased individually) | | | Various Artists Mento Madness Mottas Jamaican Mento 1951-1956 - Music download here | | | Various Artists Mento Madness Mottas Jamaican Mento 1951-1956 |
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http://www.altnet.com/store/album/69409/index.aspx
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| | various / mento madness, motta's jamaica: mento 1951-56 |
| | Sign up to be notified of new releases by: | | | If you enjoyed the splendid 'London Is The Place For Me' compilation of Uk jamaican music last year, this is the real deal. | | | various / mento madness, motta's jamaica: mento 1951-56 |
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http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=13083
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| | Mento claims retaliation - PittsburghLIVE.com |
| | Mento yesterday held up an identical, uninflated doll and noted the air valve is in the middle of the doll's back. | | | Mento ultimately was given a satisfactory rating and a 4 percent raise -- the highest his contract allowed. | | | Mento's statements marked the end of testimony in his dismissal hearing before the school board. |
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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/news/s_199035.html
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| | Catoprion mento, the wimple piranha |
| | The two species were erected as separate species from C. mento because of some vague descriptions pertaining to fin length, double extension of rays (similar to freshwater cichlid angelfishes genus Pterophyllum) and the lack of red-blemish on the opercle. | | | This count was made from a photograph of C. mento found on pg. | | | They require heavy planting, and soft flow of water. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/biz/piranha038/Catoprionmento.html
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| | Removal official; no money to Mento |
| | It was the release of the auditor general's preliminary report in January that prompted the school directors to place Mento on administrative leave. | | | Mento's attorney John Cambest said he will appeal his client's dismissal to Common Pleas Court. | | | Unlike the virulent protest caused by Mt. Lebanon's ousting of their superintendent Nov. 8, only one speaker from the audience spoke on the issue. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04329/416440.stm
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| | Idun Pharmaceuticals' Steve Mento to Keynote Venture Forum 2005 |
| | Steve Mento, President and CEO of Idun Pharmaceuticals, will be a Keynote Speaker at Larta Institute's 2005 Venture Forum, America's largest showcase of top-tier emerging companies, May 25-26, 2005. | | | He did his post doctoral fellowship in somatic cell genetics at the University of Toronto. | | | Mento holds Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science, and Ph.D. degrees in microbiology from Rutgers University. |
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http://www.larta.org/lavox/articlelinks/2005/050502_mento.asp
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| | Mento's pay is taken away |
| | The debate at that time had involved Mento because both he and Marchionda had signed a document indicating they had authority to enter into the lease on behalf of the school district, despite no official authorization from the board. | | | Mento, whose current annual salary is $110,240, has 17 months remaining on his three-year contract, which expires in July 2005. | | | His hiring in March 2002 infuriated many taxpayers, who were suspicious of his role in the mismanagement that resulted in a state auditor general's investigation of the Duquesne School District, where he had been superintendent from 1992 to 1999. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04056/277149.stm
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| | Brooks' Mento shows he belongs |
| | While he's made a lot of new friends, Mento hasn't put all of the old schoolboy rivalries behind him. | | | Mento is still disappointed he was dealing with mononucleosis in March so he couldn't visit the Shriners Hospital, which treats young burn victims free of charge. | | | Methuen Legion's Jimmie Pritts has his sights set on the first base bag as he slides back safely. |
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http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20000622/SP_003.htm
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| | Piranha, Catoprion Mento from Fishpost.com |
| | The catoprion mento has a wide distribution throughout South America. | | | The Catoprion Mento, Wimple Piranha, from South America. | | | Will accept any live freshwater fish used as a normal feeder fish, thawed frozen fish fillets, shrimp and other meat products. |
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http://www.fishpost.com/piranha/catmento.html
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| | Re: Aphanius Mento |
| | I have also placed solitary males of A. mento into community tanks or with some dwarf cichlids (kribensis) with very poor results. | | | In my experience breeding A. mento with a spawning mop is going to result in a single male. | | | I have maintained Aphanius mento for 15 years and after a recent move lost my breeders. |
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http://fins.actwin.com/killietalk/month.200003/msg00313.html
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| | Horror Comic Book News - Comic Monsters - Encyclopedia |
| | During this ultimate battle, Sargon and Zatara were killed and Mento was rendered insane. | | | As has happened in the past, Constantine is sure to turn up when there is trouble. | | | At the same time, Constantine united a group of people with supernormal powers -- Zatara, Zatanna, Baron Winters, Sargon, Mento, and Dr. Occult (see individual entries) -- to further combat the schemes of the Brujeria. |
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http://www.comicmonsters.com/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=199
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| | Brendan Rapple and Barbara Mento Appointed Visting Program Officers in ARL Statistics and Measurement Program |
| | Mento will survey and analyze specific situations in which data mining tools are being applied in a way that expertise is developed within the library and that can lead to the development of data service operations in data mining. | | | Barbara Mento, MLS, is the Virtual Data Center and Government Information Manager at the O'Neill Library. | | | The ARL Visiting Program Officer (VPO) program provides an opportunity for a staff member in a member library to assume responsibility for carrying out part or all of a project for ARL. |
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http://www.arl.org/stats/announce/vpo_stats.html
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| | Dennis B. Mento, engineer; at 65 - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Local - News |
| | Mento worked for 27 years as a mechanical engineer at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. | | | Dennis B. Mento, engineer; at 65 - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Local - News | | | In 1963, he enlisted in the Army where he was awarded several decorations, including the Good Conduct Medal and the sharpshooter citation for his proficiency with the M-14 rifle. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/06/26/dennis_b_mento_engineer_at_65
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| | Aquarium Fish |
| | It is a bold and active fish and makes great addition to a reef aquarium. | | | Xanthichthys mento) poses for a picture in one of the sale tanks at the Reef and Fins store in Stamford, CT. This fish is approximately 6 inches in length and shares this aquarium with a larger male specimen | | | Xanthichthys mento) swims past a Tridacnid clam in the author’s 500 gallon reef aquarium. |
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http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/oct2002/Fish.htm
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| | Silurus mento |
| | IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - Silurus mento: Silurus mento. | | | : Pimelodus maculatus Silurus lima See Sorubim lima Silurus lithophilus (Tomoda 1961, Bu:86) Silurus megacephalus See Pimelodus ornatus Silurus mento (Regan 1904... |
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http://specieslist.com/endangered/scientific_name/S/Silurus_mento.shtml
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