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Featured Article: African American music

Louis Armstrong, known as "Satchmo"

African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music and musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans, who have long constituted a large ethnic minority of the population of the United States. They were originally brought to North America to work as enslaved peoples, bringing with them typically polyrhythmic songs from hundreds of ethnic groups across West and sub-Saharan Africa. In the United States, multiple cultural traditions merged with influences from polka, waltzes and other European music. Later periods saw considerable innovation and change.

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Two Epstein-Barr virions

Epstein-Barr virus, frequently referred to as EBV, is a distinct member of the herpesvirus family (Herpesviridae) of DNA viruses and one of the most common viruses in humans. It is also known as Human herpesvirus 4 (HHV-4). Most people become infected with EBV, which is often asymptomatic but commonly is associated with acute infectious mononucleosis, as well as certain types of cancer, such as nasopharyngeal carcinoma and Burkitt's lymphoma. EBV is so ubiquitous among humans worldwide that it is difficult to tell if it is the causal agent of the various associated diseases or simply present.

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The Yoruba are one of the largest ethno-linguistic groups in sub-Saharan Africa with "Yorubaland" spanning parts of the modern states of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo (source: Yoruba People)

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