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The Song of Other Things

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From disambiguation statements posted at the beginning of Wikipedia articles, as collected by the author between 2013 and 2015. This style of disambiguation (e.g., “This article is about the fruit. For the technology company, see Apple Inc.”) has fallen out of favor with the website’s editors, who now tend to direct readers to standalone pages of other uses (e.g., “For other companies with the same name, see Apple (disambiguation) § Businesses and organisations”) rather than tortuously work through the possibilities of mistaken identity.

 

I.

This article is about poetry that is sung. For poetry of the Chinese Song Dynasty, see

This article is about speech directed at babies. For speech-like sounds produced by babies, see

This article is about the practice of taking heads from humans after killing them. For recruiting in organizations, see

This article is about the nineteenth-century slave escape routes. For railroads built below ground, see

This article is about the practice of escaping from restraints. For the attempt to divert attention from an unpleasant reality, see

This article is about the children’s modeling material. For the ancient Greek philosopher, see

This article is about the logical fallacy. For the historical quotation “Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi,” see

This article is about the day in the Roman calendar. For other events that occurred on 15 March, see

This article is about welfare recipients in the US. For state handouts to the British Queen, see

This article is about a rise in the general price level. For the expansion of the early universe, see

This article is about the economic term. For the board game, see

This article is about the end of life. For the fabric process, see

 

II.

This article is about the court case. For the poet, see

This article is about the poet. For the island, see

This article is about the island. For the racehorse, see

This article is about the racehorse. For the American president, see

 

III.

This article is about the mass murderer. For the economist of the University of Chicago, see

This article is about the professional wrestler. For the seventeenth-century theologian, see

This article is about the pornographic actress. For the Peter Pan character, see

This article is about the civil engineer. For the baggage handler, see

This article is about the writer. For the saint, see

This article is about the writer. For the spy, see

This article is about the writer. For the September 11 victim, see

This article is about the writer. For the injured and retired footballer, see

This article is about the writer. For the minister of the Three Kingdoms period, see

This article is about the writer. For the bird, see

This article is about the writer. For the greeting, see

This article is about the writer. For the passenger train service, see

 

IV.

This article is about the old bridge. For the new bridge, see

This article is about the existing town. For the ghost town, see

This article is about the rock in Arizona. For the rock in Mongolia, see

This article is about the 1844 balloon hoax. For the 2009 balloon hoax, see

This article is about the real Directors of the FBI. For the criminal who pretends to be the Director of the FBI when sending fraudulent e-mails, see

This article is about the independent organization founded by John Dewey. For the Cold War organization controlled by the CIA, see

This article is about the crime of apartheid as defined in international law. For the system of racial segregation that formerly existed in South Africa, see

This article is about legal jurisdiction over military personnel. For military jurisdiction over civilians, see

This article is about children with a foreign military parent. For children used as soldiers, see

This article is about a form of therapy used in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. For the form of torture, see

This article is about past conflicts in the Near East. For modern conflicts, see

This article is about the 1940 massacre of Polish officers. For the 1943 massacre of Belarusian civilians, see

This article is about casualties for the war beginning in 2003. For other wars, see

This article is about the Vietnamese holiday. For the 1968 military operation that began on that holiday, see

This article is about the epic poem. For the siege, see

This article is about the poem. For the disaster itself, see

This article is about the metaphor. For the painting by Pieter Bruegel based on the metaphor, see

 

V.

This article is about the theoretical world-ending destruction. For the professional wrestling maneuver, see

This article is about the first South American automobile. For the multifaceted response to loss, see

This article is about the point-and-click video game by Adventure Soft. For the Samaritan Gnostic of the same name, see

This article is about the search for knowledge. For the suburb of Melbourne, Australia, see

This article is about the electronic vacuum tube. For the Eastern Orthodox structure of hymns, see

This article is about the magical formula. For the polling firm, see

This article is about the robot. For party leaders and elected officials of the United States’ Democratic Party, see

This article is about the pasta dish. For the secret society, see

This article is about the gay rights organization. For the organized crime network, see

This article is about the mathematical concept. For the four-person anti-Nazi Resistance groups, see

This article is about the literary genre. For romantic customs and practices of the Amish, see

 

VI.

This article is not about Western Express Air Lines.

This article is not about Weitzenböck’s inequality.

This article is not about the Weitzenböck identity.

This article is not about the Cassini Division in the rings around the planet Saturn.

This article is not about Robert of Chester, Robert of Retines, Robert Kilwardby, nor a bishop of Olomouc.

This article is not about the Krishna dasa Babaji of Ranabadi who died in 1865, nor the one of Navadvipa who died in 1919, nor the one of Radhakund who died in 1998.

This article is not about William H. Jefferys, also both an astronomer and a Bayesian.

Des Cahill is also a Fine Gael councilor in Cork City. Ths article is not about him.

This article is not about devices intended to permanently remove one hair at a time. Those devices are electric tweezers.

 

VII.

For the answer to the question “Why is the sky blue?”, see

For the phenomenon of blood falling from the sky, see

For the principle of retributive justice, see

For the eschatological interpretation, see

For the psychological idea of “holier-than-thou,” see

For the Biblical demon, see

For the Greek god of laughter, see

For the fictional gingerbread man, see

For the fictional anthropomorphic mouse, see

For the source of the phrase “the meek shall inherit the earth,” see

For the working class, see

For a person’s assessment of his/her own value and dignity, see

For the baseball player nicknamed The Freak, see

For the eighteenth-century polyphagist, see

For the second Doctor Octopus, see

For his father, Lord Mayor of Nottingham, see

For his less famous grandson by the same name, see

For the plural of Daddy, see

For the daughter of Thomas Jefferson, see

For white people who “emulate black people,” see

For the gravitational sphere of influence of one astronomical body in the face of perturbations from another heavier body around which it orbits, see

For the actual flight of a bumblebee, see

For self-medication in animals, see

For sex positions used by other animals, see

For the album by Snoop Dogg, see

For a heartbeat, see

 

VIII.

This article is about the man.

This article is about the room.

This article is about the castle.

This article is about the cave.

This article is about a path between two mountains.

This article is about extraterrestrial mountains.

This article is about the Irish windstorm.

This article is about the right-handed pitcher who pitched a no-hitter in a game he lost in 1964.

This article is about the first and second sons of Adam and Eve.

This article is about the wife of David.

This article is about the fourteenth wife of Abdul Hamid I.

This article is about the fourth scholarch of the Stoa.

This article is about the boy who was the subject of a mediaeval blood libel.

This article is about the previous pretender.

This article is about the forged imperial decree.

This article is about the soup made from peas.

This article is about a community of trees.

This article is about a scientific family of crabs.

This article is about all true hornets.

This article is about blankets that cover the entire horse.

This article is about the ancient boot.

This article is about liquids which are swilled around the mouth.

This article is about transgender uses.

This article is about coloring infinite graphs.

This article is about the first film in the trilogy.

This article is about the crystal skulls.

This article is concerned with roundedness in vowels.

This article is about the acknowledgement of debt.

This article is about parsimonious people.

This article is about the effect of spending on national income.

This article is about moral realism in the robust sense.

This article is about the generation of life from existing life.

This article is about the life source of the Transformers.

This article is about the view of God.

This article is about the angel of death.

This article is about a final resurrection at the end time.

This article is about the near and very far future.

This article is about Adolf Hitler’s dog.

This article is about laziness in Christianity.

This article is about the act of killing a human being.

This article is about the crime of attempt.

This article is about the Sikh sin of lust.

This article is about pathological guilt over religious or moral issues.

This article is about the otherworld whose inhabitants endure suffering.

This article is about the human shedding of tears.

This article is about a condition relating to grandiosity.

This article is about a pledge of allegiance.

This article is about the catatonic state.

This article is about the state of being.

This article is about the feeling.

This article is about the sense.

This article is about the perception or emotion.

This article is about the muse.

This article is about meaningless rhetoric.

This article is about the property of words.

This article is about punctuation marks used to indicate irony or sarcasm.

This article is about “emptiness” in a general sense.

This article is about the Internet encyclopedia.

This article is about the journal edited and written by patients of an asylum.

This article is about OCD in humans.

This article is about the “end of story” mark.

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