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Housing Units (2000): 1126
Land area (2000): 1.565822 sq. miles (4.055460 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.565822 sq. miles (4.055460 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46620
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 30.311863 N, 104.024779 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79843
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Marfa
Wikipedia
Márfa is a village in Baranya county, Hungary.
Category:Populated places in Baranya County
Marfa also Timki is a single hemispherical drum or percussion instrument. It origins have been traced back to Africa in the findings published in American Journal of Human Genetics. The community who play the instrument the Siddis and Habshis live in Gujarat, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
The Marfa is a form of celebratory rhythmic music and dance in Hyderabad, India, among the Hyderabadi Muslims, adapted from Afro-Arab music of Hadhramawt in Yemen. played with high tempo using Marfa (instrument) daff, Dhol, sticks, steel pots and wooden strips called thapi. The Chorus effects and vocal meter are set according to beats.
It was introduced during 18th century in Hyderabad State by the Siddi community and Chaush diaspora, who used to serve as a Cavalry Guards of Asif Jahi Nizams irregular army. Asif Jahi Nizams had patronized Marfa Music and it was performed during there official celebrations and ceremonies as they also claimed Arab ancestry from the first Caliph Abu Bakr Siddique through the Bayafandi Clan of Asir province in Arabia. It got popular in India, particularly in Hyderabad state. It was brought to Hyderabad State by the diaspora of Siddis and Hadhramis.
The associated Marfa dance is typically performed with janbiya daggers and/or talwaars (swords) and latts (canes), and is likely to have been derived from the Bar'a dance of Yemen and Ethiopian drum sounds.
Usage examples of "marfa".
So he didn't begrudge Marfa the tiny apartment at the top of the building, just so long as she kept the magical influences flowing steadily and used her powers to protect the building during the storm season.
During the last storm, Marfa had placed a magical ward on the threshold to keep uninvited people out.
From the corner of her eye, as she readied the teapot and mixed the herbs for tea, Marfa watched Katzy, to see what her opinion of the young man would be.
After he'd settled in to his new apartment, Marfa started inviting him up for tea once or twice a week.
If Marfa Petrovna Kopelnikova had anything to do with it, Michael would learn to use whatever power he possessed for good purposes.
Once, Marfa recalled, the lake had frozen solid, and when it had thawed in the spring the villagers had found it to be stocked full of tiny, silver fish.
Too bad he's not a girl, Marfa found herself thinking, for he would make a fine witch.
This wasn't news to Marfa, who could feel the elemental forces building in the air, swirling around the city like a great, invisible river, but she listened to the news reports anyway.
Michael stepped inside, then hesitated, his nervous glance flicking between Marfa and X.
Michael hesitated like a hunted rabbit, looking from X to Marfa and back again.
At the same moment, a huge bolt struck the building, and Marfa absorbed it without flinching, knowing that to those watching she must be surrounded by a sparkling blue aura of elemental magic.
Then he turned his face away from X, and Marfa rejoiced to see the youthful smile she had come to know well forming on his lips as his eyes met hers.
X had time to shake Michael once, twice, before Marfa, with a flick of her fingers, sent bolts of element scorching across the room, flinging the intruders down the stairs and slamming the door.
The sun had already set, when Nadia, supporting Marfa Strogoff, reached the banks of the Tom.
She found out Nadia and Marfa Strogoff, and passed the night in watching them.