For the 2011-2012 season, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra paid its musicians the most in the nation, with an average salary of $144,040 a year, reports the National Arts Journalism Program. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra was a close second, paying violinists and all other musicians an average of $143,260 a year.
Possible meanings, origins and uses [edit]. Honky may be a variant of hunky, which was a deviation of Bohunk, a slur for Bohemian-Hungarian immigrants in the early 1900s. Honky may have come from coal miners in Oak Hill, West Virginia. The miners were segregated; blacks in one section, whites in another.ccording to Robert Hendrickson, author of the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, black workers in Chicago meatpacking plants picked up the term from white workers and began applying it indiscriminately to all whites. Father of the Blues W.C. Handy wrote of Negroes and hunkies in his autobiography.
Karate comes from Okinawa, which is now part of Japan. It was created by combining the local wrestling with Kung Fu techniques from China. Tradition has it that the origins ofâ¦ Kung Fu come from India. It is now a part of Japan. It was an independent country at one time, a tributary of China. Karate originated in the Ryukyu Islands (now known as Okinawa in Japan). Okinawa at that time was a trade hub for countries like Korea, China, Philippines and Japan.