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- China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
5: ...[country]]'s territorial extent expanded outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and v...
7: ... formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and ...
16: ...eir nation as culturally and politically distinct from - and as the [[axis mundi]] of surrounding nati...
25: ... political legitimacy. It was used in this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing dyna... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ...first [[African American]] [[woman]], the second African American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the se...
31: ...isor]] during his first term. She was the second African American (after Powell) and the first female ...
35: ...sition at the University of Denver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] musical term "con dolcezza" wh...
37: ...air]] was killed in the bombing of the primarily African-American [[16th Street Baptist Church bombing...
41: ...Experience in America." [http://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/OpEds/berlet_condi_dad.html] At age 15, Ri... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
1: [[Image:Margaret_Mead.jpg|frame|Margaret Mead]]
5: ...r, eventually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taught at Colum...
7: ...y enough for the general public to read and learn from her works--remains firm.
12: ...the ''Coming of Age in Samoa'', Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
20: She concluded that the passage from childhood to adulthood--the period of "adolesce... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: .... [[Joseph Edward Mayer]], the assistant of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], M...
5: ...University]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]] from [[1931]]-[[1939|39]], but since she was a woman...
9: ...other pair go counterclockwise. Then add one more variation; all the dancers are spinning twirling round and ... - Artery (6875 bytes)
1: ...are muscular tubes that carry [[blood]] flow away from the [[heart]] to the [[biological tissue|tissue...
3: ...nd elastic tissue. The outermost layer (furthest from the flow of blood) is known as the ''[[tunica a...
5: ... each heart cycle. This pressure and blood volume variation within the artery produces the pulse which is pal...
15: ... binding sites have bound oxygen. Blood returning from the lungs, via the 4 pulmonary veins, to the le...
17: ...ting hemoglobin's affinity for oxygen). Returning from the body to the right atrium, [[hemoglobin]] mo... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
16: ...ling them to be correctly called [[Gymnosperm]]s. From that time onwards, so long as these Gymnosperms...
18: ...d the position of Gymnosperms as a class distinct from Dicotyledons, and the term Angiosperm then grad...
22: ...re not, however, primitive forms, but are derived from immediate land-ancestors. Associated with this ...
24: ... the angiosperms and the [[Gnetophyte]]s diverged from one another during the late [[Triassic]] (220-2...
47: ... regular periodical increase in thickness results from it by the development of xylem on the inside an... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
2: '''Calligraphy''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] καλ...
4: Calligraphy should be distinguished from the studies of [[epigraphy]] or [[palaeography]...
12: ...uan-shu and contained more than 3,000 characters. From that time to the present, there have been five ...
14: ... as a guide, hiragana and katakana were developed from simplified cursive versions of characters. In t...
52: ...clerical script is highly stylised, a development from seal script form. They are highly angular in ap... - Minuscule (2323 bytes)
1: ...under and simpler forms, like [[uncial]]s. It is from these that the first minuscule hands developed,...
5: ...that dictionaries tend to accept it as a spelling variation. However, ''miniscule'' is still less likely to b... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ...]s. The word has been used to mean various things from "any euphonious and pleasing sound" to only a p...
4: ...of the Latin ''musica''. It is ultimately derived from ''mousa'', the Greek word for [[muses|muse]]. I...
10: ... refers strictly to the mathematical proportions. From this concept later resulted the romantic idea o...
12: ...cult sciences]] or [[esoteric thought]] - ranging from [[astrology]] to believing certain [[minerals]]...
14: ...t the mathematical or physical relationships in [[frequency]] that give rise to the [[musical interval... - Geography (8541 bytes)
2: ...y]] and [[physical geography]]. The word derives from the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ''γ&et...
98: ...ut much controversy, that cartography is the seed from which the larger field of Geography grew. Most ...
99: Cartography has grown from a collection of drafting techniques into an act... - Map (10223 bytes)
7: ...h-central [[Anatolia]] (now [[Turkey]]); it dates from about [[6200 BC]].
9: ...tical value, and this has been the source of much fruitful map criticism over the last twenty years, n...
49: From the last quarter of the 20th century, the indis...
51: From the computer scientist's standpoint, zooming in...
55: ...y a rectangle of pixels does show more detail. A variation of this method is that [[interpolation]] is perfo... - Vertical flute (689 bytes)
1: The '''vertical flute''' is a special variation of the standard [[flute]], or, more specifically,... - Nose flute (4426 bytes)
3: In [[Zaire]], [[southern Africa]], it is played by eight different ethnic grou...
5: ...e for the [[nostril]] can be on the side, just in front of the nodal wall, or in the center of the nod...
9: ...nd, and the disposition of the fingerholes differ from node to vent hole so two alternating scales can...
11: ...ng various scales. Some players take a filter tip from a [[cigarette]] and plug the other unused nostr...
15: ...tive [[bamboo]], so their nose flutes were carved from a soft stone similar to [[soapstone]]. If a [[g... - Serpent (instrument) (2056 bytes)
3: ...ment and the player, but typically covers a range from two [[octave]]s below [[middle C]] to at least ...
7: ... shape of the original instrument. Another common variation is the so-called "Russian Bassoon", which is neit... - Trombone (15819 bytes)
6: The word ''trombone'' derives from [[Italian language|Italian]] ''tromba'' —...
9: ... typically between 7" and 8?". A number of common variations on trombone construction are noted below.
12: ...]] in English. This was not a distinct instrument from the trombone, but rather a different name used ...
14: ...ugh the size of a trombone choir can vary greatly from five or six to 20 or more members).
18: ...que music|Baroque]]) literature is often borrowed from other instruments, usually [[cello]] or [[basso... - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
2: A '''harmonica''' is a [[Free reed instrument|free reed]] musical [[wind instrument]] (also
3: ...n, among other things, as a '''mouth organ''', '''french harp''', simply '''harp''', or
6: dimension into which it can freely vibrate, thus repeatedly
9: Unlike most free-reed instruments (such as [[organ (music)|reed ...
14: is made to vibrate more easily by air from above, reeds accessed by a - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
5: Pipe organs range in size from portable instruments having only a few dozen pi...
11: <!--This section is the target of a link from the "organ pipe" article. If you update the tex...
15: ...ue organ]], the [[English romantic organ]], the [[French classical organ]], the [[symphonic organ]] an...
27: The word ''organ'' originates from the [[Latin]] word "[[organum (musical instrume...
31: ... Hungary (the ancient [[Pannonia]]) a Roman organ from the 3rd century AD was found. - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ... instruments are played in the southern parts of Africa. The Berimbau was eventually incorporated into...
9: ...n automobile [[tire]]) tightly strung and secured from one end of the verga to the other. A [[gourd]] ...
11: ...so be altered by moving the caba硠back and forth from the abdomen, producing a wah-like sound.
34: ...ing, and by sliding the gourd a little up or down from the place where the sound is best.
36: ...rom C to D). One can press the dobr㯠away enough from the gourd for this only if the bow is about 4 f...
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