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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...t. Figueres also abolished the [[military]] and today, Costa Rica has only a national [[police]] force...
16: ... colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: ?Pura vida!<br>(Popular saying meaning "Pure life!")''</smal...
39: <br /> - Date
71: ...tural country, has achieved a relatively high standard of living. Land ownership is widespread and [[t...
116: ...ega Indians, Bantu Africans and Spaniards. Descendants of black 19th-century Jamaican immigrant worke... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
4: *[[Andrew Aagesen|Aagesen, Andrew]], (1826-1879), Danish jurist
5: *[[Jeppe Aakj沼Aakj沬 Jeppe]], (1866-1930), Danish writer
13: ...hn, Sarah]], (1890-1917), head of [[Nili]], a [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[spy]]-ring - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June 15]], [[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jaz...
14: ...ther with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
47: *1958 ''[[Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert]]''
90: *1970 ''[[Ella in Budapest, Hungary]]''
100: *1978 ''[[Dream Dancing]]'' - Pineal gland (4403 bytes)
17: ...of melatonin by the pineal gland is stimulated by darkness and inhibited by light. Light can be detect... - Music (16462 bytes)
16: ... or the movement in space of sounds, gesture, and dance. [[Silence]] is also often considered an aspec...
20: ... [[Hindustani music]] performance. According to [[Dane Harwood]], "We must ask whether a cross-cultura...
63: ... quietly in the rows of auditoriums, drinking and dancing in a bar, or loudly cheering and booing in a...
83: ===Secondary education===
85: ...ucation, is relatively common. Western style secondary schooling is increasingly common around the wor... - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
1: ... consists of is something that is still debated today.
8: ... major kinds: [[musica universalis]], [[musica mundana]], [[musica instrumentalis]]. Of those, only th...
12: ...h are very much in vogue in [[Western society]] today.
14: ...relatively new invention then, and it is understandable that the mathematical or physical relationship...
21: ...ical instrumental metric composition, and popular dance music are. However, from a European influenced... - Musician (3042 bytes)
8: Musicians may also [[dance]] or produce [[choreography]]. The concept of... - Didgeridoo (7516 bytes)
5: ...e didgeridoo since about 1500 years ago, based on dating of paintings on cave walls and shelters from ...
7: ...stern society. "Yirdaki", also sometimes spelt "yidaki", refers to the specific type of instrument mad...
28: [[Image:Didgeridoo_dancing.jpg|thumb|Dancing often accompanies didgeridoo music.]]
32: ...remonial occasions, whilst both men and women may dance. - Banjo (6143 bytes)
10: ...classical banjo style. The two most common modern day banjos are the '''resonator banjo''' which has a...
22: ...(but an octave lower), and has become quite a standard instrument for [[Irish traditional music]]. - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ... it commands how the capoeiristas move in the ''roda''. The instrument is known for being the subject...
10: ...colors, following local Bahian/Brazilian taste; today, most makers follow the tourist consumer's quest...
11: ... there. A small stone or coin ("dobr㯦quot;, "moeda", "pedra") is held between the index and thumb of...
36: ...he length of the bows in the 1940's and 1950's. Today, many berimbaus are overgrown to 5 feet and more...
56: ...e plays, and adds a means to his control of the roda. - Culture of China (15738 bytes)
27: ...ial China. This of course does not apply to [[pagodas]], which in any case are relatively rare.
34: ...e, in [[China]] and have its [[dialogue]] in [[Mandarin Chinese]].
40: === Dance ===
41: :''Main articles: [[dragon dance]] - [[lion dance]]''
60: ... of noted Taoists]] - [[Lung]] - [[Lunisolar calendar]] - [[Mohism]] - [[Qi]] - [[Taoism]] - [[Yin Yan... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
16: LandArea = 106,846 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[June 1]], [[1796]] |
25: ...Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] <small>(central and wester...
39: ...]] town named [[Tanasi]] (or "Tanase") in present-day [[Monroe County, Tennessee]]. The town was locat...
50: ...he [[Mississippi River]], Tennessee's western boundary. Tennessee was the last Confederate state to se... - Percussion instrument (2859 bytes)
8: ...requirements. [[Gong]]s can be tuned or untuned – the most familiar type of gong in the west, th... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
17: ...e treatise which defined and most completely elucidated the [[rhythmic modes]], a notational system fo...
21: ...Johannes Gallicus), [[Anonymous IV]], [[Marchetto da Padova]] (Marchettus of Padua), [[Jacques of Li&e...
27: ...ian chant]], named after St. Ambrose, was the standard. Celtic chant was used in Ireland.
29: ...ope, and Paris was the political center. The standardization effort consisted mainly of combining the...
32: ...ificate of Gregory the Great himself (c. [[590]]–[[604]]). Many of them were probably written i... - Morse code (33777 bytes)
2: ...king it appropriate for sending automated digital data in voice channels.
6: # longer mark, dash or 'dah' (-)
7: # intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character)
11: ...e length of the Morse characters made it hard to adapt to automated communication, so it was largely r...
13: ...rmany and eventually adopted as the worldwide standard as "International Morse". Morse's original code... - Metronome (3057 bytes)
4: ...vented by [[Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel]] in [[Amsterdam]] in [[1812]]. [[Johann Maelzel|Johann M䬺el]] ...
6: ...ronomes when they practice in order to keep a standard [[tempo]]; ie, keep a steady beat throughout th... - Atmospheric pressure (6841 bytes)
1: [[Image:dr-ap.jpg|thumb|diurnal (daily) rhythm of air pressure in northern Germany (b...
2: ...here]] caused by the [[weight]] of [[air]]. ''Standard atmospheric pressure'' (''atm'') is discussed i...
9: == Standard atmospheric pressure==
10: ''Standard atmospheric pressure'' or "the ''standard atmosphere''" (1 ''[[Atmosphere (unit)|atm]]'')...
11: This "standard pressure" is a purely arbitrary representative ... - Hypothalamus (1987 bytes)
3: ...ormones]] from the [[anterior pituitary gland]] — among them, [[gonadotropin-releasing hormone]]...
38: ...'': [[limbic system]], [[HPA axis]], [[cluster headaches]] - Scorpion (12441 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Arachnida]]}}
11: ...to the order ''Scorpiones'' in the class [[Arachnida]].
25: ...lso play an important part in the scorpion mating dance.
26: ...tarsus). The size of the pedipalps is highly dependant on the species, however a general trend is that...
36: ...se of killing prey. Generally, they will run from danger, or remain very still. - Dance (8662 bytes)
1: '''''Dance''''' (from [[Old French]] ''dance'', further history unknown) generally refers t...
3: ...a dance'''. [[Choreography]] is the art of making dances.
5: ...[[Martial arts]] '[[Kata]]' are often compared to dances.
7: == History of dance ==
8: ''Main article:'' [[History of dance]]
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