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- Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
5: dead=dead |
8: date_of_death=[[31 August]], [[1997]] |
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ...t always called '''Princess Diana''' by the media despite never having had the right to that title, as...
13: ... [[charity]] work, the Princess's philanthropic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued ... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. She recorded several hit songs with them, including "(If You ...
8: ...bb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Or...
10: ... other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly [[Marilyn Monroe]]'s voice and t...
12: ...iddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection devoted to one composer occured during the [[Pablo R...
14: ...scar Peterson]], [[Count Basie]] ("On the Sunny Side of the Street"), [[Joe Pass]] ("Speak love"), [[D... - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
1: ...is perhaps best known as the sister of [[Felix Mendelssohn]], but her own achievements are being incre...
3: ...ailing attitudes of the time against women, attitudes apparently shared by her father and brother, who...
5: ... Subsequently, her works were often played alongside her brother's at the family home in [[Berlin]] in...
7: ...pporter of her brother's compositions. Her public debut at the piano came in 1838, when she played Fel...
9: ...mmonly thought to have been developed by Felix Mendelssohn, though many scholars nowadays believe it w... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: ...ng the [[1924]] program, she skated over to the side of the rink several times to ask her coach for di...
6: By the next Olympiad, she needed no such assistance. She won her first of ten con...
10: ...]] in [[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]], she gave up her amateur status and took up a career as a professional per...
12: ...e basis for the [[Henie-Onstad Art Centre]] at H?dden, near [[Oslo]].
14: ...kemia]], on a flight from [[Paris]] to Oslo. Considered by most as the greatest female figure skater i... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
8: ...r further in the sport. His training methods included an exercise where he would lay down a handkerchi...
10: ...nal Clay Court Championships held at [[Sainte-Claude]], turning 15 during the tournament. The outbreak...
22: == Failed American debut ==
24: ...ion funds for the regions of France that had been devastated by the battles of World War I, she went t...
26: ...pressure was such that she entered the tournament despite being run down and suffering from what later... - Rebecca Rodriguez (483 bytes)
1: ... expected to win many medals and championships in amateur boxing and world championships in professional [[...
3: ...She made it all the way to the finals, but lost a decision at that stage. - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
3: ...born Mildred Didriksen (her surname was later accidentally changed) in the town of [[Port Arthur, Texa...
5: .... The jury, however, disapproved of her style and declared Shiley the Olympic champion. After the Game...
7: ...>[[Image:BabeStamp.png]]<P>''Babe Zaharias as <BR>depicted on a 1981<BR> US [[postage stamp|stamp]].''...
9: ...reer in the mid-1950s. She won the 1947 [[Titleholders Championship]] and the 1948 [[U.S. Women's Open...
11: ...er from playing a full schedule in 1952-53. She made a comeback in 1954 and took the Vare Trophy and h... - Pansy (10101 bytes)
17: ...e ''Viola tricolor hortensis''. However, many garden varieties are hybrids and are referred to as ''V...
19: ==Development of the Pansy==
20: ...(''V. altaica''), to produce a host of bigger, bolder pansies. As a result of extensive cross-breedin...
22: ...[[steel]]) the bold flowers familiar to modern gardeners appeared.
24: ==Pansies for Underplanting== - Music (16462 bytes)
16: ...ften considered an aspect of music, if it is considered to exist.
18: ... the expense of rhythm and timbre. John Cage considers duration the primary aspect of music because it...
20: ...actual performance but also how music is heard, understood, even learned." <sup>[[#Notes|6]]</sup>
25: ...mmon terms used to discuss particular pieces include [[note]], which is an abstraction which refers to...
31: ...tes music. A great deal of music is produced by [[amateur]]s. - Science (19868 bytes)
8: ...ce in terms of [[ontology]]: science attempts to identify what "things" in the world, their causal pow...
10: ...the empiricist tradition, we must be careful to understand that "prediction" refers to the outcome of ...
12: ...used interchangeably. Both have been subjected to devastating criticisms:
14: ...demonstrated the impossibility of a theory-independent observation language, so the very notion of tes...
15: ...steady accumulation of facts, as the empiricist model implies. - Oboe (5230 bytes)
1: [[Image:Oboe.jpg|thumbnail|50px|right|Modern Oboe]]
3: ...a descendant of the [[shawm]]. The word "oboe" is derived from the French word ''hautbois'', meaning "...
7: ...often produce a nasal (often out-of-tune) and strident tone that is difficult to blend with other inst...
13: ...gether with the flute/recorder it is one of the oldest [[woodwind]] instruments.
17: ...table oboe-makers of that period are the German [[Denner]] and the English [[Stanesby]]. The range fo... - Musician (3042 bytes)
10: Musicians may also be distinguished as [[amateur]] or [[professional]]. Professional musicians may...
12: ...of methods employed by human beings, must be regarded as having some relation to the origins of music....
30: ** [[Organ grinder]]
34: ** [[Recorder player]]
50: ...etist'' for example is nonsense. There are also widespread differences in the acceptability of some of... - Australia (39438 bytes)
13: leader_titles = [[Queen of Australia|Queen]]<br>[[Gover...
14: leader_names = [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Eli...
16: area_magnitude=1_E12|
24: population_density = 2|
25: population_density_rank = —| - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
1: ...Pharaoh]] [[Khufu (pharaoh)|Khufu]] (also known under his Greek name ''Cheops''), after whom it is oft...
9: ... in the [[Giza Necropolis]] on the outskirts of modern [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]].
15: ...440 Old Royal Cubits (230.5 m). Today each side has a length of approximately 227.5 m. The r...
17: ...re based on true North, not magnetic North. The sides of the pyramid rise at an angle of approximately...
22: ... was removed by an Arab [[Sultan]] in 1356CE in order to build mosques and fortresses in nearby Cairo. - Football (soccer) (22343 bytes)
3: ...striker (wearing red shirt) has run past the defender (in white shirt) and is about to take a shot at ...
9: ...y large number of people also play football at an amateur level.
11: ...nd minimal equipment requirements have no doubt aided its spread and growth in popularity. In many par...
27: === History and development ===
28: ... football and the parallel development of other codes). - Iowa (24205 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]] |
11: LargestCity = [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]] |
21: DensityRank = 33<sup>rd</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 20.22 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 29<sup>th</sup> | - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Garden State |
11: Governor = [[Richard Codey]] (acting)|
13: OfficialLang = ''None defined'' |
21: DensityRank = 1<sup>st</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 438 | - List of sports (7304 bytes)
1: ...is played, and there are many more sports to be added. This system has a disadvantage because some spo...
67: * [[amateur wrestling|Wrestling]]
114: ...on motorised transportation, also not really considered "sports" by the majority of people.
134: * [[Modern pentathlon]]
142: * [[Aeromodelling]] - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
3: ...ed near the center of the [[Far side (Moon)|far side]] of Earth's Moon, its diameter is about 58 miles...
5: ...d with [[astrology]], which assumes that people's destiny and human affairs in general are correlated ...
8: ...rns itself much more with trying to observe and understand the actual physical nature of celestial obj...
10: ... and involves working with computer or analytic models.
12: ...er ways. Categorization by the region of space under study (e.g., Galactic astronomy, Planetary Scien... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...mets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and va...
5: ... sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; the outer edges...
11: ... sight. They were usually considered bad omens of deaths of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes...
15: ...ics that tend to be very dark, like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometary ...
17: ...and far ultraviolet photons [http://www.kvi.nl/~bodewits].
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