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- Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
1: ...er.jpg|right|thumb|150px|A bagpipe performer in [[Amsterdam]].]]
13: 7) Tuning Slide<br>
16: ...the bag by a stock, a small, usually wooden, cylinder which is tied into the bag and which the pipe it...
18: ...le chanters with a conical bore will produce a louder and brighter sound.
20: ...imes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produced by a bagpipe. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...eled around the United States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [...
5: ...hts|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady...
9: ...lorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ed from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...n afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
5: ...d [[Emmeline Pankhurst]], members of the [[Independent Labour Party]] and much-concerned with women's ...
9: ...to the [[Workers' Socialist Federation]]. She founded the newspaper of the WSF, ''[[Women's Dreadnough...
11: ...ntarism in contrast to the views of the newly founded [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] (CPGB. Howe...
13: This unity was to be short-lived and when the leadership of the CPGB proposed that Sylvia hand over t...
15: ...nd was supportive of left communists such as [[Amadeo Bordiga]] and [[Anton Pannekoek]]. - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...hile 3rd place finisher [[Shirley Strickland]] is depicted on the far left.]]
7: ...by the [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF).
11: ...ar she was a sports talent, but she could not decide which sport to pick. A swimming coach advised her...
13: ... Record in the 800 [[metre|m]]. Fanny Koen soon made the Dutch team, although as a sprinter, not a mid...
17: ...y 2, 1940, a week before the Netherlands were invaded by German troops. - Tapestry (2919 bytes)
2: ...ion.JPG|thumb|right|250px|A tapestry [[cushion]], depicting [[pansy|pansies]]]]
3: ...wool]], [[gold]] or [[silver]], but can also be made out of any form of textile.
5: ...us artist, while the tapestries themselves were made by the craftsmen.
7: ...dlepoint]], probably because this type of [[embroidery]] mimics the woven effect.
10: ...lemen]] could transport the tapestry from one residence to another. In [[church]]es, it could be displ... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
1: ... of countries by population density|by population density]], [[list of countries by date of nationhood...
3: The below list contains both states and dependent territories, see [[country]], [[state]], [[nati...
16: *[[Cape Verde]] - [[Praia, Cape Verde|Praia]]
21: *[[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] - [[Kinshasa]]
48: *[[R鵮ion]] - [[Saint-Denis, R鵮ion|Saint-Denis]] (France) - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
1: ...ics)|capital]]s''' of the world in alphabetical order.
17: <tr><td>[[Amsterdam]] <td>[[Netherlands]] (official)
38: <tr><td>[[Belgrade]] <td>[[Serbia and Montenegro]]
64: <tr><td>[[Copenhagen]] <td>[[Denmark]]
65: <tr><td>[[Cotonou]] <td>[[Benin]] (de facto) - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...arch]], located in northwestern [[Europe]]. It borders the [[North Sea]] to the north and west, [[Belg...
7: native_name = Nederland |
15: capital = [[Amsterdam]]. [[The Hague]] is the seat of government |
17: largest_city = [[Amsterdam]] |
18: government_type= [[Democracy|Dem.]] [[Constitution|const.]] [[monarchy]] | - 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 | - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
3: ...e hands of their countrymen. They settled in [[Leiden]] for 12 years, but by [[1617]] a poor economy a...
4: ...ge:Pigrims_ship.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
5: ...being brought up in a Dutch environment, they decided to move to a place better suited to them, and in...
6: ...Image:Pilgrimschurch.jpg|thumb|250px|Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
7: ...Image:Pilgrimworkers.jpg|thumb|250px|Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
7: ...[[1600]]-[[1650]]-[[Mahican]] [[Confederacy]] founded
23: *[[1624]]-[[New Netherlands]] founded by the [[Dutch West India Company]] in present-d...
24: *[[1626]]-[[New Amsterdam]] founded by the Dutch in present-day [[New York City]]
25: *[[1629]]-[[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] founded, led by [[John Winthrop]]
29: *[[1634]]-[[Province of Maryland]] founded - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
4: ...osopher]]. Along with [[Plato]], he is often considered to be one of the two most influential philosop...
8: ...dialogue ''[[Phaedrus (Plato)|Phaedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, thro...
10: ...can be called, with qualification, an [[idealism|idealist]] and a [[rationalism|rationalist]].
12: ...cs'', ''[[Nicomachean Ethics]]'', ''Politics'', ''De Anima (On the Soul)'' and ''[[Poetics]]''.
14: ...hology]], [[rhetoric]] and [[theology]]. He also dealt with [[education]], foreign customs, [[literat... - Metronome (3057 bytes)
2: A '''metronome''' is a device that produces a regular [[pulse (music)|pulse...
4: ...y fast markings he put on some pieces lead some modern scholars to suspect his metronome was quite ina...
6: ...d to give an indication of the general tempo intended by the composer. Many pieces give a tempo indica...
8: ...rod swings back and forth in tempo; mechanics inside the metronome produce a clicking sound on each sw...
10: ... button forms range from simple credit-card sized devices to the complicated "Dr. Beat", manufactured ... - Endangered species (12553 bytes)
2: ...ding [[hunting]], banning their [[habitat]]s from development, etc.) to prevent extinction. Only a few...
4: ...ation has recovered; whether restrictions on land development constitute a "taking" of land by the [[g...
6: ...ire, as it makes a species more valuable and more desirable for collectors and poachers[http://news.bb...
8: ...the number remaining, but the overall increase or decrease in the population over time, breeding succe...
10: The best-known worldwide conservation status listing is the [[IUCN Red Lis... - Airline (29546 bytes)
1: ...tography of Air Kenya, Kenya Africa. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
11: ...it greater freedom, in steps that are usually decades apart. This pattern has not been completed for a...
13: ...uenced by macroeconomic activity in the markets under study. These patterns are highly seasonal, and o...
15: ...ions, but certainly areas where deregulation provided more competition and greater pricing freedom res...
17: ...upgrades they ordered to respond to the increased demand. Since 1980, the industry as a whole has not ... - Canal (2513 bytes)
2: ...ade waterways for the delivery of water and preceded the use of [[transport]]ation canals used by [[b...
4: ...e young United States, inland canals preceded the development of [[railroad]]s during the earliest pha...
6: ...ge of [[Amsterdam]] a port. Canals are so deeply identified with [[Venice]] that all cities that have ...
9: ...for commercial transportation, and many fell into decay. A movement that began in Great Britain and Fr...
23: * [[Amsterdam]] - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4: | order=32th President
7: | preceded=[[Herbert Hoover]]
8: | succeeded=[[Harry S. Truman]]
10: | place of birth=[[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]], [[New York]] - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ...eaning, the usual usage of the term does not include [[whites]], [[Asian|Asians]] or [[Semites]] of Af...
8: ==Current Demographics==
9: ...000 black density.jpg|thumb|200px|2000 population density]]
10: ... percent, followed closely by [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]], [[Michigan]], with 83 percent.
15: ...nd was one reason for the secession of the [[Confederate States of America]] which lead to the [[Ameri... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
3: ...is no way to go further due to the ice and he decided to return to England on the 31st. On the return ...
5: ...reached by several crews in the past and was considered the end of the line, which convinced the Mosco...
7: ...later claim the area and set up a colony as [[New Amsterdam]].
9: ...list]] laws England had enacted to protect its trade routes from the Dutch. He was soon released.
11: ...iscovery'', he stayed to the north (some claim he deliberately went too far south with the Dutch), rea... - March 21 (10586 bytes)
6: *[[1788]] - A [[fire]] destroys 856 buildings in [[New Orleans]] and leaves...
7: ...]] with a temporary [[Papal Tiara|papal tiara]] made of [[papier-m⣨靝.
9: *[[1804]] - [[Napoleonic code|Code Napol鯮]] was adopted as [[France|French]] [[civ...
19: ...en fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180
20: *[[1963]] - [[Alcatraz]], a federal [[penitentiary]] on an island in [[San Francis...
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